I think it’s actually worse.

I don’t see how this doesn’t lead to the removal of the HBO brand from the marketplace, and the transfer of all IP, to Netflix’s algorithm driven slop machine.

Both were shitty options, this is all speculation, but something tells me that at least HBO would have survived a Comcast or Paramount acquisition, and not been converted into whatever the hell you want to call Netflix’s category of entertainment.

I only hope is that this is killed by regulators, and somehow Paramount and Comcast aren’t able to put together new bids.

But, I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen.

You’re a liar.

He was balls deep in my wife at the time this supposed murder took place.

Started off fine for roughly a dozen words, then you jump right into Bill Gates.

Bill Gates who was great friends with Jeffrey Epstein, a monopolist, and most recently, worked tirelessly to prevent the sharing of the covid vaccine technology, during the pandemic, because it would harm the profits of his friends in big pharma.

I think your world view needs adjusting.

Acting like Buckingham Palace isn’t just one giant pederast convention.

Using Google products is implicit support for Google.

Which, by the way, I understand, but if you actually read the comments from top to bottom, you would have grasped the context.

So tell me you didn’t actually read the comment thread without telling me.

The person I was responding to was declaring that their choice to use an Android based phone makes them a more ethical consumer, and therefore a better person, then iPhone users.

That’s an absurd position, which was what my comment was highlighting.

How about you just don’t act high and mighty and pretend that your personal consumer choice of using an Android based OS somehow make you more ethical then those who use an iPhone.

Oh that’s fantastic.

Can you please tell me you’re entirely ethical smartphone setup?

Obviously you won’t have any Android in there, including Android ROMs which are based off of AOSP, as Google is just as, if not more, evil than Apple, and any project based off Google’s OS is inherently unethical.

Are you’re using a Fair Phone? If not, what ethical phone are you using?

And for your OS, is Sailfish or Ubuntu Touch?

Not yet.

For starters, you can’t even spell québécois with the real American alphabet.

Their use of tidles alone is just cause for annexation and reeducation.

How about we just take Quebec off your hands?

Now, that’s the art of the deal, problem solved.

Unless you live in Quebec, then my condolences because it’s about to get real rough for you.

I went to their about us page expecting to see at least one Vietnamese American.

Nope, all wealthy white people.

Maybe they are a group of well meaning individuals, I don’t know, as I didn’t look past that page.

But… If their entire purpose is advocacy for, and about, Vietnam, you would think they would want at least someone from the region on their core leadership team…

This is in preparation for California wildfires.

He’s setting precedent with an exponentially smaller disaster in a red state, as political cover for future denial of relief funds for the much larger Blue State seasonal disasters.

Great group: The Coup.

Their discography is top tier.

Finally, a reason for me to join T-Mobile.

Most successful assassin in modern history, maybe all of history?

He killed Abe for his UC ties, and a short few years later, no more Japanese UC.

Has any other politically motivated assassination so directly, and spectacularly, achieved it’s aims?

Well, yeah.

Europe is continent sized piece of land. Russian tanks rolling into Moldova is a bit different than Poland, or Germany.

Different politically, militarily, and strategically.

Even then, I can’t see Putin biting off any more at this particular moment. Time will tell if Trump significantly eases sanctions to a degree that would enable him to speedily recapitialize.

Of course, I didn’t believe he’d actually try and take Kiev, so I’m not going to sit here and cosplay as a Kreminologist.

Yeah, no way the majority of Christians would instead opt to form schismatic sects, or simply adopt church doctrine decrying the false prophet of Brown Jesus.

And I can pull out a dozen other US military and CIA officials, current and present, who would say differently.

Would their status as current, or former, as cogs in the wheels of the US military and intelligence branches, make them credible as well?

I don’t know if this can considered terrorism, the same way I don’t consider car bombs driven into coalition FOBs in Iraq or Afghanistan, or roadside IEDs and VBIDs that killed soldier on patrol, as terrorism.

If you’re targeting military personnel, it’s not terrorism. But, if you’re doing it in a way that unnecessarily causes collateral damage, too much collateral damage, etc., that’s a war crime. Which I believe this was.

I can understand the argument that considers this terrorism, and I’m not putting down this flag saying that my understanding of it is right and yours is wrong. Just explaining my current view of the situation.

But at this point, I’m not sure it makes any difference. Israeli troops, and settlers, are regularly committing unquestionable acts of terrorism and war crimes on a daily basis, so what difference does it make classifying this one incident as terrorism, or just another war crime.