John McCain’s campaign trail: ‘The Weasel, Twelve Monkeys and the Shrub’ (2000)
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I have always wondered why he uses the word 'which' in a way that nobody else does, as in:
"...he had to eject, which basically means setting off an explosive charge that blows your seat out of the plane, which ejection broke both McCain’s arms and one leg and gave him a concussion and he started falling out of the skies right over Hanoi."
The second 'which' does not seem grammatically correct to me, but he does it _all the time_, and he probably knows the rules better than anyone. I assume it's a archaic form that he was the last holdout for?
His voice will be sorely missed, both within the USA as well as outside of it.
I lost a family member to cancer last week (@60), it went from A-ok to gone in the space of two months, it's a very harsh disease.
The Middle East was a fucked up place before the impact of US foreign policy and it will still be fucked even if the Us goes into full isolationism, dictatorships and theocracies with forced national identities governing non-heterogenous ethnic groups tend to cause that.
It’s the same reason why European empires broke down and why the Balkans are in such a mess.
His voting record sold Saudi Arabia the bombs used to kill those children, and the attacks could only take place with US support.
Hindsight is always 20/20...
But since we're talking about pure logistics here do you think KSA would have problems purchasing those bombs from anyone else? KSA buys as much weapons from Europe these days as they do from the US, if the EU and the US won't sell them bombs then Russia, China or India would, heck KSA is even flying Israeli made drones.
And the whole argument is just utterly shameful, it's nothing more than the old hyperbolic trope of but think of the children.... if KSA only dropped bombs on the Iranian backed houthi rebels would that make McCain's voting history acceptable in your mind?
Because if all it takes is a few tragic oopsies with too much collateral damage then I don't even want to know what you think about everyone else in US politics since no one can hold a candle to the US when it comes to oopsie I didn't mean to hit that....
Yes. McCain has been a prominent advocate for this war for a long time, but the neocon ideology behind it infects both parties.
>But since we're talking about pure logistics here do you think KSA would have problems purchasing those bombs from anyone else? KSA buys as much weapons from Europe these days as they do from the US, if the EU and the US won't sell them bombs then Russia, China or India would, heck KSA is even flying Israeli made drones.
They also need US intelligence support for these attacks to happen. If the US was opposed to the war, it would be difficult to find a replacement able to provide both elements that doesn't have good relations with Iran.
>And the whole argument is just utterly shameful, it's nothing more than the old hyperbolic trope of but think of the children....
It's not "think of the children," it's "think of the innocent civilians being slaughtered and the pain that must cost their families." This isn't some overblown moral dilemma, real people are dying because of these decisions.
>if KSA only dropped bombs on the Iranian backed houthi rebels would that make McCain's voting history acceptable in your mind?
If somehow the only victims of war were willing participants, it seems likely my views would change.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
If this is the new standard then it's a worrying incursion of US politics into HN.
Can someone make a convincing argument as to how McCain's death is of particular interest to hacker culture? My feeling is these topics are sticking around because they're honoring a guy that seems beloved by both sides of the political spectrum (no dispute from me there), but it doesn't change the fact that this doesn't fit HN guidelines.
Edit: And before someone mentions it, I'm aware that I myself am breaking the guidelines by questioning the appropriateness of this topic. I think it's a fair discussion to be had when neither the flagging mechanism or HN's moderation staff are enforcing what should be the principal rule of the site.
At least that's my opinion