If your news source was leading you to believe a narrative that “Palestine elected a government that attempted to commit genocide against the Jews and drive them out of Israel” then you should question the lack of context and facts that your news source is providing.
You should blame NPR for this, and the fact that you don’t shows that you haven’t learned your lesson and you will fall for it again.
This would be true if it was Iran capitulating to US demands because of a genocidal threat.
But look at the 10 point peace plan, every version in the media is telling the same story - the US is capitulating to Iranian demands because of an economic threat.
Worse than Biden’s “We finally beat Medicare”?
Biden’s debate performance was so bad that it got Trump elected.
The label “terrorist” is meaningless in normal discourse, it is overused and it’s original definition has mostly evaporated.
The label “terrorist” is meaningful when the United States government uses it, because a terrorist is a person who can be killed without a trial, without oversight, and without accountability.
That really comes down to what you mean by “war” and “won”.
We won the Korean war by achieving our strategic objectives- we bombed NK back to the stone age, and effectively isolated them from the rest of the world.
Our wars in Central America achieved their objectives- US trained death squads raped and murdered the local populations into submission; US corporations have been free to dominate ever since.
On the list of 80+ countries we have invaded since WWII, I would say well over half of these misadventures have achieved their strategic objectives.
What makes you question the story?
Certainly the Trump administration had been lying about it losses, and they are releasing many face-saving coverup stories. It would be foolish to give them the benefit of the doubt.
But the Kuwaiti friendly fire incident actually has lots of evidence to back it up. You can watch video of the “dogfight”- a Kuwaiti jet is clearly attacking US jet at very close range. The US jet appears to be surprised, as they fail to deploy most counter-measures.
I totally agree that people of conscience resigning from DoJ and other positions of power is a good thing. I’m well aware of what you said, despite your condescending suggestion. I just don’t see how that is relevent to the firing of Bondi.
What gives you the impression that Bondi is fractionally competent, and what gives you confidence that her replacement will be less competent?
You think replacing Bondi with Blanche is “progress”?
Reminder that Blanche was Trump’s defense attorney in multiple trials, and Blanche was the one who interviewed Ghislane Maxwell last year before she got moved to the cushy puppy prison.
Data from 2025 is too old. You have to remember that 18-21 voters were children during Trump’s first presidency, and their political reality was defined by Covid.
They were not happy with the Biden administration, and for good reasons, so they reacted by leaning R. Now they are learning just how deeply depraved and disfunctional the Republican party is. I believe they will be radicalized into lifelong anti-Republican voters.
Check out this CNN poll from a few days ago.
A follow‑up CNN/SSRS poll conducted from March 26 to March 30 found Trump’s approval among 18‑ to 34‑year‑olds had fallen to just 20 percent, while disapproval increased to 80 percent, putting his net approval rating among young adults at minus 60
Donald Trump’s Approval Rating Implodes With Gen Z - Newsweek
They’re saying that, when a bullet is fired from an ancient gun and ricochets off of hard objects, then that bullet will likely be mangled beyond identification. This means that there is not enough evidence to positively connect the bullet to the gun in court. This is normal.
I think there’s a list of questionable things about Crooks and the FBI allegations. The timeline, the re-assembly of the gun, the sketchy discord messages, etc. This bullet doesn’t make the list.
Unfortunately the hard data on UHC’s denial rate is not public information. The company wouldn’t want all the bad publicity that would come with transparency.
There would be other signs, though. For example, UHC investors suing to increase the denial rate.
The lawsuit argues that the company’s changing corporate practices in the wake of Thompsons murder have been too consumer-friendly, and the investors’ profits are suffering as a result.
This unequal exchange rate logic has been firmly established for decades.
“On October 18, 2011, captured IDF tank gunner Gilad Shalit, captured by the Palestinian militant organization Hamas in 2006, was released in exchange for 1027 Palestinian prisoners held in Israel.”
List of Arab–Israeli prisoner exchanges -Wikipedia
“Palestinian prisoners” have become a form of currency for the Israeli state. Whenever they start to run low, they just go to the West Bank and get more.
You might be right, maybe he was a chud all along, idk.
But c’mon, it’s obvious the stroke broke his brain. Before the stroke he was giving 10 minutes speeches from memory, after the stroke he can’t finish a sentence.
Are you sure you aren’t underestimating the huge volume of demand that needs to be destroyed? I believe something like 20%-25% of demand needs to be destroyed, in both the crude and LNG markets.
The last time demand was 20% lower than baseline was during the two worst months of Covid, when the majority of people were staying inside their home
So the question is: how high does the price of oil have to get in order to force people to consume like they did under the worst of Covid?
I’m no economist, but my gut feeling says it will be sustained significantly higher than $160/barrel.
They shrugged it off when churches were damaged in Gaza, why would this be any different?
There’s this city in the West Bank called Bethlehem, I guess some famous dude was born there. The churches in Bethlehem weren’t able to have Christmas celebrations for two years due to Israel’s genocide.
How did evangelicals respond? Polling says 65% support Israel’s military action in Gaza, even after two years of indiscriminate bombing, death marches, forced starvation, and torture camps.
PLEASE do not nominate another candidate with a vagina
It’s so frustrating when well-meaning people have this blatantly sexist take.
The problem with Hillary and Kamala was not their vaginas, it was their policies.
If you actually believe that the US is too sexist to elect a woman, then you need to explain the election of Claudia Sheinbaum in Mexico. By every statistic (rape, domestic violence, etc), Mexico is a more sexist nation than the US, yet they overwhelmingly elected a woman.
So your idea is that we will vote in Democrat politicians who will… Legislate themselves out of power by instituting ranked choice voting?
This part of your plan seems absurd on its face. I want ranked choice voting as much as you, but we need a realistic plan, and what you’re proposing is a pipe dream.
Voting third party is more realistic than expecting Dems to institute ranked choice.
support the DNC vocally
Why should we support the DNC when the leadership of the DNC is supporting Trump’s war crimes?
Read the responses from Jeffries and Schumer- they aren’t the opposition party, they are manufacturing consent for this ‘military operation’.
If we actually want to change the situation we need to fix the DNC, not blindly support it.
If you’re really into Catholic lore and mythology, then yes, the Pope’s word holds a lot of weight. They believe in papal infallibility, which means that when the Pope meets certain very specific criteria, he is literally speaking for God and is thus perfect and unquestionable.
Regular normie Catholics? They believe in the Pope the same way they believe in the Bible: it is the true word of God, but it’s too much of a bother to actually read it. They’re never reading papal edicts, they’re just reading news headlines about the pope like everyone else.
Moving troops from military bases into hotels means that those hotels are no longer civilian infrastructure.