anti_dan
13d ago
They are regional for now. Iran is not by aspiration and are the primary actor.
In the end, Israel is quite boring. If everyone else ignored the situation we would be rid of the problem quite quickly.
anti_dan
14d ago
Unlikely. Israel is kind of a distraction on that point. They absorb a lot of the pent up demand for terrorism that foments in the Arab world. If they were gone the focus would likely swing back to America.
anti_dan
14d ago
Now, I don't think this is a very good ad. It's poorly acted and a bit too on-the-nose, but accusing the political opposition of wasting money on unpopular special interests while regular citizens deal with rising prices is probably the most common political maneuver in modern American politics. Apparently, this ad is at the center of a possible last-minute fracture of the Michigan Democratic coalition.
This is my take. I hope those actors needed this work to keep their SAG health insurance or whatever, because it is some of the worst material ever put on TV.
anti_dan
17d ago
I certainly never did that at 9. But I'd have had a 7 and 3 year old to care for in that case, which is dubious.
The real issue is that, once a kid is responsible enough to run a household for 3 days, they are also clever enough to throw a party while mom is away.
anti_dan
23d ago
they are deeply miscalibrated to the views of the electorate.
The campaign has shown that multiple times. He's simply not a person that is capable of understanding Americans
anti_dan
24d ago
There's something to be said for losing with dignity. Now he's the child rapist sympathizer. "Oops I didn't know better" doesn't absolve him.
My personal theory on this is that your take is incorrect. I don't think he is siding with the child rapist, he cares not about that matter. Rather, he is of a sincere position that being raped is something that happens to suckers and losers, and thus the rape coming out makes his opponent a sucker and loser, and thus he will win bigly because people will vote for him, the winner that takes advantage of suckers and losers.
anti_dan
24d ago
When an Indian billionaire posts online the day after Christmas and tells Americans that they should adopt the stereotypical Asian childraising style if they want to be economically competitive, I might give it credit for audacity, but good politics it is not.
It also has the primary problem of being wrong. Asians goodharting all the academic metrics hasn't made Japan into the juggernaught people feared in the early 90s, nor has it even helped India keep up with the Chinese. In the end innovation seems to be driven by people like Musk and Lucky who just genuinely love the stuff, and running/founding successful companies also is full of jocks like Phil Knight, the Kochs, Bob Kraft, etc.
anti_dan
24d ago
The annoying bit is that it's going to get drawn up as anti-Indian racism, rather than principles or just disliking the smarmy git.
Its will only be half wrong to call it racism. In that, just about any other similarly situated Indian man has a high liklihood of having made many of the same mistakes. The Screech/Homecoming insults were not a mistake any white guy would make, but certainly is a sentiment many Indians hold. And this is another blunder down the same lines. Vivek, like many other Indians view elections as a status runoff and that being sexually assaulted lowers one's reputation, which again is a mistake no white guy in that position would have made.
There's no need to genocide a people that can't sustain themselves. Maybe a couple thousand hard scrabble gazans could eek out a stone age living on their patch of dirt. Hardly a threat in need of much policy concern for the Israelis.
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