• Cethin
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        31 year ago

        He corrects everyone one the less/fewer thing. It’s kind of his thing.

        • @xor@infosec.pub
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          11 year ago

          the less/fewer distinction was made up by a king one day… because he felt like it…

          but, english is a living language and words mean what people intend them to mean, not what some dead guy mote thus be foretold, henceforth…

  • Kühe sind toll
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    111 year ago

    And even if they don’t provide Arms the IDF is still gonna commit genocide, but yeah I get your point.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    71 year ago

    remember kids, running countries and national military services is a very silly job and entails all kinds of funny business.

    Don’t do it.

    • @schnokobaer@lemmy.ml
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      151 year ago

      I mean, this would be a good point if Russia was invading Ukraine with US-supplied weapons. But with the way things are in reality, this is a fucking braindead contribution to the conversation.

    • @bier@feddit.nl
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      111 year ago

      Exactly they really really need some weapons and are being killed by the Russians every day.

    • @ElCanut@jlai.luOP
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      81 year ago

      I’ve done plenty of memes mocking Putin don’t worry, but unlike you I have enough brain capacity to think about two subjects

  • @TheControlled@lemmy.world
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    41 year ago

    I don’t understand why this conflict has been contorted to be America’s fault, or is everything America’s fault now?

    Cutting Israel off from arms would be like cutting of the UK from arms. Never, ever, fucking ever going to happen. Too strategic of alliance, too important politically (esp. during election year), and too vital geographically. I’m not saying I support torture and murder, but I don’t think “just stop selling weapons, bro” is a protest that will work at all. Very, very simplistic thing to say.

    Inb4 low effort “Yes.”

    • @ElCanut@jlai.luOP
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      21 year ago

      Because on top of furnishing unlimited weapons despite verified reports that Israel is killing civilians with them, the US are blocking any resolution of that conflict on an international level by using the UNO veto

      • @TheControlled@lemmy.world
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        Yeah, because they’re one of closest allies. They want our America’s and Israel wants theirs. America will keep scratching their back until they don’t need them anymore. That’s foreign politics in a nutshell. Still not America’s fault that Israel are being monstrous. Europe isn’t doing anything either besides kicking the can to America, who is somehow both the bogeyman and Dad of the world.

        USA is in a tight spot: Hamas are terrorists who committed a 9/11 against Israel. Israel retaliates by scorched earth bombing/airstrikes that kill thousands of civilians. America can condemn this, thereby condemning themselves for past actions/killing and really piss off a crucial ally (a buffer state for their own anti-terrorist schemes) or they can support them with one hand and do humanitarian work with the other. I don’t have the answers on what should be done but still none of this blaming-USA-for-all-of-it bullshit sits right at all.