PumpkinSkink

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

More risk to the US personnel or assets, and it would be a diplomatic and domestic incident if it came out that US troops or assets were operating in Yemen. It's much safer to bomb them from a plane.

Also there's the terror aspect where the US government presumably wants to cause chaos and fear explicitly to make continuing the blockade less appealing to both the Houthis and the people of Yemen.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You might be right, but I also submit that, when talking to Trump voters (older family members of me and my friends mostly), instead of "proving them wrong" about Trump, I've been redirecting the conversation toward "isn't all that bad stuff the fault of rich people?", and it has had a 100% success rate so far. They fucking hate the wealthy too. They ain't waving the red flag, but I bet a lot more of them would vote for someone just to screw over the rich than most people think.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean the "neoliberal world order" was just facism abroad.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was there an alternative word he should have used to describe himself?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah! We usually puppet the dictators! This is all wrong!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

My money is on you being right... But if they wanted to prove it wrong, getting arrested would be a good start.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Are you seriously Destiny posting rn?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

When one of them gets arrested I'll know they mean it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

Wow! Finally! A use for AI! A means of kicking the metaphorical cat litter on the giant turd of private industry firing your neighbor to cut costs. I always knew they could figure it out eventually.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

The US military hasn't done shit but lose to irregular combatants for decades.

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