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by dralley 2y ago
Winning by 1.6% is not a massive victory. It's actually a smaller margin than Hillary won the popular vote by in 2016 (despite losing the electoral vote).
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Old people actually leaned bluer this year relative to past elections.
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The boot of the state is very much going to remain intact in this administration.
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Libertarians are very hard to take seriously because of shit like this. Nothing about Donald Trump is Libertarian.
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>I thought it was the west that couldn't ramp up and is running out of stockpiles. It's worth pointing out that Russia's "production" claims generally include refurbishment. When they say they produced 4 million
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>If you know the Russians are jamming GPS then what's the difference at this point? "Why even bother if the chance of success is less than 100%" Ukrainian attacks are very frequently successful despite GPS jamming and air
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by dralley 2y ago
The colloquial definition of rape includes using your fingers, which is what he did. The fact that the specific NY law defines digital violation as a separate offense from "rape" doesn't make using the term improper for the
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by dralley 2y ago
Both of those institutions were, in fact, heavily reformed. What you actually mean is that there was little personal legal accountability for past actions, which I don't disagree with. The legal and political frameworks they operate u
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by dralley 2y ago
Left wing parties elsewhere are losing too, mostly because of immigration. Meanwhile the welfare states are collapsing in the UK, Canada, France and Germany because the birthrates and lack of economic growth can't sustain it.
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Chuck Grassley, who is technically 4th in the line of succession behind the Vice President and Speaker of the House, is 91 years old
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The systemd layout allows you to send the same command to multiple services, which is much more frequently useful than sending multiple commands to one service.
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by dralley 2y ago
>The voting algorithm needs to change so that destructive (negative) campaigning is not so effective. No algorithm is going to fix this, it's human nature. Negative campaigning has been a constant of elections since elections were
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>Democrats lost because they keep triangulating and trying to appeal to centrist Republicans who either don't exist, or would never vote for them regardless. If Harris had distinguished herself from Biden by taking a firm stance aga
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>sometimes it is not about the money. Yes, that's precisely the argument of the pro-ban faction. China doesn't allow TikTok in China . It's not about the money, it's about control over a medium that can be exploite
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by dralley 2y ago
What exactly is your issue with this, as a textualist? >[The Congress shall have Power . . . ] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; . . . This is foreign commerce. It falls
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by dralley 2y ago
For the same reason Grindr was forced to sell to a non-Chinese parent, the risks of putting some apps / information in the hands of strategic competitors is too high. If a domestic company tried to blackmail people with their sexual h
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by dralley 2y ago
It isn't a "ban" except that TikTok would rather shut down than sell, forgoing billions of dollars in the process.
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by dralley 2y ago
This is just even remotely close to being true. 1948 was as weak as they have ever been. They're stronger now then they've been in a long time. I wouldn't be surprised to see diplomatic recognition with Saudi Arabia and Leb
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by dralley 2y ago
If you were a European Jew in the late 1940s after the fall of the Nazis, you were still faced with the prospect of living under the local governance of Nazi collaborators, continued pogroms [0] and antisemitism, and potentially Joseph Stal
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by dralley 2y ago
This is quite frankly delusional.
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>Russia accuses Ukraine of oppression, genocide, and ethno-nationalist supremacy of Ukrainians against Russians in Ukraine happily pointing to the Azov brigade and all kinds of fringe rhetoric. The most ironic thing about this is that Az
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by dralley 2y ago
Also, if you were a European Jew in the late 1940s after the fall of the Nazis, you were still faced with the prospect of living under the local governance of Nazi collaborators, continued pogroms [0] and antisemitism, and potentially Josep
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by dralley 2y ago
Gaza was not under occupation. It was blockaded because after the occupation ended they decided to ramp up attacks on Israel via. rockets and suicide bombings.
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Who were Anwar Sadat and King Abdullah I, and how did they die?
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by dralley 2y ago
Egypt implementing a blockade triggered the 1967 conflict. It didn't come from nowhere. Then that was followed up by yet another war against Israel in 1973.
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>This is exactly the same argument that Russia has been using to annex territories such as Crimea; "it's strategically important for us" isn't really sufficient justification for mass murder, and - on a purely geograp
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If you are able to string that series of words together with a question mark, you have absolutely no business speaking authoritatively about the Syrian conflict. Yes, Hezbollah was propping Assad up. They actively intervened in the civil w
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The aperture is wider than just those who are already members of some terrorist organization or other. e.g. the killing of Samuel Paty
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The Plethora of Problems with Safety Profiles (C++)(open-std.org)
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So long as the Turkish and Kurdish nationalists are at odds, an independent Kurdish state is nonviable without foreign backing from the US to keep the Turks out. There's a decent chance that they'd be better off working with HTS t

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