Youtube comments of M Shepard (@mshepard2264).

  1. The abandonment of the Kurds was unforgivable.
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  2. The tolerance for civilian deaths has definitely changed.
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  3. A really important thing he said is that African countries need investment in processing minerals into finished product close to the source. That is where money is actually made and people employed.
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  4. I have made and programmed battery systems. I don’t think anyone could get a normal comercial battery’s to fail at the same exact time. If the pagers randomly went off over the course of hours then maybe. However that video from the supermarket didnt look like a battery failure. Battery failures usually look more like a flare. Also battery failures involve lots of smoke.
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  5. I would bet the UK is correct and it is politically inconvenient for the US to have the chinese called out about it at this moment.
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  6. Ross Perot wasn’t a garbage candidate.
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  7.  @pertinaks1151  maybe you should show it by letting the Ukrainians export their grain to africa
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  8. If the coup leaders are confident that they represent the will of the people they should schedule a new election in the next month or two right?
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  9. people are just taking what hamas says on faith about the hospital? why would they be telling the truth all of a sudden. Also images show the hospital still standing and that there was a fire in the parking lot. The media in general needs to check sources better before publishing.
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  10.  @5tre55full  parroting Russian propaganda doesn’t make it more true. Russian soldiers were shooting selfies in front of the Russian missile launcher. Also like it or not we have these reconnaissance satellites and radars and such.
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  11.  @S1eww  yea it is common to move a boat a couple feet. especially at a dock like that or a fuel dock. sometimes if a large ship get delayed your loosing like thousands of dollars an hour.
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  12. I dont get how people think Russia / wagner is going to make things better. Wagner doesn’t work for free. They will be taking their payment and it will be expensive for the host country.
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  13. ⁠​⁠ @mando102 So are the Russians about to take Kiev ? A billion in missiles wont get it done just like carpet bombing Cambodia didn’t cause the USA to suddenly win in the 70s. keep in mind 7 million tons of bombs were dropped during the Vietnam war. Also the USA had air superiority and still lost. a couple hundred cruise missile is roundoff error compared to that.
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  14. so your ok with a random military general no one voted for taking over. also after a coup most foreign aid will end and foreign investment will dry up.
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  15.  @robinalexander5558  Well that was the most lethal conflict in the history of humanity. so there were some drawbacks
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  16. What the UN was intended to be would be perfect for Gaza. If the UN could raise a giant multi national peace keeper force that was somewhat impartial it would be the least bad solution. With the UN in its current state I cant imagine that happening.
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  17. I think Paul is right. There needs to be a real security check. Like Ukraine becomes full nato member.
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  18. I wish I could say that Netanyahu ignoring their ONLY real ally and starting a larger war just before the US election was surprising.
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  19.  @MrStonedraider I thought it was a special military operation?
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  20. When the US leaves there will be less money. The US pays Niger for the base and gives military and humanitarian aid. Maybe the US should leave but that will not help the economy of Niger.
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  21.  @mando102  Right now Russia is just insuring that no one wins. The stupid thing about that is Russia still looses even if Ukraine is destroyed.
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  22. how is funding training and manufacturing jobs crushing poor Americans. Poor Americans pay low tax rates so how are they getting crushed. Also inflation rate is way down.
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  23. Maybe other places in Africa have the natural resources Niger does not. It is dry almost impossible to grow anything. Also one or two uranium mines is not enough to support 25 million people. It is cheaper to mine other places that have better infrastructure.
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  24. I hate to say but i agree in many cases the Chinese EV offerings are superior. This comes from cornering the lithium Iron phosphate battery market years ago. Its more the result of other companies lack of foresight and innovation. The only company that will be able to compete with the Chinese companies is probably tesla due to their aggressive implementation of advanced manufacturing.
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  25.  @erinc6997 Yea and they did cancel a bunch of student loan debt. Then I think some republican judges put that on hold.
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  26.  @AndyMartin-n6j are you kidding he is holding up tick tacks and rambling
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  27.  @mel92108 It was not brilliant. Also his tarif plan would definitely cause inflation as its just returning to normal.
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  28. I bet you this will be the last video of the admiral. After this Russia will be like he is on vacation!
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  29. I hope the new guys turn out to be better.
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  30. Its hard enough to make the Euro work a Bricks currency would just reduce the versatility of the individual countries central banks.
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  31. money talks 100 million over night. Did trump raise 100mil overnight?
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  32.  @HamhocksUnlimited  don’t start with bs conspiracy theories. 80mph winds and dry conditions and bad luck is what caused this.
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  33. I do think that it might be time to re-evaluate building codes to make future disasters like this less bad. Maybe restricting roofing to metal shingles and concrete roofing tiles. Possible low density foamed concrete structures. Im not an expert but I think the must be a way to reduce the risk in the future.
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  34.  @glintongordon6811  why didn’t they bring enough fuel and supplies. Why did paratroopers drop in behind enemy lines so they were cut off. They expect the Ukrainian govt to collapse. that didnt happen.
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  35. Putin didn’t want to put SA in an awkward spot.
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  36. That doesn’t make sense at all. The US is hoping the country stays stable. The US just doesn’t want a repeat of Afghanistan.
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  37. RFK is nuts and there is no way rank and file democrats will vote for him. Also he can barely speak.
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  38. So during the pandemic we couldn’t get TI power supply chips. We had to redesign boards and raise prices. we we even bought other pcbs just to pull chips off. If there was more domestic chip capacity then we could have charged our customers less keeping prices lower. so inflation would be lower if supply chains were more stable.
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  39. if russia had any intention of helping African people they wouldn’t by blockading Ukrainian grain shipments. Right now russia more than any other country is the reason people are hungry in africa.
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  40. I think you have a different version of reality its going terribly for both Russia and the Ukraine. The US has lost basically zero soldiers while giving away some fairly old equipment. Also the Russian currency is worth almost nothing. I mean those pardoned convicts in wagner marched on Moscow. Thats not a sign of things going well
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  41. I think that people were not ready for social media. All the weird conspiracy theory’s have exploded in the last 20 years and made average people less logical and more crazy. I miss the days of having to get you com ports and IRQs set eight to maybe get your modem on the internet. It was like a moron filter. It kept many of the people not ready for the internet off the internet.
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  42. it cant be just software
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  43. He would complain about it but He would definitely not order any assassinations in India.
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  44. no but it flies good and launches modern missiles which is way better than broken ancient soviet planes.
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  45. It was so shameful when the whitehouse under trump abruptly abandoned the Kurds after all that.
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  46. When trump was president it was always a race to see if his experienced cabinet members could save the country from some giant international blunder before trump fired them for “disloyalty”. No one anywhere can afford to go back to that precarious situation.
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  47. i really hope they don’t spend a dollar trying to get him back. They should just put out a warrant for his arrest then see if he turns up ever. Ideally they keep him.
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  48.  @aSpaghettiMan Ok you mean a career politician that has been a senator of a massive state and vice president VS a game show host that has gone bankrupt multiple times and obviously is senile that somehow became president.
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  49.  @turbonerd3075 Democrats have not threatened him with violence. Many people have sued for things he has done that is not the same.
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  50. meh RFK is crazy who knows
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  51.  @shsh-he5qg The US isn’t fighting in Ukraine just delivering weapons. Also the Russians are the ones that couldn’t take Kiev even before the weapons deliveries started in quantity. The Russians were supposed to have the second best army on earth. The entire Russian federation failed to take Ukraine and is bleeding itself dry on a foolish lost cause.
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  52.  @tontonbeber4555  russia stopped the Ukraine from exporting grain which is why people in around the world are starving.
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  53. Im super worried about what Russia might trade for the shells. MIRVs for example.
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  54. States that are totally dependent on foreign aid seem to be stuck in a pattern that ends with an unsustainable population explosion and political instability / tragedy. I mean look at the Sahel lately.
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  55. Have you read what Hamas has written about its own stated goals? Also keep in mind many Israeli Jews are from the region so are not actually colonizers. (I am not saying Israeli policy hasn’t been terrible sometimes) Hamas doesn’t leave any room for negotiation. It is a problem with all bad outcomes. also most neighboring countries acting in bad faith for their own internal reasons.
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  56. The dems that were racist voted for trump. and the republicans that hated trump didn’t vote at all.
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  57.  @JeikuAnimeReview then why was it done by “conservatives”
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  58.  @SW-lx2pf hypersonic drones are not a thing. you are thinking of icbms.
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  59. why would Macron be there France is not in BRICS.
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  60.  @ВалентинПузыня its not that hard to stop a navy from landing troops across a sea. Taking a beach and landing troops and equipment is much harder then defending a beach. Especially if the sea is fill of attack subs.
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  61. Also that guy is never going to make his tiktok videos anywhere near the front line.
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  62. So I was thinking lets say a guy owned a bunch of failing casinos and golf courses. Maybe he needs a loan to get back to profitability. I mean he has expenses to cover like orange spray tan for example. He might take some loans from some eastern europeans that don’t care about his credit score.
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  63. The stuff that people actually need , the stuff that is too expensive isn’t really the stuff that comes from china. The stuff that break peoples budget is: Rent , education, Healthcare , food. none of that comes from china. The food problem is mostly a price-fixing by US companies problem. Real-estate prices are being driven up by wall-street investors. Health care is expensive because of a bunch of reasons. We can address these problems right here. We should keep trading with china but there needs to be some rules and some reasonable tariffs. If we stop trading we will have no leverage. Also dishwashers and tvs will be super expensive if we stop.
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  64. because ukraine is defending against attack. Not dropping 1000lb jdams on civilians
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  65. yea after trump undermines the Ukrainians he will have to do a podcast about little green men in Poland or some other former soviet border countries.
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  66. That aid would count for a-lot more if it was on time. The house of representatives probably wasted many Ukrainian soldiers lives waiting for anti missile systems and ammunition.
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  67. the complete lack of critical thinking ability of a large percentage of Americans is the biggest threat to democracy. This is the problem with an engaged public that is also stupid.
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  68. Another reason I mostly only will buy Toyotas.
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  69.  @FudgethePudge thats some complete gasslighting right there
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  70.  @harryfarber6435 she did not promise any specific position.
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  71.  @samueljaramillo4221  Its supposed to be a prop not a gun with live rounds. Do you think Arnold was checking his rotary gatling gun on the set of predator? NO because its not his JOB and he is Unqualified to even check!
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  72. and your sitting at home bitter watching propaganda good luck with that
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  73.  @aragornii507 No she isn’t She is just pro worker. Also She talks about how great america IS and can be. She doesn’t wine about how america is terrible and its the apocalypse like trump.
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  74.  @JaneCurtright-zs1lr It might it depends on what you tariff and how much. My company uses parts from all over the world and assembles systems in the US. Raising the tariffs across the board will drive up inflation. Its better to selectively raise tariffs on goods that have an unfair pricing advantage.
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  75. how is that ? she is polling well and there are more democrats than republicans. It will be close but no one is “cooked” yet.
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  76. I use more power in the summer than the winter but all this does depend on location. Grid scale flow batteries could work.
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  77.  @sergeismit4562 how many real allies do the Russians have left. How are those magical “hypersonic missiles” working out. Then think about how many Allies the Ukrainians have.
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  78. Doesn’t Saudi Arabian lenders basically Own millions in Jared Kushners debt? Gee no conflict of interest there… not to mention the 1.2 billion he got for that skyscraper.
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  79. Also there are 5000 star-link satellites up there. Each one has an Ion engine and can change its orbit. It would be really hard to take out all of them.
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  80. Bebe is definitely trying to keep the war going.
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  81. If that is true the Indian govt would have a good chance requesting extradition. There are ways of doing things without assassinations.
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  82. um they just did talk about the consulate did you watch the video or the last one?
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  83. well that’s horrifying but I guess all of it is.
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  84. Its not the uranium its the geography and that air base.
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  85. how would France possibly have fired a russian missile at a russian jet hundreds of miles inside russia near Moscow. The plane was way inside russian territory.
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  86. I think it depends on which syrian government you ask.
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  87. i would say just dont buy one in iran or lebanon and you will probably be fine.
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  88. The US still benefits from international trade especially since most of those transactions are in dollars and we print dollars. Its why we can run deficits without economic disaster. The taxes in the US are lower than they would otherwise be because of this situation.
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  89. Id like to see russia try to take back Manchuria. After a short bit of unpleasantness They would find that their new national language in Moscow is actually mandarin.
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  90. When we accept federal contracts we pretty much have to prepare for an audit right off the bat. why don’t congress members get audited more often?
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  91. Its like buying a one way ticket you can do it but it invites extra scrutiny.
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  92. well yea china needs raw materials but not as much as russia needs to sell so good luck with that.
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  93. Did you actually watch the debate or is it that you just cant vote for a woman. It was pretty clear who was the better choice.
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  94.  kelli2152 Jesus is ayn rand back from the dead? I think you could use some financial hardship. It would build character.
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  95. why, there will be a slew of papers published. I doubt most people will read them.
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  96. of course you can but no one will take you seriously unless you have an actual reason. (and no the vp isnt in charge of border security)
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  97. She might not be the perfect candidate but trump is a bad candidate in many many ways.
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  98.  @trevorsutherland5263 Maybe but he almost never tells the truth.
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  99.  @derrickjoe1872  you have all ready used that one.
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  100. so you know how to make Putin stop invading?
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  101.  @samueljaramillo4221  thats stupid if it was a star-wars blaster should he have checked the chamber then? what about a fake laser gun? Also Why were any live rounds on set?!?!
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  102.  @samueljaramillo4221  WHY because some one else put LIVE rounds in a prop gun? If some one built a balcony poorly and he walked on it and it fell on some one killing them would it be his fault or the shoddy carpenter
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  103.  @reek-x4m wrong I import things. The tariff increases the price then I raise the price when I sell it by the exact amount I had to pay. Unlike other business expenses there is no other way to mitigate it.
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  104.  @MakeHotRoddingGreatAgain a bunch of the most profitable corporations are paying nothing. That needs to change
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  105.  @mhall801 what is trump doing besides photo opps
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  106. cant have elon he was born in south africa.
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  107. There are tons of electric cars near me and everything is fine. Sure in rural areas there will probably be a good percentage gas / diesel trucks / cars for a while longer but that is ok. I dont care if everyone in north Dakota is driving an f150 because there are more people in a neiborhood here than all of north Dakota.
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  108.  @张驰昊-o2q Just because they were from mainland China doesn’t mean that the mainland has some automatic right to rule the Taiwan people. Taiwan doesn’t want to be ruled and they saw what happened in Hong Kong.
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  109. your joking right?
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  110. ⁠ @martingooding8989  sure the US has made some really huge mistakes in the middle east and around the world. However many of the things it does are positive. Like foreign policy of every great power its complicated. Just as Chinas Africa policy is complicated. Beneficial and detrimental in different aspects. In the pacific the US is mainly interested enforcing uniform rules on use of international waters and freedom of navigation. If China gets its way it will cause significant problems with shipping in international waters. Also it really really really doesn’t want china to invade Taiwan. This would cause a world wide semiconductor crisis and cause huge supply chain problems like world economy crashing ones.
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  111. they could get on a cruise ship and go to Antarctica. and find that there is no guards or mile high Ice walls but most conspiracy theorist are not about to pit effort into proving themselves wrong.
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  112.  @BonsuBigWhale  really? when? Where? The violence is worse than ever. Im not seeing any evidence of it getting better no matter who is trying.
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  113. My impression is that the fire was so fast and the wind was so loud that it drowned out sirens. Also I think the cell towers were so rapidly destroyed that it undermined the warnings.
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  114. Don’t invade other countries and that might happen
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  115. the americans have 2 air bases and 1100 soldiers so there they should be able to leave when they decide to.
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  116. yea at my daughters school cafeteria it was 100percent microwave tv dinners in blister packs.
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  117. no it wouldn’t fix anything the only thing people care less about than other peoples kids is teachers.
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  118.  @DK-ev9dg What was incompetent there was 80 mile an hour winds it was like a sideways blow torch. There was nothing that was going to stop that. it was so windy boats in the harbor burned. do you expect people to spring out of bed at 2 am each one with a fire hose magically connected to the ocean?
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  119. It really does seem that the IDF considers aid workers enemy combatants. The US should not provide the weapons for the targeting of our own aid workers.
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  120. none of the worlds most powerful militaries are in the ICC so that isn’t really surprising.
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  121. Yea but it wasn’t canada and was part of a war. The US didn’t need to avoid acts of war because it had already started a war. Its not a good comparison.
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  122. Also its a non-binding resolution. that doesn’t even mean anything the un does that like 50 times a day.
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  123. there are worse
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  124. A year or two ago I still would have bought a tesla. Now with him trying to buy votes and jumping around on stage with trump I just couldn’t.
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  125.  @adamb8317  that doesn’t even make sense
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  126. This makes sense only if you ignore every naval engagement since like the 40s.
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  127.  @ericjuanlava4734  the fighters on CAP are there to prevent enemy from slowly positioning itself all around the strike group. the enemy will not be able to sit there at their leisure launching missiles they will be busy trying hard not to die.
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  128.  @JLSMaytham  how does a hypersonic missile adjust targeting data for a moving target when its forward looking radar and communications are interrupted by the plasma cause by their high speed. Hypersonic missiles are garbage and made mostly for pr and intimidation.
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  129.  @wedgeantilles8575  yea but they are asking for everything. The US has a giant air force and its not like the army is getting rid of all the tanks.
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  130.  @jacksmith-mu3ee  in what war china and the US were on the same side in ww2 and Korea was basically a draw?
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  131. i don’t understand how would NATO free SA?
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  132. All of New York state only has 19 million people. Niger has 27 million people to support but very little infrastructure almost no rain and not much skilled labor and one of the highest birth rates in the world. Maybe kicking out the French mining company will help some I have no idea. Much more than that will need to be done to support that many people.
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  133. 27 million people is not a small population for a country like Niger. I hope some one in the military does some accounting and runs the numbers before making any big decisions.
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  134. they don’t have the infrastructure to refine the uranium. The price of un refined uranium ore is not very high and many of other countries have ore. So even if the new government takes 100% of the profits and distributes it perfectly fairly there isn’t going to be enough money.
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  135. Seems like the presidential guard just locked the president in the basement or something. Also pretty sure the old president wasn’t french. Why does every one commenting here think the military is going to do a better job. The military was getting a large chunk of the western aid. why trust them more than the former president?
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  136. I think that African nations should act in their best interest. However ruling out trade / investment in the US would be a mistake. The US is the largest market for products in the world. Also It will be hard to make good deals with china if you deal with them exclusively. Russia doesn’t have the capital at this point.
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  137.  @Jay-bk5sl  The French economy will definitely not collapse but maybe Macron will have some political problems.
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  138. From a European politician perspective I think that what the french government is afraid of is Instability causing famines. They are afraid that mass migration from north Africa will cause political problems in Europe. Then they loose re-election. Sure protecting interest in the mine is part of it but I think the bigger fear is political fallout from regional instability. The French, Nigeria , ecowas and USA are trying to figure out the least bad option individually.
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  139. yea and militaries never embezzle?
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  140. My bad didnt putin just run to saint Petersburg to get away from Wagner. I didn’t see Zelenskyy running. Maybe more comedians need to be president.
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  141. Why because he should surrender when invaded?
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  142. I think one problem with the culture in the Chinese government and military is the penalty for failure is so high it encourages asscovering at all cost. Its hard to fix problems when officers are terrified of finding problems.
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  143. it does seem like the pagers are for giving Iranian orders
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  144. how is that? corruption is pretty bipartisan and court cases take forever.
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  145. Harris won that debate easily. She baited him into spouting nonsense then let him dig himself into a hole. I cant think of anyone who has done better against him in a debate.
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  146.  @robbiekop7 India doesn’t want rubles either
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  147. They are usually housed in super rugged containers probably could survive re-entry
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  148. Watching republican politicians repeat Russian propaganda just drives me nuts. Acting like traitors just to “Own the libs” and win a primary.
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  149. The dude that took his work laptop to russia to see his fiancé! What the heck. I remember friends of mine not getting clearance for some pot smoking in college. People even loose their CDL for failing a pee test for pot. Kinda looks like a giant double standard. Sure go visit your shady russian ‘fiancée’ with classified documentation but oh man don’t fail that stupid pee test!
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  150. financial planning is irrelevant if your rent is high and pay is low. there is no extra money to put into the wall-street casino
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  151.  @imperialmotoring3789 because buying an apartment cost millions. have you tried to save up money from a regular non lawyer / doctor / cfo job?
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  152.  @xcqematic1 this must be the thread where every rich baby-boomer posts.
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  153.  @MiddleClassAmerican only if you have the money or credit to get a mortgage. Its not like this guy hasn’t thought of buying a house. Its not the 80s anymore you cant just buy a house for 50k.
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  154. partly this is because of the type of cars that people in the US buy. People are buying 6000lb extended cab pickups with 400hp and complaining about it being expensive. People in the US need to buy more small cheap hatchbacks.
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  155. libby and hoopla are great
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  156. The tablet is fine for entertainment and obscure controls you don’t need often. however for common controls there should be buttons. We should not have to look at a screen while driving.
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  157. Its like he said though. I drive an electric car sometimes and it beeps and does all that annoying stuff however the gas rentals I have used also beep at me for no reason. The only thing i drive that doesn’t beep at me for random reasons is my manual Toyota tacoma.
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  158. Big brakes are about heat dissipation and making brake fade less likely. You really would need a really long mountain slope to get them to fade. I have managed it only while towing.
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  159. 30 percent more fuel economy is pure nonsense.
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  160. also there is just more reciprocating mass which isn’t great…
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  161. machining those cylinders precisely would be an absolute nightmare. The minor friction of the piton skirt isn’t that big a deal like he says. Also the world market doesn’t need a marginally more efficient extremely expensive ICE engine.
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  162. i still hate timing belts. wet or dry i hate them all forever.
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  163. This is just a clown show.
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  164. no other billionaires were buying votes
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  165. what because a cheating orange grifter is like jesus?
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  166. she didn’t say they were bad a business she said working in govt is not like running a start up. Start ups are allowed to fail and most do. Imagine if 20 percent of social security checks just don’t get mailed
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  167.  @wkahn1005 yea because a billionaire with tons of defense contacts has such an incentive to “drain the swamp” Elon will just own the swamp and squash potential competitions he will probably leave as a trillion air.
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  168. Do you think once Mcconnell is gone there will still be a filibuster? I dont
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  169. you know what a political rally is right.
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  170.  @markusberzborn6346  Oh and The imprisonment and slow motion murder of Navalny.
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  171.  @markusberzborn6346  um the fact that journalists keep getting murdered by the kremlin. They keep imprisoning political activists just for political opinions. The rampant graft and corruption of russian politicians.
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  172. Its the murder rate that is down not petty theft.
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  173. its politics there were some exaggerations but who are you to say they are un-American.
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  174. And if Trump hadnt completely mishandled the covid response maybe the economy biden inherited wouldn’t have sucked
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  175. about what?
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  176. Biden had a slip of the tongue and you all are getting fake mad about it. He is 80 like trump and says dumb stuff thats why he isn’t running again.
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  177. Why he pressure mike jhonson kill the bipartisan border bill that would have funded more agents? So maybe your blame is misplaced.
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  178. Detroit has never gone republican. It wont even be close in detroit.
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  179.  @dikjones-tb2xy mice 4month old account
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  180.  @davidwood7205 How did she get through law school and pass the bar? She also was elected to the US senate. have you done that?
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  181.  @phonehomeet5874 All presidential campaigns have speech writers. The candidate chooses the speech they want to deliver.
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  182.  @davecalvo6418  Did you pass the bar? Did you finish law school? Did you get elected to the US senate?
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  183.  @NottABlack  ok so the speech was a half hour not an hour. And sure she mentioned trump she is running against him. He calls her all kinds of names at his rallies. He says racist stuff all the time.
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  184. so trump os going to raise tarifs 20% and thats going to lower consumer food prices?
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  185. people where there and saw it its not media spin. there are a million pictures. There were hundreds of injured cops. And there was that bs scheme to get pence not to certify the election. I know people in the national gaurd that had to go deal with the mess. Stop gasslighting people.
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  186. its not just the comedian like half the speakers said either psychotic or racist stuff.
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  187. Go read the constitution. This is the election NOW the parties dont even need to have primarys if they dont want. The vote part is Now.
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  188. Did you pass the bar. Did tou get elected to the US senate?
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  189. So Putin attacking another country is somehow the fault of the vice president?
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  190. they should do a side by side
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  191. scott is a turd
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  192. Trump calls evil and low iq at every single rally just stop with the fake outrage.
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  193. because the VP has magical control of the economy? Maybe read about how the govt works
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  194. how is a network that reports news criminal? not big on free speech huh.
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  195. wtf are you talking about watch the speech. She never says anything like that. Also she says trump is dangerous because of his shady fake elector scheme.
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  196. ok your a jackass and Candice owens is a nut job. The VP cant open the border. And she has a Jamaican father. you have nothing.
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  197. The DNC does not condone riots. The RNC seems to approve of an attack on the capitol thats the difference.
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  198. Trump increased the debt more than biden. Its numbers you can look it up.
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  199. it wast one goofball isolated comic. Stephen miller says racist crap all the time. Trump says racist stuff all the time. tucker carlson says racist and sexist things constantly.
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  200. Kennedy shopped his endorsement on both sides of because he an opportunist rich guy.
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  201. Its a lunatic conversation because I wouldn’t let someone like RFK within 1 mile of any kids.
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  202.  @CarlWTownMoneySaver  also trump had far more soldiers killed abroad under his watch than Biden
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  203.  @CarlWTownMoneySaver ok so you mean your voting biden because the murder rate was higher under trump
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  204.  @wades9327  are you 13
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  205. Do you remember trump doing debate prep with chris christie last time he prepared for a week then have everyone covid. All politicians that want to win do prep work
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  206. The masks worked for me I didn’t get covid when I wore masks until years later after omicron or whatever. The masks worked for my wife and kids also. People are forgetting the worst part where big hospitals needed freezer trucks for bodies.
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  207. It is illegal if you threaten physical violence however in this case the treat is more political destruction. It shows that the Republicans don’t care about policy and the good of the country. Just trump.
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  208. I used have respect for crenshaw not anymore watching him dance around any criticism of trump is pathetic
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  209. What I would like to know is why was the FBI wasting resources prying into his marriage. Especially when the woman may have been seeing was an intelligence officer and not a security risk.
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  210. what republicans didnt understand is running in a primary against other democrats is not the same as running against an ancient republican that is loathed by half the country.
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  211.  @outkast187 thats BS pelosi did not unlock anything. And no fbi was involved because it isn’t their job. Deluding yourself does not help. Trump incited a riot on purpose. Its not complicated. Only capital police were between the protestors and the congress. They are a small force.
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  212. she has 8 kids ! Im thinking of this Mike Judge movie from 2006…… oh nevermind
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  213.  @svenhaheim if you watched the republican convention that is the reason why. 99 percent of people at the republican convention where white. So how does that represent the US public.
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  214.  @FishndudeA yea but most american’s hate trump so she might.
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  215. he was fine for 3 and a half
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  216.  @donaldsmith9642 which policy do you hate
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  217.  @MichaelTaylor-w5z how are his Atlantic city casinos doing?
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  218. and that is in-fact a lie you can google records from the senate. You’re just parroting fox propaganda.
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  219.  @Browncoatful um you think california is going to go red? yea OK good luck with that
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  220.  @MarkSmithhhh  your just racist no one called pence a dei hire. No one wondered what he was doing.
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  221.  @whatweshouldknow5648 VPs mostly dont do anything unless the break the rules like Dick
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  222.  @TheBobbyolsen stop watching fox she wasnt in charge of the border.
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  223.  @mmeduvennet3316 what was that because the VP has literally no authority over the border.
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  224.  @mmeduvennet3316 she wasn’t the border tsar. That is just what fox calls her
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  225.  @Hautehead13 she won a state wide senate race she wasn’t appointed to that. She won a vote to be AG. your just racist.
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  226.  @vparakhin yea because she was VP no one pays atention to the vp
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  227.  @paulaitix77 i did she was on the ticket as VP
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  228.  @saintjabroni  she was not in any way in charge of the southern border
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  229.  @shanedaley6236  she was a senator and sponsored bills. you van look up her senate voting record on google
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  230. in this case fire boat wouldn’t have helped. The 80mph dry wind prevented any one or anything from putting out the fire. Also it was the middle of the night and there was no time.
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  231. yea almost none of your tax dollars are going to the Ukraine. Mostly money is being spent on US weapons made by American workers to replace obsolete weapons that were in the US stockpile.
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  232. So maybe don’t roll your crappy rusty tanks into another country?
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  233.  @Luiz-w5s  Not really many many countries use russian weapons. Does that mean every time russian weapons are used Russia is at war? Also If Russia stops invading then the war would be over.
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  234. By giving up territory and letting putin win? Is the russian army going to give back the land they stole and the Ukrainian kids they abducted?
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  235. The Russian government predates putins presidency
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  236. The US isn’t in a cold war rivalry with russia. That was before. The US is worried about which way China is going to go. Russia just lost its black sea fleet to a country without a navy.
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  237. yea OK if Ukraine’s leadership is so incompetent why didnt russia take Kiev in the last 2 years.
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  238. If Russian troops go back to russia the war would be over tomorrow.
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  239. That was true up until the 1940s
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  240. They haven’t lost yet and seem to be holding russian territory. No one can predict the future.
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  241. Really we are shaking in our boots
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  242. maybe the states that actually pay taxes into the federal system should decide where the money goes.
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  243. you all hardly pay taxes. Federal funds per person On average, the federal government spends $4,221 more per person in Montana than Montana pays in federal taxes.
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  244.  @36NONAME503 you are probably NOT from the usa
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  245. No it’s not what evidence do you have. The US is not funding russia.
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  246. What that orange surrender monkey? Because appeasement always works awesome.
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  247. Thats not how macro economics works when you print the world’s reserve currency.
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  248.  @derrickjoe1872 maybe you should stop invading countries.
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  249.  @samueljaramillo4221 Its a PROP
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  250.  @samueljaramillo4221 its a prop it is the prop departments job to NOT pit real bullets in it!
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  251.  @samueljaramillo4221 you think he shot his co-worker on purpose? why would he ? Also why did the prop department have live rounds in the prop guns ?
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  252.  @linuxpatriot200 Is that why those Live twitter events work so well now!?
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  253.  @Sara-ce1yf you are 100percent not an american voter
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  254.  @mhall801 Its interesting all the anti biden accounts were created around the same time.
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  255.  @kensweetser6901  gee you seem to have anti Ukraine posts and a 3 year old account.
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  256.  @kensweetser6901  nice 3 year old account gee what happened 3 years ago.
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  257.  @mushios  biden doesn’t just send money to places that is congress. Also it was republicans that voted against more FEMA funding. Ask Matt Gaetz about it he voted against fema funding then took off early.
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  258. That doesn’t Even make sense. And how about stop crapping on america you sound like a foreign propagandist.
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  259. also he has NO possible chance of winning so he can only help or hurt one of the actually popular candidates.
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  260. What results?
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  261. I had no particular love for manchin but at least he voted with the democrats sometimes. WV will likely replace him with a MAGA republican. The democrats will loose the senate and get none of what they want ever.
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  262.  @lightingbolt8148  Afghanistan?
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  263.  @andynguyen1277 Why because she supports the Ukraines right to defend itself from invasion by any chance?
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  264. Biden is from Delaware. However it comes down to turnout in Philly and Pittsburg really.
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  265. That is super tired. Republicans default attack is to shriek communist.
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  266.  @abvevo6406  True but population matters.
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  267.  @CarlyMaze  I agree but more people hate trump than before. He has that effect on people.
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  268. no because the actual election is in November. Also she has been on the ticket the whole time for YEARS.
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  269. This is Trumps fault. However Part of the problem is that the security apparatus for the capitol is extremely bureaucratic and everything requires multiple levels of sign offs by multiple bureaucrats. It does seem to need streamlining. Trumps started a riot on purpose and it showed that security needs greater flexibility and support.
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  270. because there is no downside to the mining and refining of uranium. The refining stage generates huge amounts of low level waste.
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  271. yea that must be why Russia has so many allies right now. Russia even managed to piss off the chinese with that grain blockade. good luck with that
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  272. Yea maybe the Russians will liberate them from their ability to vote for their next leader.
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  273. Its like slow motion V for vendetta. I wish I could say that it cant happen in the US but I would be lying. It would just take longer in the US.
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  274.  @ragnarchinknor159  sure but like he said you can change the channel. Its not like the Biden administration shut down fox news. Its not like the trump administration threw NY times reporters out of windows.
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  275. Cable tv news in the US has been headed the same direction especially fox. It has been making old people nuts. They think the craziest stuff after watching years of garbage propaganda.
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  276. The US government doesn’t need the Ukraine to launder money. The US govt controls the most important reserve currency in the world. It is in their military strategic interest that the Russian government wastes its military resources on an un-winnable war though.
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  277.  @lumiyogiwitch2081 Sure the USA has done lousy things and acted in its own interests however if you talking about the environment chinas record is not all that great the build a coal plant like every week.
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  278.  tigerinfantry4234 I have DNA from England does that mean the I am owned by the UK. that is not how it works these days.
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  279.  @peterwang5272 yea its on basically ALL the maps
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  280.  @丁nin I think they are pro Taiwan independence. They are allied with the US to keep them independent not because they love the US.
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  281.  @Johnarchiebald Probably also loads of people in the US navy and air-force. Taiwans ability to trade in the open market is critical to the world economy/ US economy. If there is a war it will be bad for everyone and there will be US casualties.
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  282.  @davidmoss2576 Russia had all the choice. Just as the US chose to invade Iraq.
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  283.  @戚文玮 Russia is only a super power in terms of nuclear warheads. Its economy is smaller than Italys and was before the Ukraine war. The Soviet Union was a superpower.
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  284.  @royhuang9715 The USA doesn’t plan on fighting China on the ground with infantry. So it doesn’t need canon fodder. Just lots and lots of anti ship missiles.
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  285.  @WastedBananas  Japan an South Korea are maintaining their independence.
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  286.  @who5301 how is that?
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  287.  @VashtheStampede007 Su-30 was probably a better deal at the time.
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  288.  @tiberianexcalibur it super wont “come for india” because that makes no sense. Also The US would never be so stupid as to invade India or China or Russia. Because its basically impossible. The US navy might sink troop ships that are headed for Taiwan or Japan but thats not the same.
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  289.  @eyeperture I don’t blame India for buying cheap russian oil. India needs to support its energy needs. As long as they dont sell Russia a bunch of ammo I bet the USA wont be bothered.
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  290. Pakistan has not really been on the US side lately. That whole hiding bin laden from the US during a decade of war thing.
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  291. also just a side note it takes like 25 mins for an ICBM to get anywhere so its kind-of splitting hairs.
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  292. who cares if capitols of Australia are getting nuked first. Every one everyone is getting nuked if that happens and its the end of the world. All of this is about detergence Its all about making sure that everyone KNOWs for sure that a nuclear war cant be won. Chinese leaders have been rational and will act in their own best interest so everything should be OK.
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  293. I think with different leadership in china bill Clinton could have been right. Many people in china would have preferred for it to become more democratic and open. It almost worked we almost got our star-trek future.
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  294. The US has done both. As have all powerful countries. The US does give large amounts of international aid. It also has invaded countries.
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  295. yea none of that backfired at all…….
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  296. Yea I was super disappointed when he got involved in twitter. I used to wish i had tried to go work for spaceX or tesla. Then he got super political and started to throw it all away. Now he is pouring money into right wing political campaigns and trolling people on his personal social media company. Its just so disappointing.
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  297.  @joey3291 none of that matters what matters is forcible re-unification is very unpopular with the public in Taiwan so they are going to elect leaders that prevent takeover by China. I think China squashing of all dissent in Hong Kong probably didn’t help public opinion in Taiwan.
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  298. ⁠ @brigittelehmann9749 Ukrain WAS in the ussr. now Ukraine is in the Ukraine.
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  299.  @rose8596 If The South Koreans elect a government that feels safe enough to request US forces to leave Korea then it would happen. It is expensive to keep all those troops there. The US still has bases in other nearby countries.
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  300.  @CaliSteve169 I think I know why you switched majors.
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  301. very many around here dont bake bread or have a deli section or an actual butcher
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  302. George bush and the neo conservatives thought that they needed to have a friendly regime installed in the middle east. I think they did actually think Iraqis would side with this new US backed govt. It was a huge mistake. Many people in the US protested against the invasion. (US protestors don’t get thrown out windows here) But it is not as big a mistake as the Ukraine invasion because Russia has so much more to loose. This will be worse than that 1980s Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
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  303. Sergey Lavrov condemned the coup. He is in the Russian foreign minister.
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  304. yea like Uzbekistan Kazakstan Poland ect just not African colonies because their navy has never been any good.
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  305. easily
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  306. @@28gire No I don’t I was reading statistics on violence in the region but I would bet you don’t live there either.
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  307. I think this time it is not oil.
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  308. If they let wagner in then it will just be Russians taking over nigers mines. It wont help.
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  309. what Russian territory is the kremlin willing to give up?
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  310. I really really hope the Chinese leadership re-evaluates their plans for Taiwan. The US cant afford not to intervene on behalf of the Taiwanese. Currently it would break supply chains everywhere. Also The US military is absolutely capable being two places at once. The us navy and air force are fantastic at sinking ships. fighting an insurgency is hard sinking ships is easy. It will be bad for everyone involved and in the end Taiwan wont be part of china unless it votes to become part of it.
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  311. If china invades Taiwan its going to break the economy everywhere
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  312. The risk isn’t now its in the future. Its a reaction to what happened when they lost tons of assets in russia. The companies think the same thing but worse will happen when china invades Taiwan. Its a reaction to what leaders in china are saying the will do in the future.
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  313.  @vlhc4642  Have you checked with like all the Taiwanese people? They are definitely under the impression that they are independent. Maybe take a flight over there and talk to them about it im sure they would be happy to explain it.
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  314. infrastructure and the western companies were lazy and didint want to build roads and power plans ect.
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  315. so now if i draw a map of something I want to own that means I own it? Awesome Im going to find some paper and pencils.
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  316. foreign ships can travel trough another countries exclusive economic zone but not extract resources or for example blockade some one and attack them with water canons. The EEZ can extend 200 miles but its not the same as a countries territorial sea. If this was not the case no goods could be delivered anywhere. You are thinking of the territorial sea which is generally 12 miles from shore. If the US ship was 12 miles from India without permission then it would be a violation.
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  317. India has a 200 mile EEZ but not the whole Indian ocean. 12 miles and closer would be their territorial sea. The 12 mile territorial sea part is the part India can chase ships out of if they are not authorized to be there. The 200 mile line is the region where other countries are not allowed to fish or extract resources.
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  318. If the CIA needed to be on a boat it would not be on a boat that was run aground decades ago. What intelligence would they be collecting in person on a rusty old boat very very far away from China?
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  319.  @12315yh The USA is not claiming the island. The position of the USA is that it belongs to the Philippines.
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  320. It doesn’t matter where pottery is. If that was the way it worked Italy would own all of Europe and half of the middle east.
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  321. Ok fine If we are going to do this should we start a full investigation into trumps kids finances? Im sure there is nothing. Definitely no fraud cheating or tax evasion.
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  322. Any one remember when trump gave his kids positions in government? especially Jared who had major international interests and debt? So we are now talking about Hunter biden Who had no position in government calling his dad?
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  323. Assange is fine
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  324. the only way to hold the government accountable in non-democratic systems is through violence and revolution. I think I would prefer to live in a slightly ineffective messy democracy. Its better for life expectancy than periodic revolutions.
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  325. I dont think the US state dept does consider Gabon a thriving democracy. In the US we are too busy fighting ourselves and Undermining our own intrests to really pay attention though.
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  326.  @du5707 Everyone knows that the king of England is like a figurehead for PR purposes right and has no real authority? The monarchy is like a stimulus package for tabloids.
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  327. wasnt that president that was elected by africans from Africa
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  328.  @firasajoury7813 mainly the the usa needs a place to have a base. Its not really about resources for the usa it about stopping the region from turning into a bunch of failed states that supports extremists. There is no resource that the Sahara region has that the USA doesn’t have all-ready.
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  329. there has not been a coup in the USA. The military never tried to remove the elected president. An ex president did provoke a dangerous riot/ insurrection but it was protestors fighting police.
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  330.  @dmode1535  how many do you need what is the difference between 3000 and 10000 who cares no one can use them before ending the world so who cares how many there are. Also on a side note the ones the US and China have actually work maybe Russia should check on theirs and see how rusty they are.
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  331. go i ate a-lot of slim jims.
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  332.  @TheErnie1964 we could have universal health care if it wasn’t for voters in the south.
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  333. he seems great its unfortunate that the entire midwestern and white working class is about to vote for the trump / vance ticket and probably straight republican. Its not going to go so well for unions after 4 years of that. Everyone that would vote different moves to the coast. then because of the electoral college their vote basically doesn’t count. Its not like NY or MA is a swing state.
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  334. No not the CIA that president was already an allied with the US. one of the last in the region. If the US is pushed out you can expect Chinese business to fill the vacuum. Also once our marines leave you can expect Wagner or some other pmc to show up and exploit the situation.
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  335.  @GrandSolarEclipse yea maybe china is rising Russia not so much. Russia had an economy the size of Italy before they invaded Ukraine and wasted all the lives and money.
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  336.  LadieKatie  why ask russia The russian army invaded a neighboring country badly? I dont get it? that has nothing to do with this.
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  337. That part of Africa is getting hotter and drier. so its harder / impossible to farm. this wrecks the economy and weakens government then it easy for extremists or war lords to take over.
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  338. Im sure no one on this thread knows what was or wasn’t traded so maybe speculating is not helpful at this stage when the lives of the remaining hostages are hanging in the balance.
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  339. Its not an air superiority fighter its for moving troops around
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  340. what I don’t get about the BRICS thing is why is it being called the “global south”. China Russia and India are solidly in the northern hemisphere? Also China and Russia are industrialized military powers so…..
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  341. China and Russia are the global south?
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  342. Puerto Rico keeps voting for statehood in those referendums. they should get statehood and DC should too.
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  343. so you love trump but decided to waste an hour of your life listening to political scientists that used to work in the Obama administration?
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  344. it has always been BS I remember when the energy lobby plastered the walls of th dc subways with “clean coal” adds. Coal power plants will never be clean. Some coal is still required for steel but not a huge amount.
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  345. carbon capture is just words. It is currently NOT being done in any meaningful capacity because it uses too much energy. what is the point of running a coal plant if you are using most of the generated energy to pump the co2 into the ocean or some rock formation. Also no one is sure that the CO2 will actually stay down there!
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  346. those NIH studies were BS. They were trying not to find anything. Taking a scan doesn’t show that kind of damage so of course they didn’t find anything. They would have to autopsy people to find the evidence. If the US government isn’t going to protect its own employees out of political convenience its pretty shameful.
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  347. I think there is a significant risk that biden could loose because of netanyahu. netanyahu is that turd that just wont flush. He is the worst and he is trying to engineer a win for trump who will let him do whatever he wants.
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  348. Like they said on the podcast at the end, anyone from the USA that thinks they can do some kind of deal with Putin that will somehow make russia allies with the USA is confused as to who Putin is. He blames the USA for the breakup of the Soviet Union. Making deals with NATO countries is not in the cards at all.
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  349. the intelligence leak of the Nord stream pipeline intelligence should have been compartmentalized better and should not have leaked to some 20 year old gamer it is undermining our foreign policy.
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  350. If i was the Ukrainians I would also want the nord stream pipeline out of commission. There was a serious chance that the European countries would have undermined sanctions to keep importing Russian gas. The Ukrainians were loosing thousands of people and being shelled constantly.
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  351. the US southern border issues would need a separate episode i think.
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  352. Only if the usa wanted to waste the lives of its soldiers at the same time as undermining most of its foreign policy and alienate its self.
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  353. Definitely don’t give the saudis more weapons. Israeli is way off the rails. It seems like another bad deal for Palestine.
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  354. the text messages are killing me.
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  355.  @SuperStella1111 Any one that thinks of the world in black and white should never be in charge of anything. There is always nuance. There are no easy solutions to problems like this. There are bad solutions and terrible ones.
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  356. This thing is definitely not a nuclear warhead in space. It doesn’t gain Russia any new capabilities that it doesn’t have already. It is probably an anti Satellite system powered by an RTG or mini reactor. They probably just need reliable electrical power without a bunch of panels. Setting off a nuclear weapon in orbit its just as likely to create shrapnel that ruins Chinese and russian space assets.
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  357. I think that it would be almost impossible to prevent one of the major state actors from having a back door into ANY of the major social media platforms. Facebook telegram ect are too large with too many employees to ever be airtight. If my own Govt was going to pay someone to work at facebook for example it would be pretty hard to resist. Thats even true if they are running perfect bug free code on millions of un compromised devices which is very unrealistic.
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  358. No he wont he will go suck-up to strong man leaders and get nothing done just like before.
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  359. because the Israel lobby is really powerful like the NRA they will go after you and fund you political opponents.
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  360. Its telling that neither jordan or egypt will take any refugees. I think that basically disqualifies anything those leaders have to say. They are not willing to lift a finger but definitely willing to criticize everyone else. Netanyahu is the worst case leader for israel to have at time like this as he is so good at alienating even his allies.
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  361. other than the 80 year old thing the similarities to biden are non existent. Biden will be retired in a couple months he is hardly a supreme leader. Also not corrupt. he hasn’t even intervened to help his son.
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  362. I agree that the principal objective should be to avoid a war with china. Taiwan should be protected with deterrence by providing defensive missile systems. However if the US tries to cripple the Chinese economy we may force the Chinese government into a rash military action. Nothing scares Chinese politicians more than high unemployment and unrest.
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  363.  @lunaci1103 The US can put pressure on Israel and it should do more. However The Israelis and Palestinians on average don’t want a two state solution each side believes they deserve the whole thing. The US cant make them agree. Keep in mind that Israel can buy weapons from non US sources and do whatever as it has military control of the region.
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  364. Classifing everything as national security is going to really put a drag on the economies of the west. Its hard to make money when everything has export restrictions.
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  365. It is intelligence and international affairs there will be no court of law. Just consequences and bad relations.
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  366. where is the proof that the canadian was a terrorist?
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  367. So Canada should pay for some foreign hit squad killing Canadians in Canada?
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  368. go ahead the canadian govt wont start assassinating Indians in india.
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  369. Yea some of the US drone strikes inside Pakistan were murky but then again they were hiding bin laden who actually admitted to killing thousands. Bin laden wasn’t some guy that wanted to organize a non-binding resolution. The drone strikes inside Pakistan would be an act of war but the Pakistani government at the time was cooperation with the US theoretically at least.
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  370. India does not in any way have the right to kill citizens of other nations in foreign countries. That is considered an act of war actually. The US has killed people with drone attacks in afghanistan. That was an act of war. The US was at War.
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  371. Thats ridiculous canada doesn’t assassinate Indian citizens in india. Imagine if they did what the reaction in india would be.
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  372.  @Naveenbr-kp8gc1yi3d  Putin almost lost everything when his own mercenary army turned in him. So you think putin is doing well?
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  373. Sure go ahead and support Quebec independence politically. I bet canada wont start assassinating expats that are Indian citizens living in india.
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  374. the CIA is not canadian
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  375.  @jayesh12v  Assassinating other nations citizens can cause wars. Yes the US did it in Iraq and Afghanistan. That was a war. I don’t think anyone wants India to be at war with canada so India needs to not go around killing Canadians in canada.
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  376. sure buckle up for the coming trade war and inflation.
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  377. Netanyahu was a complete ahole to Obama and honestly I think its because Netanyahu is old racist garbage. After all that under Obama we were dumping billions on air defense for israel. To be clear Im glad civilians were saved but I really think Netanyahu needs to go.
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  378. Decency was probably always dead.
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  379. musk will be fine he can buy a country with his trillion dollars. Trump will turn on him but trump is 80.
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  380. so I dont know if the FSB has a back door into telegram. However Russian officials complaining about violations of free speech is pretty rich!
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  381.  @Agtsmirnoff What about all the things Tucker said. What about miller what about what trump says himself
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  382. Trump says far worse about democrats every single rally then talks about using the army on his political enemies. Also Like everyone has a grandfather that fought in WW2.
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  383. You done making up fake outrage. Trump curses and swears about Harris supporters every rally. Then claims we traffic children and calls us the enemy from within. He rants about how he is going to use the army to go after his political enemies. So have a good time with your manufactured outrage it doesn’t come off as hypocritical at all. I mean one 80 year old man miss speaking is the same as all that stuff trump did on purpose right?
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  384.  @nickghilea3624 no it wasn’t read some history trump caved in to turkey and sold out allies . I remember. you cant just re write history when the people that were there are still around.
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  385. i was looking at a map of Yemen and it said Dash controls part of the middle is that correct?
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  386. i cant imagine that the defense of Taiwan is going to hinge on old 155mm artillery shells. Anti ship missiles though…..
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  387.  @johnashton4776 because the don’t go ask them.
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  388. I think Russia more than anyone should be worried about how many anti tank helicopters china has.
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  389. I cant believe this is the first time they are drawing the whole thing in CAD first . I don’t think I have done a project yet which wasn’t all CAD and im old.
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  390. Does it burn bunker oil like the the rest? Kinda looks like its smoking in the picture. (mostly joking) but only mostly
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  391. China and the US share an interest in protecting international shipping However the Chinese navy has just about about up with the us navy from the 1950s. We don’t really want to encourage the Chinese to step it up to the 21st century.
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  392. The navy can use electronic warfare on the drones. They probably are using EW which is probably why the Houthi’s are missing so much.
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  393. The US policy makers decided it was no longer in the US interest to occupy Afghanistan because it wasn’t really serving any US foreign policy interest. The proceeded to leave in a pretty disorganized and crap lousy manner.
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  394. Im sure that the non -Israeli international crews of the civilian ships getting shot at totally understand you armchair perspective. Especially those that are being held hostage for nothing and cant go home.
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  395. oh also the navy has more than just missiles have you seen those phalanx guns fire its nuts.
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  396. The Houthi’s have a bunch of trash missiles. Which is why they have hardly hit anything. If the US manages to run out of missiles we will just send slightly more of the largest navy on earth. Also those destroyers are just the tip of the iceberg of what the US navy has lying around.
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  397. I mean they can fire on random ships but the US navy can also sink their entire navy with no effort and also the Iranian navy with just slightly more effort so they might want to think about it for a bit.
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  398.  @alonzoharris326 The US prints the worlds reserve currency so Im not to worried about it. Also this is what the navy is good at. It probably wont cost any more than if they were running drills. Its not like the US navy is parked somewhere being inexpensive when they aren’t chasing pirates and murderers.
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  399. Good luck trying to sink a carrier with basically no navy. Yea the Chinese could and maybe the Russians if they are lucky. The Houthi’s are a joke.
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  400. If a US naval ship gets sunk it will be because Chinese or Russians are pretending to be Houthi’s and firing modern anti ship missiles.
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  401. What part is BS ? The shipping companies are lying about being fired at and taken hostage?
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  402.  @scottfay3553  yea except a 30 year old anti missile system used by minimally trained Ukrainians. Oh and the Russians barely have any left. Its estimated that there are like 75 left. oh even better some russian henchmen threw the scientist that developed it out a window so they probably wont be getting software updates.
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  403. That africom report does sound like bullcrap.
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  404. i’m not in the navy but i have done a lot of ship based research and logistics stuff. I really like the module part. It’s too bad the execution seems so lousy.
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  405. i cant believe we are paying for more of these if they can’t be deployed. is the transmission even fixed?
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  406. I mean the USA just didnt think it would need millions of artillery shells. If 5 years ago in the US some one put in an order for millions of shells then we would have them. companies don’t scale up production lines for things people don’t order.
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  407.  @PresidentsPlayPARODY  I bet that story is cherry picked. like some one found the most expensive ceramic nano technology fancy bushings ever sold the US govt and posted it to get clicks. also how many bushings are in the bag?
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  408. the stealth ship concept makes me think to many comprises would have to be made to maintain stealth. at the end of the day you still have something that cab only go 50 mph and is thousands of tons. How hard could it be to find?
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  409. @@DescendantsofYeshuaImitially there was a protest against the Coup. So its hard to tell. Maybe the military should call an election and have some African institution monitor it for fairness.
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  410. I have definitely seen the pro wagner PR campaign on youtube. It is interestingly now there seems to a distinction between wagner and russia but there is no wagner flag emoji to past all over the comments.
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  411. it sounds like it will be awful to actually fly.
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  412. 50 dollars a day is crazy. Just keeping the power on and generator / engine getting oil changed would cause a couple hundred per day. that doesn’t include wages. without power they aren’t even running pumps and radar.
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  413.  @Ludak021 ”what little bavy they have” that comment is completely disconnected with reality. If there was a naval war in the south china sea There would be huge casualties on both sides. The chinese navy might have more ships but the US navy has better and more tonnage and much better subs. Also 11 of the most advanced nuke powered aircraft carriers. Would the US loose a-lot yes but so would china. It would be bad for everyone. Also keep in mind the US shoots down drone like every day near Yemen while the chinese navy sits on its hands.
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  414. could be the Ukraine sent missile and drones and the drones were hit?
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  415. France couldn’t have done it without being in russia. Also they wouldn’t dare shooting down a russian passenger plane over russia because of the treaties it would risk WW3 and not be worth it. If any nation other than russia was going to do it they would have got him when he was in Africa.
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  416. if he does Putin will arrange another accident.
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  417. the uranium is not enough to float a whole economy with 30 million people. they will still need aid.
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  418. The US never made any money in Niger it only cost tax dollars. It was an effort to fight terrorist which cost most of a billion dollars and was probably a waste of time and money.
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  419. the weapons the terrorists have i would be are old soviet weapons or knockoff they are everywhere. The government of Niger doesn’t actually control the whole country or its borders so the weapons are going to get in.
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  420.  @DavidThomas-fb8bq  yea not so much. The US might decide to leave but this will not make much difference except in north Africa and Europe.
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  421.  @eltonlewis4979 what part was a lie?
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  422.  @Joe-tr2vk No one in the west is giving Nigeria orders. It is probably the most powerful country in africa. They don’t take orders.
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  423.  @gordenmg4966  I haven’t heard the New coup leaders request for the US troops and aid workers to leave yet.
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  424. You would really need one governmental structure to have one currency. Also dont hold your breath for the collapse of the dollar it might be a while yet.
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  425. I think the US has troubled relations with the countries on the African continent partly due the the administration changing every 2 years. It is hard to make deals when priorities and funding are constantly changing. Xi Jinping does not have this problem. US elected officials only care about what voters (and lobbyists) make them care about.
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  426. The French should take the former president Bazoum and his family with them. I think Macron is friends with the former president and its personal. In return Bazoum resigns and France finds somewhere else to put its troops. The coup leaders may not have been elected but they do seem to have control of the country and military.
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  427. Also it has a population that is much bigger than it can support and some huge structural disadvantages. the GDP of niger is 15 Billion USD but has 30 million people. Vermont for comparison by itself has a GDP of 31 billion but only 640 thousand people. so in niger 500 usd per person per year in vermont 47000 usd per person per year I hope someone in the new government does the math
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  428. i agree it should have a higher standard of living but the country has huge disadvantages like no access to the ocean and almost no water. Also an exploding population. lots of countries have mineral reserves… It is not an easy fix.
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  429.  @Ivan-wp1ne1  its a world market for grain Ukraine not exporting grain means grain everywhere is more expensive. Its not about which exact shipment goes where. If grain is expensive less will go to africa because china and europe can pay higher prices. Its a commodity blocking grain exports hurts people and destabilizes weak governments…….. hay wait a minute…..
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  430. national coups just lead to dictatorships. dictatorships are not freedom.
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  431. The CIA doesn’t have to fabricate religious extremists.
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  432. You should come back and revisit this view point in a couple years and see how it ages
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  433. nonsense India is buying oil from Russia because its super cheap and India needs the fuel. Deals like that dont happen because countries are friends. If India wants to voluntarily pay more maybe the Russian currency won collapse.
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  434. the whole Invasion and wholesale murder of Ukrainians part. that is tyranny. adding the smile emoji doesn’t help
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  435. good luck with that
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  436. Pretty much everyone on earth watched the Russians invade Live because Satellites exist. Also at least when the USA lied about Iraqs nuke program and invaded they didn’t run out of gas half way there!
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  437. how big is this troll farm you work for? do they pay well?
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  438. Im sure the no limits thing didn’t help but this is all Putin and no one else. Putin gave the orders to invade. No one made george bush invade Iraq just as no one made putin invade Ukraine
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  439. neither the Ukrainians or the Russians would be foolish enough to do that on purpose. That said its possible one of those Wagner convicts got drunk and blew it up.
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  440. the dam broke because it was old poorly maintained soviet era garbage.
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  441. How much would you trust fully autonomous AI powered supersonic stealth strike fighter. Are you 100 percent sure it doesn’t have any backdoors in the code. What if it hallucinates!
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  442. the F35 is really 3 planes.
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  443. Elon is full of crap. How does a drone swarm have anything to do with a supersonic strike fighter. You cant use them for the similar things.
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  444. The f35 is reusable it might cost 50k an hour but it comes back. If you have to send 50 x 50k drones to do what two f35s can do it’s not necessarily cheaper. I do agree that the Swiss army knife aspect is a problem.
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  445. What would happen to that drone swarm once you aim a jammer at it. What would happen once the drone swarm gets hacked.
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  446. Its so much worse than just human space exploration. The starlink system is of MASSIVE strategic importance. Im not sure anyone except the Chinese govt realizes the potential. The Chinese govt is terrified.
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  447. Its so much worse than just human space exploration. The starlink system is of MASSIVE strategic importance. Im not sure anyone except the Chinese govt realizes the potential. The Chinese govt is terrified.
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  448. I went to school for aerospace engineering. SpaceX has done things that I was sure were impossible. That is why Elon going nuts has me terrified. He needs to pay grimes his child support or whatever make up and go smoke a joint or whatever he needs to do to get it together.
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  449. Even if Elon was a perfect brilliant and morally virtuous person there is a problem with one person having this much power. It is easy for bad actors to threaten one man. It is easy to manipulate one guy. The reason a government has institutions and vice presidents is its harder to effectively coerce a large group of people with different lives and interests.
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  450. Putin has Tools and enemies. I wonder which one Elon is?
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  451. If he is we are screwed he controls one of the largest defense contractors to the US govt.
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  452. The thing about military procurement is its hard to be flexible and innovative while fighting waste and fraud. Also its really hard to sell the military something that isn’t all ready on a procurement spreadsheet like bullets and helmets. Like just try to sell some innovative remote sensor if you don’t have lobbyists like Lockheed.
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  453. People seem to forget how trump tried to cripple Ukraine’s defense before russia invaded. Every one should remember trump was getting those briefs about the buildup for the war.
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  454. we probably dont want all those jobs here. for example there isnt much money in plastic forks. But maybe move to factories in central and south america. If there were better jobs there there would be less problems at our borders.
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  455. yea but at the moment it would break the whole supply chain. The US cant afford to stop trading with china at the moment. Maybe in the future but not yet.
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  456. I bet someone is paying people in the US to screw with us. I bet people are flying their stupid quad copters near bases and airports. Also plenty of people were flying quad copters around before even restate agents such.
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  457. Its a psychological op by some country. they are giving the US govt the finger. I would bet its being done by Americans that are being paid.
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  458. You know China has a modern airforce. Also they could have just used on of their airbus or a 737 or something. Also they had almost half of the orbital rocket launches last year. So i think they have planes that can get anywhere.
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  459. I think they were trying to see what we would move. They already have a bunch of spy satellites they can use to read the reaction to the balloon.
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  460. Its easy to detect and a terrible platform for a weapon.
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  461. Thats why trump shot the previous ones down right. Oh wait he didnt…
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  462. The other thing they could have wanted was the signals intelligence that would be gleaned from the targeting radar of a F22. We should have shot it down with a museum piece like a f104. I would have done nothing then floated a balloon over China.
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  463. We need to make sure our courts dont become like russia’s courts
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  464. I wish Elon hadn’t gone nuts during the pandemic.
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  465. If I was to make a super secret new sub. I would first build a covered dock so no one could get sat photos.
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  466. he is not saying anything bad about china so i bet he will be fine
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  467. um the Ukraine is a much smaller country and also took heavy losses also. Every one knows that. Its not some coverup.
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  468. i think it makes it more authentic
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  469. i don’t think he is a soldier anymore. Also he never said anything bad about china. all he really said was that urban combat in the russian army is terrible.
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  470. Trump is going Sh!t bricks if the price of gas goes down.
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  471. yea but 70 - 80 come on. That said Biden is doing really much better than I expected. The problem is they are all really really old. Trump is almost just as old too! McCarthy Pelosi they are all ancient. A 60 year old has plenty of experience most people don’t even live to 80.
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  472. honestly though the electricity part is not necessarily bad. There would be almost no heat signature to mask and you don’t have to charge it that often. The problem is every thing else its not a Bradley its not armored.
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  473. they wont
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  474. definitely but the Biden family already got a ton of attention and they didn’t find that joe was involved in his adult sons business dealings or profits. This guy is screwed because he and his wife were receiving the actual money. they also have emails were he details doing favors for foreign nations. I think menedez had actual gold bars in his house!!
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  475. He is supposedly hiding in Russia so its not very likely any European security is likely to get their hands on him.
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  476.  @ladyalexandra2980  ok so last time you took a flight you had a giant fist full of euros and took that to the ticket counter? Half the time i fly there isn’t even a real person at the ticket counter.
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  477. also you basically cant rent a car without a credit card unless you deal with the extra shady rental places which looks weir when you are supposed to be a business professional
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  478. he does mention that he was coo in there
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  479. ⁠ @GM-cq6ez yea probably just Deutsche bank but nothing would surprise me and its a bank that has done some pretty shady stuff in the past.
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  480. they take a-lot of vacation.
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  481. I think the US govt hiring process handicaps its ability to hire the types of people that are good at human intelligence. Also part of what make the US govt less corrupt and more transparent than others makes it terrible at this kind of intelligence. I mean Im not complaining I would prefer the the US govt over the russian govt one million percent of the time.
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  482. I think there is a software update that can make it not suck off-road. however if he lets it update tesla can turn the car off.
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  483. Like he said brain scans don’t show many kinds of brain damage or cognitive decline. all they really show is tumers and aneurysms ect.
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  484. why are people treating this microwave thing as outlandish. it is not a difficult machine to make. and the effects would be similar to standing in-front of a high power radar.
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  485. well i mean i can guess they will not admit that anything is happening because if they did admit it they would then be pressure to do something about it. And its just so much easier for politicians to do nothing about it as its lower risk to their careers.
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  486. I dont know why the CIA is trying to say its not happening. A weapon like this is completely believable.
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  487. Major news agencies have run this story also it probably not a coincidence that this started happening after the Obama crashed the value of the ruble after Crimea.
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  488. members of the US government was too busy covering their own butts to do anything about it. I mean its hard to get fired from government if you never do anything that you are not told to do. Procuring and distributing microwave detectors could show initiative which might get some one in trouble.
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  489. im sure his bunker has a bunker no one will capture that guy. but they don’t need to.
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  490.  @edwardfletcher7790 not anymore they have got alot better lately.
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  491. Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both sort of nightmare allies. Unfortunately its hard to get out of it because they have massive strategic value.
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  492. so i wonder what percentage of smart phones in russia are running android hmmm…..
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  493. Russian assassination plots are always so convoluted.
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  494. whoever is protecting Zelensky is doing an awesome job. I cant believe he is still alive being only a couple hundred miles from russia.
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  495. how long before someone in russia decides he is too clever and maybe he is a spy.
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  496. I guess every one should just bow to your superior experience and world view
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  497. been on 4chan much?
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  498. what system Swift is blocked. Also Biden doesn’t have his own special financial system.
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  499. How would Trump Magically end the war in a day?
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  500. How what did she say that was crazy?
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  501. how will trump end it by going to suck up to putin?
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  502. Trump did an awful job and sounded senile. Even fox thinks he did a bad job.
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  503. Ok dont then seeya!
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  504. yea by not being old and senile. also i distinctly remember trump selling out the Kurds.
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  505. No Its actually not. When we spend money on buying new military equipment for the US to replace older stuff we have given to the Ukraine it gives skilled workers in the US good jobs. If you upset about the deficit maybe raise takes to the level Regan had them and there wouldn’t be a deficit. Also WE print the world reserve currency its not like home economics.
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  506. she did fine. Trump needs to retire.
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  507. All one sentence nice!
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  508. how
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  509. Trump has NO idea how tariffs work. China does not pay the tariffs on Chinese goods imported to united states. The importer like some times me pays that. The importer then passes the increased cost on to the consumer. If it is a low profit product no US company is going to bother making it. Only if it is highly profitable would a US industry start up around that product.
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  510. I agree It was completely chaotic. There has to have been a better way to do that. Trump probably shouldn’t have had the Taliban at camp dvid. Also biden seemed out of touch with the details.
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  511. Why which policy of harris is bad ?
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  512. I don’t he will Invade Poland directly But he might run a lot of deniable little green men shenanigans and assassinations. Also other russian leaders have said they might attack Poland.
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  513. The initial invasion of Crimea did happened under Obama not biden. Also he was talking about the debates and Trump was the only one making huge mistakes. Also trump was the one blocking wepons shipments to the ukraine. Harris wasn’t going on about Haitians eating pets.
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  514. No one is saying anything remotely communist. None of this is about communism. Its about honoring international treatys.
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  515. yea maybe russia shouldnt have invaded twice
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  516. sounds like you are trying to make yourself feel better. Trump lost that debate because he is old and did a bad job and didn’t prepare. Biden lost the last one because he was just too old.
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  517. He only stopped trying to undermine Ukraine because it was too much political effort and he lost the election.
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  518. Trump DID try to stop aid to Ukraine and got impeached over it.
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  519. Do you remember how crazy he was and bad at most things?
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  520. She kicked his ass in the debate . Trump almost did as bad as Biden in the last one.
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  521. Go talk to the republican controlled house about it
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  522. no you were not voting for harris
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  523. Why?
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  524. I think you have been in a bubble. No one cares about VPs until they are needed thats the job. Most of the country wasn’t thinking about her being a “bad vp” because why would they bother. Now though she is kicking trumps ass in debates and you are sore about it.
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  525. yea your not a trump fan just spouting his garbage talking points…
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  526. You think putin doesn’t hear Trump constantly praising him a and calling him smart. Yea im sure trump has putin shaking in his boots!
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  527. Ukraine requested assistance from an Alliance While it was being invaded.
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  528. Like any reasonably centrist republican would be winning right now because of inflation. Not trump though I takes talent to blow something like this just like it take special talent to bankrupt a casino.
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  529. Yea she did It was all over the news. Even on fox. There were pictures of her there.
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  530. Trump just yells random numbers
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  531. Dmitry Medvedev did
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  532. I think he freely mixes fact and fiction in his mind a vomits out whatever he thinks will benefit him the most in that moment.
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  533. Was it the democrats blocking those aid bills?
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  534. How is that? It has been the Biden administration that has transferred the most wepons to Taiwan. It has also been the biden administration that basically ended that ambiguity and Stated that we would intervene on Taiwans behalf. Do some research.
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  535. trump just makes up numbers the are different from one speech to the next.
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  536. What are you even talking about. Do you just spend all day on 4chan and pop in to Youtube occasionally?
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  537.  @icarussisyphus  Really what country is doing better? The US prints the world reserve currency. China has its own financial problems. Russia is cut off financially. Inflation is higher everywhere outside of the US. You are either a depressed old man or a foreign propagandist.
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  538. How is the weather in russia?
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  539. What because they said the Haitians are not eating cats? give me a break.
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  540. He pulled apart trumps statements because they were garbage. Harris kept it together trump just blew it.
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  541. Would be better if trump hadnt killed that border bill.
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  542. I think its brain drain. If you were an aerospace engineer capable of doing bleeding edge research. Would you stay in russia? It looks like no one wanted to admit it wasn’t ready and they flew it anyway.
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  543. Tucker is a Putin sympathizer. So i was surprised he asked any adversarial questions at all. If he asks truly hostile question he would end up with poison underpants.
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  544.  @alfalayer76 only trolls and 13 year olds say “cope”
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  545. Putin wants to re- build the soviet empire of his youth. From his point of view morality, borders and lives don’t matter.
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  546. Yeaaaa but if its hard enough then business just goes the easier route.
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  547. Im not sure about rickshaws but it would be terrible for their economy. It would also crash the US economy inflation would be bananas and there would be a supply chain crisis.
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  548. Now Uranium from Niger. Imagine if you were in Niger and now your Paid in rubles. That isnt going to go well.
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  549. Paul is right. This is a distraction. For one thing the US regularly powers deep space mission with a plutonium powered RTG. So Russia has not necessarily violated the outer space treaty. Also the US India and China have anti-satellite weapons. So on the same exact topic does anyone remember the launch of the classified X37. That thing is not just up there studying the effect of zero gravity on ant farms…….so…. this is a bunch of nothing.
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  550. Also let’s just say that russia did violate the outer space treaty and parked nukes in space hypothetically. This is actually less effective then their MRV ballistic missile. For one thing the US is tracking stuff already in space. for another eliminating the boost phase of the ICBM only shaves minutes off the delivery time. A submarine launched ICBM is a better first strike weapon and the Russians, French, British, Americans and Chinese all-ready have those.
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  551. no the democrats did not support the USSR watch charlie wilson’s war or read about Kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. read about all the cold war politics history.
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  552. Hey is only pandering to russia because he went nuts during covid. He has so many star-link satellites he has nothing to worry about. Additionally the star link satellites have ion engines and can change their orbits allot. Honestly the starlink network is the safest.
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  553.  @ponetastic yea but the ICBMs are sub orbital. That said I’m sure that the the Soyuz could put some kind of big nuke in space. Its just that its kinda dumb.
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  554.  @yellowtunes2756 yea ok somehow russian industry will outproduce the rest of the world. Also you may have noticed even the Chinese dont want russian money anymore.
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  555.  @Patriotswelcome  So you want across the board 20% tariff. Even my company that makes everything in america buy foreign parts. everything will just be more expensive.
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  556.  @johnmahutga4478  The US has lower inflation than any other major economy right now. Also the VP is not the president. Did anyone ever ask trumps vp what his fiscal policy was? Also trumps plan is an absolute disaster that will make inflation much worse.
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  557. more likely Russia gets so weak by fighting a war they didn’t need that China starts taking parts of eastern Russia.
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  558. any one would be better than tulsi
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  559. There are plenty of board houses in the US Rockwell could have used. The chinese board houses are super cheap but I mean come on!
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  560. So the reason that the Bradley is useful and the Abrams is not is the battle taxi role?
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  561. he isnt half as skilled as Pelosi he can’t seem to count votes so he keeps loosing
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  562. maybe the house should have voted on that border bill they themselves negotiated then ran away from as soon as trump told them too.
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  563. if it was about the border the republicans wouldn’t abandon their own border deal so easily. They are tryin NOT to fix it so it can be a campaign issue.
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  564. a lot of that money is spent in the US paying for Americans to make the weapons and ammunition. It funds manufacturing in the US.
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  565. first of all most of that money gets spent in the US which is the main supplier of most of the weapons which sustains jobs all over the US. Also the house republicans are trying really hard to NOT solve the border issue so trump can campaign on it. Think hard about why you want to leave a US ally high and dry when they need it the most. Maybe it’s just because trump hates the Ukraine and zelensky for purely personal political reasons.
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  566.  @wmc9722 his point is rich baby boomers like you are an out of touch ownership class. you just own things and people have to pay you. Some people actually have to do work. Land lords wine about liability and insurance and taxes from vacation all while some one that is delivering you packages or pouring concrete is going though a bottle of aspirin so they can get back to work.
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  567. Did you look at the graph it goes up mostly staring in 1980s
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  568. i wouldn’t mind as much if it was just expensive. but often they charge me for a nonsense brake flush or something and refuse to fix actual problems.
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  569. I have actually had a GM dealer effectively refuse to fix a hybrid because there was damage to the battery even thou you can just unbolt the battery and swap it. They told the insurance to total it. I took my car back and fixed it myself for 1200 in parts. the car had 20k miles
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  570. I will always go to an independent shop I am done with dealers forever. I think I might just not ever buy a new car again just so i don’t have to go there again.
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  571. This is because the US govt basically holds gas prices artificially low through the use of the strategic reserve and subsidies for the oil companies. Electric cars can be cheap just not electric hummers and electric f150s. GM even used to make some affordable electric cars (Bolt and volt) but they cancelled them so….
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  572. I still think the quality of Japanese cars is exceptional. They are just behind on EVs.
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  573.  @kevintewey1157 China isnt really communist more just authoritarian. But they are good at making electric cars at the moment while American manufactures are pushing stupid useless ones like electric hummers.
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  574. My Ev was much cheaper than an average car in the US. so they are not by definition luxury.
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  575. Many teslas and Chinese cars don’t require that much rare metal earth metals because of their use of lithium Iron phosphate batteries and clever motor design. Also there are charge stations all over the north east of the US so many of the problems are solved. The re-shoring is in progress.
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  576. Putin will trick trump into cutting off support and weapons delivery in an effort to force a negotiation. At that point it will depend on Europe.
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  577. Trump is has no idea and doesn’t care however the US benefits more than anyone realizes from its current international situation. The US prints the world reserve currency. It is the biggest arms exporter on earth. It is one of the larger food exporters on earth. The US nativism, white nationalist, populism thing is going to self sabotage the USA itself in so many ways. Also the trump appointees that get installed may be there sabotaging international relations and domestic policy for a generation.
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