So sassy, I love it. It's always fun when big serious figures do this. Of course I also love the famous "Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it, nor reply."
It's so important that ice don't find out about this. Sure they would have to swim around in it for a bit but they WOULD find these very important documents.
They're incapable of shame and allergic to doing anything meaningful. I on the other hand am extremely capable of shame and merely too depressed and lazy to do anything meaningful.
Y'know, I used to think Americans couldn't make good sketch comedy. I stand corrected. The ending's great but the slow reveal of his plan that feels horribly inevitable right from the start is actual genius.
One of the few things I still spend a bit more than minimum on is a good quality, durable wallet (last one was leather but I may look into a vegan alternative for next time. This one's only like eight or ten years old though so plenty of life still in it...
Yeah, I find it hard to fully parse what's going on with this guy but I do believe he is 100% honest about this shit. Like, yes it's a bit, but part of the bit is that he truly believes it.
I don't think everyone is reading it in bad faith, people have been primed to read it that way by the response. But I'm suspicious about that initial response, because it requires the responder to suggest that Hasan was arguing sanctions to end in exchange for "demands of democracy or anything else". That's suspiciously poor reading comprehension.
Come on, now. It only makes sense to think he is saying America should demand democracy in exchange for ending sanctions if you also think he would be okay with "anything else" in exchange for ending sanctions. I hate the guy but here he is obviously saying that American sanctions on Iran should be unilaterally ended.
Greenland doesn't have a big enough population to stop the USA from seizing it. They would no doubt inflict extremely disproportionate losses if they chose to fight back, but 50k people are not stopping the US military, more's the pity.
Actually, I read it the bad way first, because I hate Hasan. Then I noticed that to read it that way I had to believe that Hasan was calling for the end of sanctions in exchange for "anything else", which is literal nonsense.
The good way requires you to ignore, forget, or not be aware of, the ins and outs of a program from a man who hasn't been president in over a decade - Hasan being who he is that's likely exactly why he made this error. Meanwhile, the bad way requires you to accept that Hasan was making an argument that is nonsensical on its face, in a vacuum and without context. It's a significantly sillier reading and it doesn't make sense to accept it unless you've gone in assuming that whatever he says is going to be painfully stupid.
It's a fair point, actually. Test for performance, if they can do the thing who cares? If being fat really does stop people from doing the thing you'll get rid of the fats pretty quickly anyway. If not you get to have more people who can do the thing.
That being said everyone should be kicked out of the US military obviously.
So sassy, I love it. It's always fun when big serious figures do this. Of course I also love the famous "Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it, nor reply."