ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
1d ago
Since 2014 the defining fault line in the Culture War has been race, not sex
And even then, any oxygen in the room for issues about sex has been sucked up by the trans issue.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
What's the worst three things they have done in the past 15 years?
Just off the top of my head:
Threatening global shipping lanes by funding and supplying the Houthis (one of their proxies) which caused major disruption to ship traffic in the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal.
Attacking Saudi oil infrastructure (again via their proxy, the Houthis).
Supplying IEDs and shaped charges to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan to kill American troops.
As I have heard, Iran actually cooperated with the U.S. in fighting ISIS.
Yeah, no surprise there. ISIS was an overwhelmingly Sunni group, that often explicitly targeted Shiite Muslims. Iran is majority Shiite.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
and also get them out of their occupied land, which is a precondition for normalization among the Arab nations
Is it though? Israel has had decent relations with Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and other Arab nations for decades now.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
I'd think it was a good idea, if we were going to secure access to Iranian oil and cut off Chinese access. My view is that we might be (but aren't definitely) heading towards a major global conflict along the lines of WW3 and securing resources and regions ahead of time is one of our smartest options. But I don't think that's what we're doing here.
I've gone through that same process, repeatedly. In fact I moved last year, and was unable to vote in my local primaries because I didn't get my paperwork taken care of fast enough, I didn't feel like my rights were being infringed on as a result though.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Like 20% or so? With a number as low as 9%, that sounds to me like the overwhelming majority of people that want proof of citizenship are able to get it without issue, and as a result it seems likely to me that that 9% could get it with relative ease if it became required for voting and they actually wanted to vote.
Though I would also have zero issue adding a law requiring ids to be completely free (i.e. taxpayer funded) if we made them mandatory for voting.
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
Even this leftwing think tank admits that only 9% of voting age American citizens don't have proof of citizenship "readily available". Note the weasel wording with readily available. This is also assuming that the self-reporting of citizenship in the survey was accurate and not a bunch of illegals lying:
ChickenOverlord
2d ago
And with robots doing sll of the work via remote control so that there is a literal zero percent risk of escape.
ChickenOverlord
5d ago
The grammar is too correct in that AI McCarthy snippet. Intentionally abusing grammar and punctuation is basically McCarthy's most identifying trait. In fact it's how I could tell that the snippet in the NYT quiz was from him even though I still haven't gotten around to reading Blood Meridian.
ChickenOverlord
6d ago
Ditto that when People magazine called Bill Clinton the sexiest man alive back in the day, though I'm a straight dude so that probably has a lot to do with it.
Technically a ton, since MLK was named after Martin Luther.
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