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Ukraine legacy is on display as the Administration refuses to level with Congress and the American public about its strategy to win the war.

I guess nobody really cares to keep up the act that the USA had nothing to do with instigating this war and keeping it going all these years anymore, huh?

Damn... reality needs to stop making my Uncle Ted right about things...

Probably going to need to search for communities that prioritize privacy and use crypto currencies to keep their transactions private instead of searching for crypto currency communities directly.

Me: "Every time your machine stops my self checkout transaction because I moved my shopping bag too close to the cameras I will 'forget' to pay for one item."

Company:

Me:

:bender-rodriguez: "I don't like it, but I can respect it."

They aren't expected to "eat" healthier, they are expected to invest in healthier food crops. See... when you destroy crops, the supply drops relative to the demand. The price of the crop to the customers increases and it becomes more profitable and investors will invest in these profitable crops.

On this point, conservatives believe that they're bring protected by the media/police/government because they don't want to be accused of racism or because of some great replacement bs

My counter to this would be something along the lines of:

"So, you're telling me that whenever you see a news article or watch some news segment about somebody being arrested for rape, accused of rape, or that a group of people living somewhere have a higher than average instance of reported rape... nobody talking about this mentions the immigration status or nation of origin or culture or religion of the accused rapist? Never? Not once? That's super weird because you're (the person I'm talking at in this hypothetical) specifically adding illegal immigrant/Arab/Muslim/Mideastern/Kenyan/etc qualifiers to this conversation. So where did you get those qualifiers from that you are using in this conversation?"

These arguments from your friend, even though they are using statistics, are appeals to emotion more than anything else. Probably don't need to worry about trying to found counter statistics to their claims.

I'd probably be using more pointedly shitty counter questions.

X% of rapes are by muslims when they are only Y% of the population

Yeah, rape is bad though. Does it matter if the assailant is an immigrant, Arab, Muslim or your non-immigrant neighbor? Does being an immigrant/Arab/Muslim make the sexual assault ... worse somehow?

Why are all the immigrants men? We should ban the male refugees from these places, but as a good pro-refugee progressive we should allow the women and children in because they aren’t a problem.

So, because some members of a group did a SA, all members of that group should be mass punished? Men (who haven't SA's anybody) forcibly separated from wives, children pulled from one of their parents, leaving a single parent to try to raise their kids as well as get a full time job to pay bills? What even would the cutoff be? What age would a boy be deemed "a threat of doing SA" and be deported or denied travel with their families to a new home... nine? ... ten? ... twelve years old? This doesn't make any sense to me.

"Not enough orcs!" ~ Liberall1399SlavaUkrania comment from rottentomatoes dot com.

I mean, after First Stabbing, why not Second Stabbing?