sonotathrowaway

There are tankers built specifically for the Suez Canal

The more appropriate aphorism would probably be “correlation doesn’t equal causation”.

Wait until you find out how many Latino people serve in the military.

Next time you wonder why a Trump supporter has a bad argument, remind yourself there was a nonzero number of them who literally drank bleach and Lysol after he told them too.

You mean like how the Houthi’s unilaterally decided to shut down Red Sea shipping and the US Navy is still powerless to restore it?

One of the implications of having the worst education in the nation is that a lot of facts would surprise them.

Genuinely believing that only one person in America dies in a home invasion is hard to take seriously.

I imagine most preteens in America have a better grasp of reality than the one you’re espousing here.

Can you let Obama know Libya wasn't his fault and he bears absolutely no responsibility? He seems to be living in that alternate reality - you'd think he would be a better judge of what reality existed, but alas not everyone is as observant as you. Surely the US cannot be held responsible for any action of NATO, they have no relation with that organization at all.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/12/barack-obama...

While you're there you should also let Hilary Clinton know that she wasn't a war hawk either, and the no-fly zone just spontaneously appeared with no US involvement at all.

You’re an ms-13 member, actually.

Their comment is vastly more substantiated than your feelings are. We all know that NYT suppressed a story about unlawful mass surveillance, then published it to avoid being scooped.

This is besides the mountains of bullshit they pushed to promote the Iraq war - propaganda they have never, and will never fully admit to.

Yes, censorship incidents like the red scare, Hollywood blackballing, and outright assassinations (hi Fred Hampton) would definitely never happen in the United States.

That’s why Bush illegally wiretapping every American citizen was excusable - Bush would never retaliate against critics, like trying to kill Valerie Plame for exposing his lies.

This is after they had been caught wiretapping every citizen in the country, with controls so loose that analysts could use it to stalk their exes.

I genuinely don’t know which country you believe has checks and balances.

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They know their argument is bolstered by the truth being widely known in this case, so it benefits them to leak it.

Why is it so important to you that the truth is suppressed?

So you’re admitting that the call was real, we should just ignore it because it’s inconvenient to your beliefs?

It was very odd reading an article where people were debating the ethics of a woman saving her own life, as if it was potentially a shameful act.

You’re confusing legality with ethics, which are not the same thing.

A long time ago I was in auto sales. I had a customer who worked at a factory that produced parts for many brands of automobile.

That customer would only buy a Honda car, because they said they observed how absolutely strict Honda was regarding the quality of parts that they would purchase.

Their quality control process for a random part was so meticulous that it gave them faith in the brand as a whole.

Step 1: spin out all your suppliers into their own companies

Step 2: use pricing power to force your suppliers to cut corners in order to survive.

Step 3: claim plausible deniability for the scores of suppliers giving you substandard parts. Roll in your money while telling the rest of the world you couldn’t have done anything differently.

Or they needed to keep the body long enough that any evidence of malpractice could be hidden.

The EU just has to hint that they’d move closer to china, and all this supposed leverage would evaporate.

This clever geopolitical analysis notably ignores China, and the fact that Trump pushing the EU to China would be the greatest geopolitical victory for China in history.

That’s not even getting into the fuckups that must have happened to allow a bad patch to get rolled out everywhere all at once.

Of course it’s still going to happen. Lawyers will find the most Fox News brain rotted free market conservative judge they can find and get them to take the case, just like what happened with mifepristone, and tie up every single piece of regulation because it’s cheap for them to do.

It’ll just be arbitrary regulation by whoever is least qualified to decide policy. The courts are the new regulators.

The attorney general of Texas is openly corrupt and is in the middle of a criminal trial.

Acting like Texas isn’t uniquely shitty requires intentionally forgetting reality.

One factor I’m not seeing mentioned in these replies is the rise of price fixing software meant to maximize profit for landlord companies. Multiple investigations have found the behavior replicated in many cities, with many of these companies being sued.

https://www.propublica.org/article/senators-introduce-legisl...

Until it one day it doesn’t. It’s very fickle.

Electrons don’t eat food either.

Eating food is unnecessary.

You have to view it more like: “how do we hurt poor people and make their lives worse?”

And less from a logical perspective.