I am aware of all those things, but specifically not the occupation of Iraq.
LainTrain
joined 2 years ago
I did not have the slightest idea of that yeah, but why would that demonstrate any political leanings whatsoever? Per the upvote count it looks like a lot of people ITT were also not aware of this?
Why does the US have a """presence""" in Iraq 20 years later?
the news you watch says your winning.
Dafuck? I know what's happening in Iran, why are you implying I'm some kind of rightoid trump supporter? And why so combative?
I'm not a Trump supporter, I'm a communist lol. I've been lightly following the Iran war since the start and yeah obviously it's a quagmire at best. My question was about a different country called Iraq though.
What I didn't know is NATO still had a presence in Iraq? Why? The War on Terror was supposedly done two decades ago now. I know it took them longer to pull out than that but still?
Wait what's happening in Iraq???
Yeah some people need to hear this but just cuz it grows out of earth don't make it medicine.
Weed just ups your heart rate, makes you hungry and eventually makes you kinda sleepy when it wears off. It doesn't help with much of anything except draining your wallet and time into getting lung cancer.
Now real drugs might help, from SSRIs to Benzos to Amphetamines, a dash of Nicotine, maybe even psychedelic therapy with the HT2A receptor classical psychs class. That's real medicine.
Weed is the opium of the masses.
There's also faithless electors and gerrymandering. And losing car keys through sewer grates. Phones too. Oh and human rights and friends as well. Flushed away like dreams of grandeur and pretense of grace after a hearty night out.
There's rejection too, that feeling when what you think or hope the other person feels comes crashing into the hard wall of reality, they felt nothing like it, you were misled by your own instincts, or another for reasons you'll never know. You'll never understand this 'another'. The distance between souls is one you will never cross, and betrayal is always at hand.
Oh the humanity! Is there anything other than misery?
But in the end, there are a few moments that make it all worthwhile.
Mold is caused only by one thing: slum housing. There's no other way around it. All excuses about insufficient heating or people not opening windows are nonsensical landlord propaganda or wild cope from brainbroken landleech apologists.
My last place was filled to the brim with it. Every ceiling, every nook and cranny, it even ate one of my vinyl records through the sleeve because I simply leaned it against a wall in a corner, that's how bad it was.
It was one of those gross partitioned victorian mcmansions and I had the basement level flat originally rented for £975pcm, then went up to £1050pcm a year later, above that flat - a houseshare of 5-50 "people". Full fat humidifier running around the clock and nothing at all. It filled up with water, but barely made a scratch at the humidity.
Landleech said nothing could be done about it and just painted over it once. Humidity never dropped below 80%, and it was basically always cold as fuck.
Now I moved across the country up north and live in a new place, £1100pcm, converted office building done circa 2017. Humidity is at 50% year round, it's really nice and no gas or boilers in sight either. I haven't changed a single one of my habits and I've never seen so much as a speck of it here. It's bigger and has nice modern design and costs less to rent, too.
Our housing is ancient, our infrastructure crumbling, our classrooms have ceilings caving in, our hospitals have floors falling through - half this country needs to be demolished and rebuilt from scratch to modern standards with modern utilitarian design.
We've spent more on HS2 so far with nothing to show for it than what it cost to build the entire city of Milton Keynes (adjusted for inflation).
We need to build taller, stop asking permission from residents, build on so-called "greenbelt" land and nationalize enough to afford to build affordable housing ourselves where the market can't help and tax wealth to prevent landlords from scooping it up and letting it fall into ruin for profit as they always do.
No, but the contrast in the press spin is observable in the west, where we are and where this article is. There's no condemnation, it's framed as more or less understandable.
Damn and Japan's been licking his boots hard too. No one is safe.
Imagine if western countries did this for that comedy about North Korea from a decade ago ("The dictator"?) that Kim Jong Un took offense too? There'd be crazy outrage. But when it's about kowtowing to Israel it's all fine.
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