I’m just suspicious because your use of MAGA as an insult while praising Donald Trump is so absurdly inconsistent it looks like deliberate dishonesty.

As an aside, what’s your opinion on the war in Ukraine?

1. Other people in the thread have listed the concrete actions Trump has taken abandoning all pressure Biden put on Israel.
2. There was a previous ceasefire while Biden was in office, and the current one was made under a framework created by the Biden administration.
3. Israel has started an offensive in the West Bank.
4. Do you honestly believe things would have gone better had Trump been in office for the entire war?

Bold of you to accuse people of being MAGA while actively praising Trump.

Calling for ethnic cleansing is better?

What are the chances Republicans were pressuring Netanyahu to delay a ceasefire until after the election, like they did in the Iran hostage crisis?

I cannot comprehend how this guy is favoured 52-48 to win.

It’s been well reported on that Russia doesn’t work like that, with junior officers unable to use initiative and the whole system being very slow to respond to changing events. The reason it operates like this was shown when they did try having a more independent unit, which resulted in the Wagner Group mutinying.

That’s standard in Western militaries. It means units aren’t paralyzed by unexpected circumstances while they wait for communication to go up and down the chain of command, and it improves resilience if communications or senior officers are incapacitated.

Trump needs lead water pipes to get votes.

The classic “Buy a reputable brand, cut costs and coast along on the reputation until you can sell off all your shares and move on to another company”. Bonus points for using legalised embezzlement share buyback.

More often dictators take control of the church and use it for propaganda.

People talk a lot about the genericisation of brand names, but the branding of generic terms like this really annoys me.

I’ll use the example I first noticed. A few years ago, the Conservative government was under criticism for the minimum wage being well under a living wage. In response, they brought in the National Living Wage, which was an increase to the minimum wage, but still under the actual living wage. However, because of the branding, it makes criticising it for not meeting the actual living wage more difficult, as you have to explain the difference between the two, and as the saying goes, “if you’re explaining, you’re losing”.

They’re against anyone else indoctrinating children.

I only ever read one, and all I remember of that was some kids being chased into a church by some demons, who then burn it down to get to them. The kids are put on trial for “forcing” the demons to burn the church, and they have to convince their lawyer not to throw the case because he’ll be executed if he wins.

Not a danger in the UK.

Heard an interview a while ago with a founder of Just Stop Oil who clearly said he doesn’t care whether they even stop climate change (around 40:00-43:00).

What does Vincent van Gogh have to do with the current state of the petrol industry?

It’s famous, so attacking it gets attention.

They’re both problems.

Never heard of it. It’s difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.

That’s more complicated than it sounds. An export strengthening the currency is a significant part of Dutch Disease.