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Eh, whatever, short answer, no...
The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Thursday that the United States will keep the current 2,500 troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future... They actually want all U.S. forces to leave, and all U.S. forces are not going to leave... that may provoke a response as we get later into the end of the month.
So there.. We're Americans dammit!
In other news:
This may or may not be a good thing, but it's still chum for the republicans
The New York City Council on Thursday approved legislation that would expand voting rights to hundreds of thousands of legal noncitizens, allowing a once-disenfranchised segment of Big Apple taxpayers a chance to participate in the local democratic process.
The measure was easily approved by the City Council with the support of a number of advocacy groups, who say that New York's legal permanent residents have the right to weigh in on who leads the city and how their tax dollars are spent.
Watch the fun
(Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @01:40AM
Way to fence sit there, Mr. Both Sides.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @01:47AM (13 children)
Why the fuck would I expect to vote in a pizza party, let alone a government organ of the USA if I moved to NYC? I mean, the city government, as I understand it, is an actual part of the federalised US government, right?
Americans, tell me if I'm wrong here, but is the city government an official government body? I could have sworn it was.
This just sounds insane. Tax money or no tax money. If I move somewhere (not that NYC was on my personal list anyway) I expect to either have to get citizenship, or do without franchise. It's a privilege of citizenship, isn't it?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Mockingbird on Friday December 10 2021, @03:32AM (1 child)
Um, no. What undemocratic nation with no local control do you hail from, pardner?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @04:23AM
That's what I meant. Not the federal government, but the federalised system in which power is delegated. So the city is its own thing, but an actual piece of government.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 10 2021, @04:08AM (9 children)
Mockingbird nails it. No city or county or state or territorial government in the US is part of the federal government. The City of New York's government is an official part of New York City's government, nothing more, and nothing less. The federal government is only able to interfere in NYC's government decisions when those decisions are clearly illegal, or unconstitutional. Witness the current case before the Supreme Court in which NYC and NY State deny their citizens their constitutional rights.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @05:44AM
You, just like Mockingbird, don't know how to read. Federalised != federal. Go think about what federation means.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @07:48AM (7 children)
I'm pretty sure Mockingbird is just another Ari sock BTW.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @08:24AM (6 children)
Unpossible. _I_ am aristarchus!
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @10:33AM (5 children)
No, I'm Aristarchus!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @05:05PM (4 children)
>Implying that it is not possible to post using a sock puppet and then multiple times as an AC
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday December 10 2021, @10:57PM (3 children)
Seriously, I am aristarchus. I wish people would cease accusing others of being me!
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Vocal Minority on Saturday December 11 2021, @03:10AM (1 child)
Maybe you need to stop being a disingenuous lying sock-master then.
(Score: 1, Troll) by aristarchus on Saturday December 11 2021, @05:02AM
Maybe you need to refrain from j'accusing innocent ancient greek philosophers of crimes you have no evidence of, other than your prejudice against truth and reason. Racist fuck.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11 2021, @04:54AM
gaslighters gonna gaslight
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11 2021, @02:26AM
Because:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @04:00AM (11 children)
Here I thought you were gonna talk about the forever war that seems to be destroying christmas every year.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday December 10 2021, @06:06AM (10 children)
I've done more in one season to wage the war on Christmas since Diocletian and the rest of you should man up and get to waging the war as well.
The endless encroachment of Christmas has gone too far with the existence of Black Friday being particularly threatening. This year we had Festival of Birds, five days of different birds Thanksgiving week honoring the heritages that built this great land. Christmas must be stopped and Thanksgiving is the bulwark against further encroachment.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 5, Funny) by Farmer Tim on Friday December 10 2021, @09:31AM (8 children)
Came for the news, stayed for the soap opera.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 10 2021, @03:08PM (7 children)
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday December 10 2021, @03:27PM (3 children)
I like Christmas music all year round!
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Saturday December 11 2021, @12:23AM (1 child)
You monster
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday December 13 2021, @03:10PM
There's Christmas music for them too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_Christmas [wikipedia.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 13 2021, @12:10PM
Try these:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSs3FyeThM0 [youtube.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3DyxaCYlfg [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @05:07PM
The people who leave their Christmas lights up all year round are complicit in these travesties.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 10 2021, @06:23PM (1 child)
Its tentacles reach up to labor day in a few places, and we do have "Christmas in July"™
Happy Love Day everyone! [youtube.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 10 2021, @10:41PM
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday December 11 2021, @05:06AM
Ah, Sulla in his natural element! The German barbarians called it "Totalen Krieg", the Romans called it, "politics".
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 10 2021, @04:09AM (2 children)
He wrote the damned book. Like Orwell, he should have known the government would read the book, and use it for a blueprint.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Touché) by fustakrakich on Friday December 10 2021, @06:33PM
Like Orwell's, his story is autobiographical, the past (and present), not the future
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 11 2021, @02:30AM
So duckspeaks the master of doublethink.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Friday December 10 2021, @06:07AM (6 children)
I thought America is Back™ so shouldn't we be abiding the Iraqi parliamentary decision telling us to leave back in 2020?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @01:27PM
We're waiting for the Israeli government to ratify the decision.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 10 2021, @06:37PM (4 children)
No, "America is Back"™ means we're supposed to retake Panama
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Saturday December 11 2021, @12:21AM (3 children)
+1 SAD
From what I understand we want to do something in Nicaragua due to a fraudulent election as well?
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 11 2021, @03:44AM (2 children)
Well, yeah, due to our own fraudulent election, we need to focus attention outside the continental US. Nicaragua will work as well as any other place!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 13 2021, @07:36PM (1 child)
No kidding! Imagine all the nothing Republicans will do when they discover they are the ones defrauding democracy! Such nuh-uhing has never been heard before!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 13 2021, @09:16PM
There's more evidence of DNC collusion and fraud than republican.