To finish the quote on her CIA relationship, since context is important:
In May 1975, Redstockings, a radical feminist group, published a report that Steinem and others put together on the Vienna Youth Festival and its attendees for the Independent Research Service.[112][113] Redstockings raised the question of whether Steinem had continuing ties with the CIA, which Steinem denied.[114] Steinem defended her relationship to the CIA, saying: "In my experience The Agency was completely different from its image; it was liberal, nonviolent and honorable."
Honestly I figured the context would clear things up, but the rest of the quote makes her come off as an apologist for an organization known to play as dirty as the KGB, and especially during that era. However just because something is funded by an entity such as the CIA doesn't always mean that the organization is part of, partner in, or even a willing partner with something like the CIA, same with the KGB or its descendants, espionage operates on leverage, and it all depends on what kind of hold you have over the "asset(s)".
Biden isn't the one sending storm troopers onto UT Austin's campus to crush pro-Palestinian protests, that would be the Republicans, remember on election day that both sides are absolutely not the same, and Trump sure as fuck does not care about Gaza or Palestine, or even Israel really if we're being honest here. (Well or anything else but himself)
First I like how you are trying to shade people about not being able to work hard, I've known homeless folks who work their asses off but can't get ahead, can't get approved for a place to live. Also they can't get hired because of their mental illness, which Reagan helped put millions of those folks out on the streets, raising crime rates, so how's that for results? Then you have the millions of hard working addicts living life on pain killers because our healthcare is f'n joke, how's that for results when the rest of the world has universal healthcare? Education system is completely unaffordable so you have people going homeless over their broken college dreams and/or their crushing student debt, yet hey the answer to education is voucher programs and only rich kids get to go to college, how's that for results?
Secondly how about we tax the rich? That's where I expect the money to come from, we used to have a 50% tax on the wealthy, and it helped create our education system, library system, highway system, yet again Republicans constantly want to lower taxes on literal billionaires, eventually trillionaires, because when the fuck do you have enough money? Bernie Sanders said billionaires shouldn't exist, they should be able to get to $999,999,999.99 and get a plaque that says they win capitalism, ans I whole heartedly agree with that statement. Oh and it gets even worse for your beloved Republicans where Trump's tax plan that he put in place during his administration financed giving the wealthy their tax cuts, by increasing taxes on the lower and middle classes for the next four years, we are currently in year four, how about that for results bud?
I've worked hard since I was twelve years old, ran a whole kitchen including dish duty at thirteen, I served this country as Marine, and I am currently upper middle class, yet I don't begrudge these people help, because I'm not a selfish fuckhead, but also the way I see it is we can provide healthcare, food, housing to our military, we should be able to do the same for those that we are supposed to be protecting, and do protect, especially during natural disasters.
You my friend and all of your selfish libertarian/Republican dipshits can go fuck yourselves, and doubly so if you're a MAGA cultist.
It's wild to me how these "God fearing Christians" basically want to put poor people into concentration camps, because that's just like Jesus would do. /s
Maybe if we had more public housing, better healthcare, that includes mental and dental, and easier and cheaper access to higher education and more affordable housing while being educated, it's not rocket science, sure we'll have people who choose the nomadic life but most of these homeless people have been pushed out of society by debt or by their health issues and the addictions that come from those health issues and poverty.
Just greedy short sighted fools who are willing to abase themselves to scum, or they are sociopathic monsters who don't care about anything but whatever they want.
Mercenaries fight for money, these kidnappings and enslavements, along with the Russian conscription process in particular, are more along the lines of a slave army, since it's absolutely not voluntary for many of those people.
You should see how many American politicians are just as corrupt for less money, I was surprised when I saw Devin Nunes was only making $15K from one of the bribery schemes that was supporting him while he was in Congress. I guess it all comes down to knowing your worth to the scumbags you work for. 🤷♂️
I guess you haven't seen all of the news reports and government outcry over Russia basically luring these guys to Russia then kidnapping Indian and Nepalese dudes and forcing them to fight, same with North Koreans, a whole bunch of South Americans, and several other Americans.
The guy is literally a wannabe Stalinist Communist from Austin freaking Texas, he's been there since 2014 fighting and propagandizing alongside the Russians this whole time, he's apparently been an avowed socialist since he was 16, yet you're trying to act like the CIA had anything to do with this fucking idiot.
He was arrested over selling pot in the 90's and started hating America and was too brainwashed, desperate, or mentally inept to realize that Russia was never really a communist country, especially not under Putin, and kept working with the Russians despite all the bad shit they do.
Solter-Hunt thinks that the perturbations caused by the conductive shell could poke holes in Earth's protective magnetic shield, potentially allowing more harmful cosmic radiation to reach the planet's surface. An extreme, almost apocalyptic scenario could see the weakened magnetosphere allow solar wind to begin stripping away Earth's atmosphere as it had done to the atmosphere of Mars billions of years ago. That, however, is certainly not an immediate threat.
Imagine we go extinct because satellite and plasma dust allows our atmosphere to get stripped by solar winds, similar to what it's like on Mars, that is a wild f'n scenario to consider, life is just so delicate to maintain.
As anyone should