O/T:- Trump Presidency 2.0 [hic sunt dracones]

[andy6025]

Yeah, of the ****s in the group Vance came off the least idiotic / most thoughtful. But still. Absolute thuggery from start to finish. And what will it achieve? They (allegedly) killed one guy who was an actual target, and levelled a building full of civvies to do it. That's the kind of ratio that increases the net number of combatants, usually.

I agree. I would go even one step further - the Houthis had previously stopped their attacks on shipping when Israel and Hamas agreed to the ceasefire. Now that Israel has gone back to killing Palestinians and blockading deliveries of food and water, etc., the Houthis have resumed their quasi blockade.

The solution seems obvious - stop the Israelis from genociding the Palestinians and the Houthis will stop their attacks on ships.

[Old_pie]

I agree. I would go even one step further - the Houthis had previously stopped their attacks on shipping when Israel and Hamas agreed to the ceasefire. Now that Israel has gone back to killing Palestinians and blockading deliveries of food and water, etc., the Houthis have resumed their quasi blockade.

The solution seems obvious - stop the Israelis from genociding the Palestinians and the Houthis will stop their attacks on ships.

It is not so obvious when the Palestinians have a government whose stated aim is the elimination of Israel. It seems that some in Gaza are coming to that realisation.

[andy6025]

It is not so obvious when the Palestinians have a government whose stated aim is the elimination of Israel. It seems that some in Gaza are coming to that realisation.

Israel is an illegitimate state, given to settlers, not by the indigenous people living there, but by foreign powers abroad. Israel, as an ethno-racist apartheid state dominated by one ethnicity, ought not to exist as such. If some of the Jewish people there are either unable or unwilling to live there in equality with the Palestinians, whose land they occupy, and who ought to have the same rights, including the right to return (which most Jews returning there were never from there to being with), then I by all means welcome them to come live here in Canada. I await them all with open arms.

[Old_pie]

Israel is an illegitimate state, given to settlers, not by the indigenous people living there, but by foreign powers abroad.

I'm sure you are well versed on all the illegitimate states that exist in the world. Why not pick on them too?

In fact I suspect that the number of states occupied and run by indigenous people could be written on the back of a postage stamp

[andy6025]

I'm sure you are well versed on all the illegitimate states that exist in the world. Why not pick on them too?

In fact I suspect that the number of states occupied and run by indigenous people could be written on the back of a postage stamp

I do pick on other such injustices, including but not limited to, such injustices here in Canada.

The reason it was talked about here is because I was replying to Jampies comments on the Signal leak scandal.

[i961pie]

It appears Trump is running scared after democrat James Malone looks to have won a seat in the Senate by overturning a 15 point lead from the election. Elise Stefaniks was Trumps choice for UN ambassador but he has withdrawn her nomination because he can't afford to risk losing another seat.

Maybe the American people are starting to realise what a disaster Trump is.

[Mapperleypie]

It's really difficult to watch the MAGA crowd still cheer this awful nonsense on. Most of them are going to be worse off from his tariff stupidly (as we all are), the whole capitalist deal is based on comparative advantage - he seems completely blind to this very basic of economic concepts.

The only way the US becomes a manufacturing superpower again is by a massive devaluation of the dollar which would be hugely painful to nearly all Americans - the tariffs alone are never going to achieve the stated aim - it's performative bollox.

[SwalePie]

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The only way the US becomes a manufacturing superpower again is by a massive devaluation of the dollar which would be hugely painful to nearly all Americans - the tariffs alone are never going to achieve the stated aim - it's performative bollox.

^ This!

[SwalePie]

So much darkly worrying stuff happening over there. This, for example...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo

[Jampie]

So much darkly worrying stuff happening over there. This, for example...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdjy1jmvvwzo

I was just joking with a friend last night that Trump would shut down the USGS soon because detecting earthquakes is too woke...

It seems less funny after reading that. I really dislike this weird fusion of Orwell and Idiocracy they have going on there