mkultrawide

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The first poster is just looking for something in Chapo to be mad at and didn't listen to what was being said.

What Derek said was basically "The Houthi's are the government of North Yemen". Will brought up that North Yemen is where most of the people live, which Derek confirmed/agreed with, but mentioned that they don't control Aden (which they don't). He was saying this in the context of something he talks about more a little later, which is that the Yemeni civil war has been frozen for a few years, negotiations have mostly not gone anywhere, and that it's hard to say whether or not a united Yemen as we knew it pre-civil war will even exist going forward.

As to the second point, that user either doesn't understand sarcasm or wasn't listening. Derek makes a comment in a clearly sarcastic tone that "Yemen experts" in Western media that were saying "The Houthi's aren't doing this because of Gaza, they will keep doing it, etc" and then responds to his own sarcastic comment by saying that they weren't doing it before and they stopped during the ceasefire, so you might as well try another one anyways and call their bluff.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

Is Bukele really that popular, or are there some shenanigans going on here? Hard to look at the results and not think that the West would be calling this a sham election if it was a leader they didn't like. I frankly don't know enough about him or the situation in El Salvador.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Gonna be on my deathbed telling my grandchildren that I posted "Genocide Joe" on an obscure leftist website before anyone else, and they are going to say "Sure grampa whatever you say".

[–] [email protected] 62 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Can't wait to frag my officer when I get conscripted into a state militia called something like "Abbott's Anti-Woke Warriors".

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The investigation is only covering up to 2020, so, so just Obama and Trump apparently. I'm sure things haven't changed under Biden, though.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Biden could activate the entire Texas National Guard and send them to somewhere near Yemen and Syria, or just make them sit around in Djibouti or something.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Biden could do something very funny and have Abbott arrested for treason for helping "invaders" cross state lines.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Damn it's crazy how housing was cheap when governments were building public housing, and then stopped being cheap when they stopped. I wonder what's up with that?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago

brb buying oil futures

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

How do you talk to this voter

https://twitter.com/umichvoter/status/1749199308610556129

https://nitter.net/umichvoter/status/1749199308610556129?

"Oh, you don't want to vote for Joe Biden because of his support for Israel. Well, have you considered how much worse Trump will be for Gaza? Right now, Joe Biden is helping Israel tie Palestinians to train tracks, but he's telling Bibi that the trains have to go the speed limit when they run over the Palestinians, plus a small number of the train workers must get 4 sick days a year. Under Trump, the trains would be going dangerously over the speed limit and those small number of train workers wouldn't be getting 4 sick days. Have you thought about that, hmm?!"

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