"AOC has repeatedly criticized MTG for being insincere about criticizing the genocide in Gaza. Well, MTG has used much stronger language in calling out this genocide than AOC, & nobody is stopping AOC from using the same language. So my answer is: If you don't want to see Tucker Carlson or whoever else it is filling up this space and speaking out against the Israeli genocide, then you do it." -@AliAbunimah
@straythoughtno9@yuzusodamachine Those breaks can cause severe nerve damage which may not ever heal, and oftentimes when that's the case, the remedy is to dock it. That gets tougher to warrant the older the dog gets, so it tends to happen when they're younger to avoid future problems. It's unfortunate.
@straythoughtno9@yuzusodamachine Tail docking is a little bit tougher. I'd still never do it, but I've been hit in the balls more times by my danes' tails than any other dogs, and also the molosser group of dogs in particular have a really bad habit of breaking their tails when hitting them against things.
It continues to gnaw at the back of my mind, but schadenfreude feels bad. I know that Israel deserves this. I know that their actions in the middle east have been horrendous. By all accounts, Israel should cease to exist. But I feel guilty for taking pleasure in it.
The magnitude of what just happened may take some time to sink in.
This is the first time Iran has struck Israel after Israel struck another country's territory (that is, not Iran).
This means that the battle lines have been moved.
Iran's deterrence had already been restored in the sense that Israel knew that any strike on it would be responded to.
But now, Iran has proven that it will also respond to Israeli strikes on Lebanon.
This is the first time in decades that a regional power has the means, capacity, and willingness to put hard power against Israeli military maneuvers or aggression against a third party.
Read full analysis here: https://t.co/CPawJ4TYdr
@PotatoMcWhiskey Being pro-russia is just another form of political blindness. There are no good world superpowers, and supporting any of them is moronic. The war was partially a result of Ukraine cutting off the water supply in Crimea, but the Russian dictatorship isn't innocent either.