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the city of houston has a revenue cap and has basically foregone 1.5 billion in taxes over the last ten years. shockingly the city is facing a major fiscal crisis and is struggling to pay for basic services. i think there actually is some appetite here to get rid of the cap though... would be nice to have trash and recycling picked up on time.
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FlamingLiberal posted:lol yes I’m sure Hamas does a lot of US recruiting dear hamas for 100k/full remote/6 week pto/benefits i will do (lazy) admin work for you please check out my linkedin at
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Sorry it's all unpaid internship positions
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C. Everett Koop posted:dear hamas for 100k/full remote/6 week pto/benefits i will do (lazy) admin work for you please check out my linkedin at Will you consider working for a comely young wife? ISIS is hiring and I am definitely not a fed! 
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bird food bathtub posted:Even beyond agents themselves, lab geeks and paper pushers don't start off nearly that high but a lot of people just see "FBI" and say "Oh, an FBI agent." Like it or not you can't run the agency without the rest of the positions. Yeah, the issue of federal pay is an issue for every agency, and many more so than the FBI. A huge number of NPS staff, especially on the ground in parks, are GS 6, 7, or 9, are often seasonal rather than full time, and are forced to hunt for vanishingly rare and expensive housing in the gateway communities of their remote, tourist-magnet parks, or else live in government-provided staff housing... at rates that are pegged to local market rates.
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Majorian posted:Will you consider working for a comely young wife? ISIS is hiring and I am definitely not a fed! This agent is really, really pushy about trying to get him to kill other people quote:Unlike Ghaada, Jannah expressed no interest in a conventional romantic relationship. She said she wanted to martyr herself for ISIS, an act of vengeance against the coalition troops and Shia militants in Syria and Iraq who had killed her husband and two of her cousins. e: wow this story is almost old enough to buy a gun in this country
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https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1779232573979246865 There are videos from Iraq circulating of drones heading west. Depending on what Israel does we could be on the verge of a major regional war.
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Nucleic Acids posted:https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1779232573979246865 I mean Israel bombed an embassy, that's what you do when you want a war to start
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I mean Israel bombed an embassy, that's what you do when you want a war to start to be fair, israel thought they were food aid workers. total accident
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:I mean Israel bombed an embassy, that's what you do when you want a war to start The inevitable description of this as “unprovoked” by western media might just give me an aneurysm.
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Staluigi posted:to be fair, israel thought they were food aid workers. total accident  "my bad. thought the building said 'Hamaspital' lol"
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https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1779249940344045970 if Trump wins we're invading Iran and Mexico
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James Garfield posted:https://twitter.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1779249940344045970 Why does the U.S. need to launch retaliatory strikes? Like I don't get it. We don't have a mutual defense pact with Israel do we? E: Wait is that tweet quoting POTUS or is it a message to POTUS? I read it as a quote from POTUS.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why does the U.S. need to launch retaliatory strikes? Like I don't get it. We don't have a mutual defense pact with Israel do we? Awful human being marsha blackburn is telling joe to retaliate at Iran on Israels behalf.
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Nucleic Acids posted:The inevitable description of this as “unprovoked” by western media might just give me an aneurysm. Weirdly even Fox News' headline about it mentions the consulate strike.
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Kagrenak posted:Weirdly even Fox News' headline about it mentions the consulate strike. CNN is also calling it relatitory Israel's reckless abandon for their bombing campaign is clearly the cause, but it's also going to be extremely hard to prevent them from escalating this even further
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Boris Galerkin posted:Why does the U.S. need to launch retaliatory strikes? Like I don't get it. We don't have a mutual defense pact with Israel do we? It's Marsha Blackburn calling for strikes on Iran, I don't think Biden has said anything public.
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Maybe it's just me but I think Israel's latest atrocities have tipped the scales a little bit against them in American public sentiment. There's also a real strain of isolationism in the trumpist movement. I think Americans in general are just tired of overseas conflicts that never solve anything.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Maybe it's just me but I think Israel's latest atrocities have tipped the scales a little bit against them in American public sentiment. There's also a real strain of isolationism in the trumpist movement. I think Americans in general are just tired of overseas conflicts that never solve anything. It is certainly more difficult to be outraged at the temerity of Iran striking Israel after Israel bombed the Iranian embassy at the start of the month.
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Caros posted:It is certainly more difficult to be outraged at the temerity of Iran striking Israel after Israel bombed the Iranian embassy at the start of the month. This. If anything, Iran's response thus far has been relatively reserved. Israel is apparently trying to burn through as much international good will as possible, considering it wasn't (at the time) at war with either Iran or Syria. AFAIK they also haven't provided any evidence since that bombing that it was a valid military target. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Netanyahu's office right now. I wonder if he's spending more time talking to Biden or Trump.
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I assume Netanyahu wants to start more wars to make it difficult for the US to cut off aid.
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As is usually the case with seemingly and actually irrational international behaviors, leaders are more influenced by their domestic political considerations, and, over time, run the risk of internalizing any domestic propaganda they produce. Even absent the latter, Netanyahu's necessarily motivated by his understanding of the right-wing electoral and ideological views of his constituencies.
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I think it's more likely than not that this won't escalate into a regional war. Iran made a statement at the UN explicitly saying it's retaliation for Israel's embassy attack and that they consider it concluded and done if Israel doesn't counter retaliate. ABC is quoting the Israeli military as saying Iran targeted military bases only and damage is minor. That doesn't seem like the narrative Israel would push to justify more attacks to either a domestic or international audiance. It seems mostly like Iran is trying to demonstrate that they won't be pushed around, but neither side wants to escalate
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Foxfire_ posted:I think it's more likely than not that this won't escalate into a regional war. Yeah I get the same vibe.
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Foxfire_ posted:I think it's more likely than not that this won't escalate into a regional war. NYT actually mentioned the attacks were aimed at Golan Heights and an Israeli airbase in the Negev. It might even be true
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It's pretty much what Iran did after Trump had Solemani killed, right? Launch a few things that don't do all that much harm, and didn't escalate further.
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Sarcastro posted:It's pretty much what Iran did after Trump had Solemani killed, right? Launch a few things that don't do all that much harm, and didn't escalate further. Yeah. Crazy when the religious extremist revolutionary theocracy is the pragmatic adult in the proverbial room. It feels like Israel (well, Bibi) is giving Biden an ultimatum, give up on Gaza or be dragged into a very messy Mideast conflict right before a major election. I don’t think Bibi gives a poo poo about anything but keeping his rear end in power and out of prison til he dies at this point. No wonder he gets along with Trump.
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If I were Biden, and I understand it's not this simple, I would just be the bigger bully and say: Iran if you attack again you have us to deal with, and Israel if you escalate we don't have your back and are on your own. Iran already said this was a response to the Israel previous attack and is willing to call it a day and from what I can tell very view of the drones/missiles made it past air defenses. Again, I know this basically says gently caress you to a strong ally but they've been kind of a piece of poo poo ally lately so time to throw our weight around. E: sounds like Biden may do exactly this https://twitter.com/BarakRavid/status/1779353729495413060?t=Q7HPOgnWDte7vfg3EV6y7g&s=19 cr0y fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Apr 14, 2024 |
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cr0y posted:Again, I know this basically says gently caress you to a strong ally but they've been kind of a piece of poo poo ally lately so time to throw our weight around. "Strong" and "ally" doing some serious work here.
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i agree with the president that we should not support an israeli counterattack or any sort of retaliation. thank you mister joe.
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Iran has been incredibly restrained. Between reneging on the nuclear deal, drone striking Suleimani, and Israel blowing up a loving embassy their responses have been downright reserved
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James Loux is east of Malta now. No change in the courses of the vessels headed to Gaza to build / use a JLOTS pier.
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cr0y posted:Iran if you attack again you have us to deal with How about no the U.S. should not invite themself to the party.
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Josef bugman posted:"Strong" and "ally" doing some serious work here. Israel seems to be treating us like an abusive spouse, slapping us around while telling us its for our own good because who else would love us.
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Josef bugman posted:"Strong" and "ally" doing some serious work here. Fair
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Bar Ran Dun posted:James Loux is east of Malta now. No change in the courses of the vessels headed to Gaza to build / use a JLOTS pier. Do you know anything about shipping insurance rates skyrocketing could have the same impact as shutting down the straits militarily? Thwt was an old cefte theory.
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