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bolverk

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  1. A ten-second Google search reveals IAEA said so back in 2018, and then yesterday they said weren't anymore.
  2. A thorough take-down of Trump's foreign policy failures. The NYTimes analysts writing this sound pissed. Trump Talks Big on Global Diplomacy, but His Goals Are in Tatters The president said he would bring a quick end to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and get China to bend on trade and Iran on its nuclear program. Instead, conflict is escalating. Respect on the world stage? Hardly. Pew: U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
  3. Real talk: Does the NHTSA not do thorough, unbiased testing on these autonomous systems before they hit the streets? If not, that'd be where I'd start. Also, if they don't, why the fuck not?
  4. The Marines need to send a squad after that guy who blew through a red light!
  5. It appears so, for now.
  6. Thanks for posting. I'd read about the Rockland County stuff a day or so ago, but didn't post about it for all the conspiracy-accusation reasons.
  7. More updates
  8. Not sure what this is referencing, obviously, but the above Skeets or whatever, showing the targeting of IDF headquarters (HaKirya), which is located in central Tel Aviv.
  9. Supposedly seven from the first volley got through Israeli defenses. Needless to say, take this earlier report from Iran with a grain of salt.
  10. Video clip below is same as the one posted above, showing when one missile got through. Posting this for the info.
  11. Looks like more are on the way.
  12. I'm not clicking that.
  13. Sure, you've been saying that a personality who can break through the noise and garner attention is what wins, but the who in question still needs to have a message, and scapegoating someone(s) is the best means of making noise. If that is true, then Trump has to be the short-term scapegoat, so right now the Dems need the best shit-talker out there to channel our anger and simply attack, attack, attack.
  14. By my reading, what's happened is that during the 1990s and following the Reagan Revolution, the mainstream of both parties more or less reached a consensus on neoliberal economic issues, e.g., free trade. There were, of course, differences on taxation, with the GOP firm believers in supply-side shit but moderate Dems not being too far off. Both were wrong on this, of course, as the benefits didn't "trickle down" to the working class, which now felt abandoned by the Party of Labor. To separate themselves from the Democrats, the GOP began to fully embrace all the "culture war" shit, demonizing immigrants, gays, minority groups, the "coastal elite," and Murphy Brown wanting a kid, with Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh leading the charge, slowly winning over Labor who felt threatened by all three. This, in turn, led to the Democratic Party basically becoming a loose coalition of the downtrodden trying to keep their shit together by watching each others' backs. So, yeah, you've been correct in your thesis all this time about Dems needing to win back labor. And since Obama, the progressive branch has been proposing all sorts of economic reforms, but keep getting accused of being Marxists, a message that Republicans and moderate Dems have both used to gain/retain power in primary and general elections alike. Meanwhile, progressives keep getting pulled into the sexy culture wars by trying to protect all these out-groups from personal attacks. What's the solution, then, in your opinion? Abandon the disfavored in the culture wars and just be neoliberal moderates, hoping to win back Labor (a bloc that now consistently votes against their economic interests in elections? Go full-force Far-Left, waging a war on both billionaires and the culture war-supporting evangelicals? Just be the Party of Labor with progressive economic/fiscal policies only, while ignoring human rights and civil liberties altogether?
  15. I’m no security analyst or foreign affairs expert, but I would think taking out the "Supreme Leader" of Iran would be a bridge too far, even for the Israelis. The blowback on toppling a Head of State could be far-reaching and difficult to predict. I could be wrong, of course, as I was not anticipating they’d kill upwards of 50,000 or so Gazans.
  16. Yeah, we’ve seen how vocal many posters have been in support of brutality perpetrated by cops and civilians against protesters, with comments in favor of cracking skulls, shootings, and running over protesters in the past. It’s by no means a stretch to imagine they’re perfectly content with bringing in the military.
  17. The same facility where the mayor was arrested and a congresswoman was charged with assault for attempting to conduct oversight. https://bsky.app/profile/barbisblue.bsky.social/post/3lritjhgl3c2l https://abcnews.go.com/US/delaney-hall-newark-detainees-missing-unrest/story?id=122817323
  18. https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/post/3lrispma4fc2x https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-predator-drone-flights-la-protests/
  19. Embiggened response below.
  20. What they are saying in Clown World and the Daily Texan in defense of the government agent declaring a war of occupation on California: "We need to protect our pure-as-the-driven-snow lady from disruptive testosterone dudes.”
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