Wearing a mask and glasses so no one can see how happily I am gawking at the Manhattan skyline through the MTA window
Literally the first thing I heard as I left the station was someone honking and someone screaming "fuck you!" I am going to like it here
Just saw my first rat, he was chill, we didn't really talk
What other stereotypical things do I need to check off the list, it's been like 5 minutes and I feel like I'm nailing it so far
This is now a rolling thread about New York
One very cool thing about NYC is that everyone is in everyone's way all the time so you never have to like worry about whether you're in the way, you definitely are, just move when you can
And no one so far seems to be mad about me being in the way as long as I move when I can because they're in the way too, everyone is in the way
Also NYC driving is terrifying but not even close to as bad as Chicago, congratulations, you psychopaths are still #1 in my book
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Boy howdy am I having a lot of feelings about Afghanistan today
I deployed there twice--once in 2008 and once in 2009-10
It was already obvious that the Taliban would sweep through the very instant we left
And here we are today
I know how bad the Taliban is. I know what they do to women and little boys. I know what they're going to do to the interpreters and the people who cooperated with us, it's awful, it's bad, but we are leaving, and all I feel is grim relief
Afghanistan is a dusty beige nightmare of a place full of proud, brave people who did not fucking want us there
We called them Hajjis and worse and they were better than we were, braver and stronger and smarter
Hi there, are you curious about Cuban sanctions and what they've done to the Cuban economy and generally what the hell is going on?
So was I, so I did some research
The US first passed a blanket embargo on trade to Cuba (including food and medicine) in 1962
In 2000, America loosened the embargo to allow food and medicine, but that's it
US sanctions against Cuba "include[s] every major method available...: trade control, suspension of aid and technical assistance, freezing of the target’s financial assets, and the blacklisting of foreign companies involved in trade with Cuba."
In this thread, we will take quotes from this article, change "Cuba" to "the US," and see if the arguments still hold true when applied to America in the summer of 2020
"As protestors take to the streets in the US, defying a violent government crackdown, Cubans across the political spectrum have a chance to break with old canards about the country"
"Progressives should understand that there is nothing remotely “progressive” about the thuggish, oppressive government of the US"
“The Colombian army, which we have supported for 20 years, has a long history of targeting civilians, violating the laws of war and not being accountable. There has been a cultural problem within that institution.”
Seems like maybe we shouldn't be training them then
Imagine trying to explain America training the Columbian army to someone 1000 years from now
"You're saying they trained an army that regularly murdered civilians and carried out coups, because they thought cocaine was worse, but the people who voted to do it all do cocaine?!"
What I love about this article is that all the arguments are logical and more or less factual, and yet anyone who's turned on the news even once over the past 4 years can immediately see why this article is what would happen if vomit could vomit
To cal the idea that Trump's "operation warp speed" represents collaboration with the Biden administration a reach is insufficient
No, what we are seeing here is the word "collaboration" screaming as it is slaughtered upon the stone slab of rheroric