@AngelicaOung@matthewswspence Well.... judging by the 1 million Russian casualties, maybe they aren't they bear you are implying. Not allowing your women and children to get raped, executed and genocided is hardly "poking the bear"
@ModerateDemChad @BriannaWu And the more they spend, the more expensive and unaffordable college becomes. It's not that they can't do good, but with the current structure, the incentives are misaligned
@eyeslasho@jeremymstamper That calculation didn’t work for Vietnam, Afghanistan (US and USSR) and WW1 until US involvement. Weapons and finances matter more than raw manpower
This is reality:
- Turkey bombs Kurdish hospitals.
- Sudanese women endure sexual slavery.
- Libya operates active African slave markets.
- Qatar exploits migrant workers (e.g., over 6,500 died building the 2022 World Cup infrastructure).
- China still detains Uyghurs in concentration camps.
- Iran publicly hangs innocent people on cranes.
- Russia disgustingly targets Ukrainian civilians.
- Yazidi women remain missing in the ISIS sex trade.
- Afghanistan has outlawed women’s voices.
- Iraq legally permits pedophiles to marry young kids.
- Myanmar openly commits beheadings.
- The Gulf Clan cartel unleashes violence and rapes—especially in the Darién Gap.
Yet, you’re obsessed with Israel—a democracy with over 2.1 million Arab citizens—defending itself against insane terrorists.
I am convinced we are being punk’d?
@mattyglesias Uber was a civil disobedience movement against unjust taxi laws, but monetized.
It was a big risk and it drastically improved the world we live in and saved many lives. It could have been crushed by the authorities and the founders’ lives ruined. We should be grateful.
I know Europe has different legal and cultural norms about speech, but I have a very hard time watching this and not being utterly repulsed.
If that's how Germany wants to run itself, I suppose it's none of my business. But we should not allow them to sic the though police on American social media companies.
I just listened to Kara Swisher on the Ezra Klein show.
I now have much better insight as to why Silicon Valley has sifted to the right.
Her entire "analysis" is petty and personal insults about the men she covers. Contempt just absolutely drips off her tongue in every sentence.
To Swisher, they're just scared little boys who want people to love them. They have "little dick energy." And so on.
Psychologists have a norm that they don't diagnose people who aren't their patients. But she has a story for each billionaire whose politics she doesn't like and knows exactly why they became who they are.
This is the person that the media crowned as perhaps their most prominent "tech reporter." It's all psychobabble drivel not held to any kind of evidentiary standards, obviously motivated by pettiness and contempt disguised as journalism.
This would radicalize anyone against the media.