john smith
641 posts
If true this must have been the price for Abraham accords. Letting them have the f35, Abraham accords means the middle east gets left to Israel and the GCC to manage after and the US can withdraw most of its presence there.
Open Source Intel@Osint613
Trump says the U.S. has approved F-35 sales to Saudi Arabia.
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@ABCDiasporoid @BeshearStan your logic is simply wrong, i can easily be happy the ayatollah is dead while having serious doubts of the strategic value of the operation. if we killed putin tomorrow, i would think it unwise, but i would never be sad. you are making excuses for the inexcusable.
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@johnsmithxfps @BeshearStan conceding on the latter just looks like implicit support for the former, especially when you're a politician. the ayatollah didn't die in a vaccum, he was assassinated as part of the amerisraeli war effort. it doesn't happen without the war.
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In the Free Beacon audio against El-Sayed, he specifically says you can’t frame the Iran attack in a positive light “just because the ayatollah was a bad man”
But of course they cut that part out. The same flopped attacks against Platner are happening against AES.
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@ABCDiasporoid @BeshearStan not supporting the war and mourning the death of the ayatollah are obviously way different things
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@johnsmithxfps @BeshearStan overwhelming majority of americans are against the war
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@BeshearStan yes but if you are constrained by your base of islamists to the point where you cannot acknowledge his "badness" what does that say about his support for that community and the immigration polices that brought them here
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@squid_uagayboi @umichvoter yes but specifically avoiding speaking about his killing to appease a "community" who is sad about the death of a guy who chants death to america all the time does not fill me with confidence. am i electing someone who is pro america if he cant say that?
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@johnsmithxfps @umichvoter that one bad guy(Ayotollah) dying does not justify another oil war, you can actually listen to the audio, he explicitly condemns Ayotollah
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The question is who leaked it
Mark Ames@MarkAmesExiled
Classic DNC covert sleaze op, leaked to rightwing media to hide their fingerprints
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@daveweigel it's bad to support the guy who's killed thousands of Americans and was constantly chanting death to America yeah
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this is intense as fuck lol. praying for them
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
TRUMP: 20 LARGE OIL TANKERS TO TRANSIT STRAIT OF HORMUZ UNDER US ESCORT STARTING TOMORROW MORNING
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@RDam426 @Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion canada, as well as the rest of the non usa anglosphere, was in decline before Trump. Canada was relying on unwise immigration to juice its economic number since 2015. tradeau and the liberals in general really blew it, would not describe them as competent
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@Imperial_Eagle2 @johnsmithxfps @Noahpinion well yeah that is why we are rotting. we have *real* issues and competent leaders who, even with good measures, are going to be in pain the likes of which would make the US have a civil war. its an anglosphere syrian refugee crisis 2.0, just manufactured by trump
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However bad you think things are in the United States, they're worse in Canada and the UK.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
The whole Anglosphere is rotting from the inside out.
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@Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion this is true, and trump is doing them no favors with the dumb tariff stuff. however, the housing and immigration decisions Canada have made since 2015 have been obscene, and they have overregulated themselves
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@johnsmithxfps @Noahpinion The US has a lot of inbuilt economic advantages that Canada just doesn't. The US is playing in easy mode. Canada has reforms it could make (like ending inter-provincial trade barriers or ending supply management) but I doubt that Canadian Trumpism would help
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@Steppelord445 @Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion no it's good to have democracy but you also need to have a growing economy. at some point you're going to need something going for you other than "at least we're not america!"
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@johnsmithxfps @Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion Why not sell out to China or the UAE? They can give you a better deal on your heritage.
If that is all it is worth?
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@Steppelord445 @Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion yeah that's all good but at some point you're going to want to have economic growth
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@johnsmithxfps @Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion Imagine thinking all that matters is how much profit you generate for the economic unit 😂.
Sorry to break it to you, I would rather be destitute and starving, but still Canadian, than rich and thriving, but American.
You’re entire view of nation is based on economics. Sad.
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@Imperial_Eagle2 @Noahpinion and yet gdp per capita in canada has been stagnant for the last 10 years
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@Noahpinion Canada has a competent and technocratic leader along with stable democratic institutions. The US has a president that constantly assaults foundational democratic norms, threatens to invade our neighbors, and, just a few short years ago, tried to destroy the Republic
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@khalifaa_974 yes people are familiar with words and pronunciations they hear more often
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White people will pronounce McConaughey perfectly and struggle to say ‘Qatar’ properly
Hoops@Hoopss
matthew mcconaughey yearbook photo (1988)
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@KiuiAirica i just did this and it's awesome, rent is still cheap but starting to get some cool coffee ships in the area and it's getting a lot safer!
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@DastDn it would be a good idea to lock in that relationship, Israel is only getting strong stronger
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Should have been the blindingly obvious move decades ago.
Still is.
Won't happen.
Israel Radar@IsraelRadar_com
Israel wants US to consider building military bases in Israel, N12 News reports. This includes relocation of existing bases in the Middle East, as well as construction of new compounds.
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@JeremiahDJohns tik tok promoting anti israeli content to divide the west alliance systems
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Have there been any broadly pro-Israel groups that have taken an honest look at WHY Israel's popularity has cratered? Anyone doing self-reflection instead of just blaming it on antisemitism?
Because antisemitism is real & rising, but it doesn't explain most of what's happening.
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@DanielDiMartino normally, I agree with this type of thing but doctors really need to be somebody without a thick accent. old people don't like to take medical advice unless they feel like they trust that person
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Many people who fight against DEI and racial quotas and preferences are now saying that because South Asians are very successful it must be because of discrimination.
This is wrong.
If anything, these South Asians faced discrimination in favor of Blacks and Hispanics.
Robby Starbuck@robbystarbuck
This is an untenable ratio. American students must be prioritized for medical residencies or we’re going to have a real problem in the future.
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@wil_da_beast630 @megbasham what's appealing about japan, among other things, is that they like in a separate homogenous society that's clearly quite distinct from ours. the desire to mix every culture together though immigration destroys diversity of culture and is therefore not desirable to me
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So, you would support Indians, Nigerians, MENA/Jews, Filipinos, and other high-performing migrant groups if they can show they generate more resources than they take?
Not a troll at all - we've always been friendly. But several (non-CATO) people are looking at this right now. Would you?
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Them: you hate ppl from countries that aren’t white.
Us: um no, the Japanese seem amazing. We don’t like you because you come here to take our resources and then say we’re racist if we complain about it.
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