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  • I'm not American. Maybe my opinion also comes from a place of not understanding how government works in the US. But in 2020, Biden won the Presidency and the Democrats had control of the House and the Senate. Yet, they had a harder time of reversing Trump's policies than he had pushing them through. Let alone not even trying to enact progressive policies.

    As an outside observer, maybe that's why people have lost faith in the Democratic party.

  • A Texas Woman Died After Waiting 40 Hours for Miscarriage Care
  • I am not American, nor the person you responded to, but in 2020 the Democrats won the white house, the Senate, and the House of Representatives.

    As an outsider looking in, why is there the expectation that Kamala doing it again in 2024 will have a different result?

  • The entire Western media and political class when Iran launches its strike against Israel:
  • Palestine was a territory of the Ottoman Empire at the time. Israel did not exist.

    From what I can gather online there was a peasant revolt, but nothing sectarian about it. The Ottomans pillaged the villages during and after the revolt.

  • Multiple walkie talkies explode in Lebanon at funeral for those killed in pager attack: State media
  • The BBC reported it was a Taiwanese brand to let a Hungarian company manufacture them on their behalf. The pagers were brought to Lebanon 5 months ago. The Hungarian company has been around since about 2022.

    For this to be a supply chain attack, the level of sophistication indicates Israeli intelligence was at this for years, from setting up a shell company, infiltrating manufacturing companies, etc. We don't know whether the Taiwanese company was compromised as well.

    Now this last part is a bit of a conspiracy theory, but it makes you wonder what the real reason the US banned Huawei. Could they have been approached as a potential manufacturer and they said no? The timeline certainly works.

    Edit: BBC link

  • National poll finds majority of Canadians are opposed to military conscription if war breaks out.
  • Times have also changed. The information available on our fingertips is showing that things are not as black and white as they seem. Back during the world wars, mass propaganda convinced us to go fight for imperialist reasons (remember, we did not go to war with Nazis over their treatment of the Jews).

    It's a lot harder to convince a populace to go to war when it's not clear the opponent is entirely in the wrong.

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