Bombing alone has never worked as a means of forcing regime change. So Trump will either have to succeed at this for the first time in history, back down (seems unlikely at this point) or put boots on the ground (for which he has not manufactured consent).I guess he could also just die on the shitter and make it the next guys problem. There are many avenues for the US to lose here.
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The article was perfectly readable to me but sure cope harder.
Just imagine how silly all those Bush 2 era ghouls feel. All that effort spent faking evidence for WMDs, faking a presentation to the UNSC, months and months of effort spent manufacturing consent.
We had a babysitter whose husband was a pastor and would always talk about being scared for our souls. In her eyes, being a good person and having a private relationship with God was inadequate to avoid going to hell. She truly felt that church attendance and renouncing other religions was the only path to salvation - belief, prayer, and following the teachings of Jesus would be inadequate.
It's hilarious that these offshoots of Protestantism basically went so deep into the sauce that they became Catholics again. Martin Luther spinning in his grave.
He wouldn't because he literally doesn't understand the meaning of the word sacrifice. He was asked in the 2016 campaign what he has sacrificed for America and he replied that he created jobs.
The only thing holding a lot of Americans back from violence is the knowledge that that's exactly the excuse the regime wants to declare martial law and suspend elections.
The only things holding Americans back from violence are relatively abundant food, entertainment and comfort. All of which will still continue to exist once free elections are gone. Plus what they replace them with will be branded super duper free elections, and that will be enough for a lot of people.
There is little to no evidence that the 1/3rd of eligible voters who didn't vote in Nov 2024 are any more engaged with what is happening than they were back then.
All they have to do is orchestrate this coup in a somewhat intelligent way that doesn't immediately collapse the economy and they can absolutely pull it off.
Most Americans are not going to fight for abstract rights when their immediate tangible needs are being met.
Until something is officially declared a crime and a legal accusation is made, people are officially, legally innocent. Which means everyone saying "Epstein didn't kill himself" or "Donald Trump is involved in a child trafficking operation", is a conspiracy theorist.
Courts determine criminal liability withing the justice system. They do not determine truth itself. When properly designed and used, the legal system should trend towards truth, but actual truth is a separate thing entirely. The unifying aspect of conspiracy theorists is completely naive epistemology. You guys are actually doing epistemology but you just refuse to actually look at the thousands of years of work that's been done in the field across civilizations all over the world.
I think the latest iteration ironed out a lot of UI issues. Not all, but a lot. If you care at all about owning your own files and designs then you basically have to use freecad.
That is a potential solution for people looking to resolve the situation. They don't want to do that, they just want to effectively ban trans people from public spaces by making both bathroom options wrong/dangerous.
It's worth remembering specifically why appeasement doesn't work. The one trying to appease the egotistical bully thinks the bully had limited goals , so if you grant some fraction of that you can avoid their aggression. In reality, bullies don't have limited goals (they will take exactly as much as they think they can take and no less) and only see appeasement as weakness, which further drives their aggression. That is why appeasement always leads to disaster beyong the immediate short term - it shows you can be successfully leveraged and threatened and so it invites more leveraging and threats.
I hate to use this example but Star Trek Discovery rather clumsily covered this concept in the first season in the Klingon war. The Vulcans realized that Klingons see war and conquest as an inherent part of their culture, and exploiting weakness in others is one of their core beliefs. So they adopted the policy of shoooting at any Klingon vessels on sight ("the Vulcan Hello") , and the Klingons left them alone.
It's anathema for people who believe in peace which is why the Federation couldn't bring themselves to behave this way. It took ruthless logical analysis to arrive at that course of action.
According to his latest tweet "unconditional surrender" is his goal. I wonder what his goal will be next week.