Socratic82
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Socratic82

This. If Ratcliffe was a Senator they might give him a pass, but I think they balk and take this as a rare chance to demonstrate independence without having to do so in a way that enrages the base (I can already see Susan Collons taking a victory lap on the Sunday shows to burnish her moderate creds)

Well I mean let’s see his qualifications:

To be fair there’s any number of sports where the US audience is deeply interested and engaged but only in the context of the national team/Olympics/World Championships/etc- look at Track & Field or Gymnastics or Figure Skating-- all are huge viewership draws but outside of International Competition only Figure

Come on, I’m kind of hyped about the idea that an NFL franchise could release a hype video of passes 90% of my family could throw during a Thanksgiving game.

So....you want to go all in on the system used by the country that’s next to last on outcomes (ahead of only the US)? Because a fully nationalized system isn’t utilized in many peer states. 

How do you see this as legally possible? Seriously, what’s your route for this occurring? 

No doubt. Hell, it gets even worse— look at Kentucky- they passed Medicaid Expansion- it was popular and helped a ton of people (KY is one of the highest utilization states for Medicaid/Medicare by %) — then the Governer’s seat was won by a man running in part on repealing the expansion and he won in large part due to

Can you guys just explicitly endorse Bernie and be done with it?

But see that’s the magic of racism at work— rural, predominantly white areas are suffering— someone must have done this to them; more urban areas with more diverse populations have similar issues— can you believe these lazy such-and-such are living like this?

I was referring to the estimate used in 1959 by the head of the KGB in a letter to Nikita Kruschev-- I’m fairly comfortable calling both parties in that conversation Soviets. 

Fair enough, my only caveat would be what was the alternative option in 1950-- the North was even more murderous and was clearly the aggressor state. 

I’m not saying that some don’t say that now in retrospect (though again that attitude is more prevalent in Russia than Soviet satellites and puppet states), but the fact that they needed a wall guarded with lethal force to keep people in isn’t exactly a glowing endorsement for the popular approval of the East German

Please explain the joint invasion and partition of Poland as anything but complicity between allies. 

Even the Soviets put the number over 20k internally, virtually every major source puts it between 15 and 25 thousand with just under 22k being the consensus “low end”.

If we’re going there let’s throw in the deaths under the Khmer Rogue in Cambodia and the Kim regime in North Korea. 

At least some of the money on both sides was spent on the Space Race?! 

Eh....on South Korea— it was undeniably a semi-authoritarian state through the early 80s but the body count differential between North and South isn’t easy to dismiss.

Not to mention that Russian’s have a distinctly different perspective on the USSR and the Cold War than the lesser satellite states much less citizens of the other Warsaw pact nations— even if all things were equal, the psychic benefit of being the center of a massive global empire can’t be discounted. 

No, I think it’s pretty obvious that both happened. The Holocaust was clearly most systematic but the Holodomor happened.