How does that work? What’s the point of a parliment if the president just appoints whoever they want?

I’m voting twice, because we all know the opposition is going to do voter fraud.

Orange obviously. He might not be the smartest, but he’s honest about his intentions.

Why are all of NYC’s mayors such reactionary pieces of shit, 10 miles to the right of the populace?

be critical of information coming in

The atomic unit of propaganda isn’t lies, it’s emphasis. Most propaganda doesn’t take the form of false information, but true facts spun in a certain way to build/reinforce a specific worldview in the viewer.

Airline managers make 6 figures?

Tencent owns 11% of Reddit. Reddit is primarily a US propaganda operation.

Tiktok is wholly owned by a Chinese company, but unlike the rest of the world, the US version is hosted and managed entirely within the US, this (along with hiring a bunch of spooks and killing controversial things in the algo like BLM) was done in response to the Trump administration trying to come up with excuses to ban it.

I don’t see why China catching CIA agents would concern Americans. Most Americans are not CIA agents inside China.

Does whether or not Ukraine can win affect the calculus for the Biden admin in any way? Politicians on both sides have described the war as a way of killing Russians without spending a single drop of American blood, and every bomb sent justifies/enables more campaign donations.

The only thing that would be problematic for them would be a quick victory or loss.

I am blocked by WSJ for using an adblocker, do you have an archive link?

They claim to be anarchist, yet I keep finding their pro-state.

You missed all the walls they tore down because “open concept”.

Yes, I’m criticizing the AP for not mentioning the man’s innocence or lack of evidence and non-recanted witness statements.

wtf is that headline?

My point is “is she going to take the necessary action to whip the vote”, Manchin isn’t the only dem senator who’d rather the democrats didn’t accomplish anything as it could hurt their donors.

Well is she gonna overturn President Joe Mansion’s veto?

Does she feel like appointing an AG who will go after him and his family’s various conflicts of interests?

Democrats are just as capable of whipping a vote as republicans when they feel like it.

Between 1970 and 1990, the USSR built, launched, and crewed 7 space stations. Without Moscow holding them back, over the last 34 years, Ukraine (and Russia for that matter) have put up a total of zero.

In 2020, 50%+ of Ukrainians 70+, that is, most Ukrainians old enough to remember the USSR as an adult, regretted the dissolution. In 2000, it was ~90%.

The USSR wasn’t a utopia by any means, but it was far better than what came after.

Bosnia does have a 12 mile coastline

In what way is it disingenuous to frame Canada sending thousands of soldiers to a foreign nation to carry out a war as an invasion?