It isn’t that maximalist. Us not rampaging through the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia leading to (at least) 2 million dead since 9/11 doesn’t mean that Russia or China pick up the “slack”, it doesn’t work that way. (Neither have the power to do so, and though China may in the future that is still A: a long…

Are you really laughing or are you just pretending to laugh?

You are. I’ve been clear on this site and others about the imperial nature of the Russian invasion, to the point that I’ve called in Ukraine, on this site and others, for the thing that ruins the Middle East being done there, which is the transfer of American weapons to states in the region, with full support.

Don’t you praise Faux News when it tells you that everyone sent to Guantanamo deserved to be sent there, and that everyone we sent to Assad and Gaddaffi to be tortured deserved to be tortured?

It’s blase to to wave away the lives of the people living under the 75% of the World’s authoritarian regimes which the US government props up as a “as awful as it can be, welp, at least we’re not China, they’d have it even worse then.” The type of world Russia envisions is the type of world they live in now under the…

For who? For you? You’re not the one living with it.

It’s becoming a farce.

Yes it is. It always has been.

“After all, aren’t we all superior to whites?”

Don’t you support-comment the Faux News disinformation when it tells you that everyone sent to Guantanamo deserved to be sent there, and that everyone we sent to Assad and Gaddaffi to be tortured deserved to be tortured?

Right. Misread it.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Russia/Russification-policies#ref422035

I guess so.

If a firing squad seems old fashioned, you should see what our friends and allies in Saudi Arabia do.

Buck breaking wasn’t real. Tariq Nasheed’s sold you a lemon on that one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/afghanistan-papers/documents-database/#:~:text=After%20a%20three-year%20legal%20battle%2C%20The%20Washington%20Post,objectives%2C%20let%20alone%20how%20to%20end%20the%20conflict.

It’s been known since 2007, and studies just keep showing it.

If there’s no oversight or impetus, if there’s no, let’s say, incentive, then change would be unlikely at twitter. Hell I’d quite like to see them broken up before we reach the point where Taibbi doesn’t seem so silly anymore. Or Elizabeth Warren.

And if those were the only two options he’d be right. Laws can be changed. Private companies have no such obligation.