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Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by cdrnsf »

encrypted_bird wrote: post #65
cdrnsf wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, particularly given that ICE agents are going to be deployed to airports. Their penchant for killing civilians and otherwise violating civil rights only to lie about their actions hardly seems like a good fit for airport security duties they haven’t been trained to perform.

> duties they haven't been trained to perform Which implies they've been trained?

Fair, they haven’t. I wonder how long it will take them to use tear gas when the line at a Starbucks kiosk gets a little too long.

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by rdiddly »

encrypted_bird wrote: post #54
elromulous wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed. But also why are you speaking like Yoda?

They're not; they're speaking colloquially: this is the word "It's" omitted from the beginning. --- *EDIT*: Corrected word. Lol.

That's not what made it sound like Yoda. It was sticking "has been" at the end, and I agree there was a better choice stylistically: "Crazy how effective this admin has been at making everything worse."

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Post by nozzlegear »

JPKab wrote: post #118
dotancohen wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I worked in the Pentagon for 10 years, and got my beak wet with neural nets there very early, back when we were using Playstation 3s for their GPUs. I was staunchly against the Iraq war, but even when Bush was president I didn't let it compromise my patriotism. The amount of people on here who ignore the fact that Iran was the primary enabler of Hamas' attack on 10/7/23, and therefore sowed the seeds of the destructi…

>If Biden had launched this war, none of these people would have had a problem with it. I am 100% positive on that assumption.

I think you're wrong here. As a Biden stan who's gone to the mat debating Biden's policies here on HN many times in the past, he lost pretty much all of the remaining good will he had by defending and supporting Israel for so long after it became clear what they were doing in Gaza. Biden wouldn't be getting a free pass in the Middle East if it were helping Israel's goals (ignoring the fact that Biden is much more of a dove than Trump).

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Post by engcoach »

dotancohen wrote: post #82
jazzpush2 wrote: post #14

Has there been any official WH note on the need for this war, yet? Or objectives?

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Why do they chant that? Is it due to acting against US interests in favor of another state, maybe one in the Levant?

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by engcoach »

dotancohen wrote: post #109
tombert wrote: post #85

What the fuck was even the intended purpose of starting this war in Iran? Like in their mind, what was the best case scenario?

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That’s going to age as well as weapons of mass destruction in Iraq did. The reality is that only Israel was threatened by Iran and the US is caught up in it simply because we act as their vassal.

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Post by JeremyNT »

stackghost wrote: post #28
mrbombastic wrote: post #11

Crazy how effective at making everything worse this admin has been.

Trump is but a symptom of an underlying sickness. Things won't magically go back to normal after he dies.

Having somebody less incompetent, senile, and corrupt at the helm may not make things "magically go back to normal," but it's a step in the right direction. Necessary but not sufficient.

Perhaps you'll be explicit though, what is the "sickness" you perceive?

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Post by mrbombastic »

rdiddly wrote: post #133
encrypted_bird wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They're not; they're speaking colloquially: this is the word "It's" omitted from the beginning. --- *EDIT*: Corrected word. Lol.

That's not what made it sound like Yoda. It was sticking "has been" at the end, and I agree there was a better choice stylistically: "Crazy how effective this admin has been at making everything worse."

Didn’t even strike me as weird phrasing. Or rather: strike me as weird phrasing it did not.

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by zzrrt »

JPKab wrote: post #124
ggm wrote: post #94

Would the current state of affairs qualify for cancelling the mid-terms? Is that overly cynical? Not in the US, not a US citizen or voter. My suspicion is the answer is "no, but it is not a given that a competent supreme court which looks likely to overturn the WH exists, if they say they want to do this"

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> Texas or Arizona or North Carolina or Florida

All Red states. So if you roll over and let the federal government trample your state's sovereignty, they won't murder people in your state? Somehow I don't think that's what federalism was supposed to mean.

Trump nearly passed out with glee when he was talking to the Ukrainian president and found out elections are canceled, by their law, due to martial law because of the war. I would not so casually assume he won't try it here.

Re: Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

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Post by nozzlegear »

engcoach wrote: post #135
dotancohen wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Why do they chant that? Is it due to acting against US interests in favor of another state, maybe one in the Levant?

What are you saying? Speak plainly so we don't have to guess.
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