wonderingwanderer

And if it did it would just get the national guard deployed in your city. And the city government wouldn't be able to do anything to help, because their office burnt down...

Have you heard of a primary? Cause it basically invalidates everything you just said.

Also, the more the left refuses to vote Democrat, the more Democrats pander to the right. They're trying to win the "moderate/centrist" vote because apparently they won't get the leftist vote no matter what they do. They'll never pass the purity test.

People with your logic are the ones shooting themselves in the foot at every election. Your logic got trump elected, and no amount of armchair philosophizing will be enough to squirm around that fact.

Fucking idiot. His wife was an immigrant, and he thought it would he a good idea to vote for trump?

Exactly, and that's what the journalism should focus on. It detracts from the message when they give it a misleading spin. It's already bad enough without the distortion of facts. That's the point I'm trying to make.

From what he actually said, it sounds like talks about a potential decision will begin then. That's not at all what a deadline is.

The way it was reported made it sound like a decision was already made, and actions would be taken by then. That's not at all what he said though.

There's already plenty of legitimate reasons to criticize him, so I can't stand when journalists distort things to make them seem even worse. It gives too much credence to the people defending him by framing all criticism as media spin.

Things are already bad enough without reactionary sensationalism, so just focus on the facts without compromising journalistic integrity. Otherwise it's just disinformation, which doesn't help anyone. We're supposed to be better than this.

He added: "We need Greenland from a national security situation. It's so strategic."

The US already has military bases on Greenland in accordance with diplomatic agreements. This isn't about national security or defense strategy. If it were, there would be diplomatic ways to increase US military presence. This risks losing the diplomatic agreements which allow the US to maintain a military presence there. It won't be very strategic if US forces get banished from the realm.

This isn't about national defense. It's about natural resources. Trump wants to exploit Greenland for its rare minerals the same way he wants to exploit Venezuela for its crude oil.

It's so transparent.

Apparently he thinks one month is ten days...

But yeah, calling that a deadline is kinda clickbaity.

Don't worry, you're protected by France's nuclear umbrella

That's what I mean, Chevron are the vultures in this case. They didn't chop the head off, but they're here for the blood...

A lot of them are self-proclaimed leftists who have no practical sense of realpolitik, and are so focused on their purity tests that they'll never put forward a viable candidate.

A lot of them bought into the tiktok propaganda that Biden and Harris were responsible for Gaza, while ignoring how much worse it would get under trump. They simply (and rabidly) accused anyone who supported the Democrats of being complicit in genocide.

This time there's not an incumbent democrat, so hopefully the same people will blame the current administration and vote accordingly. That is, if the entire hype wasn't socially engineered by the US's adversaries to get trump elected so he could weaken the country...

A robust Democratic primary will also help reduce boycott voters, although some will likely always complain that the nominee isn't perfect enough for their liking. That can't be helped.

But at least some of the fence-sitting centrists will come out in force against trump, since it's so obvious how shitty everything is.

So I think there's still hope. As long as states maintain control of their own elections and keep them free and fair...

Vultures...

Dictators around the world are getting too comfortable. They're seeing too many examples of other dictators getting away with war crimes, illegal invasions, and other atrocities.

Putin emboldened Netanyahu, Netanyahu emboldened trump, and I don't even want to think about who's going to feel emboldened by trump.

Rules based order, multilateralism, and international law seem to be crumbling with no enforcement. Arguably the greatest achievements of the twentieth century, disappearing like vapor...