MTV ignored black music because most radio stations did. MTV was a big risk and the financiers weren’t looking to take risks on pushing a new genre of music that wasn’t mainstream with most audiences at that time.

Fair

Operation Cyclone had nothing to do with where Al Qaeda got c4. You might be shocked to find out you can buy explosives from all sorts of companies. Bin Laden’s construction company could get some for destruction contracts without having to go through the CIA. They could also buy it on the black markets around the world.

Al Qaeda has existed since the early 1990s. They had people all over the Middle East at that time. They didn’t materialize in Yemen they knew US Naval ships refueled in the port and arranged for two suicide bombers to attack the Cole.

DAESH starts to form from groups of militants in the Levant who had contact and training with AQ elsewhere sometime between 2003-4.

I am really confused as to how you came to the conclusion you posted unless you have zero grasp on the parties involved and the history of this time period for this region.

No this is an attempt to not misgender someone while dismissing their stupid opinion.

For example if I replied to your comment “OK guy, that’s a totally valid read of my post” I could be misgendering you. That is why Im instead replying “OK buddy, that’s a totally valid take and you are absolutely in a place to judge others” as Im not looking to misgender you just to dismiss your opinion.

It was refueling. Al Qaeda pulled up a small boat and blew a hole in the Cole. Im wrong on the year though it was in 2000.

There were proto-groups that eventually conglomerated to form DAESH starting just after the USS Cole was bombed in Yemen in 1999. If you studied terrorism at the time or knew people involved in counter-terrorism you might have heard about those groups earlier.

That’s not to say the Invasion of Iraq in 2003 didn’t push these groups to prominence only that a version kind of existed before 3/2003.

Zelensky’s opponents are of course Kremlin stooges as well

The world’s dictators aren’t always opposed by people proposing democracy. For example we armed Syria’s dictator at that time because his opponent was DAESH/ISIL/ISIS/IS.

I like this one

Do you think there are many republicans on this site?

Or used for other purposes.

No it isn’t because the economic theory at the core, Modern Monetary Theory, is very much NOT accepted as valid in academic economic circles because so much of it relies on unfalsifiable concepts.

It’s a bad metaphor because the core of it is completely incorrect. If MMT was valid why did the bankruptcy of the USSR play out the way it did?

I played all that existed in the 1980s. It was fun but very limited.

Because it is incorrect? Modern Monetary Theory has incredibly shaky ground upon which it teeters.

That is also my understanding as someone who regularly checks to make sure my boss paid the tariff on the stuff we import. Containers are not removed from ships until you have proven the tariff has been paid.

Or if you personally own a lot of crypto and are looking to manipulate the market.

This is an inaccurate metaphor because the referee doesn’t normally earn points but governments absolutely spend money.

The money is collected by the government and funds budgets.

Then yes I did misunderstand. I believe that democracy through the blockchain while a novel idea seems a bad idea to attempt IRL given who fills the cryptosphere.

Lol, no it isn’t a solvable problem, and let me be crystal clear here, techbros will never be able to solve this precisely because they think they can solve it.