On another note, would a mod mind telling me what I did wrong? I thought I was following the rules.

I don’t think I should continue this discussion. I have my disagreements and I have some points I would point out, however it seem a mod doesn’t want me to speak. I’m going to withdraw myself from the conversation.

War on terror was US adventurism that has no basis in the international law. UN never authorized this. US just likes to play world police. Really that simple. Meanwhile, Islamic terrorism is the direct product of US overthrowing secular and socialist governments around Middle East using groups like Mujahideen that have now evolved into IS and the Taliban.

What do we disagree about on the War on Terror? I agree.

US is a scourge upon humanity, and the sooner it gets pushed out of the Middle East the better things will be for the people living there.

I agree again? This wasn’t my point. My points where as follows

1. I don’t believe that Biden has the power to do this in any sane manner as fast as you want it. He already started the process of withdrawing our troops from this particular base.

2. Withdrawing the troops immediately could have caused a similar repeat to what had happened in Iraq. Maybe not to the same scale, however it would have still been a very negative outcome for both the United States and for Jordan.

I may nitpick on that language “US is a scourge upon humanity”. It seems to me that the United States has done some good for the world. I disagree with the method of interventionism that the united states has carried out in the past, but do you really think the United States hasn’t done some good by helping Ukrainians defend themselves from Russia? Or what about the aid that the United States has given to countries in Africa [1]?

I disagree with a lot of the United State’s methods, however it seems that the United States is a country that supplies a lot of good in the world despite some of evil actions that have occurred in the past.

[1] - https://www.usaid.gov/news-information/press-releases/dec-15-2022-united-states-provide-2-billion-humanitarian-assistance-people-africa

I already iterated that this comment was a stupid comment and made from some residual bias I had from when I was a conservative.

I don’t think I’m educated enough to say anything against the group as a whole, as I haven’t sat down to do a lot of research on them (I’m realizing now that my comment was made from a BS bias that I had picked up from when I was a conservative).

You should do more research :)

Just not something I have gotten around to.

“the antifa organization” makes as little sense as saying “the conservative organization”

I think using the word organization was an odd choice on my part. Maybe a better wording would be group. Often times, there are groups that show similar characteristics such that you can think of them by the group. For example, I think of christians as a group are not great. Their is a large swath of Bigotry or people who are so under educated, such that it is impossible to communicate with them (I’ve been in a convo with a christian who was brain dead and couldn’t even conceive of the concept of there being no God, to the point where he wouldn’t accept a single hypothetical that didn’t presuppose God was a real being).

This doesn’t mean that you should judge each individual by the group, I’ve had some amazing conversations with some intelligent Christians who do not fall under this category. However, I still think it’s somewhat reasonable to generalize. I can say “Republicans are lunatic fanboys who focus on feeling like their right and everyone else is stupid. Such to the point where they will often just refer to the others at Liberals” while still taking into account that I know some republicans who can have reasonable discussions (Despite the fact that I feel their ideas are dog water).

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Fair. I think you can understand them as a group still, similarly to how you can see anonymous as a group.

I don’t think I’m educated enough to say anything against the group as a whole, as I haven’t sat down to do a lot of research on them (I’m realizing now that my comment was made from a BS bias that I had picked up from when I was a conservative).

however I don’t think the logic of the source meme on it’s own shows someone as fascist just because they oppose the antifa orginization.

I think it should be noted, the difference between antifa the organization and antifa the philosophy.

I am very much ideologically anti-fascist and I believe I would take up arms against a fascist government, however antifa the org has made some questionable calls in the past.

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This seems like what about-ism to the original topic. Regardless, this is a U.S. base that was established during the war on terror.

“U.S. troops returned to Iraq in 2014 after entirely withdrawing in 2011. They returned at the invitation of the Iraqi government, which was struggling to fend off a devastating Islamic State takeover of one-third of the country. The following year, the U.S. deployed troops to Syria to help the nascent SDF defeat the same group.” [1]

Although the base was still actively being used by U.S. forces, we were working on removing U.S. troops.

“Another report on Wednesday by Reuters revealed that the U.S. and Iraq will begin talks on ending the American-led coalition troop presence in that country, conveying the message in a letter to Iraq’s foreign minister. The report noted these talks will likely last several months, with a potential U.S. withdrawal far from imminent.” [2]. Look at [3] for Reuters article.

Outside of what Biden wanted to do, congress has already implied that they wanted those troops to stay there [4]. Even if Biden ignored the fact that a law requiring this much was struck down by congress (I don’t know if he even could), he would be destroying his reputation with law makers and could be risking his public reputation.

The main purpose of the base was to combat Islamic extremists who were operating outside of Syria. We can debate if the war on terror was a good idea, however it was already previous U.S. doctrine. The big thing to remember, is that there was an ongoing effort to remove the base.

You can shit talk the people who put that base there, but I don’t think it’s fair to say “Biden is not looking after his own people” just because he didn’t create some lunatic order to withdraw on short notice like what trump repeatedly did during his presidency.

[1] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/pauliddon/2024/01/25/is-this-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-us-troop-deployments-in-syria-and-iraq/?sh=47cfe13e4a6c

[2] - https://apnews.com/article/congress-syria-troop-withdrawal-matt-gaetz-609353065981287eac3060c7eb6d9f09

[3] - https://www.reuters.com/world/us-iraq-initiate-talks-end-us-led-military-coalition-2024-01-24/#:~:text=BAGHDAD%2C Jan 24 (Reuters),stalled by the Gaza war.

[4] - https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-03-08/house-votes-down-bill-directing-removal-of-troops-from-syria

Probably… I mean nothing stops you now. Assuming it’s somewhat in the same field.

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I know a guy who left retirement because he felt purposeless. The reason we likely hate work is because we have to do it.

If I knew I didn’t have to worry about money, I would consider focusing on my tech career as it’s something to do rather than worrying about how to keep a job. Maybe focus on charity maybe.

Definitely keep saving for retirement, last thing you need is to HAVE TO WORK for the rest of your life.

What is “:() ::& ;:”

This was my issue. I had to reboot my machine and now Podman is working properly.

user@hostname:~$ ls /etc/subuid ls: cannot access ‘/etc/subuid’: No such file or directory user@hostname:~$ ls /etc/subgid ls: cannot access ‘/etc/subgid’: No such file or directory

I installed podman using apt. It should come with the neccisary packages correct?

Public services in capitalist and communist societies are often hindered by inefficiency and corruption, causing issues with access to public housing. Public services are often influenced by political agendas and it can be difficult for disadvantaged groups to access. (https://council.nyc.gov/budget/wp-content/uploads/sites/54/2022/03/DHS-.pdf, for New York Budget) (https://www.thecity.nyc/2022/07/26/homeless-shelters-are-overflowing-and-most-likely-in-poor-areas-despite-fair-share-promises/)

I think the problem has more to do with the fact that humans are common to fall into nepotism and greed. This is not a problem that is siloed to either economic solution. (https://www.history.com/news/ukrainian-famine-stalin)

This post was revised using the help of a locally run instance llama2-uncensored from https://ollama.ai/.

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I think you’re thinking a little to far into it. Not everything needs to be a deep statement about the injustices of the world.

I’m sorry, if steam said “We, the privately owned multi-million dollar gaming corporation, are now hosting a sale to honor the raped women of the Nanking Massacre”; I’m moving to Xbox, no question.