rolling out a sophisticated propaganda campaign designed to persuade disaffected Muslims to carry out terror plots in the U.S.

Sophisticated?

I'm pretty sure they could just say "Hey, you see those American bombs falling on Gaza?".

The military doesn't just teach them how to kill. It teaches them that it's okay to kill for political purposes.

Fits better if you turn one of them upside down.

At the 3:00 mark, the differences between the mean figures and the median figures are stunning. A small handful of people are doing very well, and it skews the averages ridiculously.

"Over one-third of GenXers report having saved less than $10,000."

You guys have savings?

They’ll both be disasters for the USA.

Trump will be a disaster because millions of Americans who are currently on the brink of poverty will sink into poverty under his policies, amplifying all kinds of social problems and civil unrest.

Harris will be a disaster because she will escalate unpopular military conflicts, overextending the military, further lessening the prestige of the US, and encouraging countries to de-dollarize.

The next four years are going to be rough. There’s no avoiding it.

So you're saying your comment was just violating our incivility rule?

Altaicist isn't an insult. I didn't say there was anything wrong with being an Altaicist. There are reputable linguists who are Altaicists.

I was just observing that the person I was talking to subscribes to the Altaicist hypothesis.

You know, this is the third comment I've made to you in the past half hour where I've had to correct your misframing of what I've said. Can you please stop twisting my words? It's starting to feel personal.

No, I was not agreeing.

I know. I'm not the one who claimed Turkish is related to Mogolian. The other guy said that.

Did you respond to the wrong person?

Ah, so now we've gone from "it's not an invasion" to "they did it first."

I said that several comments ago.

I said: "But even if you want to consider a balloon an invasion, the South still invaded first when it aerial dropped propaganda."

My first response to you was about how North Korea was acting in response to what South Korea did first.

What's with the downvotes? Are you all Altaicists here?

Who would have thought the worst thing about Lemmy was all the bad linguistics theories.

Edit: Oh, come to think of it, I guess bad anthropological theories are a bit of a staple of American reactionaries.

Yes, but you don't have to overstate things in the headline so much.

I sometimes think of something to say after my original comment.

And is "comrade" supposed to be a dig of some kind? Because it isn't.

the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), an agency that reviews violations of religious freedoms overseas and makes policy recommendations to the President and Congress.

Why does that exist?

What imperialist bullshit.

"Report says" is newspaper speak for "this is probably bullshit".

Uh, I think this image was probably made by a right-winger.

If you're not American, you might not know what "drinking the Kool-Aid" means, but it's not a good thing.

Part of me thinks “Surely American military intelligence must know there are different ethnic groups in Russia”.

But then I remember how the invasion of Iraq happened in part because the Americans didn’t understand the difference between Shia and Sunni Iraqis.

Another story I saw says that North Korean troops were spotted in the Russian military. How could an observer know they were Korean? Were they wearing a Korean uniform? And if so, why haven’t we seen any photos of that? Ukrainians have cameras, right?

Is this just a case of Ukrainians not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans?

Edit: Come to think of it, it’s more likely a case of Americans not being able to tell the difference between Buryats and Koreans.

I can only imagine their shock when they eventually learn that Russia, a country that spans all of north Asia, has Asians in it.