zarp86

When you draw the line of Liberal v Conservative so far to the right it includes George Bush, it ceases to lose all meaning.

That is all accurate and I don’t disagree with you. But the picture was of an invasion under Bush, not Clinton, so I responded as such.

The problem that I take is l:

Also all American politicians of “both” parties are liberals.

I’m wondering what your definition of Liberal is. Up until like 2020, it was Liberal v Conservative and when I look it up in the dictionary I get “Relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy, and free enterprise.”

But Liberal on Lemmy appears to be anything to the right of a theoretical Star Trek post scarcity utopia.

Ah yes, the famous liberal, George Bush.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shutdown

Disagree all you want, still wrong.

Well Jesus fuck this escalated quickly.

I feel like it’s like trying to calculate if the nukes in WW2 saved more lives than they cost.

I know you are just using this as an analogy, but if you are curious:

According to most estimates, the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan killed between 140,000 and 210,000 people, with the majority of deaths occurring on the day of the bombings, August 6th and 9th, 1945 respectively

And:

During World War II, 1,506,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured, many in anticipation of the estimated casualties resulting from the planned Allied invasion of Japan. By the end of the war, even accounting for medals lost, stolen, or wasted, nearly 500,000 remained. The total combined American military casualties of the seventy years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—did not exceed that number.

I think the horrors of nuclear weapons were at least responsible for ending the war quicker and saving lives that would have been lost during a ground invasion if Japan never surrendered.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Venture_Bros.

They publish it for notable shootings, not just school shootings.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/'No_Way_to_Prevent_This,'_Says_Only_Nation_Where_This_Regularly_Happens for a list.

Example of non school shooting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

Have you considered purple?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France

The joke here being that Elon is a Nazi who took over Twitter? Not sure really.

Lay eggs, mostly.

Progressives are the easiest vote to disenfranchise. All it takes is one wedge issue, and they are out.

And then you have the corollary on the other side - for some on the far right, all it takes is one wedge issue to drive them in. Gun control, abortion, etc. I think that’s why we have to have an uphill battle every four years.

20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”

It doesn’t imply that at all? Please feel free to let me know what this passage is really about.

Amazing.

Defense, Space and Cybersecurity account for 39% of Boeing’s revenue.

soft serve ice cream was partly invented by Maggie Thatcher, much-maligned ice queen of Britiain

This sounded so wild I looked it up.

Unfortunately, “most sources agree that the soft-serve industry arose in the United States, not Britain, and that it preceded Thatcher’s arrival at J. Lyons by about a decade. In 2008, Marian Burros offered a version of the conventional narrative in the Times.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-margaret-thatcher-soft-serve-myth

Ok? The DC can be 15 in both scenarios.

To be fair, NIPR sucks at everything.

Pendantic, but it was “is is,” not “it is.”

Contending his statement that “there’s nothing going on between us” had been truthful because he had no ongoing relationship with Lewinsky at the time he was questioned, Clinton said, "It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.