sonotathrowaway

There are tankers built specifically for the Suez Canal

The more appropriate aphorism would probably be “correlation doesn’t equal causation”.

Wait until you find out how many Latino people serve in the military.

Next time you wonder why a Trump supporter has a bad argument, remind yourself there was a nonzero number of them who literally drank bleach and Lysol after he told them too.

You mean like how the Houthi’s unilaterally decided to shut down Red Sea shipping and the US Navy is still powerless to restore it?

One of the implications of having the worst education in the nation is that a lot of facts would surprise them.

Genuinely believing that only one person in America dies in a home invasion is hard to take seriously.

I imagine most preteens in America have a better grasp of reality than the one you’re espousing here.

You’re an ms-13 member, actually.

Their comment is vastly more substantiated than your feelings are. We all know that NYT suppressed a story about unlawful mass surveillance, then published it to avoid being scooped.

This is besides the mountains of bullshit they pushed to promote the Iraq war - propaganda they have never, and will never fully admit to.

Yes, censorship incidents like the red scare, Hollywood blackballing, and outright assassinations (hi Fred Hampton) would definitely never happen in the United States.

That’s why Bush illegally wiretapping every American citizen was excusable - Bush would never retaliate against critics, like trying to kill Valerie Plame for exposing his lies.

This is after they had been caught wiretapping every citizen in the country, with controls so loose that analysts could use it to stalk their exes.

I genuinely don’t know which country you believe has checks and balances.

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