If that's the case, I really doubt that the one decent guy you knew is still a decent guy if he's still a CO.

Not just that, but also by a wider social/political culture. Politicians and higher-up regulators didn't give a shit about this stuff until ordinary people started rioting and burning down police stations. Its not like political elites or higher-up legal figures really tried to resist the police unions in previous times. They're all part of the same package.

I think the situations are totally different. Ukraine has had a stable, well-defined country and government for ~100 years now, and I think an ethnic identity going a long time before that. Even through the break-up of the USSR. And the current war is an external country invading your own sovereign country.

By contrast, Afghanistan has been in a state of civil war since 1979 - 40 years of war, chaos, shifting sides, imperial interventions, often with no real "good side" to root for or support. At a certain point people lose all hope and just try to get the hell out of the way. Unlike Ukraine, there was no highly legitimate and popular government to rally behind in Afghanistan and hasn't been for a long time. And if the Ukraine-Russia war goes on for a long time, Ukraine might well go that way too, if the government degenerates and new sides pop up, etc.

read this and get back to me: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/09/13/the-other-afghan-women

What a ridiculous statement. "The people of Afghanistan" have not had a legitimate way to chose their leaders in decades and decades. Its been constant war and intervention by global superpowers. The US-backed "government" that collapsed in 2019 was a taped-together shitshow of corrupt aristocrats, drug traffickers, and war criminals that ordinary people never had much of a say in. No surprise it collapsed almost immediately. And no fault of the Afghan people - what were they supposed to do? If they tried to reform or resist gov't corruption, they'd be labelled as Taliban and shot. No choice except to keep your head down and try to stay as far away from politics as possible.

Almost 1000 people died in Texas during Winter Storm Uri, so....not quite

Yes, that's what I'm telling you.

This post requires some positive vibes, such as opening the article and reading in the first line that this is about a speech made by the President of Honduras, where she is inaugurating new environmental protections to stem and reverse the deforestation of the previous ten years.

The first line of the article:

>Honduras lost 10% of its forests between 2010 and 2021, denounced Friday President Xiomara Castro, while inaugurating an environmental protection program.

More important context is that prior to the election of Castro, Honduras was run by an authoritarian right-wing government that was brought into power by a coup in 2009.

So yes, hopefully things will now change.

When your people are facing a slow genocide by starvation, I'll take whatever help I can get.

When North Korea is backing up a good cause in opposition to you, you might want to reconsider what you're fighting for.

If that's their desire, they should stop destroying countries and stoking civil wars around important shipping lanes. In this case the main purpose of the US military has been to help blockade Yemen while Saudi Arabia and the UAE try to bomb it into submission.

I disagree - in this case Iran is helping defend against Saudi/Emirati aggression against Yemen. The more weapons the Houthis get to fight the Saudis and Emiratis, the better I say.

correct and i'm sure your great grandpa would agree

do you disagree with the logic? i agree, it is good logic

I agree, so maybe come up with some actual good jokes instead of the laziest puns you can think of

No, I have little interest in rewatching any of my old cartoons. However a couple years ago I watched Avatar Last Airbender for the first time and thought it was absolutely fantastic. Makes its popularity when I was a kid make a lot more sense