Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.
When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What’s shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it’s just flavoring the corn.
Especially the pizza box.
Fanta Fucking Stic.
Hmm…
The AI uses em dashes because people used em dashes.
It’s the Street Fighter 2 to Street Fighter 1.
There are about a half dozen new mechanics woven into the game.
They learned a little from Balatro, added some questlines like FTL, and added a whole multiplayer component.
Clearly Obi-Wan is the master of the High Ground. He knows its strengths and weaknesses as second nature enough to exploit as he needed.
Anakin and Maul had no chance.
*edit To add: Obi-Wan gets caught in a fight on flat ground in front of Luke? Just gives up.
A landlord cannot just come on top the lawn and start ripping it up without the tenant’s permission.
On one hand, yes. On the other hand that’s only as enforceable as a tenant can fight it.
In practice it happens. Unless the tenant has the resources or there’s a legal advocacy group dedicated to that specific issue, owners tend to be able to do whatever they want so long as they use the argument of ‘protecting my property’.
The settlement and restitution just ends up something like the owner keeps their stuff there and maybe you get to terminate your lease tomorrow without being forced to pay out the whole eight remaining months of the lease. But that’s anecdotal.
Most stores are tenants of a landlord. Even those Walmart warehouses are leased, often both in land and structure.
AIPAC money and a Harris endorsement appears to have obliterated an 18 point polling lead. That’s crazy to think about.
I hear you, though I am more inclined to take a Gramscian view that cultural hegemony of capitalist/imperial core entities convert those anarchists to libertarians, or some form of compromised anarcho-syndicalism or libertarian socialism. So I wouldn’t call them anarchists.
But it’s not a True Scotsman thing for me, so I don’t fundamentally disagree with that perspective.
Anarchists usually don’t need the kind of deprogramming of capitalist, monarchist, colonial, or imperial systems that socialist and Marxist theories typically focus on.
but that promise was broken.
That is ultimately where my criticism falls to. I believe the US and NATO powers cynically never had any intention to back up Ukraine to ths extent being promised. Both then and now.
Overpromising and underdelivering is a pattern I want broken.
Like, I want my country to be subject to international law and the ICC. I would love to see many of my elected leaders arrested for war crimes. (And the whole other thing with the pedophilia.)
Honestly I think dragging Bibi and Trump to the Hague would be one of the strongest actual deterrents of more war around the globe.
But, if they are in an active war. Wouldn’t sending them aid and arms prolong the war? Wouldn’t that be pro-war according to how I understand your argument?
Sending an active war aid and arms is pro-war by using that logic, yes. But that’s not the point I was making, which was to armaments as a deterrent strategy. I simply don’t think it prevents war, like a deterrent would or should.
To me the pro-war aspect is not the scale of destruction or costs as it is whether pathways to peace or diplomacy are being closed off, or otherwise escalating military tensions and provocations. The destructive costs are double edged, which is the basis of my view, and why I don’t support the more death and destruction rationale to deterrence.
(For the record, I think we should be sending aid and arms to Ukraine. I’m just trying to follow your logic.)
And I don’t fault that, really. There are different goals in play than preventing war once war starts.
So like Kat’s saying do with Taiwan what wasn’t done with Ukraine by committing to a defense of Taiwan maximizing armament and commiting direct intervention. To me that’s a pro-war position, albeit one agnostic to whether it pays off or not. (I generally think it doesn’t work out long-term.) But not touching the One China Policy, however is where the Kissinger red flags started flying for me.
(And for the record I think she’s going to win and I don’t have a problem with that. She’ll likely/hopefully be better than who she is replacing. My current rep is a Zionist so if anything I’d take a China hawk like Kat if I could hotswap.)
Sure, but:
without touching the political One China Policy outlined in the Shanghai Communiqué
Coupling that with increasing armaments is what spurred the Kissinger reference. It kinda constrains the trajectory to escalating towards war.
Which, well, as we are seeing unfold with Iran now and have with the American boondoggles of the 21st century, may not serve Taiwan or the US in the long run.
Ukraine is an active warzone, so that switch is already flipped.
As a policy of deterrent though, arming a proxy nation to the teeth I do find to be pro-war.
I envision a two-part credible deterrence plan that turns Taiwan into a “porcupine” too costly for the PRC to invade, by providing them with weapons to defend themselves and committing to actually defending the island if they do invade.
It’s more the military armament implementation as a pre-emptive and deterrant policy. So perhaps ‘pro-MIC including war with China’ might’ve been more technically correct? Or a less globalized M.A.D. policy? Localized?
Nonetheless she’s probably going to be no worse and probably better than the retiring incumbent at any rate, so I can even just chalk it up as an electoral strategy.
She’s pretty pro-war with China which is an unfortunate inconsistency.
Everytime a candidate expressing support for progressive policy comes forward it’s like our system injects a dose of Kissinger’s blood directly into their brain.
People keep setting up these Punching bars and then get mad when their patrons get Punched.
That’s $37.50 well spent.
That roof awning will pass on staying up before this fuckup settles.