Time is running for Harris to break with Biden ON ANYTHING. You saw a jump in poll numbers between Biden and Harris because people thought she would be different. Every interview she gives saying “I am the status quo” pushes her numbers back to Biden.

Less of a quip, more of a UN definition.

When a non-state actor does it, it is terrorism. When a state actor does it, it is called war crimes.

Because they never thought people would attack it. When it was built, attacks were bombs on busses, not hypersonic missles shot from Iran.

Israel’s war cry!

I feel like there should just be an organization of countries that are not Israel or on the UN security counsel. The United Small Nations. Then they could just do things without everything they propose getting vetoed.

Googling Xi Jinping age: 71

Someone must have said he was 10 years over the age of retirement.

Jamecia backs New Zeland-Madagascar peace plan for Ukraine! Who cares!

“Then why do you know about it?”

A IDF soldier was recently arrested for raping female palestinian prisoners There was an Israeli protest … in support of the accused.

Any word on the Belarus “army exercises”? Looks like Wagner got recalled from Africa to march around Ukraine’s northern border.

Google maps calls it Lebedevka if you are trying to find it.

I am sure there is some place America has been blockading for decades and interfering in elections that I could find to make a comparison, but my main point still stands that “completely out of the blue attacks” rarely are that.

I was comparing it to what Israel did to Gaza pre-Oct 6th. Denying resources to a country that bombed israeli citizens and was run by war-criminals? Justified. Being surprised and calling it “unprovoked” when they strike back? Unjustified.

Polls probably showed it would hurt them, and they waited until they have 5 years of uninterrupted power to take action that could hurt them elecorally.

Do you remember what the British PM did in 2019?

Americans famously signed the first bombs dropped on Japan after peral harbor - and attached the trinkets that were brought by the Japanese peace negotiatiors.

Of course, the mear existence of the negotiators show that America was taking hostile action aganst japan prior to Pearl Harbor.

Knowing you have HIV decreases transmission by 90%. Giving antivirals decreases transmission by 99%. Back in the early 2000 I saw a paper saying we could make HIV tests for 10 cents a person if we wanted to produce enough for every person on the planet (0.1810^9= $800 million). That was something that could have been done back then. $40 a vaccine would be a price tag of $320 billion

As long as Ukraine is supplied weapons, the rule of thumb is that Russia looses as many troops as the pre-war population of the city/place they are trying to take over. So they would need 38 million troops to take over Ukraine.

Oh, I did not know that.

I was thinking in the 70s, pushing back against the patriarchy was seen as Chaotic - but not inherently evil.

I read until they started to equate “Chaotic” with “Evil”. The thesis might be correct, but if your very first example you don’t understand the two axis alignment system (Lawful evil and chaotic good exist) I am just going to stop reading.