According to Wikipedia voter turnout was 66%, but I actually think that refers to 66% of the voting population rather than 66% of the country, so you're correct. It's even lower than less than half of a third of the country. Significantly closer to one fifth of the country.
I wish Republicans would stop this "half the country" line. It's such desperate cope to believe that "half the country" is Republican when a) voter turnout in 2020 was only 66% of the country and b) of that 66% LESS THAN HALF voted Republican.
Get over yourselves. You're a minority.
To ask "Does X take any responsibility for Y" is to necessarily imply that X has responsibility for Y, and you're asking if they accept that they do.
What you should have asked were you genuinely making no assertion was "Is the Left Responsible for the assassination attempts on Trump?"
The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot
**mod edit**you believe Trump - a man who told thousands of this followers to march on the Capitol building on the day and at the very time that the vote against him was to be ratified while telling them that election was rigged, while...
The Guardian went with a shockingly similar, but also different, headline:
Trump fills Madison Square Garden with anger, vitriol and racist threats
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/27/trump-madison-square-garden-rally
The point is that you use the existence of BRICS as evidence of Russia's willingness to compromise and negotiate, while dismissing wholesale the existence of the UN and NATO. If they're irrelevant to whether or not the USA has a willingness to compromise or negotiate, why does the existence of...
Right. But having that in common isn't what determines their moral worth or intent. You wouldn't say the action of shooting a starving child and feeding a starving child are morally equivalent, even if both actions have "making sure there are no starving children" in common. Actions that serve...
They're obviously rhetorical. I'm expressing disbelief at your position.
No, you don't. You refuse to call it or see it. It's what I call "obstinate neutrality"; an unwillingness to openly express a position favouring either side in any meaningful way, usually out of a misguided sense that...
So, to make it clear, the existence of BRICS is a clear demonstration of Russia's reasonableness, trustworthiness and ability to negotiate on the geopolitical stage.
Meanwhile, the existence of the UN and NATO is... a failure?
What even is your argument?
This is just open false conflation and has absolutely no relation to anything I've said. Respond to my arguments, not to an imaginary argument.
This is an overly broad generalisation, and a denial of the reality of the long history of negotiation between Ukraine and Russia, which has...
What in the world can a country invading its neighbour and annexing their territory possibly indicate other than them having "aggressive designs on the West"? What warped logic could possibly lead anyone to any other conclusion?
Unfair characterisation. You know full well that this is an...
The question is: do you think it's failing in this instance because of the actions it has taken, or because of the actions Russia is taking?
If you believe helping Ukraine resisting invasion in this instance is the right thing to do, then there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to turn this...
Except I quoted you directly. It's not a strawman, it's what you wrote.
Good thing that's not being done, then, and your entire argument is a strawman, as I clearly explained in my argument (emphasis mine):
"That is what you wrote. Nobody is saying that they CAN'T deny or question the result...
This is a funny way of saying "invading Ukraine, committing mass civilian death and annexing sovereign territory".
By desiring appeasement of a militirisitic, fascist government seeking expansion? You're right. When has that ever lead to bad things happening?
If you want to argue that western...
Pray tell, what war crimes committed by America have been defended in this thread?
Or are you making the incredibly stupid argument that defending America making one specific action or taking a specific side in a specific conflict is the same as endorsing everything America does or ever has...
What have I strawmanned? You said: "What's being suggested is that they lose their "refugee" status, nothing more."
That's what you're arguing, that they should lose their "refugee" (as you put it) status. What is that if not forcefully relocating them and denying them right to return? That's...