I have avoided transit through the US for over 15 years now, as LAX once had transfer facilities that felt like a prison… And transfers require redoing those TSA searches and enduring inordinately long lines. Id rather have my molars removed again as at least I can sit down while I wait

Hahahaha ok good point

If she’s gonna be persecuted, the DNC and the Clintons might be also involved in that

The article mentions social media as a contributing factor.

I still think Australia did the right thing by imposing legal age access restrictions to social media. It’s poison on the weak mind

Shopping mall “cops”

Bernie needs to take his meds. There is no institutional mechanism available in America to stop the president when he also controls congress and was responsible for lifetime nomination of the majority of the supreme court

…and kids, that’s how Putin won the war against the concept of privacy, and Trump got indirect benefit out of it

Bridges can be rebuilt when you get a decent person in office.

This the major defect of US governance that is being laid bare now. American presidentialism puts too much power on the hands of the president, which can result in schizophrenic foreign policy

Yes. Very little reason to trust the United States now. Countries will tend to get very transactional with the US, and shift their allegiances to China or EU

Right. There aren’t assets there to take and sell. Offices are rented. Equipment depreciates really fast as technology moves on. IP rights are not worth that much since there are many alternatives and some technologies they developed are unique to their own tech stack, and the trademarks are radioactive garbage.

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All that influence and goodwill the US accumulated after WWII is going to dust

I bet he can also walk stilts easily

The way Nixon screwed up South Vietnam back in the 60s kind of indicated how the US puts excessively too much power in the hands of its presidents and result in random foreign policies

Fair argument. My point, however, is that many, many Palestinians wanted out to avoid suffering but the PLA and then Hezbollah made it purposefully difficult for them to leave so that those political leaders would have people forcibly kept there to help bolster their personal political agendas. Being expelled is not right but if people want out to avoid suffering, they should be allowed to go

I understand where you coming from but that view seems half informed. The whole cultural identity argument was also pushed by Arafat as a way to force Palestinians to stay in Gaza instead of assimilating into Israeli society or leaving to Egypt, Syria, or Jordan

Ah… One more international convention the USA will choose to ignore. It does not matter who is in government, the USA adheres to only very few of them

Rolex, you’re next

But isn’t it depressing that impeachment is the ONLY mechanism to make a sitting president accountable for decisions that actually harm the country?

Banks will be lucky to sell for as much as 10 cents on the dollar, especially as all loans might be unsecured.

Banks should package in a shitcoin, that would pay itself out, since those investors are used to losses now 😜