Except this terrorist has a bomb vest and is willing to take the whole world with him.

Citizens need something concrete to rally around. Protests that are ignored breeds apathy. I would be one thing if there was an alternative to the uniparty. Have you heard the tale of the three boxes?

“TACO Tuesday”. One can only hope. The alternative is ghastly.

I wonder if there is any inherent defence against slop on Lemmy. I guess if an instance doesn’t prune it’s user base of bots, shills and other slop merchants, it could be black listed by other admins of other instances.

Tucker Carlson is an op. And a stalking horse for President. He plays the game just like they all do.

You’re right. If you are gonna do a ground invasion you really need to go in force. 5k is a suicide mission.

But as we know, for a large contingent of Israelis their ancestral link is Europe. And many are dual citizens. So, someone is swinging the

go back to where you come from

then that would be Europe. Arguably the Palestinians have deeper routes in The Lavant. With many of their ancestors being Israeli Jews before the majority converted to Islam.

It could just be an added benefit…

Not saying he wouldn’t, but isn’t Marshal Law part of the insurrection act? In any case, a foreign attack on a nation shouldn’t be justification enough for an action of internal oppression. Again, I’m talking about a rational administration, here, not an autocratic dictatorship.

Trump can raise all the executive orders he wants. He just doesn’t have jurisdiction on how states run their elections.

This doesn’t mean he can’t cause trouble, though. For instance, maybe he can just order the USPS to not deliver ballot mail. Or worse, open it an substitute the ballot inside to one that’s much more favourable to him.

Obviously, if he does that the US can kiss goodbye to being a representative democracy.

Even if this is true, and I make no comment on that, you may very well be correct. Without further laws/treaties bidding ≠ selecting. I assume one of the criteria is the company’s fitness.

The train operators should recognise that they are in a bit of a monopsony, here.

Looking at the requested penalty makes me wonder why they didn’t request one trillion. I mean if you are being blatant about your ulterior motive to scare off further investigation into your unethical practices.

Anyway they now got the stink on them. Any railway operator dealing with them will have no one but themselves to blame going forward.

I think the tariff situation is more subtle than you are letting on. Basically, Trump is now on the clock were previously he wasn’t. He will now be forced to go to congress to ratify this increase.

While we may feel smug in our federated social media, I wonder how far those protections even go. I guess it really depends where our instance is, and who they host with.

You’ve clearly not been paying attention. It’s trump’s party, now. Any serious descenting opinions have been routed out such as Liz Cheney. And it’s not just politicians. What’s left are the cowed and the sycophant. Sure, there has been descent in the ranks such as releasing the Epstein files but when asked about their justification it’s all fallen short of overt criticism of Trump. Nothing of the sort that could feasibility depose him. And the Democrats cravenly refuse to broach the subject, thinking that Trump is now electoral poison. A mistake they continue to make.

I’m not just factoring in Russia, here. If it was just Russia here you’d have a point. Russia has allies. The Trump Whitehouse and it seems that China is soft on Russia too. If push comes to shove, I really can’t guarantee that either of them would fall in line behind the EU. Add to that the authoritarian Narendra Modi’s India I really don’t think the EU would stand a chance…

Although, on the flip side, the EU may have allies themselves in Australia and Canada, and perhaps the UK plus the Scandinavian countries. But, even then…

I guess it also comes down to how much the different factions want the fight.

Do you honestly think the EU can stand alone against the super powers? With what? A lot of European munitions come from one of them. Sure, maybe the EU could throw all it’s chips in to the war effort and may squeak out a victory but they would have to dedicate around 80% of their income to it. We’re talking taking a World War 3 stance of preparedness. And be willing to go bankrupt in the process. If that happens the only result is Russia comes in an sells the EU for parts.

I think you’re both right as your stated opinions views are not diametrically opposed. I suspect the original commenter was not commenting to an utopian dream of a just peace, here. Their comment seems to be addressing realpolitik. The super power in the region and the current hegemonic super power in the world are aligned… and so is the new world super power, China when it comes to it. With that background, both Europe and Ukraine will loose and will have to accept what’s given to them.

Maybe. But if that’s all she wanted to do, she could just concentrate on that. It sounds like she went above board to fit in.

To these people any society with trans people in it is a destroyed society since their society is trans exclusionary.