Reprieve found that only 23 of those killed had links to terror organisations.

There was a link. They were killed by one.

Oops, you’re correct!

That’s what it is. The A-Bomb or Atom Bomb was the type of nuclear weapon dropped on Japan. It’s a fusion weapon rather than the later fission weapons called H-Bombs.

How likely do you think the downvoters are to be the one criticizing the dude for abandoning the woman vs. the ones upset he’s being criticized?

Because I think the dude was shitty as hell and thus should theoretically be the type of man offended at being lumped in with him, but I get it. Women don’t know if they’re going to get my type of man or the type who will ditch them on a trail until it happens. And I’m pretty sure it we go through the effort to check those downvotes we’re not going to see many of them commenting about how this guy was in the wrong and instead a lot of empathizing with the shitty man.

Walk back silently while in sight of each other, or if you really need time and space, take it while neither of you continues to hike. Or just fucking get a hold of your emotions to finish the damn hike.

People can have problems on a hike that aren’t deadly but still require support. If a partner is slow it might be because they’re getting sick or injured. Even if the chance of them dying is low, it’s still your responsibility as their partner to look after them. No one else on that trail is going to have a higher responsibility to support them.

Yeah. Even if you figure out halfway through that you hate spending time with them you just fucking walk the rest of the way with them in silence. Sometimes things don’t go how you hoped and you have a bad day. Deal with it.

A nation that has made war on multiple countries within the last year is not fit to host an international sports event. More teams should drop out.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uae-officials-deny-israeli-reports-strike-inside-iran

We should not consider Israeli newspapers as credible sources of information on any wars they’re involved in.

I remember when I first heard that they were elevating his son my mind jumped to it being a young and dynamic war time figurehead. Someone who could grab a gun and pose with the troops for propaganda. Then I remembered that the former guy was 86. All these leaders are so fucking old their children already have gray hairs. This guy fought in the Iran-Iraq War back in the 80s.

Dude. I’m willing to tell a foreign power my governing regime is horrific and we’d welcome invasion right now. There were Venezuelans asking for invasion, Iraqis asking for invasion, Afghanis asking for invasion. Do you think all those other countries didn’t have both bad regimes and opposition who wanted them gone? How’d that work out for us?

Were you perchance born yesterday?

LOL, ok Cheney. I’m sure this regime change war is different. All those other times we attacked “one of the most horrific regimes in the world” where the good people just needed a little boost to overthrow them it didn’t work out that way because… reasons. This time it’s going to be quick an easy and we’ll definitely be the good guys!

“They will greet us as liberators.”

They’re cowards and/or bought by Israel. The Democratic leadership conveniently delayed a vote against military action until next week. Speculation is that either they get so much AIPAC money they’ll do whatever Israel wants or they think this will be such a big shit show for Trump they want to just let it happen for political benefit.

Also, realistically, Republicans are weak-willed morons. There will be a few days of uncomfortable confusion, but they’ll be cheerleading this by next week.

This is actually one of the few shitty things the Trump voters didn’t vote for. Trump campaigned as anti-war. Just recently Americans polled at 70% opposition to military action. Even Republicans have a majority against it (53-35).

That only makes sense if he’s planning on an occupation. That’s insane.

The people targeted by videos of places in the UK most Americans don’t even know exist aren’t Americans. You’re delusional if you think the same sort of reactionary racist Boomers who eat this shit up in the US don’t exist all across Europe.

He was only firing toward the man who was murdered. Which is also apparently not a crime (if the target is Palestinian). Only murders that are captured from beginning to end on camera can be prosecuted. Maybe. If the Palestinian victim is famous and the story doesn’t go away.

Few people here are talking about radical reforms that would change the existing power dynamics and politicians are even less ambitious. Centrists are continually looking for off-ramps so that we don’t “go too far” (e.g., don’t abolish ICE, reform the courts, ban money from politics, reestablish the balance of powers). Even with a blue wave and a reformist president, expect there to be enough of those sorts to bog down any momentum for change and enough voters eager to reconcile and return to business as usual that nothing changes.

Other countries should be planning to insulate themselves from us, because we’re not going to become safe to trust. We may go back to Obama levels of foreign engagement and the slow grind of neoliberal economic policy, but we’re going to be teetering on the edge of another Trump for decades at least. His 40% of supporters are fanatical and have no exposure to outside viewpoints that would deprogram them, and the judges he’s put in place will allow insanity to stay mainstream.