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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 minutes ago

The really stupid part is that truck guy could have parked all the way over the other way and it would have had plenty of space.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This lays the facts out pretty well, and it's from a year ago.

https://www.justsecurity.org/90010/a-law-and-policy-guide-to-us-arms-transfers-to-israel/

It appears that the policy up to now is being used as a stick, and the message seems clear, even if it isn't effective: We don't want to stop giving you weapons, but your actions are making it politically difficult to continue doing so.

The question is if Kamala will push harder than Biden, or maintain this status quo. Congress could always pass a law, but there seems to be a hard line of Israel support in Congress, so that seems very unlikely.

I wanted to add: 15% of Israel's defense budget comes from the U.S., and a lot of that is grants to buy U.S. weapons. Even if the U.S. turned the money tap off (which Congress would never do), Congress has the power to approve any sale it wants, so Israel would probably just keep getting the weapons using their own cash.

Congress would essentially need to embargo Israel to prevent more U.S. weapons from getting to them, which is never going to happen, even if ALL the Democrats wanted it, because the Republicans control the House.

So, the fewer Republicans in the house, the more leverage a non-republican president has. Vote those fuckers out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

catty gay penguin neighbors: yeah, the lower half wink wink

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (7 children)

I think the difference is that he was recovering from a bad cold during the debate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Egerlach, they once called this bard

Who'd school any with whom he did spar

Whether trochee or dactyl

word choice was impec'ble

master of prosody, unflappable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

catholistrophic even.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago

TEXAS IS TITS!!

TEXTITS!

TITSAS!!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'll say only that temptation is ever present. He took action and passed the torch. I don't want to take any credit away from the people that convinced him that was the correct course of action, but it ultimately came down to him actually doing it, something I can't say I believe anyone on the right (and a hell of a lot of people on the left) would have done.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Well, nuclear winter would certainly solve that global warming problem for everyone left.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

I imagine it works the way sovereign citizens think it does. The Federation maintains trade within itself and other entities. A kind of fungibility has been established to facilitate that trade. Those units of fungibility, or 'credits', are given to citizens when they need to engage in extra-federation trade. Every citizen is probably guaranteed some portion of the total fungible capacity of the Federation for personal use.

 
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