nixon_why69

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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
Agreed 100%
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
I'm not disagreeing with you but "Dept of War" is ENTIRELY a cosmetic change. It's literally just a name. There are people, mostly with desk jobs, who really want to feel like badasses and they really want the Dept of
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
A fuckup at the border is not an "attack/invasion". If China/Russia/India attacked each other for real, it would not look like a fuckup. I'm being consistent with my goalposts.
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
(EDIT in lieu of multiple replies - a random border fuckup is not an invasion in my book) And the body count from all of those tiny border skirmishes together? Its less than these 24 hours in Iran, right?
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
I'm arguing that China has, generously, inflicted maybe 1k military casualties in the last 40 years if we round everything all the way up. You're arguing that China is the real bad guy while USA/Israel are doing 10x that in t
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
I said "attacked/invaded", not "had some fistfights at the border". Could we set the standard at "at least one piece of military equipment fired on people"? Bear in mind that we're comparing this to
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
Name one country China has attacked/invaded in the last 40 years.
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
At every step, for years, they've tried to de-escalate while Israel and the US launched direct attacks against them. Embassies bombed, that general in Iraq in 2020, last summer and now this. All of these attacks completely unprovoked
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
> Arguing Iran has been some peaceful country minding its own business is totally inaccurate. Compared to Israel and the US, it would be a massive understatement to call Iran peaceful.
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
Counter reason in favor is that you can always count on it being there and working the same way. Perl is too out of fashion and python has too many versioning/library complexities. You have to write the crappy sh script once but then
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
How's that working out right now?
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
You're right, but "don't blame us, we were investing our energy in oppressing the blacks" isn't really the greatest excuse for cotton belt states when it comes to their education and gdp numbers.
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by nixon_why69 8mo ago
To be fair to gruez, the chart was made by the economist and not by them. To be less fair to the economist, "adjusted by poverty level" is a heck of a spin, we've had many generations as a developed nation now, your state pov