There have been U S. officials that confirmed this has happened though.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/18/politics/blinken-confirms-pause-heavy-bombs-israel/index.html

I’m not even arguing that it’s effective, just that it happened.

This is a sync bug. If you open the post and then click the link, it should open in full res instead of expanding the thumbnail (I’m using sync)

But Biden has slowed weapon shipments to Israel, it’s the only thing he can (legally, not politically) do since the aid is mandated by law and his executive power doesn’t extend to negating laws.

Maybe if he forgets half the shit he’s said that directly contradicts the other half, and doesn’t try to nuke a hurricane over Mexico.

Yestsin won with 58 and 54 percent of the vote in his two elections, hardly a ‘landslide’:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Russian_presidential_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Russian_presidential_election

Putin’s lowest was 53, in his first election. The latest was 88%, with most of the others being in the 70% range.

Historically though, Russians, have a way of guaranteeing results like that. Yeltsin is kind of a low percentage outlier by comparison:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937_Soviet_Union_legislative_electionr

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

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Soviet_Union_legislative_election

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1196979929/in-unsurprising-result-putin-is-reelected

Ukraine feeds a lot of the world, and it’s in everyone’s best interest that it keeps doing that.

I’m pretty sure Yeltsin is the reason Russia has Putin.

Yeltsin oversaw the dissolution of the ussr and brought capitalism to Russia, of course the west wanted him to be president of Russia. All he did was ask Bill for favors on the world stage (and got most of what he asked for).

This is like the exact opposite of a zen koan. Reading it helps you find confusion.

He’d try to grift a sov cit, no way he’d take the time to actually learn anything though.

It’s like hallucinations from an LLM that was trained on lawyer infomercials from the 90’s

We’ve made our bed, on that I agree, but I cant help but feel that it would be nice if we didn’t take everything else down with us.

The beard dye and tactical office chair market will never recover.

0. Flush

1. shamble eldrichly forward

2. lift the seat

3. shamble eldrichly backwards

4. submerse the entirety of your ass in the bowl

5. Flush (Repeat as needed)

This history of the opinion pieces is an interesting one. I just wanted to point those two facts out to anyone who may have missed that in the headline.

More info if you’re interested:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/insider/opinion-op-ed-explainer.html

The Opinion section operates editorially independently from the rest of the newspaper. It is the section’s unique mission both to be the voice of The Times, and to challenge it. The Op-Ed pages were born, in part, because of the closing of New York’s top conservative newspaper, The New York Herald Tribune. They were created to be opposite the editorial pages — and not just physically.

“The purpose of the Op. Ed. page is neither to reinforce nor to counterbalance The Times’s own editorial position,” the introduction to the newly created opinion pages stated in 1970. “The objective is rather to afford greater opportunity for exploration of issues and presentation of new insights and new ideas by writers and thinkers who have no institutional connection with The Times and whose views will very frequently be completely divergent from our own.”

Just to highlight that last bit: The opinions are frequently chosen to be completely divergent from those held by the NYT staff.

Well, it’s an opinion piece, and a guest writing it, so there’s that.

Then there’s Alaska, which people forget

It’s because practically no one lives there.

The Canadians get it. There’s only three dots in that Texas route because there’s only three places along the route worth being, the start, San Antonio (tacos), and the end.

😬

You have to find the altar all these people are being sacrificed on only to discover the entire city is an altar. Very Full Metal Alchemist.