It's entirely possible that Joe Biden could have done what you're talking about. But so far no one has found any sign he did so or even been able to credibly define what "thing" he might even be alleged to have done.
Perhaps, but had Sharon not suffered that stroke and had unilaterally withdrawn to lines he thought were tolerable in the territories the Israelis would be in a much stronger position today and wouldn't have near the same prospective long term problems.
Interestingly none of that is directly relevant to the utter crap-fest that the Israelis are facing at the moment though. That's entirely internally inflicted on themselves.
Typically when all sides agree on the particulars a given conversation ends. I'm unaware of any leftists who disagree that Hunter is a pathetic failson who traded on his old man's name.
It's inarguable that the Palestinians screwed themselves over with Barak. Sharon hit on the next best solution (unilateral withdrawal) until histories most consequential brain clot felled him. But ever since Sharon went down the right has gone nuts in Israel while the left, shattered and scattered by the failure of the peace movement, has been in disarray. That doesn't change the long term problem of the question of the territories.
But right now the Israeli's have a Trump, but competent, married to the Israeli right wing nuts and they're in charge. I'm worried about that far more for the short term.
I agree with everything you wrote here generally. I would like to say that if you view Freddie's piece here as talking to Democratic Party members writ large then your critiques are rock solid. But I think if you view Freddie's piece as being directed mainly at the world of the visible, vocal and active left that lies mostly beyond the left flank of the Democratic Party then his article makes a lot more sense (albeit in a peevish and irritable way which is kind of his writing voices standard tone when talking to his fellow travellers in the left-o-verse).
One can talk about Hunter all one wants but it's a short conversation:
Hunter is a pathetic failson who traded on his old man's name.
*universal agreement- conversation over*
It's when right wingers try to connect this anodyne, obvious and very boring point to Joe Bidens’ administration that the wheels fall off.
I suppose, but Jared Kushner is a simple and pretty ironclad accusation.
1. Jared served in Trumps administration
2 Jared accomplished many things under Trump that the Saudi's very much appreciated.
3. Some of those things were very much to the detriment of the interests of the USA.
4. Afterwards the Saudis gave Kushner a billion dollars via a sweetheart investment deal.
Contrast this to Hunter
1. Hunter never served in any administration Joe Biden was involved in to any degree.
2. As far as we can tell Hunter (and some other Biden family members) ripped off several foreign companies for hundreds of thousands of dollars by trading on his last name and they got nothing in return for their payout.
3. The interests of the USA were not impacted in any way by this behavior.
They seem completely different to me. Don't they seem completely different to you?
"it makes me paraphrase the old saw: If you didn’t like the Originalist Judiciary, wait until you get the Common Good Judiciary."
I'd retort that is socialcons didn't enjoy the backlash they got from Originalist Judiciary decisions wait until they get a snoot full of the backlash they get when the Common Good *cough* I mean 'Reasonableness' Judiciary hands down their decisions.
LIke, I can see your point about "unreasonableness" being a bit of an odd bird and clearly needing reforming or clarifying. But that point crumbles into ashes when one takes into account that the government trying to do this clarifying is one that was elected with a hairs breadth of a majority and is doing the clarification from an entirely one sided piece of legislation with no buy in from the other 49.9999% of the country.
I am beginning to feel some serious, bone deep, worry for Israel. Like, I've always had an intellectual apprehension for where the course of the country was headed in the long term without the two state solution but I'm getting genuinely worried for the country in the short term right now.
Eh, I don't get the vibe from reading him that he's one of those mindless socialists. I do think he's a true believer in marxism, has no delusions about how popular it is (not at all) and he's a damned good writer. He's sort of like a mirror image of certain libertarians and, for the record, he votes Democratic.
I think something that is getting lost in the discussion in these comments, and something that I think is relevant, is that I think Freddie is arguing primarily with actual further leftists in this article. He isn't expecting the great masses of us liberal, Democratic Party supporters to be aghast with AOC's behavior. But he is strongly questioning why she is still getting adulation from the genuine actual socialist/communist/anti-capitalist and, his favorite bugaboo, the identarian left.
I wouldn't say that; it's entirely possible he doesn't know because the strike was widely publicized while Biden getting the workers their days off barely made page 4.
Yeah there's something very contradictory about a chonk terrier. They don't quite understand why everything isn't working quite right but they know something is off.
What Freddie leaves out, and it's a very significant omission to Freddie's point, is that after the strike Bidens' people went out and jawboned the railways into giving their workers paid days off (which was the primary sticking point of the strike). So yes, the party blocked the workers from striking, but it also got the workers what they were threatening to strike over.
Well lego dude was being played with by a real kid and Will Farrell did show up. I don't think the middle bit really works but zoomed out that far you may have a point.
Sometimes I wonder if, post the triumph of aught era LGBT+ causes, 90% of internet arguments don't boil down to right wingers screaming "Effort matters" at left wingers who retort "Luck matters".
When I read your comment I eventually noticed a faint sound. I hunted around a bunch; it was vaguely classical sounding, definitely stringed and extremely faint. Like music was playing on my cell phone under a couch cushion or something. I finally found the source: a miniscule stringed instrument- possibly the worlds' smallest violin.
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It's entirely possible that Joe Biden could have done what you're talking about. But so far no one has found any sign he did so or even been able to credibly define what "thing" he might even be alleged to have done.
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What credible accusations would be referring to; or did you have a typo and meant to type "incredible accusations"?
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Perhaps, but had Sharon not suffered that stroke and had unilaterally withdrawn to lines he thought were tolerable in the territories the Israelis would be in a much stronger position today and wouldn't have near the same prospective long term problems.
Interestingly none of that is directly relevant to the utter crap-fest that the Israelis are facing at the moment though. That's entirely internally inflicted on themselves.
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Typically when all sides agree on the particulars a given conversation ends. I'm unaware of any leftists who disagree that Hunter is a pathetic failson who traded on his old man's name.
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It's inarguable that the Palestinians screwed themselves over with Barak. Sharon hit on the next best solution (unilateral withdrawal) until histories most consequential brain clot felled him. But ever since Sharon went down the right has gone nuts in Israel while the left, shattered and scattered by the failure of the peace movement, has been in disarray. That doesn't change the long term problem of the question of the territories.
But right now the Israeli's have a Trump, but competent, married to the Israeli right wing nuts and they're in charge. I'm worried about that far more for the short term.
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Uh, that is not the message the Hunter Biden obsessives want to get out tho.
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Or Oral Roberts? Or the My Pillow guy?? Or Bob?!
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I agree with everything you wrote here generally. I would like to say that if you view Freddie's piece here as talking to Democratic Party members writ large then your critiques are rock solid. But I think if you view Freddie's piece as being directed mainly at the world of the visible, vocal and active left that lies mostly beyond the left flank of the Democratic Party then his article makes a lot more sense (albeit in a peevish and irritable way which is kind of his writing voices standard tone when talking to his fellow travellers in the left-o-verse).
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Your second half of the paragraph answers the first in Freddies view (as best as I understand it). Marxism hasn't been correctly "tried".
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One can talk about Hunter all one wants but it's a short conversation:
Hunter is a pathetic failson who traded on his old man's name.
*universal agreement- conversation over*
It's when right wingers try to connect this anodyne, obvious and very boring point to Joe Bidens’ administration that the wheels fall off.
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I suppose, but Jared Kushner is a simple and pretty ironclad accusation.
1. Jared served in Trumps administration
2 Jared accomplished many things under Trump that the Saudi's very much appreciated.
3. Some of those things were very much to the detriment of the interests of the USA.
4. Afterwards the Saudis gave Kushner a billion dollars via a sweetheart investment deal.
Contrast this to Hunter
1. Hunter never served in any administration Joe Biden was involved in to any degree.
2. As far as we can tell Hunter (and some other Biden family members) ripped off several foreign companies for hundreds of thousands of dollars by trading on his last name and they got nothing in return for their payout.
3. The interests of the USA were not impacted in any way by this behavior.
They seem completely different to me. Don't they seem completely different to you?
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Why would Trump be relevant to this discussion?
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"it makes me paraphrase the old saw: If you didn’t like the Originalist Judiciary, wait until you get the Common Good Judiciary."
I'd retort that is socialcons didn't enjoy the backlash they got from Originalist Judiciary decisions wait until they get a snoot full of the backlash they get when the Common Good *cough* I mean 'Reasonableness' Judiciary hands down their decisions.
"
LIke, I can see your point about "unreasonableness" being a bit of an odd bird and clearly needing reforming or clarifying. But that point crumbles into ashes when one takes into account that the government trying to do this clarifying is one that was elected with a hairs breadth of a majority and is doing the clarification from an entirely one sided piece of legislation with no buy in from the other 49.9999% of the country.
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I am beginning to feel some serious, bone deep, worry for Israel. Like, I've always had an intellectual apprehension for where the course of the country was headed in the long term without the two state solution but I'm getting genuinely worried for the country in the short term right now.
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Good.
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Eh, I don't get the vibe from reading him that he's one of those mindless socialists. I do think he's a true believer in marxism, has no delusions about how popular it is (not at all) and he's a damned good writer. He's sort of like a mirror image of certain libertarians and, for the record, he votes Democratic.
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I think something that is getting lost in the discussion in these comments, and something that I think is relevant, is that I think Freddie is arguing primarily with actual further leftists in this article. He isn't expecting the great masses of us liberal, Democratic Party supporters to be aghast with AOC's behavior. But he is strongly questioning why she is still getting adulation from the genuine actual socialist/communist/anti-capitalist and, his favorite bugaboo, the identarian left.
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I wouldn't say that; it's entirely possible he doesn't know because the strike was widely publicized while Biden getting the workers their days off barely made page 4.
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Yeah there's something very contradictory about a chonk terrier. They don't quite understand why everything isn't working quite right but they know something is off.
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What Freddie leaves out, and it's a very significant omission to Freddie's point, is that after the strike Bidens' people went out and jawboned the railways into giving their workers paid days off (which was the primary sticking point of the strike). So yes, the party blocked the workers from striking, but it also got the workers what they were threatening to strike over.
On “DOJ Sues Texas Over Rio Grande Border Barriers”
You'd just have fat contented border terriers full of treats!
On “It’s Barbie’s World!”
Well lego dude was being played with by a real kid and Will Farrell did show up. I don't think the middle bit really works but zoomed out that far you may have a point.
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Sometimes I wonder if, post the triumph of aught era LGBT+ causes, 90% of internet arguments don't boil down to right wingers screaming "Effort matters" at left wingers who retort "Luck matters".
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When I read your comment I eventually noticed a faint sound. I hunted around a bunch; it was vaguely classical sounding, definitely stringed and extremely faint. Like music was playing on my cell phone under a couch cushion or something. I finally found the source: a miniscule stringed instrument- possibly the worlds' smallest violin.