So… anything goes now? Any regime can do whatever it wants to its own people or its neighbors because any attempt at maintaining international law would be hypocritical? This is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Sorry, why shouldn’t an arrested bombing suspect be detained before trial?…
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
You’re missing the point that NATO expansion isn’t actually a THREAT to Russia; it’s an inconvenient obstacle to Putin’s imperial ambitions. If anything, NATO weakness under Biden (e.g., withdrawing from Afghanistan) tempted Putin to invade Ukraine. understandingwar.org/research/rus...
NATO is a defensive alliance and you can see now why Russia’s neighbors all want in. Invading Ukraine only expanded NATO further (hi Finland!), but NATO wasn’t the reason Putin invaded Ukraine. He did it because he’s an imperialist who wants to subjugate Ukraine. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_...
I’d love to play Civ 4 or 5 against a modern AI opponent who doesn’t need nerfed bonuses at higher difficulty levels. Bad AI has always been the Achilles heel of that franchise.
You two are both wrong. It’s newsworthy to know what motivates any mass shooting (to inform whether it’s terrorism or simple insanity, like the 2017 Las Vegas shooting) but also to point out that the hero in this case might be Arab and/or Muslim, which could help prevent a xenophobic backlash.
Let’s give them “football” and we take “biscuits.”
That’s a low bar.
Won’t it spill on his necktie? (Congrats on having a cool kid!)
Picture of a house on a grassy hill in the Springtime from the end of Virginia Lee Burton’s book “The Little House.”
It reminds me of The Little House from Virginia Lee Burton.
If I were my 7 year old, I’d object to bedtime on the grounds that Congress hasn’t passed any enabling legislation.
This is so dumb. Analogous to allowing cheating in sports because sometimes refs miss calls by accident.
And you think the greatest QB of all time is a guy who finished 16th in passer rating in the prime of his career, behind Derek Carr and Russell Wilson? www.pro-football-reference.com/years/2024/p...
“Greatest QB to ever play the game.” I’m sorry, did you watch the Super Bowl?
If it’s a dispute over territory you can just use a Great General to make a citadel and take over the adjacent tiles.
Does this mean they denied cert in all the other cases they considered at today’s conference? I’m interested in one of the cases that isn’t one of the 3 in that order.
Not sure if it was intentional, but Game of Thrones as an allegory about ignoring the existential threat of climate change is perfect. Relatedly, the mayor in Jaws who ignored his experts & resisted closing the beaches for commercial reasons was a timely character during the Covid pandemic.
@harrisfootball.com Last night, I lost in the semis of my home league because an untalented and unmotivated Saints offense couldn’t muster any points and fell 4 yards short of 200 team yards (my opponent had Green Bay’s defense). Spencer Rattler’s red zone INT in the 4th Q was particularly brutal.
Oral arguments are scheduled for January 10 but the law requires TikTok to change its ownership by January 19th, doesn’t it? SCOTUS can’t write a historic 1st Amendment opinion in that time frame, can they?
Authoritarians like Putin & Assad have shown that they don’t care about soldier casualties; perhaps lawful assassinations will get their attention, not only as justice for war victims but as a deterrent for future wars. Also, comparing this to Saudi Arabia’s killing of Khashoggi is absurd.
Pulling out of Afghanistan was a disaster and so was this: amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/12/...
This might be a dumb question, but could HTS embrace democracy if the West engages with them to rebuild Syria? A majority of Syrians are Sunni Muslims but I’d assume that nearly all Syrians are grateful to HTS for deposing Assad.
Digital platforms like TikTok are qualitatively different than newspapers due to their addictive properties, their young user base, and their risk for user harm (e.g., ADHD, suicide, etc.). Countries designated as foreign adversaries shouldn’t be entrusted to operate such platforms IMO.
Did Robin Hood murder anybody? Ridiculous comparison.
I took a screenshot yesterday of @cnn.com around 11:00 am ET and there were zero stories about Syria anywhere on the main page. Same thing with the websites of all the major cable and network news channels. Disgraceful!
The murderous Assad regime is collapsing today, 13 years after a civil war that’s killed hundreds of thousands of people and destabilized the world, and @cnn.com has nothing about it on their home page. Neither does MSNBC, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, or NBC News. Unbelievable.
That’s besides the point, because rationing healthcare in a system administered by the government is qualitatively different than profit-driven health insurance. The former would be morally acceptable.
Great questions from @mehdirhasan.bsky.social, but why did he book a guest who endorses Russia’s pretext for the invasion (“NATO made them do it!”) and denies that Russia’s intentions are genocidal? Putin himself explained that it’s an imperial conquest. Something’s off about the Quincy Institute.
I will say with strong certainty that the “escalation” of removing arbitrary restrictions on Ukraine’s ability to defend itself was the right move. Better late than never.
