It’s just clickbait.

“ongoing bilateral engagement”

Yeah this is gonna turn into another CECOT isn’t it.

More accurately, they’re both separate descendants of ethnonationalism which was a popular ideology at that time. And still today, evidently, though it seemed to be in decline for a bit during the post-war period.

Won’t someone rid us of this turbulent shitstain?

No, it’s happening everywhere. But I’ve also seen some significant resistance happening in other cities like NYC, Newark, Portland, Chicago, Seattle, SF, etc.

Maybe… I feel like they’ll just come, give the nod and keep fucking up the peasants since they both have the same job more or less.

Why though? What do you expect to happen?

Sure but they only want the bots they approve of. That way they can charge for the privilege of allowing someone’s preferred bots onto the platform.

I’ve thought of this years ago. Y’all are just lucky I’m not a terrorist.

I think you’re right and it was mainly me that was confused, so I deleted my comment. My apologies.

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It’s obviously a good thing but it took a lot of effort and there are other more important problems is all I’m saying.

Sure if you live in a society where corruption is legal and normal, as most of us do, then you might think so.

But I refuse to accept this kind of thing as normal.

Interesting story but imagine if he had channeled that energy into something actually meaningful lol

Well that wouldn’t be the US anymore, it would be two new nations.

But otherwise I agree. The main question is how do we angle for an amicable divorce and who gets the dog and house (purple states).

What is the basis of your disagreement? I have hoped for this outcome for my entire adult life but things have only gotten worse and more hateful during that time. There simply is no interest from the right and even much of the center to fight against this. It’s time to let go and realize we can’t save everyone. If they want to fight for local autonomy we can support them. If they want to flee we can welcome them.

But what we can’t do is continue down the same path of the last 15 years. We can’t have a national government that 50% of the time wants to continue the status quo and 50% of the time wants to go on a violent rampage against itself and the people of this country. That just can’t work, and I don’t see a path to a place where it can. We need to build something new for the people who haven’t lost their minds as best we can and let the lunatics self-destruct if that’s what they want to do.

It’s too late for America. You can’t save a country when half of its citizens want to burn it to the ground.

The best outcome is the left reorients and rebuilds systems independent from the federal government, either by focusing on the state and local level or through interstate compacts.

Did you read the definition above? None of this is relevant. At this point I can only assume this is an issue of willful ignorance.

Hamas’s actions have not been notably different towards civilians and soldiers they hold captive. Both are treated as hostages. There is really nothing further to discuss, and I already mentioned my view on Israeli hostages above as well.

It’s entirely possible to use POWs as hostages. They aren’t mutually exclusive categories. One has to look at the statements and behavior of the actors involved to assess their motivations. Is it merely to reduce enemy fighting forces or are they also used as leverage? Hamas’s actions and statements make it clear in this case that they are hostages.

Of course, Hamas also took non-combatants hostage so I don’t see why you are willing to die on this hill, it’s incontrovertible that they do take hostages.

That’s absolutely not what the word hostage means. A hostage is a prisoner used as a bargaining chip. The validity of the action has no bearing on it.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hostage