I think the amount of money in the US military industrial complex that has gone into obsessing over how best to bomb Iran is probably incomprehensible. Venezeula too a degree, but not anywhere as much. There was no way Iran could entirely deny US airpower, but so what?

This isn’t just a question of strike capable technology vs. counters it is about landscapes and who knows them best and has invested in their idiosyncracies, and I don’t get the feeling Venezuelans have been wasting all this time thinking the US wouldn’t try some shit like this.

Were the Iran strikes successful? What did they do but confirm to the world the irrationality of US foreign intervention under this administration?

If the US wants to project actual power into Venezuela it will have to get its hands dirty and that is where the wheels will immediately fall off.

I am not saying Venezuela will win, I am saying it has invested enough in air defense that the likelihood of the US being able to launch an air campaign without embarassing losses is lower than it appears at least in terms of how the media covers it, and the political consequences of a blundered strike that loses US lives and equipment in a high profile way would be devastating to an already very unliked republican party. Trump and his administration really can’t risk looking any more dumb or incompetent than he does now, a limit is being reached though it is hard to believe one exists, it does.

If Trump and his cronies launches strikes, he will bungle the US militaries’ advantage, this administration is too dysfunctional to do otherwise.

Also, Venezuela is going to hit US air assets hard, this will be a PR failure all around if Trump tries it as well as stupid and pointlessly cruel.

I mean, that goes against my principles, but make no mistake that would make education cool and edgey with kids like nothing else.

ok good point

Why respectfully? Who has Bill Gates shown actual respect for?

Dumb idea, banning something for kids just makes it cooler.

Also a dumb idea because we will just get outsmarted by kids evading these bans faster than we make them, and the end result will be wherever kids will go as an alternative (digital or not) will just be more opaque to adults who genuinely care and want the best for kids.

eww

On F-Droid Phocid is good

https://sunsetware.org/phocid/en

https://obfusk.gitlab.io/jekyll-fdroid/en/packages/org.sunsetware.phocid/

Sexism is believing it is okay to grope a woman and commit sexual assault.

Casual sexism is automatically assuming a woman (in power or not) who brings legal action against someone for committing sexual assault is doing so for attention or some other false ulterior motive.

I just want to say, I share your specific species of frustration here and understand it well. Ughhh.

They actively encourage it in fact.

YES

Texas is a massive rich petro-state with zero social safety net, I can’t think of a more stupid ideology about the best way to run things than the way people do in Texas.

The power grid bullshit alone is murderous to vulnerable people.

DO NOT move there!

I am happy this man is dead. I don’t say that lightly.

Trump is desperately trying to distract us from his failures.

The hilarious thing is the ruling class couldn’t find a better bullshitter in a city of 10 million people than Cuomo.

So that’s it. Sorry for the long, rambly wall of text, but I feel like for responses to be truly helpful, people should know exactly what it is I’m looking for.

absolutely! no reason to apologize

Ok Pete, the biggest national security the US faces is people starving, getting kicked out of housing situations and losing access to healthcare they can afford.

Can we deploy the National Guard to feed people and administer healthcare? If not, why not? What else would this organization need to be focused MORE on?

How about we deploy the National Guard to build affordable housing? If we can’t do that, why can’t we do that? Do you not consider the housing situation in the US a crisis? If you do not believe there is a housing affordability crisis in the US can you please stare straight into the camera and repeat that assertion so we can clip it and raise awareness that you are an enemy of the US people?

Master Chief helped with the Palestinian Genocide right?

…Wow… what a torpedoing of the Halo franchise, Microsoft is a useless dumpsterfire that spies on you and serves you ads even as it engulfs you in its trashy flames.