ralphio

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[–] ralphio 0 points 3 months ago

I don't see a ton of value to a Fox and NBC debate. ABC and even CNN at this point are considerably less biased.

[–] ralphio 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I remember this one. The "intelligence dossier" was just the same claims Israel was making publicly without additional evidence. Now maybe it's all true, but clearly most media outlets implied there was stronger evidence than actually existed. UK's Channel 4 was the exception.

Original Channel 4 video which shows the actual dossier which is just a list of the people Israel was accusing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG2yeF_4sg

[–] ralphio 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Kind of an interesting conundrum. What comes out in the trial will likely look bad on the US, mainly the tourture, but the plea deal could be a liability for the current admin, since they'd be accused of being soft on terrorism.

ETA: Plus more could come out about the security failures of 9/11 which could be pretty embarrassing to the US.

[–] ralphio 2 points 3 months ago

Not sure about Canada specifically, maybe you could shed some light, but the US president has a lot more power than in a typical parlimentary system. This is typically why it's seen as essential that they are voted in directly. Would the US be better under a parlimentary system? Very valid debate.

[–] ralphio 75 points 3 months ago (5 children)

TBH don't know which one would have been more embarressing for the Iranians. That the air defenses would have let an airstrike in Tehran or that they let the Israelis plant a bomb in a secured compound. Honestly I think this is worse for them.

[–] ralphio 4 points 3 months ago

Probably true lol.

[–] ralphio 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Genuinely curiuos why this comment in particular got obliterated. Do people dispute the premise that the leaders are more rational then the followers?

[–] ralphio 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, I'm not sure how reliable their final predicitons will be, but they're definitely still useful for compiling polls, and their pollster ratings are useful since they only have to look at how close polls came to being correct after the actual vote. That's primarily what I use them for.

[–] ralphio 2 points 3 months ago (12 children)

The trouble with killing the people who say the propaganda is you eventually end with the people who believe the propganda in charge. This was a consistent takeaway from the war on terror. If Israel were looking to prolong the war, taking out the relative moderates would probably help.

[–] ralphio 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Overall the polls have been encouraging for her, but that MI one look really wrong. 538 has her about down a point on average.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/michigan/

[–] ralphio 1 points 4 months ago

Probably need a lower profile than that to get away with pump and dumps.

[–] ralphio 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The graph is really telling. More sanction than ever and the US has maybe never seen it's enemies and nonaligned states more cooperative (atleast since the days of the USSR although that's debatable). This is probably the biggest shortcoming of the Biden admin foreign policy, the rise of BRICS and stuff like that.

ETA: biggest shortcoming strategically not morally, that would be Gaza obviously.

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