Recent content by shionoro

Today I argued with someone on the internet who said that Clinton's "basket of deplorables" speech was a great speech and unduly used to criticise her, as it was actually appreciative about Trump voters and a call for empathy towards them. What I am saying is: The centrist who are left by now...

I do certainly think there was an expectation of Iran's resistance being way smaller than this.

This sure doesn't look like it is according to plan.

I do not really get what there is to envy about ICE. A lot of innocent people suffer or die due to ICE with no actual gain for anyone in the US. You are not looking at a reduction in crime, neither economical betterment, neither a better immigration process. You are just looking at violence and...

Of course countries differ, but if the latest elections are anything to go by, we can clearly see that republicans tend to stay home and democrats tend to vote. This is a good poll to go by for this...

It very much does. Someone who dislikes Biden might vote for him, someone who likes Trump might not. A motivated votership means more people are canvassing, more people are talking to their family and friends about politics and more people help witht hings like voter registration (or bother to...

These numbers do not accurately reflect what is happening. When it comes to being unpopular, the question "do you like/dislike" does not measure how intensely someone hates a politician. If a leftist says he does not like Biden, that is one thing. If even moderates hate Trump with a raging...

I find it more and more probable that Trump might actually get impeached. All the republican incumbents resigning, the insanely low poll numbers and generally just the rising chaos is something Republicans cannot ignore forever. And I doubt all of them are on board with cancelling the midterms...

Ramstein in Germany is, for example, a major US relay node for the drone warfare. Closing all german US airbases would destroy a core nerve center of US operations all over the world. Turkey just does not have that infrastructure, it would have to be built up from the ground. And it is a far...

What wonderful things is he doing? There were violations of the law when it comes to the BLM crackdowns, that is true. What i meant was that the policing of protests (policing as in all police actions, not just violent crackdowns) is a lawful, normal part of the job of the corresponding...

It is not about being good. Suppressing the BLM protests was lawful, it is their job to do that. You and I find it bad, but the cops who went there could be assured that the law protects what they do and also that their deployment has public support. That is law enforcement working as it is...

Because they would understand that backing Trump would mean a protracted fight against civillians in which they will have to kill lots of them for a president who now openly and obviously ignores the election. That would be a level of escalation, ignoring an election, that goes way beyond...

That is the big question. Personally, I do believe that if Trump would openly do what you outlined, military and police would not stop protestors from ousting him at the very least. And even the heavily skewed surpreme court would probably not back that. In addition to that, democratic states...

The easiest lever to me is shutting down all European US bases. They are pretty important for international US operations, especially in the middle east, and it does not harm any US civillians. This is something that has to upset a lot of Republican politicians and the military, too, making it...

Because if he ever gets back, I want him to see the error in his ways . . .