Helping Ukraine and trying to find a diplomatic off-ramp for Russia are not mutually exclusive goals. This is why Democrats are just bad at governing as well, they don't have a backbone.
Liberalization by authoritarian rulers yields little benefits. Best example is Chile (Ref 1, 2, 3 in reply). The reforms had no bite until Pinochet left power and there was a democratic transition. Why? Because dictators can taketh what they giveth! Democracies are better!
And please spare everyone the bullshit about how only the left, but not the right, cheers and celebrates the deaths of their political opponents.
This platform is drowning in right-wing celebrations like these of Nicole Good's killing:
https://t.co/zHKOFFCYQV
In some bizarre and mysterious coincidence, the most fanatical and devoted Israel loyalists -- like Bill Ackman -- want the US Government to go change the government of Iran.
The use of force wasn't justified in this situation, especially since she had stated she had no problem with them. The US federal government is being led by a criminal and corrupt yes-men and yes-women who have told ICE officers to act with impunity.
He doesn’t know what her intentions are. He just sees a two-ton truck moving toward him in a split second.
And don’t forget the legal standard: It’s not her intention.
It’s whether the totality of circumstances, from his perspective, put him in reasonable fear. This is powerfully dispositive for that.
Watch this, as hard as it is. Many of you have been told this law enforcement officer wasn't hit by a car, wasn't being harassed, and murdered an innocent woman.
The reality is that his life was endangered and he fired in self defense.
https://t.co/IfXAAxi9Ql
Matt Walsh can't understand and thus hates this "lesbian agitator" because -- unlike her -- he has never risked anything for a cause, and thus has to malign anyone who does, because they're a constant reminder of what he isn't and never will be.
Only by demeaning people willing to take risks for their beliefs can he escape that loud voice inside his head incessantly telling him -- correctly -- that he's a cowardly zero who can never find the internal courage to exhibit the virtues of bravery and strength he constantly extols.
That's also why he's obsessed with building a career screaming about how manly he is and strutting around glorifying wars fought by men and women who -- unlike him -- are capable of finding bravery in themselves. He vicariously leeches off of their courage because he knows he has none inside of himself.
(It's similar to the huge numbers of people who publicly and vocally obsess about policing the private lives of other adults, only to be exposed for engaging in behavior identical or far worse than that which they flamboyantly condemn).
These are the weak and cowardly men who are most insecure about their masculinity, about their character, about their fear of sacrificing in pursuit of some cause or values greater than themselves.
Actually brave people don't strut around constantly yelling about how strong and manly and virtuous they are.
It's weak men who have to resort to LARPing, to wearing campy hyper-masculine costumes, to constantly touting their own strength even though they can't point to anything they have ever done that reflects any of those attributes they loudly claim for themselves. And most of all, they need to demean others who do exhibit those attributes in a desperate hope to escape the shame that those people engender within them.
This is Tehran. Let that sink in. You are watching a revolution unfold live while the world’s media stays dead silent. Legacy media has become nothing more than a propaganda machine, because what news could possibly be bigger than this?
@FoxNews@CNN https://t.co/1X5PlzQAhw
JD Vance says that the ICE officer who shot Renee Good had been traumatised by a near fatal incident with a car six months ago and might have been “a little bit sensitive”. Sounds like exactly the sort of person who should be allowed on the streets with a gun