There are 16 hospitals in Rhode Island. If you put 66 hospitals in Rhode Island you would need to get them to treat being a Red Sox fan to generate enough traffic
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There are 16 hospitals in Rhode Island. If you put 66 hospitals in Rhode Island you would need to get them to treat being a Red Sox fan to generate enough traffic
Like, there are 15 hospitals in Vermont. It would probably be a poor allocation of resources for there to be 65 hospitals in Vermont.
That’s true but I really am talking about hospitals not mobile clinics
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I like the spirit but there are multiple states where this would more than triple the number of hospitals which is maybe a little overkill
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yeah “giving a shit about real problems that are actually occurring” being made into a political liability is just an extraordinarily grim development. you’re incentivized to avoid trying to actually address real things because there’s no upside at all politically.
It's already a part time job just to pick them up
Yaaaay we’re winning guys we’re winning more losses *outside of* Pokrovsk the US support is definitely done for now
They’re winning as in they’re accomplished any of their stated war aims? 1. Force Ukraine to swear off NATO membership (no) 2. Seize Kyiv (lol, no) 3. Annex all of Donetsk and Luhansk (no) 4. Keep NATO off it’s borders (somehow no in an unexpected way) So how?
Where the efforts so far have included a pittance from the US and Russia sinking its military supremacy into this, why is your solution that the US should cease its pittance and not that Russia should cease an effort that has eliminated its status as a meaningful global power?
Weird how the country doing a heckin imperial military invasion is the only one who can do anything that works but nothing that could stop it could work. Funny that
Well yeah, you would
Voter enfranchisement means voters get to vote. It doesn’t mean leaders have to choose remaining elected over leading when in office, knowing they may lose their seat for it
In 1957 Wallace was much more pro-civil rights. After losing badly he became much more racist and subsequently won as Governor. That’s the heel turn I mean
Yeah and Germany just abandoned a plan to secure western Ukraine to free up more manpower for them. We can be doing a lot more
I take the word of the overwhelming mass of Kosovars and Bosnians on it
George Wallace was faced with this situation in 1957 when he ran for office and got his shit kicked in Alabama while being a moderate integrationist. His subsequent heel turn and the history of that suggests that the answer is not “give in to the mob”
Yea it can. We just need to step it way the fuck up. I can agree that at current levels of support we’re just splitting the baby and that’s almost worse than nothing. We should step it wayyyyy up.
That is not what you said. What you said was “I've yet to see any evidence US involvement has ever improved a situation except perhaps in the war against ISIS”. Would you like me to provide an image of you saying that, exactly and without edits?
In this case I am much more satisfied that we have an exit strategy and concrete goals, which was the missing issue in Afghanistan. We get Russia to leave Ukraine and we bring it into NATO. That’s the exit strategy.
And the fact that Stalin was fucking furious at the US for not opening a 2nd front in a meaningful way until 1944 as evidenced by the Tehran conference suggests that the Soviets also believe that the US mattered there
You asked where US involvement helped a situation not where US involvement helped a situation more than involvement from anyone else
Probably not Afghanistan. We got attacked directly that wasn’t support an ally. We *were* the ally NATO was supporting. I’d wish I had the foresight to oppose it but just by the numbers it’d be hubris to say I would have at the time. Iraq definitely yes. The premise was bullshit.
Stopping further massacres of civilians in occupied Ukrainian territory by Russia
Ending the Bosnian genocide
Ending the Holocaust
The actual analogy re: Iraq here would be gulf war I and yea if you think Iraq gets to murder anyone it wants in the region and no one but the particular people they’re coming for that time should try to stop them, that would seem pretty unfair to stop them. Sadly it wasn’t. Too bad for you.
Justice is not pulling the knife out after you have already stabbed someone
Yes if you bow your head solemnly and say there is no difference between the Kuomintang and doing the literal rape of Nanking you to get to sound very smart and get laid in college. Good job. Bravo
You don’t want a world where the US is just you just want a world where it isn’t involved until after we can confirm that mass death is happening. When it’s happened already
But you think we shouldn’t actively help Syria restore its sovereign borders even if they ask us to? We should just stay out of that?
And to deal with that you think we should just become neutral? For shame.
Listen we really fucked over the indigenous people of Appalachia so we can’t go helping the Chinese fight Japan
This is just a baby’s view of foreign policy where other countries do things for you because you “declare” and “recognize” and say that this or that is bad as if they should give a solitary shit what you “recognize” when you’ll do nothing about it
You think if we just stop that’s remotely appropriate? We’re allowed to remain neutral in the face of injustice?
Help? No god no we couldn’t do that but the president should go on TV and tell Bibi he’s been a very naughty boy and we wish he wouldn’t be
Great lot of good your desires for “recognition” or its refusal do when a state’s leader may feel free to wipe their behind with the transcript of it on television and suffer no consequences
There’s an ICC warrant out for Bibi on war crimes charges but you haven’t found the IDF document that says “Operation genocide” on it so what’s your problem there?
For the Syrians, no one should help them retake the Golan they should just perform insurgency there. Insurgency doomed to fail because they’re fighting a nuclear state but yeah no one else should lift a finger if we take you at your word
Apparently only if it’s one of those genocides where they kill everyone
What’s your problem with that given accomplished facts on the ground and all?
There are mass graves of butchered civilians they are still digging up
Yeah but it would be occupation not war so that’s not our problem
Seriously you can’t be an anti imperialist and argue that the solution to imperialism is to roll the fuck over if you get invaded because no one should help you
-Ariel Sharon, 1983
Does the fact that this didn’t happen despite such strong reasons suggest that your estimations of what Putin perceives as benefits might be wrong?
These seem like some conclusions you’ve come to
Yes that’s true the conflict would have ended much quicker if the west hadn’t helped Ukraine. When you slit someone’s throat they bleed out quickly but if someone comes to their aid you might fail and be fighting them a while
Have you considered for a moment that they don’t feasibly exist?
I thought you couldn’t read minds
You felt comfortable predicting whether Xi Jinping would accept various American actions just a bit ok clearly you’re adept at reading at least some minds. Just not this particular one? That brain has a few too many wrinkles for you to penetrate?
No conclusions at all? At any level of certainty whatsoever? Really? You’re deep into the topic enough to have strong opinions on the Ukrainian language law and the foreign policy of Zelenskyy but have no conclusions on whether Russia would accept an independent Ukraine?
The policy did not ban kids from speaking Russian inside a school. It was not designed to exterminate the Russian language. So no, it would not have. While the Russian genocide in Ukraine does
Ok so you were asked what you think, same as what you know you think, but you were not asked what you know, which is not what you know you think.
When someone says they think there’s a storm coming do you hear “I know there’s a storm coming”
To the extent you’re telling the truth about that, yes that’s bad and were this the official policy of the US government in order to exterminate the Spanish language in America it would be a genocide justifying violence if necessary to stop it
You have to be extraordinarily arrogant to say something like that
Before the 2022 invasion yes. Prior to that there was merely a Russian military backed separatist conflict where Russian soldiers were fighting out of Russian uniform. So, when was there peace?
I think maybe getting invaded prevented that
It said kids couldn’t talk to each other in Russian? Pavel asks Sasha to the dance in Russian instead of Ukrainian and the teacher has to punish them for it? Are you sure the thing you quoted says that?
No, it isn’t. Because it isn’t an effort to eliminate a linguistic or cultural group.
Now do I think it’s a bad idea? Sure! Language accessibility is important. But making government employees standardize language to speak to the public in their job duties is a bad policy not a linguistic genocide
Just speed running RT talking points from 5 years ago
If a kid talks to his friend in French in British Columbia it isn’t genocidal that his teacher speaks to him in English. You’re just making shit up
Yeah “you have to speak this language when doing your job in public administration” is stuff that many countries do. It prevents becoming Austria-Hungary. That’s not what “public spaces” means. You can go to a town square and talk to your friend in Russian. You can speak Russian in schools
They are still digging up mass graves of Ukrainian civilians in occupied territory to this day
You didn’t say front lines you said safe locations
No they weren’t and the article doesn’t say they were. You didn’t read this you just googled it and posted the first link that came up, which we can know because it would take more time to read than than the time it took you to reply with it
“Safe locations” my dude they’re bombing the country it’s not safe
The goal is what makes a thing a genocide this is just genocide promotion
If your argument is that US service members will refuse to fight because the US is hypocritical, this is extremely not evidenced. The US military is not without manpower to fight in the strait of Formosa due to morale issues.
No they weren’t what level of the Poles are persecuting those poor ethnic Germans in Silesia propaganda are you on brother
Watch he’s gonna say that you mean “despite best efforts” as in Israel trying not to destroy homes rather than Israel trying to hide that they’re doing it.
You’re not gonna “but what about” here and have a good time with it yes America does lots of shitty and negligent things all over the world just like it would be doing if it abandoned Taiwan. Which we shouldn’t do.
Oh we should but you’re talking about Taiwan right now so stay on topic.
Just as the British slave patrols attacked foreign nationals without physically entering those countries
Yes and we can do that without a single American entering China.
Yeah no 2 things that are not the same thing are equivalent things. Just like the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust are not equivalent because one happened in Armenia and the other did not, so they aren’t equivalent. But, they’re both exterminatory genocide. Just like this is.
Once the rockets are up…
No they wouldn’t because that’s fucking nonsense. They would not be justified in lying
Heck you could do that without a single person even entering PRC airspace! We have air-launched standoff munitions! Not one American or Taiwanese service member needs to invade China. Glad this guy agrees with that
As long as Taiwan just bombs the ever loving piss out of China with American help without setting foot across the strait of Formosa this guy is 100% cool with us helping awesome. Hell yeah.
Do you think it would have been ok for Britain to invade the U.S. to stop slavery?
We don’t necessarily need to invade sometimes just attacking works. You don’t need to put the marines in Shanghai to stop China from invading Taiwan. You can accomplish it with a lot less
If you make them not Ukrainian and ban expressions of being Ukrainian you have, in fact, exterminated Ukrainians. There would no longer be Ukrainians.
Imo the British naval slave patrols were fine even though slave catchers weren’t, y’know, killing everyone on purpose. Somehow I think violently stopping them was still a good idea!
Ok so it’s only the genocides that involve killing everyone that you think merit invasion to be clear. Not exterminating a people as a people, just the killing ones. Just so we understand
With Ukraine? It can demonstrably work. With Taiwan? There’s many, many good reasons to think it can work. If we could get Pakistan, India (gfl given Pakistan), and the former Soviet republics in Central Asia to back this a la the first gulf war? I’d say do it
That is exterminating a people. Exterminating a people can be done without necessarily killing all members. And no I don’t think it merits it because I don’t think it would work, for geography and a lack of willing allies. If it would work? Absolutely yes. We either mean never again or we don’t.
Were they, perhaps, an act of genocide?
The thing you are describing is genocide. You are doing the literal, word for word justification used by people setting up Indian boarding schools in the American and Canadian west. That was genocidal. It is genocidal just like this is genocidal
That’s a non-sequiter! Should we have supplied Britain during the Battle of Britain yes or no?
We sent them guns because they were fighting an imperial dictatorship that wanted to dominate, subjugate, and tyrannize an ally of the United States. We should do that where we can.
Britain was absolutely not going to be exterminated “as a people”. It would have been very bad for the British empire to make peace, but the island itself wasn’t something there’s evidence Hitler was dead set on occupying permanently. More like Vichy France. It was still good we sent them guns
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What was the purpose of sending planes and guns to Britain in 1941 except to perpetuate a war?