Thanks! The Internet makes it a lot harder than you’d think to find out which Block variant Ukraine is getting.

Is that true? I thought they were either built for multirole or air superiority/intercepting? I didn’t think any of the variants were built as attackers.

This opinion makes no sense to me. The US Army was also formed during a terrorist action, so was the Russian red army. We wouldn’t have called the Russian red army in WW2 a terrorist organization, and we certainly wouldn’t call the US military a terrorist organization. We could call them cruel or bad or whatever based on personal opinions, but we wouldn’t call them terrorist organizations.

For a more extreme example, the Nazi military was far far worse than Hamas or the IDF and I still would call them a professional military. They were still state sanctioned, trained to a specific common standard, paid a wage, internationally recognized as a military force, etc. etc.

Yeah, I wasn’t sure how to phrase it. Well trained but bad is a better phrasing I suppose. I find it hard to use the word “bad” when both sides are “bad” idk. I get where both sides come from in the fight 🤷‍♂️

Yeah, but that’s what we know of. It’s suspected that there’s a record breaking (for modern Europe) mass grave outside Mariupol. I doubt the numbers will get as high as the IDFs, but we can’t get any independent journalists or investigators past Russia’s front line from my understanding.

Also, like the other guy said, that fight is a bad professional army vs a better smaller professional army.

The IDF vs Hamas is an okay but cruel professional army against a relatively bad terrorist organization.

I get the sense that the country that elected Trump and the one that almost elected Marie Le Pen may have similar views on race relations. I could be wrong though.

I’m not aware of any studies on the topic, but the perceptions of racism are definitely on the rise according to Gallup polls.

Yo if anyone ends up getting a source that isn’t Fox, NR, Israel Times, or Daily mail, post the link. I’d be curious to see if this gets third party verified by someone more reputable.

Oh yeah, honestly, I don’t mind the controls on a touchscreen as you get immediate feedback on most, if not all cars, but for some reason on that GTI, the touch buttons on the dashboard and wheel didn’t work for me at all.

I test drove one, and the touch buttons were ass, but nobody mentions the lag. There’s ZERO feedback, do you press the button again and watch the screen show you turn the thing on and then back off.

I would NEVER buy a car with touch controls based on this experience. It was horrible.

I agree with most of your points. Fortunately unlike most wars, this one does actually have a clear good and bad guy.

People like to forget the recession that didn’t happen last year because Biden’s administration busted it’s ASS to keep Trump’s economy from imploding our country for a decade. Instead it’s “we have high inflation because Biden didn’t do enough to fix Trump’s economy.”

They needed more than a simple majority to codify roe. Same thing for trans issues, the John Lewis voting rights act, etc. etc. We can talk about removing the filibuster, but imagine the state of trans rights, voting rights, the economy, etc. when Republicans only need a simple majority to pass their legislation.

It’s important to keep in mind that Republicans to gather support only need to stonewall Democrats. “We blocked the trans bill, we blocked the voting rights act that would have let illegals vote, we blocked them from allowing the murder of babies.” Iirc economic matters only require simple majorities, so tax cuts for the rich are super easy for them to get through when they are in power.

Tbh the messaging itself I haven’t seen much of, but “I’m not a Republican” is enough of a message for me since January 6th.

It’s wild. I literally don’t understand how we make the messaging better.

Republicans: Ban abortion, make us poorer, start unnecessary conflict, pass as much transphobic legislation as possible, try to overthrow our democracy…

Democrats: Do the opposite of all of that

The mainstream media: Points this out

Moderates: “I don’t listen to the lamestream media. Both parties are the same. I’m going to vote for the funny orange guy.”

Take student loan forgiveness as an example. Biden stretched out the pause period multiple times, tried at least three different times to get something through, and is destroying Trump’s record for at the very least giving already qualified people the loan forgiveness they deserve. Meanwhile the Republicans refused to negotiate, stonewalled, and threw public fits the whole time. The media reported on all of this, every step of the way, yet it feels like all you hear in comment sections is “Biden lied about student loan forgiveness.” or “Biden didn’t fight hard enough for student loan forgiveness.”

Oh wild. I didn’t even know the victory 1 and 2 were canon tbh. I was thinking of it from Tie Fighter.

Doesn’t the victory 1 have the giant “wings” in an x shape in the side and the victory 2 doesn’t?

Lol now do Imperial I vs Imperial II star destroyers.

It’s nice because you can keep track of the internal temperature remotely.

I mean, I put quotations around progressives because the small subset of online self proclaimed progressives in places like Hexbear and lemmygrad are like the above.

For me a real progressive is someone like Biden who just got an agreed 5 day ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, kept other nations from escalating, and has a record of passing progressive legislation, especially as president. Also, for me, a “progressive” is someone like Jill Stein who has lunch with Putin, supports the Ukraine invasion, and only runs to get Republicans elected.

I mean, it’s a pretty accurate aggregate of Hexbear and lemmygrad and they’re pretty popular.