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We had to spend the past couple of years listening about DEI shit when they then roll out the most white-bread, least-qualified bunch of chucklefucks you've ever seen.

Re-read my post. I said you're NOT a n00b.

Dude. You're not a n00b around here. You saw our suffering. That was an incredible throw/catch. When he launched that thing, I was sure the trajectory would take out of the back of the end zone.

Granted. But you *can* point and laugh at all the stupid motherfuckers who voted for Andreas Lubitz to be the pilot while you're going down.

I understand the desire to take the apathetic plunge for your short-term well-being, but I choose to relish watching the leopard feast instead.

He's a seedsmith, not a wordsmith, Jim.

Yep. This is a smash-and-grab era of American politics and a loyalty test. Absurdity will be no impediment.

https://bsky.app/profile/bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social/post/3laxaewyrws2k

This could also go in the Face-Eating Leopard thread. https://itep.org/a-distributional-analysis-of-donald-trumps-tax-plan-2024/

I'd totally forgotten about this episode. https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social/post/3lawom5popc2w

I'll sit here contently with a clear conscience when seedboy's mom is living in a bar ditch.

I won't question why you continue to patronize that disinformation hellscape and financially support the cocksucker who owns it, but I do ask that you copy/paste graphics and texts that aren't fully visible when you post them here so that the rest of us don't have to give it clicks to see what you're posting.

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This is the kind of fight I want to see the Dems show in Congress over the next several years. https://bsky.app/profile/ziibiing.com/post/3law66jmgjk2n

Yep. It's the bleeding black-hearted liberal way. No sympathy for anyone who sided with Trump or stood on the sidelines during the election. The last time he got into office, I really let it get to me. Not this time. This will either be a teachable moment for the whole country or it won't. Either way, it's all out of my hands anyway.

I think you meant to type "invoked," but yeah, that's pretty much where my thoughts were leading me in that hypothetical.

You are reading way too much in it. In no way, shape, or form did I condemn Israel in that post. I was just pointing out that Turkey is a NATO member. Hell, I'm not even sure I buy into Inka's speculation that Hamas would decamp to there, but I'm just going with the flow of the conversation. If Israel attacked Turkish soil (no matter the type of attack), Erdogan would be within his right to invoke Article 5. I didn't say that Israel has no right to go after Hamas. In fact, I've always stated they have every right to do so. And, again, you continue to misconstrue my positions, which have remained consistent throughout the entire war based on the US's official long-term foreign policy and international law: Support for Israeli defense and right to exist as a nation-state and condemnation of terrorism. Support for aid to Palestinian civilians, concern over their needless deaths, and recognition of their collective right to self-determination as a fully independent nation. Right now, I'm much less concerned about the whole affair, as there are much bigger concerns closer to home that actually affect our national security. I've honestly just about reached the point of just proclaiming a pox on both their houses.

Same.

It's a hypothetical to consider. That's all. I was thinking more along the lines of an Israeli Air Force strike on Turkish soil. Let's say that Erdogan does allow Hamas to set up shop there, and let's say that he also cuts off all diplomatic relations with them (as was reported earlier today). In response, Israel bombs the shit out of whatever base they have in Turkey. Okay, so now we have a NATO country whose leader was already pissed off at Israel, and now he invokes Article 5, asking for NATO assistance. Who answers the call of Rohan Turkey? No one? I mean, yeah, it's possible, but it might piss off one of the members enough. On the other hand, let's say no one does. What now? Does Erdogan then foolishly decide to leave the alliance? Do we still keep our base in Irbil? You honestly don't think that's a scenario to consider while idly perusing various threads on Surly? Because, to me, that's exactly the type of mental masturbation that happens all over this site.

I just got curious and googled something like "How many people have long covid?" or some such. I had no idea if it was the correct estimate or not. Those three articles I cited were among the top returns. It was simply a fact check. Past tense, present tense can get murky for long-term diseases. Some might not even recognize they have it, which is good in the sense that it's not so debilitating. Maybe they just have some nagging shit. I don't know the experience, since I've never caught Covid yet (knock on wood). In the case of my mom, she was never the same after she caught Covid (though it could also be chalked up to grieving over my father, who died from it). Regardless, she had a notable decline in cognitive function immediately following the event. She may or may not have had long Covid. It doesn't matter much because the cancer she caught a year or so later did her in any way. All I can say is that it suddenly became much more difficult to hold a conversation with her; she became easily confused; she started having weird heart stuff with her pacemaker going off a bunch; and the doctor doing a number of tests to just diagnose her with "broken heart syndrome." It could've simply been depression. Who knows? I'm just not down with the dug-in assholes who act like pricks and minimize all things Covid, which I'm definitely NOT accusing you of. I just get tired of the same shit getting tossed around by the same internet idjits, whom I suspect use that attitude as a self-defense mechanism. Deep down, they know it was a serious disease. They just don't want to admit their culpability in fanning the flames of an epidemic that killed 1.2 million fellow Americans.

https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/as-recommendations-for-isolation-end-how-common-is-long-covid/ https://time.com/6999274/long-covid-risk-2024/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/health/long-covid-world.html

It'd be quite the conundrum to potentially have to Article 5 Israel over an attack on Turkish soil.