Only in the best of times.

the biggest nuclear superpower in the last weeks of his admin without congressional approval is pretty noteworthy.

If that had happened, it would indeed be noteworthy.

Sure, because something that happened centuries ago is as urgent as something that’s happening now.

And if the US was wrong, how is Russia right in doing the same thing?

threats to Russian national security

Yeah, like someone else living on land that Russia wanted.

Pull the other one, it’s got bells on.

But Russia bringing in 12,000 North Koreans doesn’t give Ukraine the right to defend itself? What about the war crime of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure? What about the war crime of invading a country that hadn’t attacked you?

If you look at their greenhouse emissions, they’re still increasing. Interesting definition of progress.

Clip the ends of the screws off. Not much more effort than moaning on Reddit, and more useful results.

You can have redistribution without socialism. There was a modest amount of redistribution even under Eisenhower.

Time to reset the initial conditions, and this time, make sure there are safeguards to prevent this level of inequality happening again.

Bring back sumptuary laws!

If anyone weighs the same as a duck, it’s Netanyahu.

Holding people accountable for their actions that affect you is an entirely just and necessary thing to do.

Another contributor to low turnout was massive voter suppression. It’d be interesting to see that quantified. Hundreds of thousands of voters were being purged in each of several states. The single-issue Gaza vote was lost in the noise of those gross examples of electoral manipulation.

Gaza was also a big issue for Gen Z

It was a convenient excuse for their apathy.

asking the relatives of genocide victims to vote for someone

There are 160,000 Palestinian-Americans. Most of them originate in the West Bank (especially Ramallah) and Jerusalem. Almost none of them are in Michigan. Michigan’s Arab-Americans are mostly Lebanese-descended.

People with family ties to Gaza were a vanishingly small percentage of the electorate. They’re vastly outnumbered by the people who were suckered by the “Dems = Genocide” concern-trolling.

It’ll be a genocide soon enough.

Nobody with a functioning brain thinks Russian army is beat to hell.

I have heard Western military people say this, in person. It doesn’t mean Russia is not still a threat, but their capabilities have been degraded during the two years of the “easy 2-week war.”

If they’re doing so well, why haven’t they been able to defeat a country with a population a tenth that of Russia?

Even more, if they’re expected to engage in another sustained campaign, who’s going to be fighting it? They can barely keep their conscription pipeline full now. Who’s going to sign up to sacrifice themselves in Meat Grinder round 2?

Like the Russian Baltic fleet has been battle-hardened by its contact with the ocean floor.

Iran and Israel are held to entirely different standards.

By body count, there’s no comparison.

I will, however, add an obligatory Fuck the Mullahs-- the Iranian people deserve much better than that.