Fair, it’d be fairer to say we had a poor vision of how to actually achieve the goals, and a poor understanding of how nation-state building would work in the modern age and with the fractal ethnic and religious factions and the deep-seated terrorist organizations rife throughout the region.

This Guardian article suggests in the $800-1100 a month range, although I imagine there’s some freelance type piece work as well. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/02/putin-kremlin-inside-russian-troll-house

This is a difficult one. The Fantastics, written almost 60 years ago, is the longest running musical on the planet. Like The Merchant of Venice, Huckleberry Finn, Gone With the Wind, Crime and Punishment, and other dated works of art, yeah, there are parts of the musical that are certainly offensive from a modern…

Hell yea!

You and I are in 100% agreement on this. We went in a fuckered around in Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya and Syria with no really clear, logical endgame, and now we’re well and truly stuck all the way cock and balls deep in it, and for what? Millions of murdered civilians and trillions in debt. Yay.

Hahaha Reddit is definitely a source for fact checking!

Part of the problem is we have no real strategy in Syria. We’re like a dog chasing our tail, if we catch it we have no idea what to do next. And really, that’s been our problem every time we’ve tried to nation build. We pick places that have little to no national identity, so it’s difficult to pick a guy for everyone…

I would simply love that.

As I understand it, this is a group that is fighting ISIS. The government doesn’t like that they’re making gains and capturing weapons (my guess is they’re worried about what happens if ISIS is defeated), so they’re trying to blunt their advance. Right now this group isn’t fighting the government, but the attacks may…

Wait, you didn’t hear? Your cousin is going to be in charge, well him and the gang. They are gonna bring the Syr (pronounced “sear”) back to Syria.

Any word on whether the Su-22 was putting US special forces in danger? It’d be a lot less surprising for us to shoot it down if it were endangering US troops directly as opposed to just US backed rebels.

That’s what’s really strange to me about this guy hoarding all these foul balls. I understand that catching something like Bonds’ record breaking homerun ball is potentially worth fighting for, but it looks like he just gets all these random balls and puts them in his bathtub or something.

That is a Doofwagon, iirc. In my perpetual dreamstate, Miller has teamed up with CAT and Peavey to mass produce it.

This was the right call. Fuck the Redskins with a sack of sharp dicks, but you don’t want the government to be in the business of deciding what trademarks are “offensive.” There are a lot of things we’re fine with today that were once deeply offensive to little old ladies clutching handbags. Codifying what your…

I have to agree here. Yeah, it may be offensive, but that’s on the holders of that offensive name, not on the government offices that allow for the registry of trademarks.

So riding the bus with them is helping them? I think riding the bus with these people and feeling holier than thou because of it makes you a misguided person.

Notice the new Lyft service got positive reviews from a writer living in SF, and snark from a writer in NYC. Gotta experience the Muni firsthand to understand the need for something like this.

You should expand your news sources, Moslems are being slaughtered (generally by other Moslems) on the regular and those bombings and shootings are always called terrorism..

A “killer soundtrack” is also a great way to lose awareness.

Really, what’s wrong with that? I’d ride the bus more in my city if fighting teenagers, drug addicts and bums asking for money were less common. Wanting to not deal with those doesn’t make you a bad person.