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  • But no, every liberal has to treat Biden like he has no agency, like he didn’t continue negotiating with the Taliban and eventually gave the final withdrawl orders leaving locals who helped the US to fend for themselves.

    So I didn’t go into everything in my comment because I was specifically only commenting on that one aspect. But I’m actually mad at Biden because I know he had agency in the process and didn’t have to hang all those interpreters out to dry, or leave a ton of fully functional hardware for the Taliban to use. I’m not trying to excuse Biden for his actions, I’m saying it’s weird that he chose to step on the landmine that Trump left for him rather than do anything to make leaving not a disaster and then just chose to eat the criticism after.

    Like I’m glad that he did actually leave rather than staying and occupying Afghanistan forever. But I agree with what was said in that other comment that basically it was a no-win situation and Biden chose the worst possible way he could have left.






  • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zonetocats@lemmy.worldnot true 🥲
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    4 months ago

    idk, cats are really sweet if you understand how they show affection. Though on this particular note, my grumpy old man of a cat taught himself to basically be an anxiety/panic attack service animal. He started doing it years ago when I was really struggling with anxiety and depression. But now if he hears someone, even one of the little kids crying or even gets the vibe one of us in the house is about to have an anxiety/panic attack he will come up to us, rub up on us, and start trying to like burrow his way into whatever ball we’re curled up in to get into our faces and try to get us to pet him. Then he’ll just sit there demanding pets from us until whatever attack we are having subsides and he’ll trot off.

    Little goofball would even guard the twins swings. The second one of the swings stopped or one of them started crying he’d run over and meow at one of us and lead us to the problem. And oh the beating he gave to one of the other cats the one time he dared to hiss at one of those babies for crying. I hadn’t even had the chance to stand up yet and that old man practically flew across the room and have 7 or 8 loud paw slaps to the offender’s face and the most threatening yowl I’d ever heard come out of him. The other cat was fine too, no serious harm to anything but his pride. It was very much a “WTF are you doing? Those are babies! GTFO before I really hurt you,” kind of thing.