john_brown

I think the inability or unwillingness to actually read and process everything presented to them probably applies to the speech of politicians as well. They're not paying attention to everything being said much less analyzing it critically.

It means that a large part of my job is just copying and pasting things that have already been sent to clients because they straight up do not read everything they're sent even if it's just three or four sentences in a paragraph. This has gotten worse since Covid. Loads of these people are business owners, too. I can't imagine working for them, it must be a fucking nightmare.

edit: It also means a lot of clients balk at text communication entirely insisting that it's easier to explain something over the phone. Inevitably, the thing they absolutely needed to monopolize someone's time for can be expressed in a single fucking simple sentence.

It turns out Assad must go only when Assad is ready to go

If you're referencing what just happened in Syria, Iranian media has reported that Iran warned Assad months ago that HTS was training for a big push and Assad brushed it off, then when HTS made the move Iran offered support and Assad didn't really want it. Iran's position was why fight for Assad's government if Assad and his own military aren't going to? I'm not sure how much Soleimani could have done to fight for Syria in this situation if he were still around.

Killing leaders isn't a useful strategy, it's big man theory for war

yeah but AOC can't be house speaker if she goes independent, and there's no way she can hope to be presinald

she will abandon all progressive policy goals she pretended to have, she is a careerist hack from way back, she's like fetterman in that way

Just a step on the path towards her true goal, being the house Speaker

I assume the real reason the comment was removed is the suggestion that the newsmega might be better on its own instance (the people the admins/mods seem to dislike the most on the site might take their ball and go play somewhere else)

It seems like the newsmega has a lot fewer of the regulars recently. I miss the input from the users who are actually proximate to the conflict in Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Their input was extremely valuable.

mods continue to be this place is getting sillier

oh no, those inmates are going to get banned for lionizing him