Mirshe

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago

Not necessarily. Drones can level a position or terrorize civilians, but you can't securely hold that position or occupy territory with them. For now, there is no replacement in that job - your infantry and armor are still doing that work.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

$110b pumped into a company that's literally never made a cent.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 221 points 18 hours ago (12 children)

Trump did this last term too, we killed their intelligence chief when he landed for peace talks with Iraq.

This is a war crime, BTW. Attacking someone under a perceived state of truce or ceasefire is called "perfidy".

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Precisely. I feed my cat at 6PM. He will absolutely let you know it's almost time to feed the cat by 430.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

See, this is my take as well - other people knew/guessed his passwords and used his account that way. Keeping him alive really doesn't do anything for the "it's all a coverup" story, especially when a LOT of his associates and contacts are getting tangled up in this release of his files. Additionally, this guy was talking so openly about manipulating markets, sex crimes, and all sorts of legal and quasi legal shit that I find it hard to imagine that EVEN IF he was connected to Israeli intelligence like has been suggested, EVEN IF he got spirited out of prison and away to Tel Aviv, I find it hard to imagine Mossad would want to keep such a DEEPLY compromised asset alive instead of driving him into the Negev and putting two bullets in the back of his head.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Even still, Noem literally stated, on mic, on camera to the nation, that ICE would be at the polls ensuring the "right people" vote for the "right leaders". Believe your enemy when they're dumb enough to tell you their plan.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There's a lot of white supremacists and hate groups there that have active ties to hate groups here in the US. Many white South Africans were and are not happy with the fact that their racial hierarchy got scrapped.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

Because a lot of times in the Bad Old Days, the Church was really one of the few ways to get healthcare in a rural area. Tons of places in Tennessee and the rural South were pretty much just forgotten about, and the Catholics capitalized on this by actually doing good Christian stuff - you know, healing the sick and helping the poor and all the things Jesus talks about in Matthew during the Sermon on the Mount.

Now it's turned into a battleground for the Church's values, especially moreso as the American Catholic Church seems to want to actively schism away from the RCC.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Belize is safe for now. Tech billionaires are trying to create their mythical libertarian-land there, their vaunted extraterritorial city-states where they don't have to obey federal laws or anything but the laws they set themselves.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah, it's only been the last 30-40 years that we've been falling down the same rabbit hole that places like OK or AL have.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago (5 children)

This sounds an awful lot like they just gave him a classic "starlight tour". Nazi Germany nothing, cops have been doing this for decades since here in the States.

[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

From all accounts, like Dr Ben Carson, he is/was an actually-good cardiothoracic surgeon, like Ben Carson was an excellent neurosurgeon. Like, world-class. He just has a deep, gnawing pit of inadequacy that means he can't be satisfied with just being good in that field. We can talk shit on the guy while also acknowledging that actually educated people, people who are very very good in their fields, are also susceptible to fascist thought in the same manner as anyone else.

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