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Snekposter said:
One of Afghanistan's conditions was that the trial was going to be conducted under Islamic sharia law, not US common law. And we all know what sharia law says about killing those who aren't under Islam's rule, either as Muslims or dhimmis paying the jizya tax. There was a non-zero chance he walks away scot-free and looking like a hero to the Muslim world.

Do what? Get caught? Put out news articles?
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Potatoherder said:
Hindsight being 20/20 it's better than the tens of thousands of soldiers lives irreparably damaged and $2 trillion wasted. Maybe they'd have gone after the Saudis if he walked free. The people who actually funded the attacks.
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I heard it was because bush wanted to go to war and deliberately kept telling the taliban to hand him over, their response was that they were willing to but asked for some proof so that their justice minister or smth along that title could formally indict bin laden
 
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LightDragonman1 said:
Check out how some are responding to Biden's low approval ratings and the like.

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That's how it's been the last two years. The unwashed plebs are misinterpreting their own opinions.

Even Bloomberg yesterday mentioned that the jobs report doesn't show that people are having to work two jobs just to keep up with inflation.
LurkTrawl said:
Well sure, but you can't bullshit your way out of a depression any more than a person/group/organization can bullshit their way out of a natural disaster.
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We had a recession last year (two consecutive quarters of negative GDP), and that fact has been successfully memory-holed thanks to them changing the definition of "recession" in response.

And them trying to WhatAboutTrump their way out of a major Chinese incursion into CONUS airspace is just insulting and pathetic.
 
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Meat Target said:
We had a recession last year (two consecutive quarters of negative GDP), and that fact has been successfully memory-holed thanks to them changing the definition of "recession" in response.

And them trying to WhatAboutTrump their way out of a major Chinese incursion into CONUS airspace is just insulting and pathetic.
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I think there's a general misunderstanding, or perhaps conflation, of the concepts of "running out of road", and "memory-holing".

Yes, you can successfully memory-hole a lot of things. The actual impact of them, and the impacts that will come if the problem being memory-holed is ignored, however, cannot be bullshitted. You can't bullshit $5 a gallon for gas being ackshually $3 a gallon. Five dollars will continue to be five dollars in that example. I'm saying that yes, they can continue to ignore these problems and memory-hole them, they cannot through sheer force of media bullshittery reverse the underlying issue they're bullshitting about, and at some point the issue will have grown to such proportions that bullshit will fail.

Like, you can bullshit that a hurricane that is actually a category 5 is a cat 1 and won't cause much damage. The hurricane is still a category 5, and when it hits, no amount of bullshitting is going to alleviate the havoc and carnage it making landfall will cause.
 
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AnotherPleb said:
Hillary's 'politely' telling them that the spot for First Female President belongs to her and her alone, and that the cocksucker better know her place if she wants to get back to her cozy seat in California.

I never said their plan was a good one.
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As i said before, Hillary Clinton is objectively more marketable than Kamela Harris. Even WITH all the progressive Black power astroturfing. If Hillary is saying to take a step back, you better listen.
 
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The Last Stand said:
As i said before, Hillary Clinton is objectively more marketable than Kamela Harris. Even WITH all the progressive Black power astroturfing. If Hillary is saying to take a step back, you better listen.
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Malodorous Merkin said:
Hillary Clinton is utterly irrelevant.
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The Last Stand said:
So irrelevant that an article is talking about her. In that case, leave her alone.
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Malodorous Merkin said:
Hillary Clinton has been alone and irrelevant ever since Trump broke her spine and left her on the side of the road and politically powerless back in 2016.
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Ladies ladies! Please, don't fight! You are both right!

Hillary is irrelevant for the most part but she is infinitely more marketable than Kamala.
 
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Trade deficit increasing is largely due to lack of drilling our own energy like 4 years ago, on top of local manufacturing being wrecked because of Chyna Virus. Inflation has made so much more expensive people are skirting where they can in the production line because they can't raise their prices too much for fear of just losing the customer, which means a boon for Chyna to make the cheap knock offs or tools. Either pay yourself less, which is already happening due to inflation, or cut costs with inferior goods that will just bite you in the ass down the line.

It's such a shit time, you can't even use the inflation to pay off your debt faster because foodstuffs have shot up so much your inflated dollar means nothing.
 
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LurkTrawl said:
I think there's a general misunderstanding, or perhaps conflation, of the concepts of "running out of road", and "memory-holing".

Yes, you can successfully memory-hole a lot of things. The actual impact of them, and the impacts that will come if the problem being memory-holed is ignored, however, cannot be bullshitted. You can't bullshit $5 a gallon for gas being ackshually $3 a gallon. Five dollars will continue to be five dollars in that example. I'm saying that yes, they can continue to ignore these problems and memory-hole them, they cannot through sheer force of media bullshittery reverse the underlying issue they're bullshitting about, and at some point the issue will have grown to such proportions that bullshit will fail.

Like, you can bullshit that a hurricane that is actually a category 5 is a cat 1 and won't cause much damage. The hurricane is still a category 5, and when it hits, no amount of bullshitting is going to alleviate the havoc and carnage it making landfall will cause.
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Sure, you can't memory hole and bullshit your way out of inevitable consequences. But can you get people to give a shit enough to do something?
I mean as long as the lights are running people aren't going to suddenly take up arms against they only system they know
 
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NyQuilninja said:
Sure, you can't memory hole and bullshit your way out of inevitable consequences. But can you get people to give a shit enough to do something?
I mean as long as the lights are running people aren't going to suddenly take up arms against they only system they know
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Which one of these two scenarios do you honestly see happening first?

> They stop bullshitting and start working towards unfucking the problems with shipping, energy, and the economy
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> They continue bullshitting until the proverbial "lights stop running" and they flee to NZ or wherever-the-fuck and leave the american people holding the bag

I know which one I'm betting on and it ain't the option that would require these disgusting freaks called politicians to be reasonable.
 
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