I honestly think he had every right to do that in that situation. Kid aims a gun at you and gets a spanking? Kid got of light...

Hey, did you know that 100% fascist is more fascist than 0% fascist?

Please stop twisting words just to be annoying.

Yeah, that's what I said.

I generally agree with you, but it does make her eat some of her own words as pointed out elsewhere in this comment section:

I think it's fairly obvious who the more fascist candidate is here. I think it says something that Trump is too fascist for Cheney.

Also, shoving Stein's words in her face doesn't mean OP agrees with those words, just that Stein's words are particularly problematic at the moment.

In my area, Walgreens always seems empty, their prices are super high, and their pharmacists seem ready to quit.

I'm sure their mismanagement of the medical practices they're snapping up isn't helping them much either. I'm pissed at them for buying up one of the largest local medical providers and completely fucking them up. We used to be able to get in to see a doctor in a reasonable amount of time for long-term issues and could generally get an appointment day-of or the day after for acute issues. Now, when you call to get an acute appointment they say that nothing is available for MONTHS. I called to be seen for a sinus infection in February and was told nothing was available until July.

We switched providers and are much happier with the service, but we miss our old doctors...

Those programs are income limited and don't really provide much support compared to the cost of child care.

Cost of child care

I my state, child care runs between $1,500 and $2,200 per month ($18,000 to $26,400 per year) per child (I pay about $1,800 per month).

TANF benefits

TANF benefits are income based. They decrease as income increases and end at $75,000 household income.

• The maximum possible benefit of $592 per month ($7,104 per year) is provided for a family with one parent and two children with zero income.

• If that single parent earns $1,000 per month ($12,000 per year) their benefit drops to $330 per month ($3,960 per year).

Availability of care

To top that off, child care facilities are not required to accept TANF because it places limits on how much they can charge. Most place limits on the number of TANF recipients they will enroll and some simply don't accept TANF.

There is nothing bad faith in my arguments. I am sincere in saying that I disagree with sending troops over there and in saying that I don't see it as a massive escalation to send 100 troops when we already have 50,000 in theater.

You are arguing in bad faith by ignoring what I am saying and simply labeling any disagreement as "obvious propaganda". Nothing here is black and white. This conflict has been going on for generations. Any immediate response has generations of previous actions behind it. To say otherwise is disingenuous.

Nothing in this conflict is simple. Nothing is clear. Nothing is black and white. Maybe labeling me as a propagandist for disagreeing on one specific thing while agreeing with your broader stance shows who the real propagandist is.

Jesus fucking christ... Why does everything that anyone disagrees with "propaganda"? Why can't it be someone with a different fucking viewpoint? What the fuck is wrong with people on Lemmy that we can't discuss something without it being "obvious propaganda" or some other bullshit?

Not everything is black and white. There is room for disagreement on parts of this conflict. I don't agree with the US sending troops of any kind to Israel and I think we should stop giving them weapons until they stop committing genocide. The only point I was trying to make is that it doesn't seem like a massive escalation to send 100 troops and a defensive system when we already have 50,000 troops, many war ships, two nuclear aircraft carries, and a ton of aircraft in theater already.

I agree that we shouldn't be sending troops to Israel right now but 100 troops is hardly "all the troops" and isn't a large change in the number of troops in the region.

Again, I don't think we should be sending troops or weapons to Israel right now, but this does seem like a proportional response to Iran's attack. They launched missiles at Israel. The US sent an anti-missile battery and 100 troops to support it. It seems like kind of a token force to say "we're supporting Israel in this, but we're also not going to go crazy".

I've come to the conclusion that conservatives are just people whose sense of empathy is broken. Over and over I hear about conservatives who held bigoted beliefs and only changed their minds when confronted by someone they love becoming the target of other people's identical bigoted beliefs. These people just can't empathize enough to think "what if it was my child/spouse/friend?"

I don't understand why companies who commit blatant fraud like this aren't required to disgorge all fraudulently earned money. If someone defrauds banks they get fined based on their earnings in a way that hurts. If someone defrauds consumers for "tens of millions of dollars" they are only fined $16M.

Well, actually I do understand, I just don't like it and don't like what it says about this country's priorities.