[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

“I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way” he said at one point in the middle of a riff about tariffs. “I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea.”

Good lord, can't someone tell these idiots what happened to the Yamato, after it contributed next to nothing to the Japanese war effort compared to their carriers, despite being the most powerful battleship ever to float...?

These things were already obsolete in WW2, we just didn't know it yet. Now they're extra obsolete, with armor being unable to protect from high speed missiles, and large caliber guns being completely outclassed by those exact same missiles.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 212 points 10 months ago

This is more of a system issue than bad behavior of an individual charity.

Charities can underpay a little bit, because working for a charity has its own appeal. But if you want a talented, experienced person to run your org, you have to consider what they could make if they worked for someone else. San Diego is not a cheap city, and has its fair share of CEO positions.

If you really want to stretch your dollar though, local food banks are probably a better bet.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 161 points 11 months ago

No, they've been getting progressively crazier since 2016.

2000 was fairly divisive, it went to the Supreme Court after all. But it wasn't even a fraction this dramatic, people mostly shrugged and figured GWB would be like his father, which was unfortunate, but sane at any rate. Nobody was really predicting 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq.

2004 was pretty dull. John Kerry challenged GWB but felt sort of like an empty suit.

2008 was nice, Obama was a strong and exciting candidate vs the very known quantity of McCain, who was a moderate repub known for bipartisanship. Sarah Palin provided for hours of entertaining impersonations by people like Tina Fey, but since she was the VP candidate nobody really cared.

2012 was dull. Romney was a strong candidate, another moderate repub. But Obama was fine, he hadn't broken the country or anything. Brought us out of a recession, even if people were upset about bank bailouts and stuff. Lot of people got health insurance.

Then it starts getting spicy.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 146 points 11 months ago

I mean, tbf that was admittedly last millennium.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 221 points 1 year ago

"If I have to create stories so that ~~the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people~~ we win, then that's what I'm going to do."

Yea, we already knew that JD, thanks.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 164 points 1 year ago

Eh, there's one additional way we can stop them. A landslide victory that puts her massively over the electoral college threshold would make a handful of compromised counties completely irrelevant.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 189 points 1 year ago

lol This is almost as good as getting him to say out loud that he's never had sexual relations with any living room furniture.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

Just glad they're not messing around with this one, and went ahead with the three charges of first degree murder.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago

Whoever added the citations to this is doing extremely important work. It needs to be finished though.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 186 points 1 year ago

Ah, LinkedIn, exactly where I want to get nuanced answers to weird questions from.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 138 points 1 year ago

Israel's survival is not threatened by anything short of large-scale pre-emptive Iranian nuclear barrage, or civil war.

Claiming your actions are necessary for survival is a very old trick, commonly used by authoritarian regimes as a convenient excuse.

[-] Carrolade@lemmy.world 144 points 2 years ago

Have to admit, Extinction Rebellion is a pretty good name for an activist group.

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