whydoibother
> hese are the hard decisions one grapples with as Secretary of State.
SoS of an imperialist country. During a time of America's greatest atrocities. And during a time where no one could challenge US hegemony. There is no statecraft to be learned here. There is nothing to learn from him other than what a piece of shit he is.
Sorry, but you can't 'graciously' return a colony. It was something they never should have had.
Also, I hate to break it to you, but even if GOP opposition to social programs disappeared overnight, I would wager money that we still wouldn't get basic social necessities like UHC or UBI or housing rights. Liberal ideology is just as good at letting the poor die and starve as are the conservatives. The dog and pony show where they pretend their hands are tied cause of opposition is almost completely BS.
See how we still haven't gotten any student debt relief even though the executive could immediately provide it. See how these two liberals are still blocking the filibuster.
Correlation != causation. The idea of a 'gateway' drug is absurd.
The simplest explanation is that people with mental illness or trauma will self medicate. So given that, it makes sense that the easiest to acquire/least scary drugs would be the first used. I bet even more people got started on alcohol as their first 'treatment'. That doesn't make it a gateway drug.
Weird. Almost like making it legal, relatively cheap, and easily accessible makes it so you don't have to resort to desperate means.
>Marijuana is a gateway drug, I strongly believe this but open for changing my mind if there is data supporting otherwise.
The burden of proof is on you to show this. What you strongly feel doesn't matter.
And I didn't realize the Sackler family was skating by cause the DEA stopped arresting marijuana users.
Also, on the more conspiratorial side, it is curious how opioid supply and use flourished as soon as we were in Afghanistan. Kind of like it did when we were in Vietnam. Two areas known for poppies and heroin. Given what we know about the FBI encouraging terrorism so they can then claim they stopped it, I wouldn't be surprised if the CIA/JSOC was funneling in the drugs for cash and the DEA was mopping that up for cash/reason to exist.
No, they don't. What is correct for rich western liberals often means further poverty, suffering, and death for those who don't belong to that class.
The sheer arrogance to even say that is boggling to me.
Pick a few wedge issues for either side and voila: you have a 'representative' democracy.
The US had plans to invade Russia, Cuba, and pretty much any place they could think of. That is irrelevant.
And to your last point, I disagree. I know also that lots and lots of people in other countries disagree. Why do you think the US is hated so much globally?
To your second point: no. You aren’t the arbiter of what qualifies as an atrocity or not. Go tell the countless people in Latin America that their continued torture and suffering isn’t a big deal, cause hey at least they aren’t in a Russian gulag. You are as deranged as our government if you truly think that.
I can go on. And these are just the individual incidents we know about. Who knows how much suffering and death happened as a direct result of the destabilization of the global south.
that isn't how this works. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. there is zero evidence of a lab leak besides circumstantial.
> censor conversations about it online
they did a poor job of that then, considering all the very vocal people I had to hear keep talking about it for the last year.
>He was slated to be the clear winner until two events (COVID-19 and George Floyd)
weird how that works, huh? when you handle crises poorly -- or downright negligently -- people will hate you and not vote for you. strange.
What the US has done in the name of anticommunism dwarfs any evils done by communism.
Supporting Arabs retaliating against an illegal land grab by Israel.
>They also probably didn't send troops into Somalia
Helping Ethiopia defend itself against aggression from Somalia, the issue of which was caused by western meddling and colonialism.
>nor support the MIR and FPMR to destabilize Chile.
Supporting forces revolting against the horrible Pinochet dictatorship.
Really, why list any of this when we are talking about unwanted CIA intervention, which usually backed murderous right wingers? Cuba's interventions were at least battling western imperialism and had the support of part of the local populations and not just the rich land owners.
No, he wasn't.
>The truth is that Communists have killed more people and been responsible for more human misery than any corresponding movement or ideology in the 20th century.
No, it hasn't. Stop spreading worthless VoC propaganda.
How did allying with former SS commanders and other Nazis help the people? How did them stealing children from Cuba help the people? How did them supporting Cuban exiles ongoing terrorism help the people? How did Gladio ops killing any sort socialist movements in Europe help the people?
Maybe you should take a second to realize a lot of 'anti-american talking points' are actually valid criticisms of a corrupt and deranged government.
And there is still no real evidence of a lab leak, despite western intelligence continually lying about it.
Not only that, but the social and political ramifications of having not only blue collar workers out of a job, but also the PMC class as well. You want a revolution? Cause that is how you get one.