limer

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

But most of them will not loose their reelection.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Must suck for non genocidal democrats who have no option but to ignore this next year during campaigning; logically realizing they must minimize these issues to help fight against the worse Republicans

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago (8 children)

This seems pretty divisive in American politics for multiple reasons

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago

So, universal monk 1; outraged commenter 0

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

What is the worst they have done ?

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 hours ago

Not just a broken clock: it’s the decayed remnants of what might have been a timepiece.

And I think this is the first time they were correct.

But yes.

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

I want this superpower; I’m too honest though

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

They are not so bad.. mostly harmless

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It’s easier to impugn the grand jury with unsubstantiated garbage, smear campaigns, and innuendo. Harder to trash the documents

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And even most of these tech outlets are part of mega corporations.

A lot of journalism can be found in a scattered collection of blogs and social media, and few people know most of them.

Humans never had this exact problem of gathering news before. Pre print times had an established way of getting information to us, it might have taken months but was reliable.

The last few centuries of press were supported by advertising. Now, that has collapsed, making the idle rich and underpaid volunteers bear the bunt to take up the slack

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Carthage definitely had to supply a complex theater of operations. But I remember he did get supplies , and once was waiting in a port city for promised supplies that were diverted.

That cost him alliances, and set the tone, for a while , where he had to prove, and keep proving, to others in Italy that he could be a reliable balance to Rome. It definitely changed his campaign, and forced him into battles he rather had avoided.

A lot of his success was advertising to others in Italy that they could depend on him. A lot of the troops and supplies he used were from those allies in Italy.

Also, to change the history all he had to do was delay Roman expansion by a few decades; it was probably set in stone he could not keep an invasion up forever: but organizing a lasting counterbalance, with many Tribes and cities in Italy, using Carthage as a nucleus, was possible.

Rome had plenty of opponents in Italy without him, but they had no good way to unify against Rome without him

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There were times when extra troops and supplies were stopped by his enemies at home.

In an alternate history he might have locked down parts of southern Italy: hobbling an expansionist Rome long enough for everything to be different

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