agitatedpotato

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Puritans in Massachusetts are the reason Rhode Island exists and maintained indepedence when lots of early small colonies got absorbed into what became the other New England states. Roger Williams was like: fuck these guys, they said they wanted freedom of religion and I believed them. So after he obtained the land, he went back to the king to ratify the transfer which lead to borders that weren't easily dissolved.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Something tells me the Isrealis in power care less about the hostages than they do about getting to kill people. It seems like between the people they represent and the people who financially support them, they're the only ones who want to charge in with little to no regard for hostages.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Before the Isreal Hamas flare up I saw reports saying the US was mulling the idea of ground presence in Haiti. The military looks more apt to try and find problems to insert themselves rather than not spend taxpayer money. God forbid they let their budget go down.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

It's no surprise the ratcheting rightward of global politics is coinciding with increased war and violent conflict, they fuel each other. Peace is bad for the fascist so I'd be very wary if I was Argentine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That 90% figure was 2 days after 9/11, and in that 2002 state of the union they lied about Iraq having nukes. Later in that like it shows most people flipping sides. Shockingly, as they got further from the emotional events and started to realize they were lied to they changed their minds. The point remains there were large contingents of Americans opposed to the war from the beginning and their numbers only grew. A few polls with varying samples sizes taken around terrorist attacks and lies from the president don't discredit that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The war on the middle east caused the largest protests in American history at the time, so they were there and not being listened to just like this time.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This whole debacle is so dumb, If Harlan Crow was going to manipulate West it's not gonna be with the 3000 dollar public donation. We're keeping this energy for the horrible people who end up bankrolling Biden too right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Ignorance is bliss, why do the thinking yourself?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Have a family member in renewable installation and if the local power company around me is any indication, they're gonna take the money, then charge the consumers to do what the money was supposed to be for.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Every Russian thinks they're gangster until the snow starts talking Finnish.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I agree with a systematic approach to problem solving, especially when so many of the large problems are systematic in nature. I don't personally believe too much can be done from the inside, but I'd love to be wrong and have progress come from wherever it may, and I know my way is not the only way. Not gonna spend my time trying to work from the inside though.

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