Drill Baby Drill...the US Politics Thread (Part 2)

When you hear complaints about campus anti semitism it is important to stop and drill into what specifically people are identifying as such behavior. In the various filing we’re seeing it is often little more than statements that genocide is wrong

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https://x.com/PatRyanUC/status/1907413941690458322

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WTF is Liberation Day? I thought it’s Independence Day, July 4.

This is real chef’s kiss stuff. If you ever encounter a self identified Free Speech warrior, you can be 90% sure they are full of shit.

19 year old college student protesting something they think is morally wrong - the kids these days dont understand the value of open debate. FREE SPEECH

Government disappears people because of speech they dont like - seems fine.

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It’s headline/TV stuff

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It’s akin to Brexiters calling withdrawing from the EU Independence Day. I’m sure it’ll be remembered just as fondly..

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And when it goes wrong the goal posts will be moved about what it was supposed to achieve, it’s failures (which they also reject) will be blamed on someone else (deep state), and it’s failure to achieve the original goal (which they reject on two fronts as explained above) will be used to justify going even further and harder

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Duckworth is great. In responding to criticism of her calling Hegseth a “fucking liar” she says she should have also called him a disgrace (keep in mind she is an amputee who lost her leg in combat)

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https://x.com/DrewPavlou/status/1907301643990806819

I actually don’t know what to say anymore. This is a new low.

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Fucking hell.

I genuinely don’t know if I should laugh or cry.

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Yes.

The nukes belonged to Ukraine. You are correct about the launch codes though, but this has been debunked as a problem for decades. What you or I feel about nuclear proliferation is irrelevant to the question, he asked about the Budapest Memorandum and what obligations the treaty holders have to Ukraine for giving up it’s nuclear weapons.

And critically, it does not change the Budapest Momorandum. The United Kingdom and the United States is obligated (along with Russia, but lol) to come to Ukraine’s defence. The only question is how they come to Ukraine’s defence.

There is much academic work on this, but it helps to just read lexicon. Wikipedia is perfectly fine to learn about such subjects and it takes only a very few min to skim it all.

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They’ll keep pushing further and further as they grow more emboldened. Soon, winning at the polls will mean nothing.

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I don’t want to torment you, but it’s just the beginning.

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This really is perverse. The US wants to be included in European defence procurement, despite spending enormous effort to destabilize the relationship and establish themselves as an unreliable ally. That includes Trump explicitly saying that weapons supplied to allies would be downgraded versions of the American kit.

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Yep, it’s pathetic

https://x.com/saintjavelin/status/1907416693032333342

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Remember the big hoo haa at the time.. never mentioned now

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