NoneOfUrBusiness

Yeah fair enough. Please if anyone here becomes king of the world fucking kill this guy.

That’s true, but voters who are uneducated or simply don’t care about politics will see what he’s selling and think he’s at least better than the DNC’s “why would you want change? Everything is fine” nonsense.

Not protest. Y’all need at least a general strike to have a shot at doing something. That or found/get behind a third party and kill the DNC.

It’s because Trump advocates for change. Now it’s not good change but he’s definitely not a fan of the status quo, which gets you votes when the other guy is a Democrat centrist beholden to status quo-loving corporate donors.

The Jon Bolton execution alone would inspire parades across the Middle East.

We’d first need to know who he is, so who is that guy and what did he do?

But then if the actual voters don’t like you you die. The whole thing becomes a lot more volatile.

As expected no word about Israel’s aggression.

They actually are. I don’t quite understand their relationship myself, but Israel has sold US tech to Russia a few times AFAIK.

Warned by who?

I meant in the sense that he took a, well, normal insurer and raised its claim denial rates to one of the highest in the industry. The world is legitimately a better place with him gone, because while I doubt UHC will accept more claims at least he won’t be around to kill even more people.

It does, though. This guy was a fucking asshole even for a health insurance company CEO.

including deporting accused (not convicted) migrants,

What the fuck? I understand the real reason he’s saying that, but how does he justify it as being for the benefit of NYC?

My condolences.

Eggcorn, when someone mistakenly modifies a word by misinterpreting a part of it. Example: Eggcorn (acorn).

Huh? That’s so wrong I have no idea where you got it from. ISIS do not represent Islamists in general, or anyone but themselves. I’m not using “bad apples” logic here; ISIS was bad enough to be rejected by other Islamists, and almost everyone else. Israel, and the West in general, absolutely despise Islamists because they among other things are fundamentally opposed to Western hegemony and Israeli Apartheid, as would be observed from US behavior during the war on terror and its consideration of every Islamist organization out there are terrorist.

So maybe next time have a conversation rather than just telling somebody “that’s untrue”? No need to be weirdly adversarial…

That… is fair enough.

I’m not ignoring anything though. You’re acting like my “concern” is saying “things will go bad” when it’s not.

Wasn’t my intention to be adversarial but that is also fair enough.

Uh… This is Syria, not Libya.

If the rebels do not stand up to Israel then Libya will suffer the same fate as Palestine in the future.

They can stand up to Israel themselves, without having to get tortured in prison camps to satisfy Assad’s whims. I’m not sure what-centric this way of thinking is, but to Syrians the big war is the one they’ve been fighting for 14 years against Assad-backed Russia.

knowing there are people who will take advantage of their weakened forces if they join the war.

Only if they have a civil war going on. Also Assad didn’t join any wars (again, too busy committing war crimes against his own people), so the only lesson here is “don’t oppress your people so bad they fight you for fourteen years”. If anything, Palestinians could find themselves with a new ally depending on how the new government turns out.

Oh. I mean I don’t know how direct it is but unfortunately (???) Israel contributed to a good thing for once. If this results in a free Syria I don’t know he probably won’t be able to sleep at night, but either way I think he’s trying to take credit for it rather than Assad falling being some kind of 5D chess move. If it was anything like that Islamists wouldn’t have been leading the offensive and HTS (which is Islamist) wouldn’t be set to have the most influence in the post-Assad government.

What Netanyahu statement?

Pretty sure it’s a combination of HTS (who lead the offensive), other Islamist movements and the Syrian National Army. The article says “Free Syria Army” but that hasn’t been a unified body for a while so while we can’t be sure who exactly that guy is representing, fuck them anyway. Anyway my point is that there’s nobody in charge of Damascus yet other than the vague grouping of “rebels”, but you can rest assured that this guy is only representing at most one faction within the FSA and not at all the bulk of rebels in Damascus. You’d have to look to Al Jolani or whoever leads the SNA for that and neither has said anything of the sort.