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.

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.

Countdown to orientalist joke…

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

Hey! You can’t shut down the bum fights! It employs literally dozens of people!

You forgot about the vision quest to the observatory in the desert.

“Hey Jamie, can you pull up the slideshow with the clips of Iranian leaders?”

I never looked into it… but now I’m wondering if there are POV style vehicles that you legally aren’t allowed to get registered at the DMV?

Could there be a federal regulation or 50 states worth of state regulation that prohibits the import, sale, and registration of certain makes/models of vehicles?

Let this be a movie about the Aussie who failed so hard at breakdancing during the Olympics that the Olympics cut it out of the next games.

I made fairly good grades in school and everybody thought I would do well in college and life.

I’m a college dropout who lives in a house that is falling apart, doesn’t have working showers or hot water, and make juuuussstt about 1000 bucks a month.

If you think our barracks or on post housing are bad, wait until you see the inside of Ft. Leavenworth.

Also, kill the CO’s all you want, there’s literally an army full of LT’s waiting for their chance to get an extra shiny bar and sit in the big chair.

Comrade Helmet we present you with, , posthumously for service in keeping comrade InfamousBLT’s brains where they belong.

Ah… makes sense. My brain defaulted to “you’ve got a set of regulars with kids that make it to aid point” that’d you’d be able to ask directly.

The “gift registry” mentioned in another comment reminds me of the Secret Santa and Angel Tree events that get set up locally during December. Is there anything similar where you’re at?

A family goes to a place setting up a Secret Santa/Angel Tree (sometimes there some filtering criteria). Fills out a card with needs/wants, kids gender and age, maybe something from the kid about their likes/dislikes. Organizer keeps a master list with contact information private, transfers information to paper ornaments hung on Christmas trees or taped to windows for customers/employees to sign up to be responsible for. There’s a deadline for when the stuff is supposed to be dropped off well before the distribution is planned, giving the organizing place time to do last minute “we’ll just send out employees/managers to be responsible” if somebody picks a kid and never shows back up.

The families and the donator never meet, everything is done with the organizer being a buffer for privacy, the organizer checks the unwrapped and new gifts and when everything is ready the families are contacted or there is a window for the families to check back with the organizer for pickups.

Where I’m at, its the local bank branches, grocery store, and churches that run them.

I wonder if reaching out to other places in the community, they’d be willing to share some of the work of getting the kids taken care of with a similar event.

May, Mao will shine on you forever if you never fall so low as to upbear again.

Is this military superiority?