... and the Faroe Isles?
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Monday, 6 January 2020 10:53 (four years ago) link
That's 100.000 people. That's no empire. We're a colonial power, sure.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 10:55 (four years ago) link
u r really dumber than your reputation, amazing
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 January 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
wow sounds bad pic.twitter.com/Hrr8neNnWj— jordan (@JordanUhl) January 3, 2020
Just, if people don't know, the US isn't in the top 15 when it comes to Military spending / Total government spending. It's 9% according to the World Bank. Which is a lot, it's 2,3% in Denmark. But it's not why you don't have M4A. In Israel it's 11,1%, and afaik, Israel has better social services. Anti-imperialism is just the completely wrong way to look at this.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
interesting. the CBO thinks it's about 14.8%
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 6 January 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
Link?
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 14:24 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
The U.S. Department of Defense budget accounted in fiscal year 2017 for about 14.8% of the United States federal budgeted expenditures. According to the Congressional Budget Office, defense spending grew 9% annually on average from fiscal year 2000–2009.[43]
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 6 January 2020 14:33 (four years ago) link
Hm, the note there leads to a completely different report, and the first sentence doesn't actually seem to be according to the CBO. I can't see where that claim comes from?
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 14:39 (four years ago) link
I mean, Fred's right, even if we cut military spending in half there is zero chance that money wouldn't somehow end up in the pockets of the rich
― frogbs, Monday, 6 January 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
good morning!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
Lincoln Chafee's running for President as a Libertarian.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 6 January 2020 14:54 (four years ago) link
lol wait isn't John McAfee too
― rob, Monday, 6 January 2020 15:07 (four years ago) link
also Sam Seder
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:10 (four years ago) link
I'm just hyped for Chafee/McAfee 2020: Rhyme & Reason
― rob, Monday, 6 January 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
more like Crime and Reason, am I right folks??
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
John McEnroe also running
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
we've def been obsessing over the wrong primary
― rob, Monday, 6 January 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
A guy I worked with at the time claimed Obama nothing at all to do with the mission, and it was Panetta all the way.I imagine this guy now thinks that Trump himself is taking on secret missions to the Middle East and taking out terrorists himself, with his own bare not-small-at-all hands.
I imagine this guy now thinks that Trump himself is taking on secret missions to the Middle East and taking out terrorists himself, with his own bare not-small-at-all hands.
No need to anecdatalyze - Trump himself tweeted "Stop congratulating Obama for killing Bin Laden. The Navy Seals killed Bin Laden." (Oct 22 2012)
And then he OF COURSE proceeded to whine about how little credit he got for killing Baghdadi.
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:41 (four years ago) link
Can the dude even hold a weapon at this point
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
he's right, he should get more credit for murdering those two children alongside baghdadi
― 'Sly Cooper' Movie Breaking Into Theaters In 2016 (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 6 January 2020 15:43 (four years ago) link
i see that trump is threatening sanctions on IRAQ now, threatening to make them larger than those on Iran now. while also saying stuff like
“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people,” he said. “And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural site? It doesn’t work that way.”
...and yet i am going to carry on with my day, i guess. after all, he's actually been a very ineffective president who doesn't have much of an effect on the world because of how incompetent he is, right
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:34 (four years ago) link
the euphemism "cultural sites" makes me wanna barf
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
why
― El Tomboto, Monday, 6 January 2020 16:40 (four years ago) link
maybe "designated collateral damage"
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
I mean as employed by numbnuts himself, because he dgaf about culture
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
what makes you say that?
https://i.imgur.com/uHJgcQ7.jpg
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:50 (four years ago) link
at least Little Bush had The Fart Book
― L'assie (Euler), Monday, 6 January 2020 16:54 (four years ago) link
that poor kid looks so sad :(
― closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:12 (four years ago) link
Don't think that I won't judge him the instant he chooses to become a public figure.
― Now We Know (Sanpaku), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Just hundreds of billions, anti-imperialists are so greedy they just want it all for cultural sites!
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 January 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't be able to keep myself from peeling off the gold foil and eating the load-bearing chocolate superstructure
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:17 (four years ago) link
New John Bolton statement: "I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify." pic.twitter.com/1UIVIhLVb6— Dustin Volz (@dnvolz) January 6, 2020
chances of senate issuing a subpoena to bolton?
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
subpoena the tax returns
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 6 January 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
Fri. (12/27): we notify Deutsche Bank about our pieceSun. (12/29): Trump + Putin have mystery phone callWed. (1/1): we tell DB we are publishing Fri.Wed. (1/1): Trump decides to kill SoleimaniThurs. (1/2): Soleimani assassinatedFri. (1/3): we are cyberattacked😳 weird— Robert J. DeNault (@robertjdenault) January 5, 2020
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:05 (four years ago) link
xp
― frogbs, Monday, January 6, 2020 9:43 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yes but this is mostly* useful as a rhetorical strategy, i.e. "if you're concerned about that cost, you should logically also be concerned about this cost, unless your concern isn't actually about cost"
* except maybe not really, because the likely retort to that would probably be something along the lines of "we need to do this, we don't need universal health care," and then it's a stalemate, because what do you even do with that?
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Monday, 6 January 2020 18:10 (four years ago) link
My point was more that the anti-imperialism argument just messes things up further. Isn't the point also that the US spends more on Health Care as a percent of GDP anyway? So the money is there.
― Frederik B, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
General Milley has just said the letter regarding troop movements out of Iraq was a draft, and releasing it was a "mistake." It was however delivered to the Iraqi military. It seems the U.S. military is as confused as everyone else about what their intentions are.— Liz Sly (@LizSly) January 6, 2020
― mookieproof, Monday, 6 January 2020 21:47 (four years ago) link
hell of a story herehttps://www.npr.org/2020/01/05/785672201/deceased-gop-strategists-daughter-makes-files-public-that-republicans-wanted-seahttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Pw3lc2QPJ-eEeHszCdcfjbe3uZC1DbKz
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 6 January 2020 21:52 (four years ago) link
Wow indeed.
― Camina Burana Drummer (Leee), Monday, 6 January 2020 22:39 (four years ago) link
fucking "trade secrets"
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:18 (four years ago) link
Correcting Bolton:
"I have concluded that, because the Senate will not issue a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify."
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 6 January 2020 23:48 (four years ago) link
Tankie twitter has really wound up your soft left technocratic politics has it not?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
you're obsessed
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:24 (four years ago) link
He is inventing a weird straw man to justify hundreds of billions in defence expenditure.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:39 (four years ago) link
Fred how could you
― 💠 (crüt), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
Lol
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
An interesting Rolling Stone story about Lindsey Graham. (It's not just a rant; it contains actual reporting.) Here's the pull quote:
“People try to analyze Lindsey through the prism of the manifest inconsistencies that exist between things that he used to believe and what he’s doing now,” [Steve] Schmidt says. “The way to understand him is to look at what’s consistent. And essentially what he is in American politics is what, in the aquatic world, would be a pilot fish: a smaller fish that hovers about a larger predator, like a shark, living off of its detritus. That’s Lindsey. And when he swam around the McCain shark, broadly viewed as a virtuous and good shark, Lindsey took on the patina of virtue. But wherever the apex shark is, you find the Lindsey fish hovering about, and Trump’s the newest shark in the sea. Lindsey has a real draw to power — but he’s found it unattainable on his own merits.”
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
A good read.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 January 2020 15:36 (four years ago) link