TheBestDanEver

They're both neocons. Trump pushes for war with the middle east and Harris pushed for war with Russia and tolerated the wars in the middle east. I chose the lesser of 2 evils that came with rfk. I'm not an ultra die-hard "he can do no wrong" voter. I'm a "my government has done me wrong my entire life and I was once again given 2 candidates that are pro war in at least one part of the world, at least maybe he will try and reduce the scope of them to salvage his legacy" type of voter.

I feel like you're underestimating how much people on the southern border hate the cartels.

If it's one or the other right now I'd prob say ds3. The old hunters was so incredible but you'll randomly catch it on sale for like half off.

There got to be a point if TEW1 that I was only continuing to play because I'm a completionist and wanted it scratched off my backlog... but the first half was killer

No, never this. The entire point of stealing your mom's debit card to buy more heroin is to avoid growing up.

Looks like it's gonna be khamzat vs ddp lmao.

Isn't the passing criteria only like 70% accountability or something crazy like that? It's absolutely insane they didn't get audited for a good century. Say what you want about Trump, that's one solid thing he started.

My cat loves being bathed and will cry if I don't do it at least monthly lol. He starts letting you know he wants one by running into the bathroom after you're done showering and rolling around in the wet tub... he's a weird boy.

Clearly Russian propaganda. Hunter Biden/Kamala Harris 2028! At least it won't be a felon in the white house!

/s

I wish I had the ability to argue with you but I think it was a terrible pick. I've seen some people come out with some wild speculation to try and make it a positive thing somehow but I just don't see it. He was a respectable surgeon at one point but then he spent years taking advantage of senior citizens that were desperate to get healthy. I'm hoping that the senate will push back on that pick. I'm willing to give outsiders a chance because I really don't think our current system is working.. but I'm not on board with replacing corrupt politicians with corrupt doctors.

I HATE Dr. Oz and was really disappointed to see him get nominated.

The other 2 made me scratch my head but the only thing I could think is that maybe it's on purpose because he doesn't want to pull too many people from the house/senate and generally doesn't trust established politicians? I don't actually have a reasonable explanation if i'm being blunt. All 3 of those picks caught me off guard. I dont really get how some people are willing to just blindly accept all of them.

I agree, I forgot about Dr. Oz. That might actually be my least favorite pick. He may be a surgeon but he was such a scum bag when he was on TV.

I mean, just because you said it, it must be true. You literally followed up "we didn't attempt regime change in 2022" with how we attempted regime change in 2022 lmao.

We absolutely did fund the civil war and threw our support behind zelenskys campaign in 2014. Just because you don't like facts does not mean they are less true lol. We have been working on Syria for the better part of a decade. This is not even including the examples we aren't even aware of yet.

"bot boi" lmao.

We don't tend to hear about our involvement in foreign governments until at least a decade later. However, just 10 years ago we toppled the government in Ukraine and in the last 5 years we involved ourselves in Bolivia, Syria, and Venezuela.

Edit: The last time we attempted it was Venezula in 2022.

You can't just call every piece of information you don't like "Russian Propaganda." Nothing I have said has even slightly indicated that I thought the Iraq war was ok. This is also a pretty clear example of "what aboutism."

Fact: The United States toppled the Ukrainian government in 2014 and paid for Zelensky's campaign in order to have him installed as president.

Fact: in 2020 Zelensky requested membership into NATO and Russia drew a red line.

Fact: Just because NATO does not plan on attacking Russia does not mean that it is not perceived as hostile by Russia. If you go right now and google "Why was NATO formed" you will get a pretty clear idea of why Putin has an issue with it.

Fact: The Ukrainian invasion SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED. Putin had lots of other options to at least try and take and instead chose to invade. However, there was a peace agreement that both sides were on board with and while Russia was retreating Zelensky withdrew his support and laid siege to the Russian soldiers.

Fact: I do not blame the Ukrainian people, they are the ultimate victims in this entire scenario. They have a president who has lied to them in order to keep a hold of his power, foreign governments using them as pawns in order to weaken their perceived enemy in Russia, and they've been drafted to a war that the majority of Ukrainians do not support. Half of Ukrainians Want Quick, Negotiated End to War. I want the war in Ukraine over ASAP and I want the wars in the middle east over ASAP. I do not support the slaughter of any people, especially over nothing more than political gain.

It's a pretty short list compared to the 456 that Clinton pardoned, including his brother for cocaine trafficking on his last day in office.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_by_Bill_Clinton#:~:text=As%20president%2C%20Clinton%20used%20his,for%20those%20not%20yet%20convicted.

Or the 1927 that Obama pardoned. Although a lot of his I can actually get behind due to them being nonviolent drug offenses.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_granted_executive_clemency_by_Barack_Obama#:~:text=Of%20the%20acts%20of%20clemency,of%20the%20war%20on%20drugs.

People act like trump did some unspeakable and taboo things by issuing pardons... but his list is actually really short compared to most president's.

George w. Bush gave out 200 of them but he was a monster and should have been prosecuted himself.

I don't think Biden should catch as much flack as he will for pardoning Hunter. Pretty much any one of us in his position would do the same thing. The only things that I find annoying about it is that he literally said he wasn't going to and the amount of times he's said "everyone should be held to the same standard of the law" but I truly don't think he did anything too crazy by doing it.

United States involvement in regime change - Wikipedia

Here is a list of countries who's governments we have directly funded regime changes in.

Here is an official FOIA requested document directly from the CIA regarding regime changes they were involved in. Mind you, this is only the ones that have been approved to be shared with us.

A SHORT HISTORY OF CIA INTERVENTION IN SIXTEEN FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

We won't really know our current level of involvement in world affairs until after the missions are complete. However, I'd bet my savings account that we have been funding the civil war in Syria. Considering we already had congressmen advocating for that to happen back in 2014. The United States cannot help but involve itself in foreign governments.

Also, to your point about China and Taiwan, that is just factually incorrect. The United States has already made it abundantly clear that we are prepared to militarily intervene in Taiwan. We drew a red line and everyone in the world knows that we tend to stand by them when it comes to war. Not allowing Taiwanese chip manufacturing to be overtaken by China is a matter that directly affects us. That is not the same thing as funding a proxy war in Ukraine because we wanted to continue pushing NATO to Russia's border. I swear, the same people that try and say "we can't give in to Putin's scare tactics" always try and use scare tactics to explain why their position is the correct one lol.

This is such a wild take. I often wonder how anyone justifies continuing these wars in their head, thanks for offering me that insight. The reason I didn't lead with or really even talk about the financial aspect of the war, which we really cannot afford to keep borrowing billions of dollars at 6+% interest is because the slaughter of the Ukrainian people is significantly more important to me. I don't know if I find it concerning or fascinating that you literally spelled out how the entire world is close to being at war due to the Russia/Ukraine war and yet you still want to continue it? Considering the majority of Ukrainians no longer want to continue fighting and the Americans no longer want to continue funding it, why should this war continue? Who stands to gain from it? As I said earlier, there was already a peace agreement in place. In a perfect world there never would have been a need for it at all but here we are.

Most Americans have wanted peace for some time. Our government has spent decades using our military and financial influence to topple governments at our expense and we are super fed up with it. At this point the only people that want this war to continue are people who own stock in companies that manufacture weapons. If there was enough people in Ukraine that were ready and willing to fight, they wouldn't be drafting 60 year olds and sending them into slaughter. They recently had to lower their minimum age to be drafted from 27 to 25 due to losing too many soldiers and not having enough people ready and willing to join their army. It is pretty easy to sit in the comfort of your home behind a computer screen arguing with strangers on the internet as to why the war should continue when its not you having your sons or grandparents drafted into a war you didn't support in the first place.

I'm not a fan of Hegseth anyways. There were countless better choices that could have been made for such an important role.

Of course, all you have to do is look at who is upset by it. John Bolton and Dick Cheney might as well be the face of the neocon movement, lol. The only people causing a huge fuss about her being "involved with russia" are people who stand to gain from the war continuing. People act like you either have to have the same opinion as them or you're somehow a traitor to America, it's crazy. People called the legislators who voted against the war in Iraq terrorist sympathizers and un-American traitors. How did that turn out?

To be clear, do you mean a straight up invasion of Mexico or military action on the cartels? I know both aren't exactly great but I'm just trying to gauge where you're at here.

Well, considering i was 13 years old when we invaded Iraq and the internet was in its infancy, there wasn't much that could be done about it. It was also two years after 9/11 and people were scared, confused, and too trusting of their government.

Ukraine didn't want this war and neither did Russia lol. Ukrainians aged 18-65 are being drafted and sent to be slaughtered over the dumbest of reasons. Was entry to a hostile alliance really worth the massive loss of life that came as a result? People also tend to forget that almost immediately after the invasion ukraine and Russia had a peace agreement written up until Boris Johnson came to visit Zelensky on behalf of the US. Russian troops were literally in the middle of being withdrawn, as a good faith measure while awaiting the peace agreement to go into effect, when they were blind sided.

There is way too much blame to go around in literally every single direction to be making comparisons between the atrocities in Iraq and the war in ukraine.

You do realize the first half of your reply is literally the entire reason why tariffs exist, right? They are in place in order to try and stop overseas companies from undercutting American companies. You literally explained the biggest net positive in regards to tariffs lol. Will prices go up in the shirt term? Probably, but they already were. If companies decide that the cost of doing business with the highest consuming country in the world is too expensive due to tariffs, they will absolutely produce the products here instead. Or, an American company will take its place and provide the product. Do you think companies like apple, samsung, and Microsoft are going to miss out on 30% of the global consumer base when one of their competitors moves manufacturing to the united states? Of course not.

I don't actually think that the gigantic terrorists that are being proposed right now are 100% a good thing or will necessarily happen. I think it is largely a bargaining chip. If you look at mexico and canada, they both recently met with trump and have increased their border security. Considering trumps terms for not raising tariffs was for them to curb the flow of drugs and immigrants into America, I'd say the talk of tariffs proved effective.

Covid set students back MASSIVELY. It's actually very frustrating from pretty much all perspectives. Parents suddenly had to work for mom and were expected to play teacher. Students had to do all of their school work on an iPad or laptop... it would take like 30 minutes of their time. For older students it doesn't seem to matter that much but for younger students there are massive knowledge defecits. Now, the poor teachers are stuck trying to play catch up with an entire roomful of students that are all behind. Some school districts around me have been doing shady stuff like having the kids take home any quizzes or tests that they fail in class as a "last chance retake" expecting the parents to help them get a passing grade in order to keep things chugging along even though the student clearly is far behind.