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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
is a bit better, considering that the top articles include "White House struggles to show how airstrike in Syria fits broader policy" and it did run a critical op-ed yesterday about how bamboozled some pundits are.
How Jeff Sessions wants to bring back the war on drugs
. Is there a bad idea this worm is not going to embrace?
not only that but will also bring back jobs, drain the swamp and single handily prevent World War 3.
The big issue with car stuff aceofspades is that it's kind of a huge poor tax. the omnipresent need for a vehicle doesn't negate the cost of them, and where california's smog exemption doesn't roll forward like most such exemptions (it's got a set cut-off date) that means that entire swathes of cars are incredibly expensive to drive.
This is added on top of onerous regulations in the name of emissions safety, that usually have the exact opposite effect. For most cars you cannot, for example, modify the vehicle to be more fuel efficient and produce less harmful emissions because they're required by law to be factory spec. You must also buy specific catalytic converters for your car that differ by like... 1 number, and have a hundred plus dollar premium markup for the privilege.
Of all the things california could be doing for better air, Cars are probably the least effective method they've gone for.
edited 9th Apr '17 3:55:48 AM by Lanceleoghauni
"Coffee! Coffeecoffeecoffee! Coffee! Not as strong as Meth-amphetamine, but it lets you keep your teeth!"Improving public transportation is IMHO a good first step in a Boring, but Practical manner.
Disgusted, but not surprised
If the media put forth as much effort in digging up details about how weapon systems work as they did finding the most Michael Bay-like showreel, they could have pointed out that the strike was ineffectual and yet another display of the administration's lack of thoughtfulness at anything that doesn't involve fucking over minorities.
California and air pollution: The Californian urban sprawl was based upon the idea that everyone would have their own car. Unsurprisingly, the freeways were swamped as a result. Public transportation is the way to go here, if there is still room on the freeways.
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotI wonder if this is going to hurt Ossof's chances in the upcoming election.
Eh, Trump will probably do something stupid to remind people just what he is. Moron can't go a whole week without fucking up.
Still, this desperate desire to normalize Trump, to find something to praise about him so that we can pretend we don't have a complete disaster leading us...it's frustrating.
edited 9th Apr '17 6:04:18 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedHandel and the GOP field already tried to put Ossoff to the fire, one ultimatum/trap being "So, does the national security expert support Trump or Obama?"
Ossoff replied something like: if the strikes did their job and were launched properly and according to law, he'd support them but he needed more info. (That kind of measured response may not fit these times...) Either here
or there
edited 9th Apr '17 6:17:11 AM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesYou know, if Hillary Clinton were President she probably would have done something very similar in response to the chemical attacks. And yet I'm almost certain the media (especially on the right) would not have been nearly as generous to her as they are to Trump right now.
As for what I think, this whole thing comes across as impulsive and poorly thought out, with a side portion of "too little, too late".
edited 9th Apr '17 6:37:09 AM by Mio
If Secretary Clinton were president, she probably wouldn't have needed to. Don't forget the diplomatic side, and the weight of the administration's words. Tillerson—top of a gutted state department and constantly out of the loop but still—all but stated the US had no further interests in Syria and would let it play out, not minding if Assad prevailed. Trump says something that contradicts his position every day and looks like a weak leader. Hence, Damascus could've calculated there were no checks against it pulling out everything.
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesNot strictly related, but discussing broadcast media going nuts for Trump vs print media like the Post staying critical, in particular Krieger's "finding the most Michael Bay-like showreel" comment, is reminding me of the thing that truly made me cynical towards news media in the first place: The day 9/11 happened, news stations had title cards for the attacks up within hours.
edited 9th Apr '17 8:03:52 AM by sgamer82
I found few a Vox op-eds critisising Trumps decisions in Syria, calling it "Dangerously Impulsive", and the best thing we can do for refugees is to let them resettle in America.
https://www.vox.com/2015/9/4/9258149/syria-refugee-humanitarian-intervention
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/7/15217492/trump-syria-foreign-policy
edited 9th Apr '17 8:41:18 AM by megaeliz
I'm not at all surprised by ![]()
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that it's not something to be bothered by, if only because, at age 18 or so, I was bothered by it. I do find it fundamentally disturbing that should some horrible event with horrific loss of life occurs, there's someone whose job it is to immediately think "I gotta make a snappy graphic for this".
edited 9th Apr '17 8:35:32 AM by sgamer82
This is an interesting take on how disinformation gets spread, using Infowars as an example. God, how I hate vaccine conspiracies.
edited 9th Apr '17 8:49:57 AM by megaeliz

Well to quote German News you aren't a real president until you bomb a country in the middle east.
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