I could be wrong, but isn’t the “not annexing” because he doesn’t recognize it as a separate territory in the first place?

Call him any way you want, he can still hear you.

Stability doesn’t mean “peace” it means “things don’t get worse.” And I think we both know that things could be A LOT worse.

IMO this is the real answer. Geopolitical stability in the region, at the cost of letting Israel do whatever it wants including genociding the Palestinians. It makes me sick, but I have a sinking feeling that if we allowed the entire region become unstable, that would make me sick as well.

“Quagmire” is a word for a reason.

He knows

I’m quite sure you don’t understand how it works.

Just setting up plausible deniability against accusations of helping trump.

Naturally it would be preposterous for him to be on the ticket for President, but the reason they continue to let him run for Congress is because he counts towards the Dems in terms of determining which party has the majority and therefore sets the agenda for that chamber of Congress. Without him, that particular part of WV would almost certainly go to the GOP and tip control of the Senate firmly in their favor.

It’s a deal with a devil, and one that has burned the Dems more than once. But without him we’d probably be completely fucked.

I’m not deluding myself about anything. The choice isn’t “vote for or against genocide” it’s “act to get less or more genocide”. It’s not a false dichotomy; if you’re not voting to defeat Trump, then you’re acting to get more genocide.

By not acting to defeat Trump, you’re enabling genocide more than Biden ever has.

“I’d rather let someone who actively, aggressively advocates, enables, and wants genocide domestically and abroad to win the presidency, over voting for somebody who passively enables genocide to happen abroad because actively trying to stop it could ignite WWIII” is still a bad take.

It’s baffling and hypocritical.

You misunderstand. A librarian may not know if something is true or not, but they are educated on how to research something to find out if something is true or not. As you said, their job is to manage sources, which includes knowing with sources are reliable and which sources to look at for certain types of information.

The thing is, police and politicians don’t care about getting correct results, they only care about results. An innocent person convicted is still “case closed” and “another criminal punished.”

Politicians can be made to care by threatening their jobs, but the police still don’t give a shit about catching the right person as long as they can put somebody behind bars by any means possible.

I’m their view, the experts are part of the problem and should be ignored.

He’s also said that he regrets a lot of that. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I think it’s important to note that the solution isn’t to not remove the dams, it’s to fucking nationalize the power companies.

and not address the actual discussions.

Sorry, you lost me. What actual discussions are being ignored?

Gotcha. Very valid point.

People love looking at the first civil war in conversations like this, but the next civil war is going to be nothing like it. For a likely comparison, you’d have to look at the Spanish Civil War and The Troubles in Ireland.

Americans have no fucking clue what they’re asking for.

Us: We think about you all the time!

Corporations: Funny, because we don’t think of you ever.

It’s very well documented that Lenin returned to Russia from exile with the help of Germany, and made significant use of German money and military supplies during the revolution. He even got shit for it from his own communist party. He kept in their good graces by promising to start a communist revolution in Germany next. Funny how that one never quite got off the ground…

And then the Nazis came to power, arrested all the communists, and eventually broke the alliance with the ussr.

The info’s pretty easy to find, Google will get you some good articles about it.

After all, they were allies before Hitler betrayed Stalin.

You’re using this to support your argument that authleft = authright, but you’re forgetting that Lenin was an agent of Germany. The alliance between Germany and Russia predates both Hitler and Stalin, and had nothing to do with whether their governments were similar in any way.