They didn’t persuade them, they bought the companies and then killed them off. My town had a pretty extensive trolley system, the remnants of which still exist as bike and walking trails further from downtown. The infrastructure for it is still visible and it’s a painful reminder of what could have been. Instead we get a routine traffic problem in a town of only 160k.

Not to mention the abuse that fork lift drivers put on them due to speed expectations. Few drivers use their brakes, and just blast the transmission from forward to reverse or vise versa.

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Like a bunch of drunk rednecks driving around in their truck shooting at road signs.

We will absolutely not regret sinking it if you do that. How many warships will it take to do the whole line of succession?

A lot of them are running low on air defense as well.

It’s not always willingly. I can’t give consent to ring to use my data when I walk my dog. I can’t give my consent to flock when I drive around. We judge China for their surveillance state and yet we have far more data centers in America fueling surveillance.

I imagine for most, it’s the economy and enshitification of life in general.

Less Iranian shahed drones go to Russia.

We should be better than this. Illegal senseless wars are bad enough, but this is completely shameless.

Only time will tell. But it’s surprisingly easy to tell where explosives come from with investigation.

When bombs go off, they don’t atomize. There’s always scraps left which you can compare to known armaments, not to mention markings on said arms shards. Also chemical analysis can determine whose explosives are used, like a fingerprint.

Different times. Better times.

No, he got impeached for lying about it under oath.

I really wish media would stop using the word “deal”. It’s become so fucking mainstream that it means anything from capitulation, to strong arming, to bribes, to outright corruption. It feeds into trumpism and the concept that he plays 3D chess or some bullshit. Usually it involves the toddler thinking he won, and sometimes it does. But the word “deal” now gives me a knee jerking reaction that makes me ask, "ok let’s go through this, is it fair or is someone getting fucked, or is this simply dystopian hell for the citizenship?’

Why bother with this grift when you can just nationalize Elons companies and then gift them to yourself?

An easy win against an unpopular country will get you at least 4% approval rating Mr trump.

It just feels a lot like the boys.

Think tek knight from the boys.

It’s already been decided because Iran is not popular in the US. Neither is trump. Trump bombs Iran into oblivion to look like the lesser of two evils.

Start working out now.