half_giraffe [comrade/them]

If the democratic party was at all interested in the opinion of the general public (which includes you and me), they would at least run some primaries and go through the motions of a western liberal democracy. Instead, they’ve decided to rerun 2020 on the hope that the bold message of “He’s not Trump” will work again.

The election is in eleven months - if Biden loses the fault lands squarely on the democrats for covering their ears and saying “lalalala” any time someone suggests maybe actually doing something resembling democracy. Or hey you can continue to pre-blame the left for an election that hasn’t happened yet and accuse us of actually being conservatives, certainly that will convince us to line up behind Genocide Joe.

Lol: “The State Department on Friday made clear that the American military will not abide by the requests of the Iraqi government to leave the country and instead will stay indefinitely.”

Beautiful

Not me furiously searching “Henry kissinger assad” so I can post that the Lion of Damascus has done it agian

Trump winning (because progressives refuse to vote)

Gotta love how liberals portray progressives as simultaneously a large enough voting bloc to sway entire elections, but not large enough to ever enact a single progressive policy even when it’s a campaign promise.

Excellent work of course, and you’re right I groaned in real life. Learning that counting the elements in the individual pictures was pointless and that there’s an unused sixth picture is pretty infuriating. Good luck in the contest!

Thank you, that one was killing me. I had ordered them by release date but spent a ton of time puzzling over the significance of the shaded in squares lol.

A little - the last couple of times timehop had a puzzle hunt it was just a web page with a set of themed puzzles, this time they’ve incorporated some other apps they’re associated with and host the clues within their platforms. You still don’t need an account or to download an app but it’s definitely attempting to encourage people to use their bullshit.

But to be clear, the puzzles themselves have halloween themed answers, you won’t get “always drink your ovaltine”.

Pinging @[email protected] since they helped out last time I posted one of these puzzle hunts.

That’s a picture of Osama Bin Laden, from the article to the left “Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace”

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you want to bus people from the streets of LA there and call it the cure for homelessness?

No I don’t, and it’s wild because I double checked what I wrote and I absolutely did not say that. If you really need it spelled out, the homeless people in LA would just be handed the keys for the empty houses and apartments inside of LA that outnumber them (and - gasp - some of those are even non-cabin vacation homes, trust me those actually exist).

You can smugly pretend that anything less than your one idea is inhumane so we shouldn’t do anything to help anyone, but why not advocate for any solution that can help people?

This is really getting away from you. My “thing” or “one idea” (lol) is to actually end homelessness by giving homes to people that don’t have them - it’s actually a really simple idea that can be implemented immediately since we already have more than enough housing for everyone. I am not “pretending like anything less than that is inhumane,” I’m directly saying that stacking people into the smallest possible living spaces is inhumane; I definitely wouldn’t want to live in 100sqft with shared plumbing, and you wouldn’t either.

You’re all over this thread talking about “doing both”, but no one’s biting because your idea is bad - it’s more complicated and expensive to build a bunch of pods or tents or tiny homes or whatever than it is to just hand the keys of already constructed empty places over to people who need shelter. And further, your idea does nothing to change the societal relationship towards housing, which means the conditions that create homelessness are reinforced - there’s a reason why every city that deploys some unorthodox housing arrangement still fucking has homeless people!

Why not do both? Why not advocate for “any solution”? Why not “do SOMETHING”? Because a solution already exists that is easy, effective, and well within the existing powers and legal framework of the current state.

There’s a good faith discussion to be had on locations of empty homes and how the problem isn’t supply but distribution, but it’s clear that you aren’t really interested in any of that because of how you ended the comment:

But that said, I never said we couldn’t do that

I mean, right before this you spent a paragraph calling vacation homes inhabitable, but sure whatever. And, the cherry on top:

if you can get the votes to pass your thing then sure let’s do both

It reveals so much about your thought process that your imagination ends at what policies can “get the votes.” If you’re justifying potential government activity within the bounds of what the current system allows to pass then anything beyond tax cuts for the rich and increased military spending is straight up off the table. You can smugly pretend that you’re being reasonable and pragmatic but ultimately anything that changes the status quo will be violently opposed by people in power - so why not advocate for the most humane and society-improving solution?

There are ~27 empty homes for every homeless person in America. We could end homelessness tomorrow without the need for nightmare “technically habitable” tiny homes.

who are the main political actors

And, if applicable, some sort of chad to virgin-cuck rating of them

think a lot of people take issue with the framing of it all as an artificial coup without popular support because that implies there’s no one in Ukraine who wanted… to be in the EU and aligned with the US.

I think that implication mistakeningly conflates the protests with the resulting coup. The protests had real popular energy behind them and spotlit grassroots leaders (until the western-backed literal Nazis took center stage). The coup pushed those people and their interests aside in favor of whoever Victoria Nuland favored.

None of this refutes what I argued above, that the protests were quickly taken over by right wing groups propped up by the West, with the new government handpicked by the state department:

That probably would have been more convincing if I didn’t personally know people who took part in the revolution and then fought Russia,

Cool are they happy with Victoria Nuland selecting their government?

or if Zelensky didn’t have sky high popular support,

I haven’t seen an approval poll inside of Ukraine for a while but the guy banned opposition parties so it’s not like you’d have any other political option at the moment lol.

or if he wasn’t Jewish.

Seriously very funny to pretend like a Jewish president wipes out the neo-Nazi reality of the Azov battalion.

the insults are just to amuse myself, and because you deserve them.

Whatever gets you off then, I guess.