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Recent moves in South America are because Marco Rubio has been given free reign to indulge all his narco-state fantasies.

They just need to hire the right lobbyists, get a meeting at the White House, agree on the terms and call it a settlement.

And if the FTC chair is not agreeable, they will be threatened by said lobbyists and eventually be fired.

If this sounds far-fetched, it is exactly what happened to Gail Slater, then-head of the DOJ's antitrust division and her deputies in 2025 over HPE’s bid to acquire Juniper.

Wall Street Journal archive link: https://archive.ph/IMer9

Interestingly, the blight itself was introduced into Europe through importation of American vines.

American vines being the cause and the "cure".

Alcohol is a terrible drug. IMO it is a great thing that drinking at work is so frowned upon that it is basically verboten.

The ship sailed on this one a long time ago. The US is going to be more and more ethnically diverse regardless.

Their comment said "most users".

Is chapter 1 of a novel really enough context to generate a chapter 2 of sufficient quality to match up to an author who spent a good amount of time planning out an entire story and whose manuscript probably went through a lot of revisions?

The fact that there will be no consequences for any of this.

Hang on, why on earth would you think Dolly Parton of all people would want a warship named after her?

I think Discord is one of the worst things to happen to the web. So much useful, interesting content gets walled off and locked away. It's not public, not searchable, not linkable, not indexable.

I'm never going to stumble across an interesting tidbit of information on Discord while browsing the web.

And even when you do have access to a particular server, you'll often struggle to find something posted a while back, even if you know exactly what you're looking for.

I hate Discord with a passion.

That man has never been universally liked, surely you don't actually think this is true?

Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan evangelises this company and YC was an early stage seed funder (Summer 2017)

Y Combinator CEO Gary Tan evangelises this company every chance he gets and YC was an early stage seed funder (Summer 2017)

Dirt poor people in 3rd world countries have smartphones and internet access and write comments in well-formed English.

Why are you telling on yourself so hard?

Because the US populace and US media only holds Democrats to account.

Republicans can do whatever they want.

People are what they are.

You can take the information I have provided into consideration when you build your internal worldview or you can ignore it.

There is no call to action here. It's just data.

The difference between Islam and Christianity on this is so stark that I am trying so hard to not respond in a rude manner and tell people to read a book or something.

It's like if you didn't know a single thing about Mandarin but insisted on making claims about its grammatical rules because you know English grammar.

You seem to have misread my comment.

None of the people I know and have spoken to are capable of or even thinking of violent retaliation.

I am extrapolating from their sentiments that someone out there will be moved to violence.

No, I am not muslim.

Every single muslim, whether devout, practicing, lapsed or whatever, knows whether they are/were Sunni or Shia. They are literally born into it. It determines who is seen as the authority in matters of their faith, the way they pray, the sites they consider holy, the religious days they observe. Even Ramadan starts and ends on different days depending on which you are.

It's such a fundamental thing that I question whether you have any idea about what you're saying here.

While the comment you replied to was "extreme", it is impossible for any muslim to not know the difference when the difference defines everything about how they practice their religion.

I don't think doctrinal reformation is possible with Islam.

The Qur'an is totally prescriptive. It contains direct legal commands, judicial rules and explicit government principles which are all binding and considered as direct divine speech.

I think Westernisation and an increase in the number of "casual" muslims is and will continue to be the moderating effect.

Think of what is happening in Europe (as the clearest example) with the influx of Muslim immigrants who raise increasingly more assimilated children as the blueprint.

No, I am telling you about people's sentiments. You are not required to do anything with the information.

>I'd love to know what the military's chatbots thought about this idea.

What a mad world we're hurtling ourselves into.

Any celebrations are an indicator but are far from the entire picture.

Wouldn't there be celebrations in the US if Trump died? What conclusions would you draw from that?

Every single one of them?

There are many Sunnis who view their leadership as "traitors to the cause" and respected Iranian defiance especially against Israel.

It's far from black and white.

Yes they were silent about the Iranian regime's tyranny. Yes they are hypocrites.

So what?

It doesn't matter whether it suits you nor I. You calling them out has zero effect other than making you feel righteous. They don't hear you and even if they did they do not care a whit what you think.

They believe, with utter conviction, that martyrdom in service of Islam will be rewarded in the "hereafter". Their holy book tells them this explicitly. And there are millions of them.

Hence my comment.

I work with and know a lot of Shia (non-Iranian) Muslims and listening to them talk about this assassination I'm convinced that the likelihood of attempted terror attacks against the US has increased significantly.

The non-Iranian part is key. Millions of muslims around the world viewed the Iranian theocracy as the only power in the world fighting for Islam. They are devastated.

You actually believe these people when they talk?