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Sometimes there are intermediary stages to a crowned republic that include both parliament and the monarch as centers of power. In the Middle East all the monarchies seem to outperform the republics so I definitely don't think they should get rid of the Sheikh but at the same time dissolving...

The quid pro quo is what makes it different. Maybe this interaction didn't go as is alleged and this story is a nothingburger but if true I think its quite concerning. Then again its exactly the kind of thing one should expect of Trump at this point.

What is the point of linking this? I read through it and nowhere does there seem to be any indication that Clinton did anything close to what Trump is alleged to have done here. Sure many of those statements she made in those speeches wouldn't make her popular with voters but I think you're...

Well yeah obviously what I said there only holds if the allegations are true. If your argument is that you're skeptical that it happened that is one thing but if it did happen I would argue its outside the norms of typical American politics.

I think the issue here is that Trump is doing something that is a lot closer to a direct bribe than is usual for American politics.

I explained the difference earlier, Sudan is a pariah state and both sides in the conflict are sanctioned while we support Israel in many ways like providing diplomatic cover and sending military aid.

I think its silly to thumb your nose at those protestors for not knowing or caring when you yourself don't know or care about the conflict. Further I think it shows a misunderstanding of why those protestors are protesting and how this situation in Sudan might be meaningfully different from the...

The two sides are the Sudanese Armed Forces(SAF), or the regular military of the country, and the Rapid Support Forces(RSF), who are an independent militia that grew out of the Janjaweed militias that formed during the earlier years of the Darfur conflict. In 2019 there was a popular uprising...

No one is going to protest for a muscular military intervention when these kinds of wars are very unpopular. Protesting to end complicity in atrocities is a more straightforward and uncomplicated goal. We send military aid to Israel which is different from sending humanitarian aid which may or...

Why would they protest over the war in Sudan when our government sanctions both parties in the conflict?

So what would these protestors be protesting then? Their government which sanctions both parties in the conflict?

Yeah I think its a false equivalency. The point is the relationship between the US and Sudan is very different from the relationship between the US and Israel and that this explains why Americans aren't protesting Sudanese atrocities.

I think the same thing can be said about the media coverage. Westerners are more invested in Israel-Palestine because Western countries are invested in both the state of Israel and the wider liberal order which Israel's settlement campaign violates so there's a contradiction there that spurs...

Why would anyone even protest these events? The US government already sanctions both parties in the conflict. Personally I think its pretty silly to compare Sudan to Israel when Sudan is a pariah state that has sanctions placed on it while Israel receives billions in military aid annually from...

Western countries have an embargo on weapons sales to Myanmar precisely because of the ethnic cleansing campaign against the Rohingya. In fact in 2018 there was a report about Israeli arms sales to Myanmar and the Israeli Supreme Court issued an order to stop such sales and yet a few years later...

Israel sells weapons to them too.

Israel sells weapons to Myanmar so if you think about it the students are indirectly protesting Myanmar too. <seedat>

What about beating Edgar on a five fight winning streak like he did in the rematch?

Imagine Aldo vs Figueiredo. He first won the title at 23 and still looks elite. With every Aldo fight we're wondering if this is where he falls off due to age yet he keeps chugging along.

Its because the shitty but dense, tax rich parts of town are helping to subsidize the less dense but tax poor parts of town. When that doesn't cover it the city will ask the state and the feds for grants and loans.