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But Kaelik, the IDF says they found ten (10) rifles and some body armor! The IDF never lies, and it would be impossible for them to bring ten (10) rifles and some body armor into a place that didn't already have ten (10) rifles and some body armor. Also, military headquarters are famously marked by ...

Oh that's fucked, thanks for sharing that. No wonder unions have a hard time exercising power, it's literally illegal for them to do shit like solidarity strikes.

Thanks to the war in Ukraine we know that modern militaries will sometimes use missiles that are designed for airborne targets to instead target things on the ground, and that this can result in missiles doing dumb things. I wouldn't be shocked if Israel was using some Iron Dome rockets to bombard G...

Biden has fallen behind Trump in general election polls recently, but the election is a year away and people will forget about this just like they'll forget about every other bad thing Biden has done once Trump gets on a podium and starts calling every brown person a secret jihadi. Trump has been do...

From the little I've read it sounds like unions in the US were much more radical (and effective) in the 1910s-1950s then in the 60s/70s/80s they got crushed or fell in line due to all the anti-communist shit the USA got up to, is that the gist of it? I could be all fucked up on the history here. Hop...

Couldn't find a US news thread, the big news thread is for non-US, and the Biden Administration thread is about the Biden Administration instead of general US news. Instead of muck up some other thread or make a US news thread (I do not want to talk about mass shootings, and that's basically all we ...

I have quite possibly the most ridiculous series of emails all in a row in my personal email inbox. The headlines and timing are the following: 1. "Breaking news: Israeli strike on hospital kills hundreds, Palestinian officials say" - 2:33pm EST 2. "Breaking news: Israel and Palestini...

It looks like he's going to Israel specifically to tell them that no matter how many hospitals they bomb and civilians they kill the United States will support Israel no matter what. I mean, we already do so it's no surprise, but holy shit. This is full bore genocide and Biden is going there to give...

No food, water, or electricity for the more than 2 million people in the open-air prison of Gaza (though apparently they do get some electricity from sources other than Israel so they can hopefully keep their hospitals open to treat the victims of Israel's mass murder campaign). Bibi told people in ...

to be clear: "personal relationship with X" has exactly one meaning in actual use, people might at most say "personal relationship to X" using personal as a synonym for individual, you can't change my mind, I'm not interested in this discussion except insofar as it facilitated a...

Ok are you sure you don't want a thread for "Pseudo teaches English" or something? This is just such an odd side conversation. Do people who marry body pillows or other inanimate objects have a personal relationship with the inanimate object they marry? Of course they fucking don't. An ina...

Do you really think people driving around with American flags and "my country, love it or leave it!" bumper stickers don't have a personal relationship with the United States of America? Of course they fucking don't! Fanatical worship is not a "personal relationship" in fucking ...

You are in fact mistaken on a key point, the Christian line is that god is effectively a person who hears your individual prayers and answers them personally, and is only "not a person" in the same way that Yog-Sothoth is "not a person" in that he's a different order of being to...

The Christian relationship with god example is a good one, they call it a personal relationship but they literally do not believe god is a person (god is God, not a person). It's actually a fantastic example of how personal relationship is used to refer to relationships between a person and a thing ...

Is this true? I tried looking it up and the definitions were all about relationships between persons, the ambiguity was only in whether those persons have to be having sex. That is because "personal" is a word that means "of, affecting, or belonging to a particular person rather than...

Holy shit Mguy, the phrase "personal relationship" can mean both "a relationship that affects someone's personal life" and "a relationship between two people." This is the stupidest sticking point ever, Sashi is making sense and you are hung up on their phrasing (which ...

We can't have gangs doing the things that imperial troops/police (whatever we're calling this peacekeeping force) should be doing. Alternatively, It's about time the correct boot was put onto the people of Haiti. Lots of different angles to make dark jokes about this. I thought the US wasn't going t...

It's not my fault you can't read, write, or follow a conversation. I've spelled it out for you and yet you still don't understand how a person could witness you saying Joe Biden showing up to a picket line is a good sign for labor power and decide to post about how they disagree and think it's not a...

Ok. So your claim here is then that you just so happen to talk about whether or not Biden/the dems 'actually' supports unions or labor in some way in response to a thing I said where his material support of unions was not the subject matter 'just because' and not as a direct attack on the thing I s...

I didn't imply it, you inferred it and assumed that I had implied the thing you inferred. If I implied it I would not be disagreeing with you about me implying the thing you say I implied.

This argument was so fucking pedantic already and yet here you are. Interesting. I don't know what my sentences mean. In the bolding part I didn't say that it wasn't important but that your reducing my statement to just "it's important" and arguing from there is misleading. Not that you're...

Biden has decided to show up at the picket line for auto workers. While I don't believe this means much to the effort overall I think it's a good sign that the office believes it is good to actually visibly side with workers. From what I understand the act of even showing up for this kind of thing ...

What's already funded is already funded, but Biden had asked for $24 billion more and was expecting it as part of the normal spending bills to keep the government running. He didn't get that.

Maybe Stahl just has a backlog of fascist media to consume and now he'll be a few months late to everything. In a few months he's going to be talking about shutting down the government even though that was just averted (though I guess it'll be kind of relevant when he gets to it, given the next shut...

Sashi pretty much nailed everything I'd been trying to convey, but Mguy still does not get it! Mguy, this whole thing started when you said Biden's symbolic gestures are important and I disagreed and said he was a big dumb strike-breaking meanie. I think this is simply a disagreement that won't be r...