People protesting in Seattle or NYC are, rest assured, taking state sanctioned violence into account. SPD/NYPD are a great way to train a culture in how to mitigate absolute bastards.

The monsters who want us all dead might not take all three branches…! Maybe…!

Good chance there isn’t going to be a next time, dude. It’s hard not sounding hyperbolic when saying things like “its the end of the world” but the next four years were CRITICAL to climate change, and we’ve voted to pour even more gas all over it. We don’t even have violent resistance to fall back on. The ‘progressives’ who stayed home this election because they couldnt hold their nose and vote for harris? Have damned us all. They’re just as much to blame for whats about to happen as the pathetic campaign harris was running.

It doesn’t matter if we’re fracturing the left. There was never any unity there in the first place.

know any countries that need database developers…?

Fox polling is actually extremely reputable. Go figure.

Trying not to conclude this is over but… man. This is looking really over.

Cyberpunk dystopia at least has a good aesthetic…

TL;DW:

“Even on this issue, donald trump and his rightwing friends are worse.”

I’m glad we’ve been able to find this common ground.

You’re… not very good at this, are you.

Hush.

But neither Poland nor Lithuania… are doing that. And they totally could be doing that. And if we’re ignoring the political feasibility of deploying a THAAD, why wouldn’t we just put it in Ukraine? Or, hell, why not just send US forces into ukraine, since it’s pretty clear we could roflstomp russia in a couple days? A couple carrier groups in the black sea and this conflict would be over comically fast.

Look you make a point, but I’m not sure what you’re actually trying to say with it. Do the now years of financial, humanitarian, political and military aid the US has given Ukraine count for nothing? The fact that we’re getting our dicks stuck in the middle east again (and chugging so much Israeli Genocide Bathwater we’re at risk of succumbing to zionist water toxemia while we do it) has very little to do with the continuing support the US is giving Ukraine. It’s still a damn hard battle, but the US has been giving them tools that they are using incredibly effectively. A THAAD system being deployed to Ukraine would be: a serious escalation with russia (who will not be happy with US anti-ballistic missile systems on the border, a point they’ve made clear for years), an astounding investment of an incredibly expensive and very limited-scope platform that is vulnerable without the supporting military ecosystem, and minimally effective since the kinds of missiles THAAD was designed to counter (realistically just SBMs) are barely being used by russia in this conflict.

There are real, credible reasons why the US has not done this, and I sure was sarcastic at you about your suggestion. I’m sorry about that, I kinda assumed you were a troll. If you’re serious about this, you should stop and consider that a war can’t be separated from the political realities that surround it, not least because if we could do that wars would be rendered pointless and we’d never have them and raytheon would go out of business.
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Hang on what am I saying that sounds great, I’m gonna start saying it too. Maybe if we convince enough people it’ll actually happen. I mean, it’s a better plan than being shitty at random well-meaning-but-off-the-mark-on-some-obscure-details internet commenters on a niche social media website like I’m doing right now.

“Alright, thank you for attending this meeting of the Member States of the NATO Alliance Countries Which Border Ukraine, which of you would like to be the first one to base an active combat emplacement (and 100% viable military target) on their soil? Did I mention it wasn’t going to be very effective, and costs $12 Million per missile?”
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"Anyone? "

Look I’m clearly being sarcastic, but out of Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hungary or Poland, which one is your pick to throw themselves into a meatgrinder war of attrition all while the US is split 50/50 on electing someone who has actively called for the US to back out of NATO?

And they’re not a nuclear power. Like, pointedly not. We made real sure of that.

IDK, this seems like the DoD actually doing their jobs (for once).We’ve given tons of anti-missile systems to ukraine. Deploying THAAD to a conflict where we can’t actively deploy US troops alongside it is a serious intelligence risk, and it doesn’t fill a particular role thats missing in Ukraine. Russia hasn’t been using ballistic missiles of the size THAAD would even be effective against. Patriot, MANPAD, aerial launched and even hera systems have been extremely effective, and NATO continues to supply those systems for Ukraine.

Washington, D.C.

Thank fuck, I was worried there’d be even more of those weirdos out here in the PNW

Don’t you dare give them ideas

Everyone hates you, bot.

Oh my god, that smell is mildew. If your towels are kept so humid that they’re mildewing the colliform bacteria in your bathroom is having an entire festival on there. Please, before you get a horrible infection, please start swapping them out more frequently. I’m begging you, rubbing that on even a small open wound could be legitimately life threatening (for example if you’re the lucky winner of E.Coli roulette, which is also absolutely growing on your towels).

You’re not clean, though. You’re really, really not. You’re cleaner, but humans are disgusting and a residential shower is in no way getting you anything close to actually ‘clean’. You don’t have to be insane like I am and swap them out every shower, all the literature I can find says 1-3 days is probably fine, but please please get a couple more towels and swap out for a clean one every few days at least, right now you’re just culturing some very nasty bacteria and then rubbing it all over yourself.