Chuck Schumer isn’t on Lemmy I guess, and every other person in the world understands that thinking the name was the issue can’t be serious
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Yeah because they changed the name, said so right in the post
Whew, and at first I thought the US might have a problem, but good ol’ Chuck stepped in to save the day. Back to work, everyone, democracy has been saved.
I read https://spectrejournal.com/chuck-schumer-in-america-a-warning/ today because it was payed on Lemmy, good stuff, I can recommend it
Laser@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•An "unimaginable sum:" Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would appropriate $200 billion to ICE0·4 days agoIt doesn’t only refer to those laying the path, but also to those that enable and make alliances with fascists because it’s the convenient thing to do or some of the goals align. E.g. our centrist or rather formally centrist party is sometimes referred as that because they shift the discussion to the right and enact anti-social policies that drive people to the extremist parties though they don’t coalise.
Laser@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•An "unimaginable sum:" Trump's Big Beautiful Bill would appropriate $200 billion to ICE0·4 days agoIn German, these people and groups are called “Steigbügelhalter”.
Laser@feddit.orgto World News@lemmy.world•EU ‘cannot linger at the margins’ of Gaza conflict, says former top diplomatEnglish0·6 days agoThese statements come a lot easier as a former diplomat. Let’s see if any of the current bunch have the balls to say it
Oh my God, it’s the guy from City of the Wolves!
Laser@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Lashes Out at ‘Scum’ for Revealing Bombing Was Botched0·10 days agoHave you never gone back to your door to see if you actually did lock it?
Laser@feddit.orgto World News@lemmy.world•Germany: Immigrant education levels at new highEnglish0·11 days agoCan’t blame them honestly.
I live comfortably here, but that’s because my income is rather good. Is nice here if you make little or a lot. Anyone else is under huge pressure from taxes and other financial obligations like health insurance, retirement insurance and unemployment insurance. Around 60k - 65k gross income per year is where it hurts the most, where parts of your income are in the 40% tax bracket but you’re still in public health insurance. As a single, you’ll get a little less than 40k net out of that (2022 numbers, now probably worse because health insurance got more expensive). Rent close to the big cities is often over 1000 per month, buying at the moment out of the question.
All of this gets you… Germany, which isn’t bad but also not Spain for example (where I live / spent time both in bigger cities as well as in a village). Hell, even the Dutch at least have bikable cities. So… it’s not terrible, but it also doesn’t really excel…
Laser@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran0·13 days agoYeah this is the thing. Trump isn’t where things went south, but he sure accelerated it. In a working democracy, he would have been laughed out of the room. But decades of neocon politics have deteriorated the American society so much in so many aspects that he got elected
It’s like everyone after Clinton was bad, not saying Clinton was good but I guess he was mostly lucky with the economy he got
Bush was a disaster
Obama bailed out the banks which mid term fucked everyone up big time and did nothing to end US wars from my impression
Trump 1 was absolute garbage and I’m kind of grateful that COVID might have cost him the first chance at his second term
Biden was uninspired and didn’t have the guts to fix long-standing issues and just put band-aid on stuff, though I actually think he was the least bad out of the bunch
Trump 2 is just a whole different league of catastrophe
You already replied to it, here the text again:
I mean otherwise [from context: saying that financing terror groups is a thing peaceful countries do] you could make similar claims about the US. Such a peaceful country! It wasn’t them overthrowing the legitimately elected governments, but local resistance groups! Who trained and armed them? How does this relate to the conversation?
Here, what Iran does is applied to the US in an ironic manner, because I, the writer, assume that nobody thinks the US is a peaceful country, because I don’t think so either, hence calling them out though indirectly; but again nobody called them peaceful (rightfully so), so there was no need to spell it out, I assumed.
I have also accused the US of it in this very thread, but in order to understand it, you’d need reading comprehension skills
Also nobody has called “the other side” peaceful, so there’s no need for a rebuttal
If you think so… I never said it is, this was purely objecting to the statement that Iran is a peaceful country. It’s a repressive regime that finances insurgent groups to put it lightly. Does that justify the attack that just happened? No. But still doesn’t make Iran peaceful
You should put something between the link and the semicolon, otherwise it breaks the link.
It works both on Voyager and the web client for me
That aside, while that is certainly not very peaceful, it strikes me as not relevant to the context of countries lobbing bombs at each other.
It isn’t relevant to the bombing really, and if you go back in the discussion you’ll see that I stated this (edit: or rather that I’m against bombing Iran). This was only in response to the implication that Iran is peaceful.
Iran’s foreign policy isn’t peaceful either, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_diplomat_terror_plot_trial; just because they don’t operate in the open doesn’t mean it’s peaceful.
I mean otherwise you could make similar claims about the US. Such a peaceful country! It wasn’t them overthrowing the legitimately elected governments, but local resistance groups! Who trained and armed them? How does this relate to the conversation?
Yeah like when women aren’t wearing headscarves
Laser@feddit.orgto politics @lemmy.world•Trump to address nation on U.S. strikes on Iran0·13 days agoCouch Withdrawal Symptoms
Which peaceful country are you talking about?
I’m totally against the bombing, but let’s not pretend or imply Iran is peaceful.
Stronger compartmentalization