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I didn't give a damn about Trump's Porn Stars & Playmates
I didn't give a damn about Trump's Pee Pee tapes
I didn't give a damn about Clinton getting a BJ
I didn't give a damn about Kennedy & Monroe
I don't give a damn about tabloid fodder, I give a damn about solid, real Matters of State like:
1. Conspiracy, Espionage, & Treason with a hostile Foreign Nation
2. The destruction of our Alliances, Economy, & National Dignity on the World Stage
3. Attempting to turn the Union into the Confederacy
4. Corruption, Perjury, Graft, & Theft by abusing the Offices of our Government without consequence
5. Destroying Democracy by creating gerrymandered One Party Rule in America & Dictatorship
6. The Everlasting Balancing Act of Freedoms & Liberties vs Safety & Security for We The People
I don't expect our elected officers to be perfect, but I expect them to perform perfectly
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He was just a cherry trooper and he surely shook with fright
as he checked all his equipment and made sure his pack was tight
He had to sit and listen to the awful engines roar,
And he ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
“Is everybody happy?”cried the Sergeant, looking up.
Our hero feebly answered “eyes,” and then they stood him up.
He leaped right out into the blast, his static line unhooked.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
He counted long, he counted loud, he waited for the shock;
He felt the wind, he felt the clouds, he felt the awful drop;
He jerked his cord, the silk spilled out and wrapped around his legs.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
The risers wrapped around his neck, connectors cracked his dome;
The lines were snarled and tied in knots, around his skinny bones;
The canopy became his shroud, he hurtled to the ground.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
The days he’d lived and loved and laughed kept running through his mind;
He thought about the girl back home, the one he’d left behind;
He thought about the medics and wondered what they’ed find.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
The ambulance was on the spot, the jeeps were running wild;
The medics jumped and screamed with glee, they rolled their sleeves and smiled;
For it had been a week or more since last a chute had failed.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
He hit the ground, the sound was splat, his blood went spurting high;
His comrades were then heard to say, “A helluve way to die”;
He lay there rolling around in the welter of his gore.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
Gory, Gory, What a helluva way to die
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute;
Intestines were a-dangling from this paratrooper’s boots;
They picked him up, still in his chute and poured him from his boots.
He ain’t gonna jump no more.
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@Fabrizio_Ruffo You're correct, we learned that lesson in Iraq, where our opponent was ALWAYS infantry. Ambushing infantry, dug in infantry, infantry doing drive by's in Opal hatchbacks & BMW's, shoot n' scoot mortar and RPG attacks, but always infantry. The lesson was that YOUR infantry still need bigger guns to arrive in support, and gun trucks were key, not MBT's.
The uparmored hummer, for all its faults and all that we lost, delivered the goods. Light armor & Technicals are about more than hauling crunchies as dragoons, but gun platforms with high mobility. Even when I was a tanker, the majority of targets (and threats to your well-being) on the battlefield aren't other expensive tanks, but loads and loads of cheap, fast moving, missile packing threats to your armor, and heavy machine gun toting threats to your infantry and unarmored support. The Coax machine gun and m242 auto cannons always get more trigger time than the big gun. And the best defense against the revitalized threat of artillery (thanks to UAV's on the battlefield) is to be as mobile as possible. Infantry on foot is more hideously vulnerable to arty, rocket & mortar fire now than every before. Because it's nearly impossible to hide anymore when the Evil Eyes in the Sky are everywhere.
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The problem is there's two halves to military spending. There's the actual Military (Troops, training, sustainment, and doing stuff), and there's our Retail suppliers, aka the Military Industrial Complex. The "Complex" does not include the actual military, it refers to the companies we have to buy our overpriced crap from. Believe me, servicemen and lower rank officers are a bunch of tightwads. We cut corners just to afford wax for the floors and keep our buildings from falling over, and we believe we could cut the actual military budget and burder on the taxpayer by 25% just by being better shoppers. Our over-the-top oversight of micro spending is costing more than it saves. We have to go to a damn Colonel now just to get approval to spend $55 on a single trooper who needs a hotel room when traveling abroad for the night. Our cooks aren't allowed to cook, contract meal providers do it even though we have cooks. Our engineers aren't allowed to build our facilities, construction companies get the contract. Our vehicles have parts our own mechanics aren't allowed to install, or computers that only a contractor is allowed to debug (for a hefty fee of course). The term Military Industrial Complex is a misnomer. It should be called Sweetheart-Deal Defense Anti-Trust Capitalism.
Half of everything we have an MOS for is outsourced to a contractor now. Yet we can't get funding to build or buy the everyday things we need. I spent 6 months on train-up on Fort Hood and there was no money to feed my entire battalion of troops. We actually had to buy our own food out of our own pockets for almost half a year on active duty, and we squatted 800+ men in the barracks of another unit that was gone overseas. THAT'S WHAT YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN THEY SAY NOT FUNDED ENOUGH
The money is going to the wrong place, and in far too large of quantities
Meanwhile, BAE (That's British Aerospace) is taking our old, overpriced Bradleys, repainting them, slapping on a couple electronic gizmos we didn't actually need and that require constant overpriced parts to stay functioning, and they sell it right back to us at costs in the millions per vehicle. Meanwhile, our rifles are basically the same POS we've been using for 54 years that costs $375.
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It's important to note that Ukraine is now only tangling with a largely irregular (but entrenched) force, and the little green men are not to be seen. Even when THEY were rolling around, it was with very outdated armored vehicles (BMP-2's and BTR-80's, same stuff the Ukrainians field), and none of their current fighting vehicles (BMD-4M's, T-80U's & T-90's, BTR-90's) they have. Given the current political dialogue, this means 2 things:
1. Due to their zealous assaults, ethnically Russian groups are actually being met with the violence they said they feared in the first place, that Putin used as an excuse to back his Crimean velvet glove invasion. Ironic, in a way. And a self fulfilling prophecy.
2. Ukraine still has to be cautious about how they deal with this insurgency. Putin may be pulling back support now that he at least has Crimea and is facing the looming reality of REAL political resistance, but if Ukrainian forces go batshit crazy or have one headliner scandal of counter-insurgency misconduct, they will give him an excuse to start a full-on invasion with his forces unmasked under a pretense of stopping a "fascist genocide", and he will take it.
Oh, hey they do love to be hypocritical about what constitutes a Fascist.
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@black10872 Those mercs belong to Prigozhin, Putin's "chef" and a right hand man. He also owns that enormous troll farm in Olgino, the so-called 'Internet Research Agency' responsible for most of the bot and troll comments all over YouTube and social media platforms to this day. There were a few journalist reports with sources in intelligence agencies that confirmed Prigozhin went to Putin before sending nearly an entire battalion of armor and troops to assault that US platoon guarding that refinery. But he didn't allow air support to get involved, hence, the mixed Russian and Syrian force got absolutely mangled by a hurricane of American combined arms.
Like you said, at first the Russians said there were only a few advisors killed, then it became apparent they lost mountains of men, had to stack the bodies in containers, and word got out to the Russian populace, who still want revenge.
Not long after, that's when the bounties on US troops thing began. The Russian people took this loss as a hit to their national pride, so it's no surpise did it to give them some revenge. And there goes the Deniability of using Russian Wagner mercs. They're all Russian troops at the end of the day, just with a flimsy cover story. They were part of the Little Green Men alongside the Spetsnaz in the opening phase of the Crimea invasion.
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"We are White, We are Christian, We are Russian, Thank God."
After all this time, they haven't changed. And to think after the 90's, the western world really did wish them good luck, good living, and peace. Apparently not in the nature of most Russians over the age of 30. Let's hope their future generations can do better, or that the middle aged psychopaths who resemble Tea Party Americans so much aren't really typical of the people. After enough interviews and quotes though, I'm doubting that. And they still think Nukes make them special, when most human beings just want them gone.
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@RicardoLuna Go ahead and try to get a small business loan when the bank finds out that you have Burger Flipper on your resume, with references from Minimum Wage land and an electric bill that has been missed a few times
I owned 2 small businesses, one of which was basically handed down to me. Even with one successfully ticking along, & some veterans preference assistance, getting funding for the other (with plenty of collateral and a proven revenue stream in my corner) was not easy.
It's no lie that you have to spend money to make money, but when you have no money....you make no money.
If my 4 mechanics or tool & parts clerk had just decided to walk out one day because I was screwing them, they could have screwed me. No, I would probably not have been able to replace them before I went under. They made my shop successful, and I profit shared to make sure they got what they earned for keeping my doors open. In the end, when I retired, I sold it to one of them. With terms that no bank could match. Because it was right. They made the magic happen, not some outside business venture goon with deep pockets.
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Yes. Unless there is a 3rd party involved, the only interested party that has cluster munitions, or Frogfoot ground attack jets is the Russian Federation. The only comparable plane that could tightly pump that many AP rounds into a single T-72 from that angle, is the American A-10. Standard 20mm rounds out of a typical interceptor/fighter don't have that much penetrative or destructive force against a MBT, and are generally not used on ground targets (speed of the jet, purpose of the round). There aren't any A-10's nearby, and a gross yield bomb leaves a WIDE and DEEP crater and scorching, cluster munitions have less dramatic effect on the surrounding terrain, usually confined to their target type (Armor Piercing in this case), as was depicted in the footage. My guess is a KAB-500-L-KE precision laser guided munition, manufactured by Tactical Missile Systems, Russia.
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@jayklink851 I was Army. 25 years. Retired NCO, OIF II (2003-2005 with 1st CD as a 13F30, and commander's gunner) and OND (2009-2010 with 3rd ID as a CET commander, callsign Fighter 31 actual). Lived 3 years of my lovely life on government sponsored, all expenses paid vacations to Baghdad, including Fallujah 2, Sunni Triange Boogaloo. AKA, the second battle thereof. The #1 group we tangled with was not "al Qaeda in Iraq", but the Mahdi Army of Muqtada Al Sadr. Have gold spurs and in the Order of St Barbara. Have been all sorts of things, as happens when you spend a quarter century in boots. Bradley platoon daddy, Brigade Commander's PSD, CO and BC's gunner, Battle Staff NCO, Company Fire Support NCO, Medic, BN Fires Cell. I buried 5 friends from my company alone first tour, taken detainees, picked up and bagged our KIAs, been face to face with real IEDs in the most absurd situations, and picked up the burnt remains of EIDs gone wrong. And they're not 'green tips' to us.. they're M855 Ball, DODIC A059. I've seen guys take rounds through the chest and suddenly stop with a shocked look on their face right before their legs collapse. You're operating on urban myths and bullshit. NO ONE has ever continued to act like they didnt get shot after getting shot. Ever. It's not condescention. It's correcting myths that people tell at bars and leave folks with wrong impressions.
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CNN doesn't seem to get that the US applied a fraction of it's conventional fighting force as well as it's conventional firepower assets being restrained, aka precision munitions being used to spare as much as possible in the surrounding area. When the bulk of III Corps, the 18th Airborne Corps, and the Marine MEFs and MEUs, as well as a more than double the number of the Carrier Groups and Air Wings staging on up to 3 different sides of Iran's border, with no "rebuilding" occupation in mind, well, Iran's future becomes one of rubble, not a cohesive nation capable of nuclear development.
That's full spectrum war with Iran. It will include things like B-52 heavy bombing in formation, MLRS wiping out grid square after grid square, skies crawling with unrestrained UAV's, entire Divisional Artillery elements unloading at a furious pace. Iraq was no such thing. And no, the Revolutionary guard and Iranian allies do not have much more to call on than the Iraqi Army and it's insurgent groups did in 2003. Groups like the Houthis sticking their heads out to stage foolhardy assaults simply makes them identified targets to get cleaned out. Probably by the Saudis. From a strategic geographical perspective, Iran is incredibly exposed. The "asymmetrical" guerilla warfare game only works when you're fighting on someone else's soil and restraint is in play, or you have a nice jungle to hide in rather than a desert. Iran won't see the restraint employed in Iraq or Afghanistan.
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The answer should be relatively simple, if the commanders on both sides of the fence can keep their heads about them and keep the bullets in the magazines rather than the other side. Balkanize that shit, and this time, keep the ethnic Russians OUT of Western Ukraine. West wants to go EU, East wants to go Russian Federation vassal state. If it weren't for the treaty, the US should just say: Fuck it, deal with it, we're tired of trying to help anyone since all they do is spit in our face and embezzle our aid $$.
There's 3 factors in play here:
1. Ukraine boasts a LOT of fertile land. This isn't a small matter, especially if it means feeding Russians with it, and cutting their dependency on Western wheat. Look at the conflict in Kashmere between Pakistan and India over water as an example.
2. A chance for Putin to puff out his chest at Obama, the "Leader of the Free World", who also happens to be Black. To say this is a populist nod to endemic Russian racism who see their race, land, and religion as one would be an understatement. A chance to stick it to the western Black Man and America is just too good to pass up for Putin. You would almost think the GOP put him up to it after the Olympics, the timing couldn't be better for both.
3. Russia is on a roll this year to get their "bad guy" cred back, and Putin supporting Russians are eating it up. Hyperbole, and outright lying both on youtube and in the press are nothing new to a propaganda state and it's citizens (you will see many of them spewing bullshit in this very comment section), and completely accepted by what are some of the most blood thirsty people on the planet, and who make peace with the fact that they are. Putin really does typify the men of his country. He's not pushing them, he's a reflection of them. They haven't been able to make much of a go of Capitalism and Democracy over the last decades, so they are looking back to imperialism and conquest for those glory days to salve their national identity.
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I got a grandkid now, and it's funny because he actually snoops around my house, and touches all my toys (snowboards, surfboard, skateboards, BMX bikes, dirt and street bikes, SCUBA gear, paintball guns, etc.) and all my old Army uniforms and stuff hidden in the closet. HE actually think I'm cool, and calls me teach them him to do all this stuff. But he always...sneaks around my daughters to do it, because they are still stuck in "My dad is embarassing" mode and say it loud and often around him. They are very fond of reminding me I am "Immature" because I still got hobbies and am in no way sad about being divorced.
I guess what I'm trying to say is: Go nuts with your grandkids, and teach them to live life and not be a bunch of squares. It's the best revenge against your kids.
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Oculus Book. Face Rift?
Whatever, I still have boneritis over it. Just hang on, rifters, this might turn out for the best. Just like the Ukraine, I'm sure Putin, er, Zuckerberg just has our best interests at heart.
Besides, we should hope that both the Rift and Morpheus do well, for two reasons:
1. Gaming communities are subject to the same rules as populations: The more you have, the more they breed. For the flagship games to succeed (FPS games being #1), you need lots of players. Which leads to the second point:
2. If both VR peripherals do well, and have the games that enrich them, then it is possible those of us in the Glorious PC Gamer Master Race could finally have the chance to beat on the dirty console peasants cross-platform with 3rd party game and server support. We've been waiting years to do this, but because Mouse > Controller, it never happens. PS4 Morpheus players with the Move, and PC Oculus players with Razer Hydras, face to face, on the same servers. THIS MEANS WAR, GODDAMMIT, AND THE CARNAGE SHALL BE GLORIOUS
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Because it pales in comparison to kidnapping immigrant children, seeking aid with a nation pointing nukes at us, robbing us blind with a tax cut for the already rich, dismantling our education which will lead to an economic crisis when uneducated kids are at the helm, encouraging white nationalists & law enforcement to kill people, selling off of public land, environmental abuse (yeah, Nic), trying to put Religion in our Government, and the list of real problems goes on and on.
Yeah, I would say dealing with him saying "grab them by the pussy" and screwing around on his wives is pretty low on the list of priorities when you look at the more immediate & life threatening problems he is causing, wouldn't you?
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@markjohnson8824 The only difference between a Euro DemSoc country and American Capitalism is that the European taxpayer get something back for their tax dollar instead of it just ending up in General Dynamics or Investor's pockets. Tired of funding infrastructure so only stockholders can end up with the "market gains", and everyone else paying for that 'prosperity' still living paycheck to paycheck, and owning the roof over their own heads getting pushed further and further out of reach.
I did OK, but I'm from an earlier generation. My kids, adults in their own right and 1 with kids of her own, mostly have degrees but still have to struggle harder than I did.
My youngest, my son, works 55-60 hours a week at $17 an hour, has roommates, and still he had to ask me last week if he was on my insurance at age 22
If we're the richest country on earth, how come so few of us can afford to live here?
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I have a hard time thinking of Macron as the "good guy" for the French people. He's a corporate conservative at the end of the day. The only reason he seems like a decent politician to other countries is because he isn't Le Pen. From an American's perspective, that's like saying "Thank goodness we have President Paul Ryan. Can you imagine a Trump presidency?!?"
Macron is literally the French incarnation of Paul Ryan.
When you have an American doing a startup in France wearing a $3000 suit, surrounding by happy, healthy, and busy French employees working to keep him in $3000 suits, but he complains about "how hard it is", I just don't have it in me to feel bad for him or think that the French government should be doing "more" for him and not his employees.
Stick to your guns, French Labour Unions, and never let them turn you into our "Rich Guys First" culture across the pond. If you're "economically challenged", it sure doesn't look it. High unemployment is a relative thing when you have $37k median income and a 2.7 trillion GDP. I respect that you don't allow corporations to contribute to political campaigns and cap the campaign financing by individuals and parties, and I respect that modern France is a stable bedrock member of the EU.
I won't get into nationalist history...we all got skeletons in our country's closets
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@nicholasmckenzie7403 yes, but with different verbiage. DD 256A, and it's formally called dismissal. But even the manual calls it being discharged honorably. Discharge is more a semi-formal term of art as meant to describe the character of the separation. I'm given to undestand by my Admin NCO battle buddy that Op is right, technically there is no Dishonorable Officer Discharge unless they did something naughty in the latrine. They can simply be forced out by direction of dismissal for reasons both good and bad. Lost a leg, aged out gracefully after a lifetime of service, said the wrong thing on the Evening News, couldn't keep his dirty hands off his SPC-4 admin assistant, got passed over too many times, some Field Grade officer didn't like his face, lost a plane because he zigged when he shoulda zagged, etc. etc.
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@MasterMatter You would be amazed the things our families get away with sending us during deployments. No, I'd retired as of the 2nd week of the Trump admin. I barely survived Bush Jr, many of my friends did not. It seemed like the right time to drop my 20 year (retirement) letter.
At age 27, you're gonna have no problem, even if you are out of shape, they will get you IN shape. Just don't lie about anything stupid and illegal you did when you were young.
Military pay today is NOT bad, actually. The days of us needing food stamps died in the 90's. The first few years won't be great, but when you make E-4 it'll be decent. There's a lot of old Cold War misconceptions still attached to life in uniform. But you really, REALLY need to consider what branch and job you're gonna do, and you have to make peace with the idea that sooner or later, you're going to be spending time overseas, and that's hard on marriage like you wouldn't believe. Even when it's not a combat deployment. Navy and Marine Corps don't spend nearly as much time at home in the CONUS (continental united states) as the Army and Air Force. I advise those for the truly young and single, same with combat jobs. At 27, the best gigs are probably in medical and electronics maintenance support for making a career after you get out. Aviation jobs are hands down the most satisfying though. Helicopters and Planes, my friend.
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@mattmarzula POWERED armor is functionally fantasy for now, not for technical reasons but for practicality ones. Range, cost, and deployability. What would allow for many of the benefits (increased load bearing capability for packs, weapons & ammo loads, ballistic/blast/incendiary/CBRN & environmental protection) as well as added mobility is not powered at all. *Torsion powered*
Coil springs at joints and elastic posture-return tendons over long skeleton axis in full body frames. A full body spring-tensioned orthopedic frame ready to hang armor, gear, and load. All the way from down by the ankles of boots up to a semi-gimbaled neck ring for heavy helmet and night-vision systems.
Simply put, it does the bulk of standing & upright lift/return for you. It eats the force of gravity while loading up the stored force, allowing you to effectively pump-track run or maintain posture effortlessly. There's no power required but gravity and the mass of the soldier and his burden to apply load-up to the spring and bungee system, waiting to be quite literally bounced back for returned momentum. And it would protect and absorb during impacts from things like a 5 point landing, overextention of the normal range of human motion, falls, rolled ankles, vehicle roll overs and impacts.
Dumb, basic mechanical clockwork that alleviates what the human body struggles to support. And it would be a helluva lot cheaper and more practical in the field to replace a polymer-coated, thin metal thigh frame and a couple coil springs and bungee cords that don't get tired than pricey, short-ranged electric servos and batteries. And it wouldn't even be remotely as heavy. Take a good look at things like Motorcross knee & neck braces, and picture them full body with sprung architecture
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@Robodog69 In the global military scale of things, $33 billion in US aid is a drop in the bucket. Iraq by itself was two trillion.
I don't think you guys understand how pathetically a billion dollars scales by 2022, or where it all goes.
You all see jets, missiles, rifles, tanks. Not troops pay, food, fuel, armories. Your own home states national guards, generally around the size of just a brigade or two, consumes several billions of dollars. For each of the 50 states. And that's not even the active duty military components. And Iraq was NOT as big of an issue to the US future as the Russian invastion of Ukraine is to the World future.
Many of you work in buildings worth millions, surrounded by other buildings that cost millions in numerous, plain industrial parks. But you don't spare a second thought for all the tens of millions that are spent around you every day dealing in everyday goods & services.
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7:48 Well, General Flynn, you did alot more than a tenth of what she was accused of. More like power of 10. You just might get locked up. Although I am damned curious what you thought you could offer as testimony had you been given the immunity deal you sought...
For those of you who haven't spent time around General Officers, you have to understand that they have lived their entire adult lives in an Officer bubble. The kind of bubble where you throw one time comrades under the bus to climb to full bird colonel and above, and you are given 20+ years of encouragement to be a "world" player with godlike power. They don't understand life for the normal enlisted guy, much less life for the average American or foreign national. I've spent my time in the orbit of fine colonels and light birds, a few well meaning but out of touch brigadiers and major generals, but never met a single Lieutenant General who wasn't packing a god complex that they clearly wore on their face. Especially a certain former commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps. His entourage and staff were visibly intoxicated with his sense of power and spent their time in "yes man" mode. Pete Chiarelli was a cool MJ when he was running the 1st Cav though. Came to every funeral service for every guy we ever lost, and actually told his staff to get lost so he could talk to troops and local iraqis at the ground level, without being told what he wanted to hear.
One sad fact related to me by a Corps level NCO is that senior sergeants major have to attent periodic weeks-long training now just to learn how to keep their Commanding General from committing sexual assault, harrassment, politically suicidal statements, or letting slip OPSEC info while bragging about themselves. That's pretty fucked up.
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Noumen Omness - I can relate. I was an EMT and Nursing Aide working on my RN, working in Geriatrics with old folks, dementia patients, and the like. The staff was 112 strong, with only 2 male CNA's and 2 male kitchen staff. It was definitely a woman's world, and they made sure I never forgot it. Neither did my nursing instructors. When you're the "eligible guy" who is constantly getting hugged by older single moms, and you put your hand up because you're tired of all the "sweety, honey" treatment and decline all the "harmless hugging" or invitations for drinks, you're an instant pariah who will be subjected to reprisals and alot of nasty, career ending gossip. Particularly by the HR Staff and Directors of Nursing, who think you're just an oddity anyways.
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@donh01965 I'm right behind you. Old now, young then, but old enough to remember the things we saw and the things our parents were into. I remember it getting really grim when we started the 80s, too. The 80's still felt like the 70's until about '84. Our hippie parents got into heavier drugs, the economy was never fantastic but got even more divided, the Mob was still a real thing that seemed to be just about everywhere, bikers & serial killers too, & people just didn't keep their hands to themselves. Domestic, school, or public, violence was routine.
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@gabrielonibudo5710 Operation Iraqi Freedom: $6300 per US citizen, or roughly $12,000 per US taxpayer. Total cost: $2.4 trillion USD. Beneficiaries: KBR, BAE, General Dynamics....
Unless you have those blue chip stocks or work directly for them as an employee, you paid for the conflict, not gained economically from it, even in a peripheral sense. It was no New Deal or post-war nuclear family economic boom with heaps of new technologies applied to everyday life. That was the last time war was good for the US economy. These days, you break something, you pay double to fix it and put it right back on the shelf where you found it, not get a discount because it has a dent.
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If Dona was so unsung (and I heard all the old stories about Atari and their wild escapades at the office), why was she so recorded in the FUCKING 80's, and WHY DID I KNOW HER NAME 30 YEARS AGO?? Dona had her vision and followed it. Clearly it worked out for her since she DID THE JOB, failed to mention Ed Logg as her partner in the game (he's a man, fuck him), or Carol Shaw. She WAS given ink about it plenty of times, particularly that she was a woman. Maybe she got senile over the years and forgot the articles by Gamasutra, Computer Programming Magazine (in the 80's), etc.
Why aren't more women programmers? Because women don't gravitate towards that education of their own accord. THEY make that trend. That's on NOONE but THEMSELVES, the girls club sub culture women created for themselves and their ROLE MODELS. I have met only two young women who said "I wanna go to school to make GAMES.". Neither did, they got better paying jobs in things such as engineering designing brakes for Mercedes on CAD.
Like the Rangers, there's only so many who WANT to do it. You can't force women to do it just to justify your feminazi world view. That would be human trafficking, which women can only be the victims of from what I hear.
Speaking of sexism, why is it every Human Resources and Payroll office I've ever had to set foot in is 100% female staffed? I've heard more than 1 statement that women have a "natural affinity and people skills that men don't possess".
If feminists are so spun up about being the dominant sex in everything, then why don't more of them stop campaigning and start studying the field? Oh thats right, because claiming you're a feminist doesn't actually require training or effort, and would cost you your soap box.
#ALLHAILTHEPERPETUALGYNARCHY
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The incredible numbers in sales of the Yammy Bolt, Triumphs, and the anticipation for starter bikes like the Rebel 500 would disagree with you Jrock. MSF rider courses from Seattle to Portland are filled to bursting even when it's rainy season, and prebooked out many months in advance even if you're willing to drive to the boondocks. New riders are popping up in the Northwest at breakneck speed. Literally. Lane splitting and shoulder riding just became legal again up here.
Harley has a problem with younger riders because of three things:
1. Price. Price, price, and price. If the only Harleys you can score for under 10 grand are the 883 and the Streets, plus the insane dealer markups that are common, well, that $7k starter/intermediate rice rocket that won't require $1200 in dealer services shortly down the road suddenly looks pretty good.
2. Arrogant community (Yeah, that includes me as well, I've been that guy on my Dyna). The younger crowd understand the brand just fine, and don't like what they see. I can't tell you how many old crotchety farts suddenly decided they were Harley guys after Sons of Anarchy aired, and these midlife crisis new riders started running their mouths at experienced guys who have kept old 80's Magna V45's going for 60,000 miles, 30 years, and coast to coast road trips through the power of duct tape, spit, and wisdom.
3. Expensive, constant repairs. And everyone knows it, even people who don't ride. I don't even want to talk about cam chain tensioner fiascos. Two old sayings: Harley only made one good thing...experienced mechanics. And Hogs don't leak...they mark their territory. EVERYWHERE. ALL DAY.
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@ah6501 Had no idea Texas was a liberal state. The more you know...
Looking at the Mass Shootings casualty map right now...It's Northern Arizona/Southern Nevada in the lead, trailed by Florida, Texas, and rural Virginia. The areas around Chicago, LA, NY and Seattle aren't even in the running compared to them.
Edit: Oh, and a massive bubble where Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska all meet. Can't forget them. And the vast majority of guns were legally purchased, with the AR & AK rifles, 9mm, .40 cal, and .45 cal semiautomatic handguns being the overwhelming majority.
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Our oath is to defend the Constitution and bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
The very next line is to obey the orders of the President and the Officers appointed over me, according to the UCMJ (Uniform Code of Military Justice, laid out in federal register of US Law as Title 10, Chapter 47), which dictates that it is our duty to obey only LAWFUL orders under Article 92 of the UCMJ. Emphasis on the lawful part. It's repeated quite often.
So if you are ordered to do something unlawful such as participate in the My Lai Massacre, or, say, become the personal goon squad of a Dictator President violating the law, then you have a duty to not obey, even if it costs you your life, freedom, and career. And this has happened a'plenty in US Military History, with the noble soul obeying that duty paying a heavy price for doing the right thing. But we know our oaths.
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I don't care to hear another word about the life or motivations of Paddock. Ever. He deserves not one iota of remembrance. What I do want to see is at least a few minutes each day about every person we lost in Vegas and in Puerto Rico. Who they were, their yearbook and childhood pictures, what they did both good and bad. I want to have a REAL FUCKING THOUGHT for victims, Media. No more lip service, no more victim-mandala pictures and-then-move-on bullshit.
Stop saying thoughts and prayers when you have no idea who to pray for when you have not one name in your thoughts. Jeremy Christian's name is forever known for the stabbing of three men who stood up to his Nazi ass on a train for two scared girls, but people have to google THEIR names. Ricky Best, dead. Taliesin Namkai-Meche, dead. Micah Fletcher, who survived. But all people will know is Christian's name.
Stop giving perpetrators their 5 minutes of fame, and start spending it on those we lost, Media.
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NO, they're not illegal. Neither are Silencers and SBR's (Short Barreled Rifles). We call it a Tax Stamp. You pay $200, wait a long time, and in some locales have to get your local sheriff to rubber stamp it (not difficult, you just say it's for a "collection"). And Nevada has very, VERY loose NFA standards. People travel there just to rent and shoot automatic weapons for the day, it's part of their tourism.
The Suppressor (silencer) legistlation that has been delayed by Paul Ryan because of the political timing in the wake of this shooting was intended to take away the $200 fee, paperwork & ATF background check, and long wait time. It will be back, and it will be done quietly as a favor to the NRA and Freedom Group corporation. Silencers are a gold mine waiting to happen for the gun industry. They are absurdly cheap to make, but command extremely high prices.
Surefire and other manufacturers will be foaming at the mouth to get this passed and cash in.
The weapons this asswipe used were purchased legally from Guns And Guitars. Unmarked and full auto modified AR-15's with mil spec bolt carriers are being made by small machinists all over the US under the table, and legacy arsenal AK-47's (those are the underground full auto Russian AK's that exist in large numbers, traded between survivalists like currency) are pretty common if you make some friends on such websites as AR15.com, TruthAboutGuns, etc.
The psycho gun community are already there, getting each other riled up on conspiracy theories that this was all a false flag attack to blame and take away Guns, and ANTIFA is behind it.
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/Official-story-of-Las-Vegas-shooting-unravels-/5-2038307/
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I could spend millions of dollars.
OR I could google the predicted fallout maps for my area, have a plan, and head to a non-targeted area with prevailing winds that push all the fallout away from livable land.
Assuming survival from a first strike, the sanctuary area for me is the Oregon Coast, not a bunker. And it's about a 30 minute drive with lots of rural highway routes to choose from through the mountains. Powerful constant winds push all the fallout the opposite direction, precipitation coming from the ocean, fish, timber, no major targets, almost entirely public land that won't have entitled, crazy, gun waving nuts "standing their ground".
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Something tells me she knew that taking a jab at Bernie would actually help his cause. She may be an establishment POS with more baggage than a Samsonite outlet store, but she knows the numbers, she's steadfastly against Trump, and she knows that an endorsement from her is completely toxic. I was always suspicious when she just RANDOMLY dropped some conspiracy headline accusing Gabbard, a veteran, of being in Putin's pocket. Not only was it blatantly spurious, but it was hideously random for her to stick her head out like that and say something so freakin' wierd apropos of nothing. Very suspect. And it gave Gabbard a temporary boost and some headlines. She could be trying to drum up support for someone by using your own infamy in their favor. And politically, she and Gabbard lined up. Maybe, just maybe, she is using her infamy as a kind of reverse psychology dog whistle in Sanders favor , like playing the heel in Pro Wrestling. She has to know that Joe is screwed in a General Election, dead meat with independent voters.
She may be vile, but she's not stupid.
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When Americans are the ones growing and shipping the opium, then I'll point the finger that way. Stick to the hard facts and stop trying to impress everyone with your conspiracy theories.
1. Afghans grow Poppies because it's 7 times as profitable as food. The US tried that trick already, and Afghans aren't known givers of fucks about what they do to others when they can line their pockets.
2. Iran, known to nab anyone the moment they get within a kilometer of their border, is somehow, inexplicably, being flooded with Heroine making it across the line that a gnat couldn't sneak across.
3. The US isn't known for "final solutions", such as sowing the fields of Afghanistan with salt. They simply aren't hard-core enough to take the harsh actions necessary to stop this, probably because they would be perversely condemned even more (if such a thing were possible) by everyone for it. If a country's major export were Chemical Weapons, would you still have the same reservations about destroying that economy? Is it really so far off?
4. Historically, Afghan poppies were shipped East to be refined and shipped out of the Golden Triangle. If it's going West instead these days, it's because of either a change in Chinese/Triad policies, or a spike in other markets.
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He's not really attacking Joe as much as he's pointing out the obvious: The republican voter, the Base, is what produced this culture of acceptable insanity and bumper sticker philosophy. It seems "icky" to call out a significant portion of our own population as being the problem rather than the victims, but it's the truth. A large, overly-enfranchised, violence-for-pleasure seeking fraction (about 32%ish) segment of the US population is what is producing the Donald Trumps, Paul Ryans, David Dukes, Fred Phelps, Dana Leosches, Steve Bannons, and Alex Joneses of the world. The people are the cause, not the symptom. They really would be for a "Purge" if they thought they could get away with it.
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@Marth667 And I have no objection to that description. My Bradley meets all the criteria for a tank. It's practically a Panzer II, and that was a tank. I can promise you no Frenchman on the Maginot line called it an IFV. A self propelled howitzer like a Paladin is a tank, and a tank is not dependent on the presence of a turret, but the tracks tend to be less optional. People just like to split the hairs about role to sound like experts.
My vehicles role was IFV and CFV, but still..it's a tank. It can't be confused with a car, or a truck, a helicopter, or a bicycle, or even a wheeled APC. Anyone who sees it on their street will think "Oh damn, that's a tank!", and they'd be right. Especially when I squash your VW Beetle with the treads. But any veteran would split those hairs and say "Naw, that's an IFV, noob" as if it made any real practical difference. It's still a tracked armored box with shooty bits and the sight of your puny rifle makes it laugh.
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@RebornLegacy You really missed the point. They all started out as legal guns, that can be found anywhere. What starts out legal doesn't take much to move into Illegal. Sold, traded, stolen, uncontrolled and untraced. The number of legal gun sales is intertwined, and inseperable, with the number of illegal guns. But there's a difference: You slow the sale and lethality in new, legal guns and you exponentially reduce the dangers of illegal firearms making the rounds. Because as time ticks on, and illegal guns get confiscated, they become an endangered species compared to legal guns, which do not get confiscated, if you can stop them from breeding on the factory floor. And the more endangered a hot gun gets, the more it's black market value goes up, which means it will trade hands even less.
England already figured this math out in 1996 after a school massacre. You can sit there and deny that, and you will, and talk about knives and trucks, but they don't have our gun problems. The only massacre they had after that? By a legal gun owner. In 2010. 23 years, and only a single mass shooting that killed 12. And it happened because they let that guy have his guns LEGALLY. Here, in 'Murica, we could almost envy those kinds of rookie numbers.
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While I agree with you in so far as I couldn't give a fuck about an end user agreement after shelling out hundreds of bucks for a thing which I now OWN in the real physical universe, at which point you can go fuck yourself telling me how to use it, I can't help but see comments like Brian's as sounding curiously like pitch for AMD stock shares.
But GPUs aren't something we lease. We BUY them. If I buy a Civic, Honda doesn't get to tell me that car isn't allowed to to drive to Austria with a snowboard strapped to the roof. They just don't. EULA's have gone batshit in 2017, as have marketing targets. Case in point: We have a simulator system with a grossly overpriced, and 4 years out-of-date Quadro card in tower. All it does is draw some extremely low rez graphics for practicing artillery fire, and some light geography physics. The card itself is a POS, and could have been more than ably serviced with a $240 gaming solution, but because it's being used in a military application, some genius with shit for brains was sold the $2000 turd GPU for each and every simulator. It's all about shafting the customer with double talk, fancy buzz words, acceptable "application" manipulation, and contract deals with people who don't know better.
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I have a variety of guns, and all but 2 are just toys for hobby shooting. A shotgun, a Ruger .22 rifle, a revolver, a bolt action hunting rifle, a Ruger.22 pistol, an AR, and an FN Five-seveN handgun, and a sub compact Texas Defender (a .410 shotgun derringer 2 shot).
The only 2 guns I say I would NEED would be the Remington 700 should I hunt, and the Texas Defender for, obviously, defense and concealed carry. They are perfectly suitable for their purpose and conscionable to keep, and make poor choices for mass murder. I claim them as a reasonable, sane expression of my 2A rights.
But the 2 that have me in doubt: My Noveske AR (my average magazine packs 40 rounds) and my Five-seveN pistol (which has 30 round magazines of it's own). These are a shitty way to use my 2A rights, and even in a self defense situation, are a horrible solution. They are fun to shoot, and that's it. I can live without them, and I won't cry to see them pulled off of store shelves.
The rest are just for variety.
Should I get rid of them/sell them? No, I am actually considering truly destroying them with a plasma torch across the receivers and bolt carrier group. Passing that on by selling them is a poor solution.
American values should be built on the ability to sacrifice for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, not the ability to slaughter for it.
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1. Yep. It's changed how much I dig gaming again.
2. Gaming first, Porn second (oh get over yourselves..), Watching friends come over and get their minds blown while playing Eve:Valkyrie third (it's like being the first kid on the block with a NES in the 80's), Using it as a pretty badass display in it's own right for everyday computing with Virtual Desktop fourth, and lastly, but not least, finding something that made me love and get excited about being a PC guy again. Something that has been missing since we're stuck in a "Oh look, higher framerate and resolution, but otherwise the same-old, same-old" rut.
3. $600 total for a headset AND hand tracking controls is fine. We spend more than that on good displays, keyboards, mice, and headsets when added together. And now I'm going to save for a GTX 1080 hybrid, which will cost nearly as much as a Vive itself.
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ANTIFA Licks My Ballsack - Look man, I'm not on your side on this, but you are right that they better know what they are talking about instead of doing stupid legislation like taking flash suppressors off = gun control.
I am a 25 year retired Army guy, and multi year Iraq vet. The M-16 is my bread and butter duty weapon. I have an expansive collection of AR's (including pistol AR's and 2 SBR's), and a Remington 700 that could best be described as a rifle than any Sniper would be proud to assassinate someone with, especially with a Surefire Suppressor on it.
But they are toys. Just toys.
They protect noone. They defend the people against Tyranny from noone (as if you could stop my A3 Bradley with even a hundred AR's....)
I value three things more than my gun collection: My kids, being honest and the American People I am oathsworn to protect.
So it's time for honesty to make the other two safe: The only gun I own that is truly a defense gun is a Bond Arms .410 two-shot derringer. It's concealed carry in public, it's home defense. I will never, EVER have a situation where I need more than two small shotgun shells to defend myself or my family. We aren't holding off Viet Cong platoons in our fantasy prepper lives.
Anyone can be a murderer. It's in us. I have to be honest and realize that I, and others, should not have the ridiculous firepower that matches what I carried during presence patrols in Baghdad. As moments like these build and build and don't stop, I have to face the real moral problem of being a man who can slaughter dozens and dozens of my countrymen should I flip my switch, and being a man who can murder a half dozen at most before it's all over because I didn't have enough fire power. It's not patriotism to hide an arsenal in the hopes that you can use them on your fellow countrymen, it's a treason.
I love my kids, and I love my country and my people. This may be the last straw that tells me it's time to start destroying the deadliest parts of my gun collection, not just sell it.
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Wernher von Braun. German. Lead designer of the V-2 Nazi rocket, and grand daddy of the US space program. Arrested by the Gestapo for anti Nazi sentiment even though he was a member. Major figure in NASA after repatriating to the US after WWII, and leading mind in orbital station and Martian/Lunar travel theory. Unlikely the US would have ever had a successful space program at all, much less landed on the Moon without him. Died in Virginia in 1977, only a small grave plaque. But still an American immigrant.
Nikola Tessla. Serbian. Grand daddy of Alternating Current and electric motors. Died fairly broke, and exploited. But you can find his contributions in just about every device you own. An American immigrant.
Elon Musk. South African. Programming prodigy by Jr High. Son of a Canadian model and a South African pilot and engineer (who he hated). Went Canadian when he was old enough. Graduated U Penn with a degree in physics, was going for his PhD in Physics from Stanford, but left to become the super rich visionary who's showing up NASA right now by starting his Software empires like zip2, Xcom and PayPal. An American immigrant.
Albert Einstein. German. What needs to be said about that dude, honestly.
Sergey Brin. Russian. You can thank him for half of Google, so you don't have to use Bing.
Steve Chen & Jawed Karim. Taiwanese and German. Created the very thing you're watching now. Youtube.
So tell me again how retarding immigration is such a good idea for the country, Fox News zealots.
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Ripper: Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol?
Mandrake: Well, it did occur to me, Jack, yes.
Ripper: Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water?
Mandrake: Uh? Yes, I-I have heard of that, Jack, yes. Yes.
Ripper: Well, do you know what it is?
Mandrake: No, no I don't know what it is, no.
Ripper: Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
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Ah, so now the russian trolls (and really inept ones) are back to threatening Nuclear War if they don't get Americans to do what they want.
Do we dislike Russians? Well, we didn't after about 1989. We wished you all the best of luck for perestroika, and glasnost. We thought "At last, peace and prosperity between us!", but apparently, as a people, you just had to prove that Russian hearts don't change. You still have to threaten people to feel any pride. You endorse following dictators and strong men. Rule of law and honesty mean nothing to you, not when Power and Money mean more, or else you wouldn't respect a mob boss like Putin so much. You thrive in an environment of lies and sadism, you take pride in it, even. Immigrants who fled from Russia to the US bring that mobster mindset with them. And while there are plenty of Russians who oppose the psychotic values embodied by Vladimir Putin, they are too much a minority to say they embody the average Russian. It's still a nation where most Russians share the same backwards, hateful, greedy mindset that our own Conservatives do. Americans who live lives of conservative values built around hate are a minority here, it's a majority there. "We are White, We are Christian, We are Russian, Thank God!" is the saying, if I recall. Oh sure, we've got our Trumps, Bannons, Reagans, Roy Moores, and Fred Phelps. But they remain the exception, not the rule.
We cried when hundreds of your children were murdered at school in Beslan. We held our breath and wished everyone would get out alive when the Moscow Theater attack happened. We even knew that we couldn't blame the Russian military for the stupidity of Georgian soldiers firing on Russian peacekeeping troops. We can even say "Thank you" for the Tear Drop 9-11 monument that Putin gave to us after the attack.
But then Putin began assassinating even more people brazenly. Even outside of Russian borders. And you invaded Ukraine when his puppet president was overthrown in a no-bullshit revolution by the people. And now a mass propaganda assault (that everyone could see) and hacking (most of which we are sure you got away with). Corruption during the Olympics to imbezzle money. There's no low he won't stoop to, and he does it with a smile on his face. And you're proud of him for that.
So do we dislike Russians? Yeah, now we do. Because the majority of you are supporting your favorite Dictator and his schemes.
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I dunno, it's kind of a mixed bag. All of us veterans are, no matter your military alma mater. There's plenty of douchebag SEALs, Marines, Straight Leg Grunts, all the way to Cooks and Mechanics in the reserve components who are every bit in favor of the Russians supporting Trump and see them as hyper conservative kindred.
Speaking of SEALs gone bad, I would point to Eric Prince, Betsy Devos' brother and CEO of Acedemi, aka Blackwater Security, who is known to have business dealings with Putin's Mercenary guy, Prigozhin.
I would say former SEALs using the name to get into politics tend to take the Trump side, but the ones who didn't run for office haven't forgotten their oaths, like the Admiral.
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@ lolipedofin - In the old book of social philosophy, Neoliberalism, in the pre-Buckley sense, is the Feudal system (Old Money Aristocracy) being supplanted by the Merchant class (New Money). But after William F Buckley redefined what "Conservative" meant, we've had what we have today: Conservative as you define it and as we know it in America today. What the Republicans are after with this tax plan is a hybrid of the two: The Merchant (Wall Street) class as the new Nobility, with hereditary power, station, and wealth. Hence their move to abolish anything that threatens the root of their power: Money. Money that is used to buy politicians, so the politicians make moves to ensure they have ALL the money in the economy. You make the poor poorer, dismantle the middle class even further, and they are no threat.
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Doesn't matter Cenk. She knew this boy since he was little. Hanging around, decided to pick him like fruit when he was ripe. Auntie Asia decided it was time to do a Woody Allen. Not right.
Wouldn't be right for Uncle Larry, Daddy's Friend, to start screwing around with the daughter, or son, when they grew up to be 17. So it ain't right for Auntie Asia either.
Remember that the MeToo thing revolves around POWER, and at 17, he had none. Not an adult. You can't sit here and bitch about Child Marriage one minute, then nod your head at this. Ana is totally right. And there are just as many times when a male has regretted sex with someone, usually because of pressure, situation, or ALCOHOL, and felt just as used by the experience as women.
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The problem is getting worse, and the body count in each incident getting higher, because thousands of Massacre machines, the parts to sustain them, and the mags that feed them are rolling off the factory floors every day as we speak, heading to a Cabella's near you
Turn them off at the tap. 2A says you have the right to bear arms, doesn't say a company has the right to make and sell something that fires every time a Confederate Fanboi twitches his finger.
End the manufacture, sale, and transfer of all repeating firearms. You can't take someone's property if they have one already, but you can make them an endangered species by stopping them from breeding and migrating. Oh, you can keep the AR you got. But it should die when you die. Not be loaned, pawned, sold, willed, or gifted any more than your prescription for Oxy should be.
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@derrickbelanger Ah, gotcha. I'm a moderate myself, so it didn't resonate with me. I just consider him progressive in the context of Texas. I'm in Oregon, I'm SURROUNDED by the hyper liberal, so my optics are a bit different and I view him as a unicorn for that state. Like Ojeda. He's still pure Appalachy moonshiner when viewed from here, and conservative in the context of Oregon, but he might as well be wearing tie dye and birkenstocks for Virginia.
Agreed on Cortez, she should keep her feet wet for at least 2 terms in the House, and move on to the Senate so we don't lose her in the long term. I would personally like to see Bernie not make another Presidential bid, but rather upset the DNC establishment and usurp McConnell as the Majority Leader in the Senate in 2020. Because the odds are with the Dems to flip the Senate in 2 years, and it would be sweet justice to see an independent who caucuses with the Dems run the floor for once. Just to piss both sides off. Or even be VICE PRESIDENT, because that makes him president of the Senate.
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*Sessions*: All right, listen. The Mueller's an investigation unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyper-legal combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the prosecutor.
*Trump*: But I can just fire him.
*Sessions*: Pay attention! I gotta recuse myself......The Comey series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new, they look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.
*Trump*: But I'm the President!
*Sessions*: Listen, and understand! That Special Prosecutor is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are indicted!
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Bibi is a well spoken, reasonable appearing man with strong leadership skills that give off their own force of gravity. That said, he IS a warhawk. Always has been. He's a heavy handed man who can spin while coming off as a reasonable adult in front of the cameras, and be ruthless when the cameras are off. He is the epitome of what non-anti-semite conservatives love. And the epitome of what the lunatic anti-semite Trump supporters hate.
The unfortunate fact is, he is both hurting and helping the peace process and Israel. On one hand, he makes many many enemies with land grabs. On the other, Palestine only serves one real purpose in the Arab world: It's is the front line of their war on Jews. That's all. The more turf they get on Israel's doorstep, the more of it they use to lob rockets and mortar fire into Israel. And they will never stop, no matter what their status as a "nation", no matter how much recognition or freedom, that freedom will only be used to continue attacking. It is no nation, it's not even a DMZ. It's a front line. Every player in the Islamic world who wants to score Jihad points with his base, Trump style, will send money, ordnance, and people to use that front line to further their own status in the Fraternity of Jihad.
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@graceg3250 I'm appraised last year at 230, and my neighbors (larger) property sold months ago for around 300. Nearly half of that value is the soil beneath it. But that's entirely academic to the point and not the issue at hand here.
That park n' ride is already owned property, they aren't buying the dirt underneath it. There's no way to justify each of those structures being even $25k, no matter what's going on in the real estate vulture world.
They would have been better served taking a 4 story downtown parking garage and converting it not into an apartment building, exactly, but as a bulk shelter with lights, heat, hygiene and washing facilities, and a cafeteria/commissary. Furnished as a mix of both small dorms and concrete pads for campers/tent diehards.
I'm all onboard for sheltering, feeding and giving the destitute a mail box in this crisis. I'm just questioning the horrid way we're spending on it. Because if we're spending that much per person, then we're leaving more out. Spending this much per person falls short of the problem. Like buying an expensive little game hen for the Thanksgiving meal table and expecting that to be better than buying a real turkey.
And I think they did that deliberately, to sour people on the idea if they can make it look so horribly expensive and cost inefficient. A political stunt that both lets them pretend to be humane, but also discourage public support for shifting funds to actually helping people and back into private real estate investment at the tax payer's expense.
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It was always accepted on both sides that for women, sex is a weapon. And I don't simply mean the act. ALL Aspects of sex. Social interaction and customs, fashion & standards of grooming and dress, workplace etiquette, privacy, financial expectations, friendship, notions of satisfaction during intercourse, fidelity, politics, fertility, parenthood, marriage & divorce, she-said-he-said, feminist victimhood privilege, blame & persecution, "fluid" consent, and the myth of female godhead.
But for women today every aspect of sex is no longer just a weapon. It's a WMD. And the other half of the population is being bombed.
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We aren't divided. We just have a system that let our most childish, spoiled minority be in charge, and true to form, they ran amok. Incel freaks and their Jim Crow missin' granpappies, singing the Archie Bunker theme song to them since before they discovered /b/. We're not divided because they were never really part of us. They were never loved America, they only loved themselves and the parts of the constitution that let them make threats if they don't get their way. The rest they would happily throw away. You can't be unified with the Confederacy.
Boy the way Glen Miller played,
Songs that made the hit parade,
Guys like us we had it made,
Those were the days,
And you know where you were then,
Girls were girls and men were men,
Mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again
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1. The oldest, most agreed upon tenet of justice isn't taking the high road, or turning the other cheek. It's simply that you get what you deserve. You reap what you sew. Some say justice is about harmony, but conflate that into forgiveness on some level, not because they consider the victims or the criminal, but because they only think of themselves in that position or that it equals a virtue, because, again, they are thinking of themselves and not the crime or the victims.
2. A living, breathing murderer is a continued threat. Escapes happen. Loopholes happen. While many statistics say a capital offender is less likely to commit that crime again, that does NOTHING to erase the fact that some do. And that's an incredible failing. There is an admitted cannibal murderer that VICE covered who is free, right now, living in Japan.
3. Examples matter. In a world of billions of people, there are always people who are inspired by people who got away with it. And will think they could too. The old aphorism that "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" just doesn't hold up. It's virtue signalling for selfish reasons, not dealing with a real world situation. What it should say is "An eye for an eye keeps people from poking other people's eyes out."
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Carlson, as a pro lifer, doesn't get to talk about what a tragedy it is for kids to grow up poor without fathers.
Edit: For the sake of playing devils advocate, I will say this - I trained and schooled to become a nurse, and worked the geriatric nursing field. I'm here to tell you, the women will tell you the moment you start class and show up in your wing that it's their turf, and you're just an oddity. You will not be treated as equal in an overwhelmingly female staff, run by women. You will be passed over, and over, and over. My instructors in class were the same way. What started out as a 50/50 gender mix was whittled down to almost no men, with my program director repeatedly asking me if I wouldn't rather be pursuing another program despite my studies doing just fine. The instructors made it clear I wasn't welcome there. My brother in law, a public K-6 teacher, runs into similar woes.
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The GOP plan to use Trump as a lightning rod is a shakespearian masterstroke. Everything they do from now until the mid terms is a win.
They let Trump run wild. They win.
They pretend to be the victim of the Alt Reich and aid in Trump's resignation, impeachment, or worse, and they look like responsible adults again in 2018, bringing in moderate voters. They win.
Then you get..what? President Pence? Or if he goes down with the ship,
President Ryan? Boy, you can positively feel establishment republicans salivating over THAT idea. They win.
They put the Y'all'Queda & Johnny Reb portion of their base back in their place, eliminating the threat to establishment republicans with Trump's ouster. The establishment GOP can live with being called RINO's, because it's not as if a Teapublican could survive the trauma of voting for a democrat, even if it was in their best interest. They win.
So pay attention to the fact that the NeoCons didn't create Trump by accident. That's pure dinner theater. He's simply performing his role as intended. Trump is just the obvious tumor, you have to attack the Republican cancer.
Remember: Just taking out Jabba the POTUS and the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley Space Cabinet won't mean you struck a blow against the Empire, my fellow rebel scum.
Stay On Target. Stay On Target.
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+Sabine Legrand ISIS is the purest expression of Sunni Islam. Westerners still think of Islam as one big homogenous organization. That's like traveling back to the United States during the civil war era and not knowing the difference between North and South, only with both institutionalizing slavery. Sunni Islam is about a return to post 11th century Imperial Islam, who embodied the ultimate capitalist system of flesh trading and maritime raiding and ransom. The Shia are no less crazy, just less centralized and more hillbilly, rooted in Bedouin life more than an urban Caliphate. Whichever side of the divide, Islam is Nation, Race, Language, and Law. Slavery, genocide, and extortion is absolute and institutionalized, it's not parable, it's not open to bending of the rules. Sura of the Cow, the second longest section of the Q'uran, enshrines and makes all the oldest sins of man completely endorsed to ALL of Islam. It also makes clear that everyone, EVERYONE, has a dollar value attached to their life. Like I said, the ultimate expression of capitalism given a license to kidnap, rape, murder, and steal, so long as you do it in the Sharia rulebook. For all the attention people are paying to the acts, precious few of you are actually understanding this enemy by reading their own confessions in their book about what they do. Google the phrase That Which Your Right Hand Owns, and find out for yourself.
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Funny, Tim Allen. I couldn't get the VA to get off their asses and do shit for me after deployment until the Obama administration started kicking them in the ass. We couldn't get DFAS to pay us our Stop Loss pay until that president went out of his way to get it to us after 6 years of it being held up by his predecessor and a Republican congress.
I watched Ryan, Rubio, and McConnell sell us out on the floors of congress on veterans bills that Sanders fought for, and I watched Obama fight for me and our men, despite the bullshit and lies. I watched a Democrat, Ron Weiden, march right past me as I stood in line at Madigan Army Hospital and kick the MedCom brass right in the ass to do the right thing by us during demobilization when no Republican would have ever thought about actually being near us. When the Army started pulling teeth willy-nilly to make us dental cat 2 for deployment, so they wouldn't have to do fillings, posts, or anything, I watched a Democrat Congresswoman stomp up to the front and halt that shit in it's tracks. No Republican ever did anything like that for us. They care about General Dynamics and BAE, not us standing in formation.
So fuck you very much, you servile slime.
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Oh, well shit son, since you were there, maybe you can tell us all about it. I can only imagine you mean Jefferson's federalist papers. And ONLY Jefferson's papers. Sorry, he wasn't our king. He penned the constitution, he didn't create and ratify it by elected representation. They did, in fact, mean government regulated. A government of the people, by the people, for the people. NOT for your little cults who threaten mass murder when democracy doesn't swing your way.
And it's IN my state that the National Guard IS my regulated militia. Citizen soldiers. When those fucktards from Idaho and Arizona came illegally armed into my state to stage their little occupation, they had no fucking clue how close they were to being the target of real Oregonians. We don't take kindly to fucktards invading our home.
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Yes, as a matter of fact I was against Bill Clinton. The first time I voted was for Bush Sr in his second election. I enlisted during Desert Shield, and was fed line after line about how Clinton was some commie even then. He pissed us in the military off even further by cutting defense spending, which ended some careers with troop draw downs after the war.
But after his first term, and we started to rebound economically, and came out of the funk of Reaganomics, we had to acknowledge it was necessary. Even though my own branch had to tighten it's belt. Because I was a patriot first, and a government employee second. It really was the economy, stupid, and any serviceman who loved this country more than his career had to acknowledge he did a good job applying pressure to the economy. And no, I didn't give any more of a shit about Monika than I do about Stormy Daniels. But I sure as fuck do give a shit about the very visible ties to a country that is pointing nukes at us.
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truth reveal I'm a 25 year Army retiree, and a self-described independent moderate. Does that sound like a "lefty Dem" to you? What I am is someone who made a career of defending the US Constitution and it's people by solemn oath. Now, with that in mind, take a wild guess how little I choose to side with a bunch of Klan loving, Russian ass kissing, Constitution violating Red Party traitors who are sticking their necks out for a Tyrant, i.e. people like you. Don't threaten us with civil war, son. The "soft liberals" won in 1865. Besides, from the way you write, it's clear English isn't your first language anyways. Which has me curious just what country you're posting from, because it's highly doubtful it's ours.
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- An arrogant, trashy, obnoxious, embezzling sleaze who had his family handle his failed businesses, lived bigger than his means to appear rich, loaded with unimaginably huge debts.
- Played the Patriot card when it was profitable for him, falsely paraded as some kind of role model, but who sold us out to an enemy to cover his debts because he couldn't handle sacrifices or accountability for the country, and because his ego was hurt. Publicly stabbed every ally he ever had in the back, and threatened or sued anyone who dropped dime on him.
- Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, his supporters and the government still couldn't believe the proof that he was in bed with the enemy and stealing everything not bolted down.
That man was Benedict Arnold
Remind you of anyone we know ??
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There's a big political ideology line between the lower Enlisted ranks, made up of a diverse spread of Americans, and the Officer class, which looks an awful lot like the GOP, and is devoutly Republican leaning. Especially when it could land them a job in defense contracting after retirement.
And they DO push propaganda on us enlisted schmoes. This year I was eating every day at Concorde cafe (the chow hall) at Camp Robinson, Arkansas. You know what's playing on the Televisions there? Fox News. And hanging from those televisions are signs that say "Don't change channel from Fox News". They could be showing ESPN or Armed Forces network, but they don't.
You know who made that decision? The Post Commander, a senior officer. They do try to be subtle but they push their "vote Republican" political views onto the enlisted who, being black, white, and all shades of brown, would be the real troops on the ground who would have to say "Fuck this guy, I'm not following this illegal order against the American people"
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@Lorenna1234 They're replacing one product in the same relative time space with a corner cutting product (LCD instead of OLED, monolithic display instead of twin, no physical IPD sliders, subcontracted out to Lenovo, much lower quality audio pieces, no external sensors to manufacture). Again, you're trying to apply 3 year old manufacturing costs that are are not relevant today. You can't ignore that unless you just got here in a time machine from 3 years ago. Also, at one point, the complete Rift package was down to $350 for a while. So I stand by my statement. This is about saving on production costs to eek out more on the hardware sales in the margins, and they force the new, profitable product by halting production on the CV1.
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I think the only way to remain YOU while replacing your mortal grey matter, is to do so in gradual steps.
If you just zip filed it over in 1 go, what is made is a copy, with the original YOU left behind. No immortality or continuum there.
Think of it like the Ocean. If you replicated every drop in 1 ocean into another container, it's not the same ocean. BUT...
If you gradually migrated the water of the Pacific into a new basin, it's the same ocean with a new address.
Minds, like bodies of water, are fluid and can grow or shrink. If you started replacing the storage media and processing functions with analogs of your OG brain over time, it would become part of it, new engrams added, other old ones ported over. No big bold line dividing one mind from another. Similary, no matter how perfect the fidelity, is not Sameness. This preserves the YOU in you, until, at last, YOU are now in a new media altogether that can supplant the OLD media, rather than being just a copy-paste version. Because your mind continued to be fluid and and grow into the new vessel as the process progressed.
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Alien Phone Rings
Alien Supervisor: "What's up?"
Alien Technician: "Those Humans are pointing their radio telescopes at us again. They're getting persistent."
Alien Super: "Ugh. Not them again. Activate the jamming field, and give a heads up to the Betazoids and Antares Continuum, to be neighborly. Don't want the Riff Raff spotting & bothering them either. Slippery slope, that. If they spot the Rigelians because they're too cheap to put a cloaking field in their planetary budget, then next thing you know, those hairless primates start strapping explosive devices to their asses and launch themselves here. They eat living things and poop in potable water, for crying out loud. We do NOT want them in the HOA."
Alien Technician: "Hey, do you still have that golden record from that tin can the Humans launched at us? I want to use it in my mix tape. Could be fire"
Alien Super: "Yeah, but don't bother. It's like show tunes and other childish stuff. It's not fire."
Alien Technician: "Ah, no great loss then. HEY! You wanna take a saucer and go do that thing to their cows again? That's always a riot."
Alien Super: "No. We don't do that anymore. Grow up, Zaphod."
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@travel.guide_tobaoni NATO doctrine has always been to hold the European line at the Rhine (Russian doctrine was built to reach it in 7 days behind the initial nuclear & chemical strikes, known as Iron Fist doctrine), and NATO have made quite a point about not having a doctrine for invading Russia (which is why we lack in the amphibious vehicles department).
That sort of enabling/appeasement has led to the situation we have now, Russia feeling untouchable, a "you wouldn't dare, neiner-neiner" free-to-conquer attitude, coupled with their belief that russian winter would still protect them in the 21st century.
They are very, very wrong, and have lost their advantage in winter warfare in the modern age.
Nor would they try limited nuclear strikes, because that's automatic suicide. But if a reactor melts down in Ukraine and destroys the country from the Dniepr to the Black Sea....they see that as deniable/not suicide/still got away with destroying Ukraine.
Those reactor captures aren't about cutting off power, they're hostages that don't come with the same consequences as a nuclear launch if they execute one.
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Iran, NoKo, China, Russia, and bit players like Serbia are lining up. Together.
Get your heads right folks, we're heading for a real World World, and sooner than you think.
When it kicks off, they're going after Israel, South Korea, Taiwan, Poland, and more. All at once. Together.
And none of you have got your minds right to deal with the kind of reality we haven't seen since the 30's.
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SaltyBrains Ironically, I do have some well-maintained MOPP gear. Now if that doesn't make me sound like a crazy doomsday prepper, nothing will.
But I will never go full Bunker Troll and turn my life upside down like a crazy Militia nut. I just believe in having a decent emergency plan and bug out box in the garage, whether it's man made or natural disaster. Fieldcraft/Wood tools and hardware, heritage seeds, preserved foods, cold weather gear, water purifiers, shelter, lots of fire goodies, hygiene and surplus NBC decon stuff, basic medical supplies, solar kit & camp electronics, and a bike. Oh, and socks. LOTS of socks, lol :)
Edit: FYI, my local bugout area is Florence, Oregon. Wind patterns, fresh water, far from known target areas, available resources, Pacific fishing, agricultural resources, and livable space make it a place for a sizable population to get back on it's feet without going underground in a nuclear scenario. Pretty much anything from Coos Bay, OR down to Eureka, CA is a good place to evacuate to, and could sustain several million along that stretch of the coast.
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@sumandhabolkar2819 Probably not, if the investigation uncovers things deep and systemic enough, then both parties will agree to bury the most socially disruptive facts, especially if they can be used by foreign agencies to further suborn and infiltrate our own government or weaken alliances. Hmmm...I wonder just what country would love that.
It's a bitter pill, but if the truth is likely to cause mass panic, economic destruction, or the wingnuts to start shooting at everyone, or driving us to start a world war, then you gotta be discrete and careful about what is shared.
JFK's assassination comes to mind. However, we live in the age of online leaks now. They might be able to seal things long enough to alter facts (they had plenty of time from the 60's until now to do that), but in 2019? That's a whole different enchilada.
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I own my home in Portland, OR. Let me kind of give you a timeline of how the housing crisis we have here went down, chronologically.
2007: New construction on grossly overpriced, packed-in-shoulder-to-shoulder housing developments go through the proverbial roof, beginning of housing bubble here. House flipping runs amok.
2008: Those houses fail to sell, sitting empty because they were A. Overpriced to begin with, B. Wages have been flat for several years now
2009: Renters, often renting from the same companies that are building the houses that aren't selling for a fortune, see their rents start to creep at least 10% at first
2010: Housing bubble has completely burst, property values begin decline, houses still sit empty
2011: Rents skyrocket, coming close to 30% increased cost by now. Since no one is buying our overpriced homes, groups like GSL properties jack up the price of their rental apts to cover their loss on home construction. At this time, I bought a cheap house in a bad neighborhood at the bottom of the bubble because it was cheaper ($725 per month to own, versus $490 that became $750 in 5 years for my 1 bed Apt) than renting. I would not be the first to come to this realization
2012: OLDER home buying spikes. Bigtime. Home prices begin a massive rise that continues until 2018. Property flipping begins again. Rents do not decrease to compete with rising home ownership costs. Transplants from out of state begin to trickle into Portland for both tech jobs and the quirky culture. Small businesses increase, jobs increase, but wages stay flat
2013: Neighborhood homes & businesses who were in old buildings begin being bought up, priced out, and torn down to accomodate the flood of new Condos that are being put in their place, because the Portlandia Craze has begun. Homelessness stops being just junkies and mentally ill people, starts becoming working locals who literally can't afford the place they lived for a decade. Start seeing them on every on/off ramp panhandling.
2014: Houses continue to rise in price, rental price of apartments rises even faster. More condo/Apartment construction, more beloved local establishments built over the top of them
2015: Transplants are now flooding into Portland. Wages start to see some increases. Word gets around that Real Estate moguls are increasing their pull in City Hall
2016: Supply side Rental economics hits it's current peak, Portland has become a property gold rush, homeless locals in droves, high-income tech transplants are having a tough time affording rent too, people are buying homes that they definitely won't be able to pay off in their lifetime, City leadership green light even more construction on condos, bulldozing more local iconic spots to make room for them under the lie that it's "providing affordable housing", turns out to still be just more overpriced apartments stacked like filing drawers
2017: Rent for my old 1 bedroom, 500 foot apartment in the suburbs has hit $1180. When I first moved there in 2006, it was $490. My cheap, bad neighborhood house is still $725, but just about everyone else with a mortgage is paying closer to $1600+ for a Skinny Home, and oddly, even more for an old home that has lead paint, asbestos, or other problems
2018: Homeless crisis reaching boiling point, some are being attacked by neighborhood thugs with things like tripwires at throat height that nearly kill a passing bicyclist. Now on almost every major street intersection panhandling, not just the ramps. Squatting anywhere and everywhere they can. Police give up trying to just move them from Point A to No Idea Where all the time.
2019: Governor Brown's rent control measures not nearly as comprehensive as VICE is implying here, Real Estate Lobby are still running good portions of the state and ALL of Portland City Hall. Housing sales have slowed. No one can afford to move here. They still move here, but realize they can't afford it. Ecomony has slowed because no one has any cash, they have to spend it all on rent. Condo/Apartment construction continues, only now the taxpayers are helping pay for construction without any promise of a payback in exchange for untrustworthy promises that they'll be "affordable" for a few years by the property developers. Measure 102, which in their desperation, Oregon voters passed by nearly 60%. What constitutes "affordable" remains unclear to the taxpayer. Property Lobby buying massive internet airtime to fight rent control measures in local media, and putting flyers on doors trying to gain popular support. Literally just took one off my door knob 20 minutes ago.
Bubble set to burst again, but rent won't go down when it does
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This is now a country where, if you fall of The Grid, you aren't getting back on. Every year that goes by, it's even more impossible to recover your life.
The minimum requirement checklist for not going homeless in America:
1. Already employed somehow, even if you're after another job
2. Good credit, no excuses
3. An "acceptable" social media presence
4. Already have a physical address that you've had for a while
5. Several thousand dollars saved just to RENT a shithole apartment
6. Have your own cell phone number
7. Have an email address and regular accessibility to online resources
8. Be good looking enough to be presentable to customers or management
9. Spotless legal record, or at least have found "Jesus"
10. More and more identifying documents. Simply having a pulse doesn't make you a "person" in this country anymore
11. Acceptable level of education
12. Not too much education, or too much student debt
13. Display no opinions
14. A car, clean drivers license, and insurance, even if you could just use other transport. Go ahead and show up on foot for an interview and see where that gets you
15. Don't be on probation, diversion, or recovery
16. Own the right clothes and display the right haircut
17. Don't ever look like you really need a paycheck or help. It's the surest way to ensure you will get neither
To picture the "grid", imagine a sheet of graph paper. Every square on it's edge is part of the Checklist, and is lifted up and supported by a stick under each Requirement category. Your life is a ball sitting in the middle. Every time you miss a requirement, a stick is knocked out, and that ball rolls closer to the edge. The ball doesn't bounce. If you lose sticks, the ball falls off the grid, and it doesn't come back. Because almost every one the items on the grid require money somehow, and when you have no money, those fail to sustain those squares, and you won't be getting an income to buy them back.
That's life in America in 2018.
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@GrammarPaladin You are:
A. Ignoring points I've made, then somehow perversely trying to make a similar point and throw it back in my direction as a matter of....disagreement? You actually proved my point, particularly when mentioning Gyaru girl fashion vs. how I addressed that Tanning is a recent phenomenon. This is not how logic works.
B. Making false claims. Please point out where I ever said or implied this is a matter of evolution. That was Kolboynik.
Therefore I can only conclude you're either incapable or unwilling to actually read what I wrote and are just making comments for the sake of making comments without a valid point
Edit: Actually, I take that back. You do have a point you are trying to make, albeit a false one. You are trying to claim that White people are trying to make the women of other cultures look white and conform to their standards. And my point is that the trends that made you (falsely) believe that, such as light toned skin, existed long before they ever met white people at all. Kind of like how many races each invented the Bow and Arrow, or Bread without ever having met. They are simply common themes that pop up throughout all corners of the species. Like women trying to make their skin appear smooth, pale, or what they deem to be otherwise unblemished as a matter of beauty as they compete for males of higher status. Or fancy clothes and dancing. Also a female specific, species wide phenomenon that pops up without any need for contact between disparate cultures. It is, simply, a Girl Thing.
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If you're going to pull a Trojan Horse trick on the Republicans, you need an inside team. They count on your honesty to assess who and what you are, how you are likely to vote, and how to pull your strings. Data is everything to them, and informs their propaganda and gerrymandering software.
To defeat this, you have to stoop to a different, uncomfortable level. Before you wrinkle your nose up at the stench, just hear me out:
Register as a Republican.
Get inside enemy territory, feed them false data, disrupt their ability to pick truly deplorable candidates in primaries, and most importantly...give them a false sense of numbers. You can still vote for independent and democrat candidates after the primaries. It's not a contract to vote for Team Red no matter what, and there's no entry exam. There's no litmus test for them to determine whether or not you're really one of them. And it takes all of 5 minutes. So yeah, hold your nose, become a Double Agent, and register as a Republican before they start gathering more data for 2018
https://www.register.gop/
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Beware, when a Republican brings up Oil, he's trying on the sly to shift blame to foreign oil suppliers, playing on the xenophobia dogwhistles his voters are waiting for, and by extention pin it on any Democrats.
GOP cycle of life: Take majority control, crash economy while pocketing the margins, lose majority control, blame Democrats, cock block Democrats trying to fix it, take credit when they do, take majority control. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat.
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The moment you opened with the words "Alabama Sheriff", I knew there was going to be some 3rd World-style human rights violations and corruption.
Of course, you can always get the same effect by using any 2 item combination of the following words and states as well: Arizona, Police, Republican, Florida, Texas, Pastor, Mississippi, ICE, Georgia, Trump Supporter, Arkansas, TSA, Utah, Immigration, Carolina, DA, Kentucky
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@doodlenov Feel free to visit the Shughart-Gordon MOUT site (Military On Urban Terrain) in Ft Polk, LA, then, and explain it to the post commander. Named for the very 2 Delta snipers who were overrun while defending Durant, and then who's bodies were dragged naked through the streets by the militia and mob, pictures of which were the main source of public controversy surrounding the mission. I trained at their namesake memorial site myself in 2003.
There are conflicts that America has been involved in that were either murky or just outright fucked up, such as Vietnam and Iraqi Freedom.
There are others that were black and white and they were clearly fighting the good fight. WW2, Korea, Somalia, the Bosnian war, the Civil War.
Conspiracy theories for the sake of entertainment or confirmation bias aren't helping.
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and your description is a completely false characterization.
The Republicans are absolutely, completely against the Middle Class. But they are very adept at fooling them. They are the party for rich businessmen and a very specific gender, religious, orientation, and race group. They aren't for Unions. They aren't for Small business. They are for WASP big corporations, and nothing else. And they use the WASP underclass to get votes, and are, oddly, the biggest global marketeers. Their stock in trade is pure Financial Corruption.
The Democrats just don't care about the middle class if you look too much like a WASP. They are for using all the protected classes to get votes, but in the end are for charitable rich businessmen, AND businesswomen. So, while they have the virtue of being more inclusive, they still respond to money, just on a much smaller and less tacky scale. Their stock in trade is Identity Politics.
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If you were to ask General Dynamics or Raytheon, yeah, they would tell you we should be buying counter productive, mega expensive, purely-Excalibur launching PCGGB tracks. The better to eat your tax money, my dear.
But every gun bunny, PL and FO knows that when clearance of fires finally makes it's way back down the pipe, the only things likely Guns Up and ready to deliver the pizza is either a Hog from your JTAC, a Paladin from your FO, or organic mortars. Expensive things get denied, or are deadlined.
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@HeavilyTarriffedPenguin I had a little luck, when I did buy my first home, it was '11, the bottom of market post '08 crash, and I went for a cheap home in an admittedly bad 'hood. But it set me up for cutting my most major expense, freeing up other income. And not a slave to rent hikes over time, etc.
I am actually hoping we see another mortgage bubble crash. For my kids sake, and yours. The Landlords and corporate residence vultures need to lose and lose hard. That will require some pain, but we'll be better for it after a few years.
As far as the good job goes, just remember to have a plan to get OUT of that job. Maybe start a simple, fun side gig. Start a freakin' weekend coffee or taco truck that you can sell later if you have to, but do anything to get off the time clock before you turn 55. Even if your earned bennies like Social Security are still around when you hit...85? They won't be enough. Come up with a plan to live free but cheap now
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It's true, Fred. The compromise is where we need to be. But we've got 2 sides taking all the air in the room from the majority looking for a reasonable solution to high body count guns that embolden psychotics. Few people about to "snap" will look at their daddy's .30-06 and think "Boy, I'm gonna go out in a blaze of Glory with this puppy". But when Cabela's has a sale on a Ruger AR-15 clone and some D-60 Magpul drums, well, that's another level of enabling.
We got the die hard "Disneyland dwellers" no-gun rights at all crowd taking the air from the more reasonable majority Left, aka the Bongo Beating Hippies who think we shouldn't have a military at all, and we should all obey their tofu chewing philosophy about our gender and racial privilege.
And then we got the willing to kill if you give them an excuse "Bring on the Purge" 2A nuts who are blatantly sociopathic and know they shouldn't have been allowed to have guns in the first place. Alot of them are panicking about background checks because they would fail them. Wife beaters, misdemeanor assault crimes and restraining orders, and guys with a trail of threatening comments on the internet that would flag them if the law allowed it today. Unfortunately, they are very numerous, and are prime supporters of the NRA's "No such thing as Reasonable Gun Control" crowd.
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@uswoor1057 that's the trick, isn't it? Conservative alt-righters don't speak the same language as everyone else. Because alternative language is as fun for them as is alternative facts.
1. When a Right Winger says Globalism = Bad, he means An End to Racial Nationalism , and he means to defend his racial "purity" by creating tribal borders and purging "undesirables". That borders mean everything to them, to keep the icky people out that don't look, walk, talk, fuck, eat, pray, or dress exactly like they approve of. Of course, they also lie and tell you that the 1930's German interpretation of Socialism is, somehow, the same as Communism. Even though everyone knows that Nazis and Bolsheviks were blood enemies, through and through. They think they are convincing people with a play on words, while denying their own Nazi sympathies. These idiots think everyone is better off in small tribes, and in America, they would still be living in a small-fry State, not The United States. Or, say, a small-fry Post Brexit England, rather than a UK in the EU.
2. When a Left Winger says Globalism = Bad, they mean Corporate Globalism. That Capitalism thinks itself above the laws or sovereignity of a People's government. That it can do as it likes, anywhere, anytime, as long as it means someone is making a buck. That you can take the inventions created by the R&D funded by one people, hand it to a private business, and then watch that for profit enterprise outsource it, copyright it for themselves, and then use it as an international cudgel to get around laws. As long as it makes a buck, and can buy it's way out of obeying the rules of people around the world. THAT'S Globalism to LIberals
We're saying the same words, but meaning two different things. Just like Socialist vs National Socialist. They may share a word, but they do NOT mean the same thing. Not at all.
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That math doesn't hold up because, sadly, we have to spend $1 for the same screw that another nation's military buys for $.30. What we need is to stop getting gouged for our military dollar. Half is beyond a huge "No". But if we went back to 70's methods of being frugal military spenders, maybe a quarter, roughly $100 billion, could be shaved.
It's a sad, dirty secret of Government spending that if you don't spend whatever Congress gave you as a federal agency the year before, your budget WILL get cut and you WILL get in trouble for not spending it all by the next year. Not only is there no reward for saving Uncle Sam a buck, but there's punishment for it.
Edit: And trillions didn't go missing. That is an urban myth based on a misquote taken out of context. There was decades worth of stuff that, when adjusted for inflation, was worth over a trillion dollars that wasn't part of the DIGITAL accounting systems since we transitioned to computers instead of paper documents in the 80's. Metaphorically, it means that the DMV didn't have your title in the computer for your Grandpa's '70 Cadillac because it was still on paper somewhere and was never put into the system.
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@willg125 Depends on how you make it. You can cold brew it viking-style using garbage baking yeast and basic grocery store honey for a semi-sour, but sweet cloudy ale-like brew in as little as a week and waiting for all sorts of spices to be just tossed in there, or the refined way we usually see bottled today that is a much more sour cousin in the ballpark of wine.
When I was 18, literally used to use 1 gallon milk jugs with a fresh Mead mix and ferment it in the snow for a week. Each jug was marked Monday...Tuesday...Wednesday...we didn't have anyone to shoulder tap to score us beer back then. So we made our own alternative with basics from the grocery store, and added experimental stuff like cloves, orange peel, pepper corns, cinammon sticks, etc. It was super cloudy even after filtering, and would only last about a week once you popped the cork on the growler, but it was good stuff, and we killed a gallon each night.
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Carla Benn he certain would try, because he's not too bright. Even with his resignation, Nixon was looking at prison, but the deal was that he would resign if Ford would pardon him after. If he could have pardoned himself, Nixon would have done it. And you can't pardon state crimes.
EDIT So I guess the ethics question here is, if it meant getting rid of Trump and Pence next month, would We The People accept their resignations now if they would take a pardon and avoid prison (The Senate wouldn't send him to prison, just convict and remove him, the local DC courts would be responsible for jailable prosecution)? Personally, I think they need to fry for what they have done, and this should play itself out to the bitter end. The example needs to be set to prevent this happening ever again. I have no heartache with telling future presidents and politicians that noone is above the law, and will pay for breaking it or their oath of office for gain.
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All those Cyberpunk authors said this stuff would be here around 2020, and they were right. We got all the tropes: VR, flying cars, corporate armies, bionic prosthetics, cloned organs, cybernetic brain-to-brain transmissions, environmental collapses, orbital tourism, drone battlefields, and more. Everything but the mirrorshades...for now. Maybe Apple will create Space Marines. The Adeptus iStartes.
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@luckyseven6402 You still aren't understanding the difference. Impeachment is like a legal, congressional reprimand, with charges to follow in a trial. The trial acquitted the punishment and conviction, but he was busted regardless, and it followed him, just as a formal reprimand will do to you.
Google up the Clinton-Ray agreement. He was still looking at time behind bars prior to the deal, and his power in the oval office was massively curtailed as a result of the House impeaching him, even if the Senate let him finish his term.
If he had been impeached in his first term, the Senate could have voted separately to bar him from running for re-election in 1996 with a simple majority vote, rather than the 2/3rds vote for removal. It's called Disqualification, and also can be a separate Senate vote if the House impeaches Trump. Which means no Trump 2020 bumper stickers if only 4 Republicans decide it's the end of MAGA.
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@kerbalairforce8802 I would definitely say that's true in the Corps. Marine maint crews are, as a rule, ALWAYS getting shafted and shorted on supplies and manpower-per-wrench-hour. My family comes from that world (LAV's on Pendleton, grew up in Oceanside, etc), but I went Army & work with CH-47 guys frequently, and they get absurd amounts of support and bennies.
But the reports I speak of were reported in sources like USA Today, not blog posts. Maybe someone's cooking the books, wouldn't doubt it when politics and media get involved over a subject involving this many billions of dollars in certain congressional districts, but until we get some smoking-gun leaks, I gotta go with posted reports. And I'm old enough to remember (before we had internets) the nightmare of Blackhawk crashes as well. We called it the LawnDart back then because of the signature nose-down position of most of the wrecks. Hell, the old UH-1 Huey was a widowmaker for a long, LONG time back when we buried ALL reports of failure away from the public. Took decades to make THAT thing something less than a death trap too.
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The problem with the movie is more deep seated than the tin foil hat shenanigans. It's that it's a propaganda story touching on everything that is near and dear to the GOP base, who was the target of this puff piece. Things we've all heard from people who lean that way:
1. Abuse your kids from time to time. They'll turn out tough, and better Americans for it.
2. Country boy can survive. And is the TRUE American. White/Iowa/Texas vote pandering.
3. Everyone should aim to be a SEAL! You just have to have enough 'Murica in ya! Unlike those poor, unprepared marines that Kyle had to go down to "save" at street level. Yeah, with their sub-standard training and ability...makes me wonder if the Navy footed the bill for this movie as a recruiting piece to get kids into their office, rather than the Corps next door.
4. Guns are therapy. Except for that guy who shot Chris Kyle.
5. If Kyle was a legend, it's funny that I never heard of a legendary SEAL Sniper when we were there at the same time as him. We heard about the AH-64 crew that had over 130 kills to their name in Fallujah, and we heard about an Army forward observer who leveled half of Tikrit with artillery and airstrikes in the book The Devils Sandbox, who was ATTACHED to a SEAL team, but we never heard of Kyle while we were there. We even heard about the engineers who set off a damn MCLC in the middle of the street during the Battle of Fallujah in a morning INTSUM. I don't doubt his courage, or what he could do, or his service. What I doubt is the "legend" status that suddenly came up after his death. Smells like a combination Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch PR job, which inevitably turns sour after more digging happens. That tarnishes his memory more than anything else. I sure as shit wouldn't want people using my name as propaganda after my passing, taking my service overseas in vain for their own gain.
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As an Oregon native, I've been chomping at the bit to see an end of the Oregon Lottery commission for my entire life. Unfortunately, it's the boost to income that corner market stores, and every run down pub, bar, and chinese restaurant relies on to stay in the black rather than sinking like badly run, health code violating businesses probably should. There are chains of so called "deli" establishments like Dotie's (and random Vietnamese Sandwich shops) that shit a brick if you ask them to actually serve food, since they are nothing more than a legal reason to have a video poker den. I've seen the Oregon State Lottery commission building in Salem. You can see it for yourself on Google Maps. It, and the Child Support Enforcement head office are two of the most well appointed structures you will ever see for a state edifice. By comparison, our tax-heavy but brisk business-doing (Micro brews and cider rule here) Liquor Control Commission central tax and distribution center in Clackamas (all alcohol in the state goes through there) looks like a Somalian pirate warehouse run by dirty longshoremen. But they keep pushing the lie that they are somehow, inexplicably, keeping our schools funded. Anyone who has ever paid property and state income tax here knows that's total horse shit. They aren't only ones doing the damage. Native American casinos here like Spirit Mountain are swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck on a Vegas Coke Binge, but that money isn't really going to NARA or most of the tribal descendents here either. I highly doubt, now that weed is going legal and taxed here, that the state will quit it's addiction to creating gambling addicts.
I work with 14 people. 3 of them are KNOWN problem gamblers, 1 of them still owes me $400 that I know perfectly well he will never be able to pay back. He borrowed it to pay bills, and stuffed it right into a Poker machine. The one time they win $200 after putting $40 in, they are hooked.
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The "Majority" of the fighters in this video are current or ex-Mahdi Army schmucks; Muqtada Al-Sadr's flunkies who were largely ignored by the US media as the most prevalent threat and troublemakers, in order to push the Al-Qeada narrative for the world and US media. Half ass guerrillas and dumbshits, led by a fat dumbshit who ran to Iran once the Iraqi provisional government finally grew enough balls to issue a warrant for his arrest after he broke cease fire after cease fire.
Sadr City (NE Baghdad) was a ghetto that Saddam put most of the urban Shiite fundamentalists into, and proved so bad, he built a wall around the whole area, like Watts. He also knocked off Muqtada's old man, Al-Sadr Senior, martyring him. After Muqtada's temporary exile, they started signing up with with Iraqi Army, thusly infiltrating and taking it over, and displacing the very competent former Iraqi Republican Guard officers who used to run the Iraqi Army. Hence their totally ineffective showing against ISIL. They have always been half assed, cowardly, and opportunistic, with a penchant for mob shake down mentality. No amount of training and equipping by US forces would change that. The Al Malliki government only came to power and won the vote because of Al-Sadr's implicit support, and remained in his pocket up the exit of US forces and the new government. The Mahdi Army was estimated to be 50,000 strong, but were wildly awful fighters. Ask any Iraq vet who ever did a Thunder Run in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
THAT is the narrative you never heard pushed in Western news, because it didn't tie into the hunt for the very rare Al Qeada cells, and showed that US intervention gave Al-Sadr the opportunity to make his move to consolidate the country under his, and by proxy, Iran's rule. He is the Ayatollah's right hand man in Iraq.
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I'm an Iraq veteran who gets my care at the Portland VA as well (We call it Pill Hill), and my primary care physician was nice enough to honestly tell me that she only needs to see me once a year, to get their funding, no matter what I say I need help with. They may have have odd pet projects for something afflicting you, to justify it's existence, but don't expect that any orthopedic disabilities will get anything other than physical therapy. You'll get a pill, and it will come in the mail. But for what it's worth, the Portland campus IS better than most, because they get doctors from Oregon Health Sciences University next door to actually work on vets sometimes.
If you want to get medical help with something through the VA, you have to send an in-system email through their byzantine "MyHealthEVet" system, and your primary "care team" will answer you there, but you never get a phone number to directly speak to the office of your primary care physician, who has to authorize any procedure or therapy. And you could end up waiting up to a year just for that. It took 3 years to get an X-Ray on my knee, and then my PCP promptly told me my knee was problematic because "Oh, you're just old", and that's about where it ended.
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As a member of the 65% who approves of drone usage, if you think I feel we would be better served having F-22's hitting high payoff targets, you would be wrong. The spotlight is on American drone usage, and mentioned about NADA regarding how many other nations are now fielding combat drones, including our enemies. Every time a report comes along saying X number of children were killed, it's from the side that has been harboring hostiles. So I'm going to give the nay-sayers a big ol' "WTFEver, beats special operators and pilots being captured".
And as someone who has fired his weapon at people who were actively attacking me in Iraq, let me tell you something else about "confirmed kills": I don't know if I ever killed anyone. Most of us who had to actually fight, never do. Your wife probably undestands this, John. You don't go over and dance on the bodies, you get clear and make sure you got everybody accounted for. Time to ask some hard questions about the program? Sure. Give relevance to the obvious attempts by an agenda wielding press and the "other side" to have the drone program go away? Absolutely not.
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GMO's = necessary scientific means to keep food production effective.
Organics = higher priced luxuries made to cater to health nuts who don't look up real facts.
The problem stems from the companies behind the science. Bad PR and bad faith corporate decisions have not only affected their market share, but the positive science being done with it. Transparency was needed, but wasn't granted, and distrust in our food has driven people back to wasteful, possibly dangerous stone age food choices.
The other problem is polarized politics, carrying on the us versus you mentality. Someone right leaning sees a 20 something in normal fashions sold today, cries 'HIPSTER!' (just read half of the comments below) and assume it's just a liberal on a soap box, and buys sugary filler and questionable milk just to make a statement about their politics, being equally as ignorant about what they're doing.
We need GMO's (and I will take my meat irradiated, tyvm), but unless Monsanto is clear about what they're doing, they will lose market share and the science contributions to humanity will suffer because only the politically moronic will drink their cool aid without asking what's in it first.
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It's not just the Government that wants illegal immigrants out. It's the bulk of the American people. Polls have shown it over, and over, and over again. They're OK with that attitude until you flat out call them racist. And not just White status-quo America, either. Sun Yun, a 2nd generation Korean American who owns 3 small businesses, and Cheyanne, a Native American acquaintance, and many others who aren't remotely white, want illegals gone for these 3 recurring reasons:
1. If you're here illegally, what other criminal activity have you committed, and still commit? I might want to give immigrants a shot, but you can't screen felons that you don't know are here because they snuck in, and Mexico isn't great about letting the US know who has a rap sheet in Mexico. They consider it getting rid of their trash. The policies of BOTH countries are horrifically broken, and both populations are paying the price, but the finger only gets pointed one way. Yes, that one-sided "America is always guilty for all the worlds woes" attitude is old with other ethnic groups as well, White America.
2. Most illegal immigrants aren't here to become Americans because they love the idea of America, or to mesh with other people of any color other than their own. They're here for American money, and have little cultural respect for the US in general. They're interested in having Mexico, but up north and economically successful. They aren't interested in learning english even after 15 years, or obeying many routine laws, and have very different cultural ideas about such things as age of consent. If it wasn't quite such a large percentage of illegals who fit that bill, they would not be met with such rancor from Americans. Immigrants themselves will have to manage the outlook and behavior of their fellow immigrants before that ever changes.
3. Latinos are second only to African Americans for the role of Sacred Racial Cow of this country, and are first when it comes to the public race debate that draws attention in the media. This does not sit well with most other groups who feel they have a horse in the race, but whom the camera isn't paying any attention to. Media attention = political power and benefits. While we mostly love the idea of the American melting pot, Diversity and racial ass kissing has destroyed color-blind Unity, and immigration has boiled over the tolerance levels of most Americans:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
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Well, guess what, Dennis? I'm in your district and I most DEFINATELY will not be allowing you to turn my kids highschool in the OK Coral High. Why would you hand firearms to the most disgrunted type of employee in the WORLD? They come Gruntled, but their pay, benefits, and dealing with kids has a habit of DISgruntling them.
HOWEVER, a Taser X3 (google it) on most ? That I am very cool with. The con is: sooner or later some jackass will tase a kid with a less-than-lethal (not non-lethal, you can still die from being tased..) method for nothing and screw the whole thing up. But THINK about how 30 teachers with 3 taser rounds each can keep order in a classroom, or on a bus. And put recording cameras in classrooms for god's sake.
Give them a gun and some thug will roll up on Mrs Everstein and say "Go ahead, SHOOT me, and get the electric chair.."\
Give them nothing and you will still have classrooms full of waiting victims.
Give them a multi-shot taser and some pepper spray, you will have order in the classroom.
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1. Simon is pissed that American Personnel are present in Ukraine, and will be a dick at every opportunity to Americans, or try to nuance shit talk out of the Ukrainians at every turn about the Americans.
2. This is more about getting first hand knowledge from the Ukrainians about current Russian gear, tactics, and capabilities than training the Ukranians on anything, and Putin will know that and have to consider that. The US is contemplating a full spectrum war with Russia again, something they stopped focusing on decades ago
3. Republicans are cool with kicking off WWIII even if the US President isn't, and just like the Iraqis, no matter what support the US gives, Ukrainians will continue to claim they get none. The difference is, right now they really are.
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Don't let this report lead you to believe that the Shia (Shi'ites) & Hezbollah are less vicious, and should receive your moral support versus the Sunni & ISIS, who have the headlines now.
For those Americans with short attention spans in understanding the difference behind their millennia old war: There are two key sides in Islam, rooted in the history of what happened in Mohammed's family. It's similar to the Christian reformation, with Catholics and Protestants murdering each other over the years in prodigious numbers, but taken up a few notches. Sunni, who are rooted in the idea of established Caliphate nations (and are the reason the US has had a large navy since 1801, and Marines sing of the "Shores of Tripoli"), versus the Shia, who have tighter roots to Bedouin life. Neither is the less violent or crazy, both seek Sharia law by different interpretations, but the Sunni side are almost always more organized, and constitute the majority of the Muslim world population. Think of the Sunni as urban Texans, and Shia as West Virginia hillbillies. Now feed them PCP and you about have it.
When you discuss Islam, it really is important to phrase it in terms of Sunni Islam and Shi'ite Islam, and think of it accordingly, like Republicans vs. Democrats. Yeah, sure, there are other parties, but they don't mean much.
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+SelphieFairy It's very racist Selphie. It's applied to poor white people exclusively. There is a reason why racism is back on the rise with young white Americans again, after a long period of it being whitled down by education, and a collective "whitey guild" campaign since the 80's....that's because it's acceptable, empowering to minorities, and even profitable, to walk around saying "Whites are Racist". It sells books, it pays stand up comics, and it gets lawsuits with large cash awards.
Those white kids are growing up from grade school being told how evil and racist they inherently are, and that if they don't accept that and capitulate, then they are also racists. That comes with legal, employment, and social consequences that are a double standard. I'm native Hawaiian, and I can tell you, it's not only accepted to do so, but encouraged to say "Haole". But I can't ignore the double standard being beat down the throats of young American kids that because of their skin color, they are inherently bad if they don't fork over legal & political power, that if white girls don't date black guys they must be racist, that they can study hard all they want, but many jobs are held for people who are NOT them. Same story, different races.
That's a remarkably stupid thing to do to the majority population, and there was always bound to be backlash that wipes out the social strides made for fairness. The 80's program was to be color blind, aka Equal Rights. The 2000's dream is to constantly fawn over anything that ISN'T white related, aka Diversity, or Diverting from Caucasians. I much preferred the "Unity in Color Blindness" message to the "Everyone is special, except all of you" message Diversity has come to symbolize.
Old white people who used to march for civil rights in the 60's have become the miserable bastard tea party largely because for all they fought for equality, what they got was spit in their eye. I don't have to like it, but I can understand why they soured and became haters.
Everyone likes their own brand, so "taking a stand" for your race isn't brave. It's self interest. I hear it all the time among people I resemble, if not identify with anymore. Equality is a pendulum, and it's swung from the far right, and has passed over the center to the near left, and is continuing on. Justice was in the middle. A combination of minority empowerment frenzy and institutionalized caucasian guilt education keeps pushing it further out. There's new master races, they're just different from the one last century.
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The Lithuanians definitely seem to have their military shit together compared to the hot mess that was the Ukrainian regular army, in terms of outlook, leadership, planning and the realities of civil affairs. I'm sure the advanced warning of Ukraine getting hit first helped galvanize them, to be sure, but they're showing real organization and competence.
Underequipped to be sure, but they've got their heads in the right place to defend their nation. They need comprehensive combined arms artillery, ADA, long term logistical caches hidden around the country, fixed and rotor wing air support integrated to support their very professional but small infantry force. So I wish them Good Luck, and hopefully, peace.
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Here's a bizarre idea, and just hear me out:
Go backwards in time for a caseless design. Instead of having fragile, formed rounds without a case, have a Propellant reservoir that automatically feeds single shot quanitities into the chamber after taking an entirely separated projectile with a stub of primer in it...think of an auto loading flint lock's powder horn, but rather automated and internalized to the action. Instead of a bolt, you get a revolver cylinder style trio of chambers spinning, like an unholy mutant love child of a Revolver and an M134 feed system.
The top chamber aligned with the bolt is the "live" loaded cylinder position after the charge mates with the projectile and primer (in the back of the bullet maybe?) from the belt/magazine/feed tube/whatever, and goes Boom down the barrel.
The "unlock/extract/eject" cycle happens when the cylinder spins down, then is "brushed" clean a quick acting plunger brush, which takes the place of an Ejection Port flip, etc.
The "sear/feed/chamber" cycle happens on the next 3rd of the spin of the bolt/cylinder, where automated measures of propellant are aligned with a bullet/primer, and then rotated up to the firing position at the top of the rotating bolt's position.
It's just a clock action, where the barrel fires at 12, the chamber (for lack of a better term) gets swabbed at 4, and the powder, primer, and projectile combine as a round at the 8 o'clock position. No reciprocation, just spin powered by short recoil or a damn Dremel motor if need be, and the whole thing stays sealed except for the muzzle, and no case is necessary.
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Be honest. It's Brazil.
It's not like we expect to see Latin America pop up in political news with anything less than Crazy, Narcos, Military Juntas, and shouts of Revolucion! Revolucion!
These are not calm, dispassionate people who disapprove of gunfire as politics. But then again, neither is about 2/3rds of the cultures spread throughout Humanity. You could have changed the language from Portuguese to anything else, swapped the flag, and noone would have been able to see any difference between Brazil and Columbia, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, or Honduras, or even the Philippines
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Ok, I'll try a different metaphor to illustrate my point, but I do quite understand where you are coming from, commercially speaking, when saying parts and OS's come from the realm of almost 100% privately funded R&D, distribution, and marketing, and discounts the open source phenomenon.
Automobiles. Privately designed, built, marketed, sold, but regulated to many standards. They, however, run on mostly public roads. The internet was developed on mostly Public money. ARPANET being the big one.
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@jimlong487 Forgivable, but I'm old enough to remember it too clearly. I got to watch it happen in slow motion while I was in high school to my parents, and we were still in a kind of Everyone Can Get Rich and Do Lots of Cocaine sugar high back then because of the myth of Trickle Down and lots of Ayn Rand style objectivist government. There was the 3 years of his first administration when there was alot of investment going on, but the middle class was still the Happy Days era, when Dad had a Union Job (Reynolds Aluminum).
But by the time of his re-election, those jobs were being cut left and right as unions were losing battles in the courts, wages plumetted, and plumetted further when Mom pretty much HAD to enter the work force to make ends meet, which saturated the employment pool even further, which allowed employers to offer even lower wages, because they had even more desperate applicants who would accept anything for pay by then.
About the time I graduated, the whole narrative turned to "Well, go to college! It's a new techno America, and you need College to be middle class!". It was at this point that private universities started jacking tuition rates up through the roof, and the student loan banking industry began to be the monster it is today. Only now, even college won't get you by. College became too expensive for me, and I ended up in the Army for lack of options, and to pay for school.
The Reagan era ended with most of the middle class becoming lower middle class, two worker renter families when before they were single worker home owners, and the upper middle class singles turning into the very-upper class Wolves of Whatever Street. And that was due to years of deregulation in the finance world. You wouldn't believe the kinds of tax cuts and loopholes my Uncle, who owned a few shops then, suddenly had at his fingertips. I myself bought one of his garages from him in the late 90's, made a decent amount, and retired at 43 after selling it. He wasn't lying, if you own a business, you can write off almost anything.
Edit: As a kind of anecdotal evidence, the crash of the middle class at the end of the Reagan era was the time period when Trailer Parks became what many people called home in America. And that is the sad history that describes how we still live in a Post Reaganomics world as seen from the ground level.
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+Zargunt Bilko - I very much doubt that pee pee tapes would even make Trump bat an eyelash if they were released. Hell, he would probably be proud of it. Very poor blackmail material to a man who has no shame, and Putin would know this. His tax returns that would prove fraud and laundered money from Russia on the other hand....that is real blackmail material. It carries alot more legal weight than affair allegations, because it comes with the end of his empire and real jail sentences. And if I'm being honest, I don't think he really did have affairs with Karen McDougal and Stormy Daniels. I think that was deliberately "leaked" and concocted by his own people to make him look more "manly" to his base. The Big, Rich Ladies Man gettin' it on with so many famous sex symbols. But look at the guy. He's old as shit, fat as a tub of lard, and would have to down more viagra than Pfizer could produce in a year to actually have sex. Call it a conspiracy theory on my part if you will (and it is), but if Stormy was paid $130k for ANYTHING, then it was to SAY she had sex with this gross mofo that just screams "I have syphilis", so he could go on presenting himself as some sort of virile sex magnet. And I just don't believe it.
He built his "Brand" on being a Bootleg Hugh Heffner.
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@ It didn't launch my career. I grew up poor, so I ended up in the Military as soon as I graduated high school. The Fed job came later after I too bought into the myth that a fed job was "the best, last job you could get". So I applied for one.
The realities were usually the polar opposite of what everyone (who clearly never had a federal job) mythologizes about them. Lots of short-notice travel taking you away from home, no overtime pay but lots of overtime worked, tons of mandatory in-person and online training, paperwork, paperwork, paperowork (all in the name of preventing Fraud, Waste, & Abuse), a paranoid culture of trying to not make tiny clerical mistakes that gets you written up, getting set up for failure by back-stabbing coworkers who behave like it's an episode of Survivor, and most of all: absolutely no forgiveness and the threat of legal consequences for administrative & utterly inconsequential mistakes.
Example: I kid you not, a gas jockey accidentally put Plus unleaded in a GSA car on a travel job, and they literally sent an investigator to interview everyone for 'fraud waste and abuse' and start a whole inquisition. In 2009. We counted our beans and expenses with more excruciating detail than anyone in the private sector. To the penny. You have to learn systems within systems within systems just to be a janitor or forklift jockey.
These DOGE clowns aren't concerned with 'fraud, waste, and abuse', they're there to CREATE fraud waste and abuse, and profit from it while blaming someone else. Nobody spends more time trying to prevent it than Fed managers themselves. We had lots of sayings in the fed world, but this one is most relevant: "You've never seen an organization more willing to spend a dollar to save a dime."
Some of our other sayings:
- I file everything, therefore I know nothing
- Those who shred history are doomed to repeat it
- Anything worth doing is worth doing in Triplicate
It's the Administratum of 40k lore.
You may think that Park Ranger has a cush job sitting in a booth charging $5 for a parking pass to everyone, but what you don't know is that the moment they leave the booth, they have a pile of admin work and mandatory training waiting for them in the office and voice call meetings with supervisors.
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Well, it's definitely time to get rid of milktoast, wishy washy, geriatric, low energy, low effort DNC candidates. There's a minimum age for office, there should be a max as well. One could almost draw a matching graph between the effectiveness of a politician with how much younger they are versus their peers, with a few exceptions like Bernie. They have some fire left in their bellies.
JFK. Young
Obama. Young
Duckworth. Young (comparitively)
Ocasio-Cortez. Young
O'Rourke. Young
Feehan. Young
And yes, even that dirtbag Rubio. He's a real POS, but he looms large over his fellow senator from Florida, who you can't even name right now.
(It's Democrat Bill Nelson, fyi, not that you care because he's utterly forgettable...)
They are, at least, still young enough to remember what it means to have to get up and go to work in the morning to make the mortgage payment and feed the kids. The AARP crowd need to be put to pasture since they have LONG forgotten what it means to work for a living. And this is coming from me, a retired guy.
Now take a moment to imagine how much more dynamic and in touch with the working class the House and Senate would be if everyone were about 20 years younger and remembered living on paychecks and not hoarded wealth and retirement cash, like Chuck, Nancy, and 70% of the rest do.
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No, actually, they have as much space as a suitable takeoff slope, thermals, wind, ridge lift, and landing areas permit.
Unless you have a paramotor, you can't just toodle off wherever you want. And on a good day for launching, it can get really popular real quick.
But still, it's about the only way you can fly yourself for less than $6000 in gear and training without a license, all fitting into a large backpack.
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For a real, REAL brief period with Lincoln, and from FDR all the way up to Nixon. Carter, for all that he was vanilla flavored and forgettable, was not a fucking asshole either. But the Republic that was Of the People, By the People, and For the People, has been in a tailspin since Nixon. That was truly the end of greatness. And even during the best years were still marred with portions of this country carrying on shit like Jim Crow, The Dropping of the Bombs (necessary, but still a point of shame), Japanese American Internment camps. But there has never been a utopia in the history of nations, either here or abroad. What determines your greatness is whether or not you're TRYING to make one. And right now we are not.
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Democrats lose for of 2 reasons:
1. Mud slinging, conspiracy theory 24/7 FOX propaganda sticks to that 3% of the voters that decide elections. Because while the US has some of the brightest folks in the world, we also have some of the absolutely fucking dumbest you couldn't have dreamed up of on your own. Blatantly false propaganda still works for the Republicans because of this.
2. Democrats have begun to resemble to bongo beating, tofu chewing hyper liberals that they are accused of being, with no concept of money or national interest. It doesn't mean they ARE, but they certainly look more and more like that every day, and that's NOT entirely the fault of right wing propaganda. It's a self inflicted wound. Congressman Moulton is correct that vets come in all colors and politics, not just the Right Wing Survival Nut Bubba stereotype, and we do bring some of that flag waving, all American street cred with us. It doesn't mean we're better at civics than a school teacher, but it does deflate the horseshit claim that conservatives have a lock on the words Freedom, America, and Patriotism. Especially when they are abusing it and wiping their asses with the flag we defend.
When Trump uses the history of service of people like myself as an attack tool on, say, athletes who take a knee because they see an injustice, I feel like my 25 years in uniform meant nothing.
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You know, for the sacred racial cow of America, beating out even the first nation tribes, an awfully large segment of your ethnic group are terribly intolerant of any other protected groups, or groups that could actually use some protection like the LGBTQ community. Even in the US, leading the charge for Proposition 8 (which banned gay marriage) in California were....Black community groups. Maybe you don't like challengers to your position taking any of your airtime.
I have to wonder, if Africans had colonized the Americas, and brought hispanic, white, jewish, asian, or other slaves with them, would THEY have fought a civil war that cost a half million lives to abolish it? I doubt it. After all, you were kings and shit. In Egypt. When you had Hebrew slaves. Which none of your nubian pharaonic forebears bothered to free.
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It is, was, and always has been about one thing before all others: A chance to get rid of Brown neighbors. They really think their candidates will ethnically purge the nation. Because that's what their party always hints it will do. Or at least 'stand back and stand by' if their voters do it themselves with their guns. Race war green light. America only matters to them if its a WASP country.
This is what they always meant by answering 'Don't like the way the country is headed' in surveys.
Their purge targets have an order of precedence: Black people, Trans, Gay men, Hispanic people, Arabs & Muslims (one and the same to them), Jewish people, Lesbians, Asian Indians, Pacific Rim Asians & Islanders, First Nations, White intellectuals
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To be more specific: A short barreled rifle is illegal, so illegally modifying a weapon to become short barreled (i.e. more concealable) rifle is the felony. The same thing applies to manufacturing silencing devices, and modifying the trigger mechanism to shoot more than 1 bullet at a time with each pull of the trigger. Bump stocks got around this by not modifying the trigger mechanism. It's a loophole.
Now, just to get further down the rabbit hole, if you originally bought an AR as a "Pistol", rather than a rifle, it's legal. Again, a loophole. But it comes with caveats. You can't have a VERTICAL foregrip to assist holding it, and it cannot have a purposely designed buttstock. The idea is that rifles are powerful guns that require 2 hands and a firm position in your shoulder. So, if you BUY (not modify) an AR with a 10 inch barrel which (thanks to the loopholes) is registed as a Pistol, and do not have a vertical foregrip or a buttstock to help you stabilize it and use it like a proper, accurate, powerful, and controllable rifle, then it is legal. There are many loophole products on the market that skirt this law, however. Angled foregrips, and "pistol" braces, which work just fine as cheap buttstocks but the manufacturers deny that is what they are for.
Here's the real trick though: With some paperwork, some patience, and a couple hundred bucks, you CAN in fact buy an automatic, silenced, short barreled gun. On the street, we call them "Tax Stamps", because you pay $200 for each of those characteristics, and have to apply for them as a "firearms dealer" or Collector. It's crazy how many firearms dealers there are in this country right now who don't sell guns, all because they filled out the paperwork and paid the ATF the fee.
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There's two kinds of VR players:
1. The Go is Too Expensive guy. He wants a VR headset with built in headphones and mic, 2 tracking stations, 2 motion controllers, and a free XBox PC controller for $49.99, plus someone to pay their electric bill, and they only use free software, thinks that $19.99 is too pricey for a game in 2019 when a Nintendo cart in 1986 cost $60.
2. The I Have A Job and a Wallet guy. $3000 PC rebuilds every 3 years do not upset them, and realizes it's cheaper than having a gun collection, rock crawler jeep, or keeping a boat in parts. Valve knows their customers well, and realized that while Facebook is cornering the type 1 guy, the type 2 guy is spending scads of cash on steam sales and is rocking a $1200 monitor mated to a $750 GPU
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Personally I believe it should be less about the "who" (other than vetting an individual's background for criminal or dangerous ties), and more about the "How many"
We're a nation with relatively rich, bountiful resources. But it's 2018, and explosive population growth and environmental damage can turn the Land of Milk and Honey into the Land of Soylent Green (Brough to you by Carl's Junior) pretty fast.
So a variable year-to-year quota needs to be established based on realtime scientific/market data projections on what the combination of agricultural, economic, infrastructural, and even social resources can sustain, rather than the country of origin as stated in 11:35. As harsh as it sounds, there is a limit on the number of vacancies that can be filled sustainably in ANY country, including ours. That doesn't mean you get to not pick the fat kid because you play by Dodgeball rules, but you do need to recognize the max number of players.
A unregulated flood of immigrants causes problems that last for many generations (are you really proud that The Mafia is still a thing here?), but a well reasoned number is an asset that grows the nation.
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I own guns, and I shoot routinely throughout the year. I also served 25 years, 3 of those in Iraq, like the shooter, been awarded my CAB twice, and get treated for PTS by the VA.
Despite that, I don't think I (or anyone) should have access to an AR or any semi automatic, high capacity weapon systems. I enjoyed building my own rifles (AR's), and even messed around with a SlideFire SBS stock on one of them. These things belong in the hands of my troops for training and on deployment, not in the home.
Do I think we should still have access to firearms? Yes. But not the ridiculous levels of firepower we can get at Cabella's. Until the Viet Cong decide to send a platoon to steal my TV, I will never need a single one of my AR's. They were toys, nothing more. My FN Five-seveN had 30 round mags and punches through IIIA vests, which is just stupid. I don't need that. And I gave them up. They had no place in my home because I simply love my kids more than I will ever love a killing tool. And I feel the same way about YOUR kids. They should never be at risk because I have a gun fetish.
I still have guns, but nothing like what I used to have. A Texas Defender derringer in .410/45 Long Colt for concealed carry and home defense, a Ruger 10/22 for plinking, and a Remington 700 bolt action for accuracy practice. That's the collection I have made peace with, and I will never need more than that. We have to draw a lower line at the kinds of guns & magazines we can buy, and who can buy them.
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@user-tq9fi4vn4x I come from a Jarhead family, and grew up in places like Molalla, The Dalles, Oceanside, Bullhead City & Yuma. I'm also retired Army of 25 years. Yeah, you could say I've had my share of conservativism in my life. And it's why I ditched it. People determined to live in misery, misinterpretation of the Constitution for selfish reasons, and schaudenfreude are a real downer. Conservative Hicks sit around and plot on "Them durn' Cityslicker Libruls", whereas Liberals don't sit around plotting on how to mess with Hicks. You're generally beneath their time. If you were, Churches would be taxed, you would be held responsible for pawning or trading your guns for Oxy's (But my back hurts!) and flooding the country with tens of millions of unaccounted for firearms, Senators would be in prison for Gerrymandering, and many of you would be doing jail time for your active attempts to prevent people from voting
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40 kids die, Raytheon, Lockheed, BAE, & General Dynamics stock goes up 3 points.
That's just solid economics to Republicans.
Also, the Mark 82 isn't a half ton. It's a quarter ton (500 pounder). It should also be noted that the Mk82 is just the bomb itself, which only costs about $2000. It's the most common bomb we have. That's pretty cheap in the ordnance world. But not the guidance system. Experts have stated that bomb as having evidence of our old Paveway guidance components in the fragments, which means someone was pointing a laser at that bus. In all likelihood, it was SOMEONE ON THE GROUND with a laser transmitting the pulse code that guided it in. If that's the case, then that should have us all curious about who the Saudi operatives were who picked the target and called in the strike from ground level, and could probably see exactly who was in that bus through the scope in that laser.
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They all look the same to me. Between Romney, Santorum, Cruz, Gaetz, Hannity, Pence, Ryan, Beohner, insert other generic Republican here , I'm pretty sure these guys are all made from plastic in a factory somewhere from the recycled parts of sleazy Used Car Salesmen, forgotten Mega Church Pastors, and long dead Confederate Officers. They'll all sell you a shiny Cadillac that's been blessed by Jesus and even give you your very own slave chauffeur for the low, low price of $29,999 and your vote. Good credit, no credit, no problem! Hellelujah!
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I was part of rescue efforts after Katrina and Rita. While we were largely engaged with search efforts, keeping food and drinking water moving, sandbagging, and body recovery, there was another player making moves in New Orleans as soon as the storm passed: Insurance and Property Companies. After the 4th week we were there, titanic sized water pumps started showing up in throwing water out in neighborhoods that had long been abandoned and cleared.
After doing security checks to figure out who these people and their equipment were, we found out they were being deployed by Property Investment groups. They were mostly working on expensive water front neighborhoods, and they were there to salvage properties that were not sufficiently insured from the hurricane, and that they were there to buy up cheap from desperate owners who's homes were destroyed. A guy named Marcus Miller, the lead tech of one of the pump teams we checked out, didn't even bother to lie about it.
Texas may not see this much, since their property values are so much cheaper than the waterfront properties of New Orleans.
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@PistonAvatarGuy mmmk, just stop already and calm your tits, Tacticool guy. Don't speak for us.
We have already dabbled in hybrid NTV's (not tactical vehicles), EV's are not exactly a stretch. Especially for the torque they deliver, because...armor is fuckin' heavy. But we are, as a government outfit, stuck with mostly the F150 for NTV's thanks to GSA contracts. The US Government is the reason why the F150 is the most sold pickup. Because, by contract, we HAVE to buy it. And we buy an assload of them. Occasionally we got lucky and got our hands on small block diesel Toyota Hilux's and Mitsu L200's in Iraq. But not here.
As far as charging electric fighting vehicles...We DO have those things called generators , and we have lots of them, in all manner of sizes. We also routinely set up fuel points, which could just as easily swap battery modules and go about the business of recharging them. Instead of having to protect a HEMMT Fueler, which is like a giant rolling JP-8 filled target, it would be quite possible to just roll with a flatbed and battery packs. And I have NEVER done a convoy mission that went more than 200 miles without fueling at someplace like Skania, Navistar, Taji...or a forward arming and refueling point in the field
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The messed up part is: More of my property tax money is allocated to my local Community College than for my kid's district High School. I get a statement every year from the county that shows me the numbers. Yet, students there pay at a rate of $245 per credit hour, plus labs, plus books. It's about 3-4 credit hours per college level course, and you need around 20 courses to finish an associates. That's not pocket change, especially to an 18 year old. At the very least, Junior College should be free in our communities, and mandatory texts shouldn't cost a Benjamin or more. Having debt-free access to an Associates degree, 2 year transfer degree, or a certificate in a trade would radically alter the health and economy of this country in just a few years. I mean, shit...I'm already paying every year to fund the place
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Sensible gun legislation that allow for self protection and lower mass-shooting body counts:
1. Restrictions of TYPES of Firearms and magazines to be manufactured and sold retail
in the US:
a. No pistol revolver of greater caliber or velocity than .38 Special, with the exception of .17/.22 LR
with a maximum capacity of 6 rounds in the cylinder, and a maximum of 4 registered speed loaders.
Manual cocking of the hammer is required, double action triggers are forbidden
b. No pistol automatic of greater caliber or velocity than .380 ACP, with the exception of .17/.22 LR
with a maximum capacity of 5 rounds per detachable magazine, and a maximum of 4 registered
magazines compatible for the firearm, regardless of how many compatible pistols are owned
c. No shotgun of greater gauge than 20 (no cap on shell length), with a
maximum of 2 barrels and single load (manual breech) per barrel, no
internal or external magazines or feed mechanisms
d. No rifle of greater than .308/.30-06 caliber, velocity and barrel
length unregulated, single loading breech with no internal or external
magazines or feed mechanisms. That means no semi autos or lever/pump
action. You must hand load each shot into the breech or bolt face
2. Importation, sale, resale or re-issue of ALL legacy type firearms and magazines that do not
conform to Section 1 is forbidden.
a. Legacy firearms and magazines shall not be loaned, sold, issued, traded, pawned, gifted, or
passed down as heirloom items. You alone keep them for the rest of your life, or turn
them in for destruction. Felony prosecution applies, you must maintain accountability, and all legacy
firearms and magazines will be destroyed belonging to any offender or deceased owner
b. Section 1 firearms may not be traded in any way without a local LEO
background check and a 4 week holding period in trust through the local
agency before release to the new owner upon clearance to take possession
c. Muzzle devices that effectively limit the report of a firearm are
expressly forbidden for use with all Section 1 and Legacy firearms
d. Barrel and stock lengths and furniture shall not be regulated for all Type
1 firearms, all Legacy firearms remain subject to legacy NFA and future rules regarding these
items
e. ALL firearm sales will be subjected to a background check and no firearm may be taken
possession of for 2 weeks after time of purchase, and all applicants must present proof of
completion of an approved 4 hour ATF firearms safety and legal responsibilities course
f. These limitations on Table 1 firearms apply to all non military applications, including
Law Enforcement Agencies that are not noted by charter as Special Weapons/Response sub units
There. Common sense gun legislation that isn't a confiscation, and
reduces the mass murder firepower in this country over time. It doesn't
stop murder, but it sure as hell will reduce the bodycount more and more
over the years without taking away the right to own a firearm, and
keeps hunting grade weapons available. It basically says you get nothing more
powerful than guns from the Old West. Call it the Annie Oakley bill if you like.
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Debbie Smith Yeah, little Debbie. I do. I think Biden, Booker, Harris, Gillibrand and the other party insiders are a team, and they know how to play at least a basic strategy. They know perfectly well that Harris, a non-white female, is far more acceptable to their voters. It's not some mystical secret that Democrat voters don't want to vote for an old white guy. They vote based on their prejudices too, and the DNC knows this. How do you NOT ?
Biden is party loyal. Of course he would be willing to take one for the team, and set Harris up for success with some Mic Drop moment about race, and to also spend the last several months drawing the attention of the Republican propaganda machine.
How do you NOT see that?
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The only difference between an M4A1 and any other AR clone is 3 round burst select. But of course, give a mouse a cookie....so of course, Slidefires came along, and before that 3 round burst gears and clever little cranks, and other bullshit to get around the lack of a select fire trigger group. But you can't modify a bolt action, so reasonable restrictions for guns allowed to be sold were proposed. But hey, you fought against even Semi Auto, High Cap rifles being taken off shelves.
So the left is saying fuck it and going to the mat with you. By challenging the entire fucking 2A. Because you idiots just can't come to an adult agreement with anyone, so why should they be reasonable with you? You could've cashed your chips out, but NOOOO, you demanded AR's and AK's FOR EVERYONE, without a background check! So now they're raising the stakes, and you got no one to blame but yourselves.
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Look, I get it. People don't like Haspel for 2 reasons: One, we WERE doing ruthless things to prisoners, and it was sanctioned by the highest levels to do so, and she complied. Two, she's a Trump appointee.
BUT, I would note 3 things:
1. Trump didn't really pick her. Like Nicky Haley, she was suggested to him by people who advise him who might actually have a fucking clue. And some of his appointees have stood up to him, such as Tillerson (which was shocking), Rosenstein (REALLY shocking), Haley (not so shocking), and from her conduct, I bet Gina would too. Unlike Pompeo, who was NEVER a CIA guy before he was put in charge of it. Gina is, no matter how much you dislike her connection to Rendition and torture, an actual professional at her job.
2. She's a Career CIA agent. Not a rich schmuck that Trump picked out of a hat to dismantle the very agencies he wishes to destroy
3. It's not the Salvation Army. It's the fucking CIA. I EXPECT them to do cloak and dagger shit. Not sit around and sing songs about butterflies. I expect the FBI to be ultra ethical and super legal, I expect the NSA to be quasi ethical and fairly legal, but I expect the CIA to get the job done. If SEAL Team 6 had been super legal about what THEY do, Bin Laden would still be sitting pretty in Pakistan right now, watching TV.
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Man, I couldn't do it.
Living in one steel can for months at a time with what is basically 2 battallions of pent-up young people crammed in there, all hating their lives and waiting to ETS out, in the most overbearing and yet drama filled military subculture in the entire US armed forces.
At least as a grunt, most of the time life usually got no messier or cramped than the Platoon or Company level. You could take a pass when serving in garrison relatively easily, you didn't see the world from a port hole. There was times being stuck in a desert circus tent was crap, but it was still better to be in the prison work crew on the road than cooped up in the Big House with nowhere to go.
We had some Sea Whiz technicians on JBB in Iraq arrive assigned to run the C-RAMs, transferred from carrier duty, I picked them up from the airstrip and they were completely mind blown with all that room and space on post, and the fact that they had a hummer so they could roll around without adult supervision. Absolutely no clue what to do with all that (comparitive) freedom once they were done with their duties, lol.
Nope, couldn't do a big ship. But I love the ocean, so long as it's near a coast. But I could maybe have loved duty on a Mk VI patrol craft. Small team, small boat, less drama, littoral duty enjoying the coastlines.
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I am OK with the privatization of: Water, Sewer, Gas, Fuel, and Garbage Utilities. Ferries and most elements of Public Transportation. Electronic & Software infrastructure. Most Drug production. Most Agricultural, Logging, & Mining production. Some public infrastructure construction, on small scale projects only. Absolutely not education. Most housing and urban planning needs, but definitely not all.
I am NOT OK with the privatization of: Military, Police, Fire, Ambulance, Immigration, & Prison services. Logging and Agriculture from public trust lands. Medical and Retirement safety nets. Veterans & Disabled Care. Large scale infrastructure construction. We have boatloads of municipal & federal Engineering capability that can, and always will, be able to do massive projects better, cheaper, and with more accountability. Tighter reigns on Utilities, Food, Housing, Banking, and Medical costs are needed. Education, education, education, as well as food banks, medical coverage, poverty mitigation & temporary public employment on public works as a method of economic relief, and retirement nets need to stay within the purview of The Public Good. Preamble of the Constitution puts the Public Good first. Including profits. Nowhere is Capitalism enshrined in it.
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The answer isn't just paper ballots. It's having a double ballot counting system. Assigned to the polls is one state/local election officer, and one federal election officer who collects identical copies of the vote cast by the voter at the poll. When that voter cast their vote, they get a printout stub to verify their choices, and both officers also have a copy of that ballot on the spot (digital or paper). If there is a mismatch at any time between the two election officer's copies, the ballot is investigated with the Voter his/herself to make sure someone didn't monkey with their vote through software manipulation. They would, in theory anyways, also have their original receipt to prove what vote they cast at the poll. After votes are tallied, a final mailed (or otherwise furnished) copy of their vote should come back to the voter to make sure their vote was not changed somewhere down the line. If it doesn't match, then the voter can call "Foul!" using their original as proof. This means that if anyone wants to manipulate the results at the polls, they would have to have both the Local and Federal officers and machines in their pocket to do it. That's a very difficult way to suborn election officials, if they are from different agencies.
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@legnA Agreed. I think he would be even more dangerous than Trump, since a Judgement Day zealot has no business near the Nuclear Button. But the two are like the Yin and Yan of Rich Conservative identities. One is a pale Jim Jones, the other just another sleazy Bernie Madoff
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make a contribution and you'll get a better seat
Bow to leper messiah
Marvel at his tricks, need your Sunday fix
Blind devotion came, rotting your brain
Chain, chain, join the endless chain
Taken by his glamour
Fame, Fame, infection is the game
Stinking drunk with power, we see
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@HateTheIRS It's literally a question of the unit environment. I have served in Guard units that were far, far more intense than most Active Duty units. One had heritage links to the 2nd BN 75th Ranger Regiment up at Lewis. The 2-162 Infantry I went on my first all-expenses paid vacation to Iraq with was...more hardcore than I was expecting, and was a retirement home for old rangers.
Life in the Guard hasn't been 1 weekend a month and 2 weeks a year for many, many MTOE units for almost 20 years now.
I have seen shitbag Active duty units galore, I have seen shitbag Guard/Reserve units galore, and I have been opcon'd to some severely hardcore outfits that you would never have expected. The military life is full of surprises, and even as a lowly enlistee you will find yourself in shit that most people would never believe, whether as a part or full timer.
I spent more time overseas doing Secret Squirrel stuff with Guard units than I did with 1st Cav and 3rd ID. You just never really know.
Most hardcore outfit I ever was attached to was a Reserve Civil Affairs outfit. Which sounds sad, but it was nothing of the sort. They fell under SOCOM as their Major Command (MACOM), were bedecked with ex SF guys, ranger tabs, and were Combatives (hand to hand training) junkies.
So, in summary, it's a crapshoot. The one REAL difference between active duty and reserve is age. Older troops fill the ranks of reserve/guard outfits, and most were active duty before they went part time so they could stay in service, but raise a family without being ditty moved every year.
You find more wise, slow adults in the Part Timers, you find more young go getters in the Active. Whether or not they are more strict us up to the Commanders and NCO support chain you work for. I got away with an awful lot of shenanigans as an active duty Medic and Forward Observer, but found myself on lockdown all the time as a part time Track commander in the armor world.
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Look, I like my Pro, and it did eventually replace my Index when my Quest 2 couldn't even come close...
But Meta is a Big Tech Company that is bad at Tech. They just can't plan their software. They suck.
They dropped too many balls while juggling tradeoffs in VR, and they choose the wrong balls to keep.
Wins: The panels, pancake glass, 6E airlink, form factor, balance (despite being heavier)
Losses: unpopular, expensive facetracking that 90% of everyone turns off, also expensive, overpriced 'self tracking' controllers that can't do dim light, failing to deliver quality passthrough as promised, really....REALLY bad software in general, and failing to sync the standalone OS with PCVR link OS for a seamless, unified experience between the two.
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Don't ever forget the link that exists between that Court Appointed attorney and the DA. If you think they have a working relationship of deal making that doesn't exist with a privately hired attorney, you would be right.
I found out my court appointed attorney was.....the assistant DA's girlfriend. Cue the sinister music.
After a year of her refusing to let me push for trial, and asking for continuances while she "conferred with me" (tried to get me to accept a conviction), I literally had to fire her, in court, in front of the judge, and demand my trial.
I got my trial by jury (which pissed everyone off), beat ALL the charges except for an infraction for out of date tags (by 2 weeks). I was accused of DUI as a minor (18 years old), reckless driving, and other traffic infractions. I hadn't had a sip of anything, showed clean on the blood draw, but they had a cop who knew me, didn't like my family, and only had his "field sobriety" trumped up charges to go on. But it was enough for the DA to try to ruin my life because he protects his "good ol' boys". Beware of small town law enforcement folks.
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@StevieB275 The ATF followed the NFA and GCA act of 1968 to the letter, and yes, Congress DID define a machine gun as, AND I QUOTEL: "devices once activated by a single pull of the trigger to initiate an automatic firing cycle which continues until the finger is released or the ammunition supply is exhausted"
So tell me again how they overstepped their bounds? If anything, they NEGLECTED their bounds by not banning them before Trump did by executive order.
Oh, and further listed is any device (ANY DEVICE, not just trigger group) that provides "automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by single pull of the trigger"
No, a legal machine gun to law is not what we in the Military classify as a Machine Gun by role in the platoon. Which is the BS argument used by people trying to fool the public into legislating easy access to Automatic Firearms for them. EVERY automatic, burst, or reactive trigger firearm is a machine gun by LAW.
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As a Portlander, I would suggest not comparing it to San Fran or Seattle. Two very different vibes. Portland is more like what you would get if Newark and New Orleans had a baby, but everyone was friendly and respected your privacy. And there's two Portlands: Dream of the 90's Portlandia Show Portland, which was filled with strip clubs, rain & fallen leaves, a wonderfully grimy Bohemian charm, and New Portland. Which is being developed over all those favorite places and has become the haunt of soulless, pre-packaged hipster facades and overpriced condos.
Also, the Craft Beer thing is for the tourists and very, very new transplants. Seattle gets the MicroBrew crown, not us. If you've been here & paid your dues long enough to consider yourself a local, then you know this town is about Cocktails. Because EVERYTHING is a full bar here. From the Pie Bakeries (Lauretta Jean's), Video Game Arcades (Quarterworld & Ground Kontrol), and even Hotels (Sapphire Hotel isn't actually a hotel, it's just a bar), everyone has their own cocktail menus and brunch Bloody Mary's.
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@joyl7842 The problem is an embargo has to be market-wide. PC parts became an oddity because the crypto craze kept prices high even (I also require high end PC parts for graphics editing) though we wanted to boycott certain components, like GPU's. In short, we normies weren't the main consumers anymore. And, just like the rest of the inflation world of today, everyone other component maker started gouging prices too. And they weren't out of supply for the demand. There were plenty of SSD's, HD's, RAM, Mobos, etc. They just did it because they could. Because the GPU and CPU shortage made them think they could.
But look at the GPU market now: The manufacturers are slashing prices like crazy. People are burnt on graphics card price gouging, so they're just not building systems this year. Which means no one is buying SSDs, CPUs, etc.
Prices are coming back down because of it. It's a type of subconscious Boycott effect. And it's working.
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Krejcir: Murder, prostitution, human trafficking, drugs, smuggling, diamonds, racketeering, you name it....
Sooo, he's pretty much every middle aged Slav guy in the world, and 90% of Russian federal employees. Gotcha.
Closet is 100% adidas tracksuits, leather jackets, and snuff porn
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I just don't know why CNN, or anyone else, can't get this right. "All sort of Agencies" don't issue clearances. They REQUEST and SPONSOR them. They say "Hey, I got John Q Public here, he's working on X for us, and we need him cleared, start an investigation and let us know if he can be cleared. Here is his form SF 86 and a pile of money."
The US Office of Personnel Management does it. OPM. OHH PEEE EMMM. They are Clearance Central.
They conduct the investigation. They are the centralized clearance grantors. If your agency decides to no longer SPONSOR IT, because of cause, then they have OPM pull it. Whether you're Navy, NSA, or the Head Cook at the Senate Food Court, OPM is who did your clearance work.
https://nbib.opm.gov/about-us/about-investigations/investigation-process/
So to make that clear again, if OPM says "NO, homeboy can't have a clearance, he's shady AF", the Army doesn't get to say "Yeah, but we really want him to have one, so we're giving him one". That's not how it works. So no, "All sorts of agencies" don't issue them. They sponsor them, and UNsponsor them as required. That's different.
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Simply put, until we can hot swap batteries at what is, or used to be, a station when I'm on the road rather than sit and wait, and Wait, and WAIT for a "fast charge" station, then I won't be buying an EV. I really want to, don't get me wrong.
But built in, fixed batteries that force me to stop my trip to charge are NOT going to work.
I need to be able to pull in off the freeway, get into the Battery lane rather than the Gas lane at the station, pay to swap 4 out of the 8 power packs in my chassis that are drained, and go on my way in 10 minutes. I'm not hanging out for 4 hours, or longer if I have to wait for my turn to use the charger.
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Yeah, in my retired age, I too stepped back down in bike sizes. Tired of wrestling an unwieldy beast just to appease my displacement ego.
Rediscovering the joy of toys rather than pricey hunks of headache.
Edit: Electric bikes will be the future when instead of sitting around for hours waiting for a bespoke battery module to charge back up, you just swap industry standardized modules like a 5 gl Propane Tank at Home Depot at roadside fuel stations. Pull in, swap out your expended, deposit-paid cell packs out of your 6-large stack for 3 fresh charged ones, and off you go in minutes. The big turd in the Tesla/eWhatever punchbowl is that everyone is trying to profit from proprietary fixed battery designs, no one is steering that ship, and touring travel isn't feasible until they get standards ironed out.
In comparison, the eBicycle world is on FIRE this year, and is displacing mogas scooters & mopeds right and left in the urban commute scene. Especially when you don't have to endorse, license, insure, register, plate, or follow helmet laws. I scored a Juiced Scrambler, and that thing does everything a Ruckus does and more at 28 mph. I get to take it on community bike paths and chain it to bike racks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=941yT_1r_3I
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In the end, bolted in battery packs are not the future. Because practical use throws it out the window.
You have to be able to swap out industry standard expended battery packs while you're on the road, at a station, paying retail electrical cost with the batteries being used as a "deposit" property, not an individually owned property. Something you could do in minutes, just like filling a gas tank. Or swapping BBQ propane tanks at Home Depot. Then they go on the charger, and get passed on to the next customer who gives over HIS empty cells for the now-recharged units.
No motorized economy will mass adopt EV cars where you have to sit around and wait to fill a bolted-down battery array from the "nozzle" for hours. When the simple price per mile of those hot swap battery packs beats Petroleum, then EV will displace diesel burning cargo vehicles, and individual gasoline cars. So it would pay to have a massive amount of solar panels on top of your Gas Station. To charge expended battery packs. Picture two lines: One for Electrics, another for Gas cars at your local Chevron station. After 10 years, with competitive pricing per mile, the Gas line will become obsolete as people only start exchanging power packs instead of filling the tank.
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@musicandfilms9956 Don't knock it til you tried it, and I sold both shops to my lead mechanic and fabricator. Because I paid them well and had profit share. I was always more than happy to pay my share in taxes, and would have been fine paying more. I know perfectly well that infrastructure, education, and conservation were the bones that made my businesses thrive and gave me the people that made it happen, a lesson most 'job creators' won't acknowledge because all they want is more, more, more. As for me? I got enough. And hope everyone else does too. Edit: And I'm well aware of r/Breadtube theory, kthx. I don't consider myself a capitalist, nor do I consider myself a communist, or socialist (yes, I recognize the difference). I place myself between Capitalism and Socialism. I'm a Prosperist
The people doing the work should get the lion's share of the wealth.. Not the aristocrats masquerading as egalitarian civil leaders of state owned industry, nor the Bookies and Loansharks of Capitalism. When I took my leave and rode off into the sunset, my peeps got the biz and continue to profit share. Not the state, not some fat cat. But the people doing the work.
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- An arrogant, trashy, obnoxious, embezzling sleaze who had his family handle his failed businesses, lived bigger than his means to appear rich, loaded with unimaginably huge debts.
- Played the Patriot card when it was profitable for him, falsely paraded as some kind of role model, but who sold us out to an enemy to cover his debts because he couldn't handle sacrifices or accountability for the country, and because his ego was hurt. Publicly stabbed every ally he ever had in the back, and threatened or sued anyone who dropped dime on him.
- Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, his supporters and the government still couldn't believe the proof that he was in bed with the enemy and stealing everything not bolted down.
That man was Benedict Arnold
Remind you of anyone we know ??
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It entirely depends on the state you live in. Economies vary, and vary greatly between states. It's a question of Average Pay vs Rent/Property vs Goods/Services
Some anecdotal examples of places I've lived -
Texas (San Antonio): You can afford a large home on $50K per year, because property and rent is cheap, but income can be a challenge. You got a nice house, but cheap stuff.
Oregon (Portland): You cannot afford to buy even a small sized home on $50K per year, but goods are untaxed, and income is high. You got nice stuff, but a cheap house.
Florida (Miami): You might afford a swamp rotten house on $50k per year, goods are expensive, and income only comes in two flavors: Poor and Rich. You got a cheap house, and cheap stuff.
I don't miss Miami. I won't even bring up the economic demilitarized zones that are Arizona, Louisiana, or Idaho. California isn't as bad as people say.
So to sum up, to live in ANY state with a family of 4? Yeah, Hazzy hit the mark at $85-100k per year. Your family could live an enjoyable life with that even in Hawaii (Hilo). I'm looking at property there now, since I'm retired on about $60k per year, and my kids are long gone to college.
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@Joopsmann We gotta adopt older tactics.. We've lost our ability to troll what are, quitte plainly, idiots. We started calling it Internet Bullying, which sometimes it was. But it was also something else: Not letting stupid have a pass. We have to get viciously immature again, as reprehensible as that sounds.
For every carefully researched, factually-supported 3-point plan wall of text argument a person uses in chat to refute what is an OBVIOUS stupid, it falls on deaf ears as they simply respond with a flippant "nuh-UH! George Soros and Hunters Laptop! HA!".
We have to start scorching these motherf**kers again now that they've invaded every method of communication there is. Really hurt their feelings and remind them how outnumbered they are until they realize they've expended all shreds of goodwill, and they are going to spend the rest of their lives being laughed out of the room. But oh no, we wanna be polite and look mature. So do our representatives in Congress.
Clearly, it doesn't work.
We have failed to respond in kind. Every viewer here SHOULD be flooding Fox News and Wall Street Journal video comments to laugh in their faces and overwhelm their echo chambers. But we don't. That would be 'beneath us', pretend we can stay clean forever. So they instead send clickfarmers, foreigners, and interns to CNN, NPR, and everywhere else and copy-paste stupid 3rd grade statements with impunity.
Everyone here SHOULD spend the next 10 minutes on Fox's channel leaving comments making fun of Hannity, Tucker, and every guest they have. It's like a civic duty. You all should do that right now and every day
Who knows, you might even enjoy it.
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There needs to be redundant vote counting for national stage referendums. The results need to be overseen by both the normal State/Local official, a Federal officer, and the voter themselves. As it stands, you touch the screen, or check the box, and you never see what happens to YOUR vote, and only the local official office knows what happened, and sends the numbers up. A literal receipt should be given to the voter, with a transaction number, for you to keep after you cast your ballet, and you have TWO officials looking over each other's shoulders and answering your questions about the veracity of your vote being tallied. If there is a discrepancy, all three can be investigated: The Federeal count, the Local count, and YOUR individual count.
https://electionrunner.com/support/kb/voters/how-to-allow-voters-to-download-a-ballot-receipt/
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@TFLnow Yeah, more's the pity. I admire improved mileage of ordinary hybrids just fine, but most of my daily miles are < 40 per day, all in town, to work and the store, etc.
Would rather just have that be cheap, quiet, clean all electric Plug-In miles without burning a drop of gas. When hauling trailered jetskis to the lake or visiting the folks in the country, ok fine, now you can kick in the motor for the dual power train.
If they're not gonna do it for a Taco now, then bring the ElectroLux (Hilux) and/or a PEHV version to the states to do the job. Because there will be no more Emissions excuses to keep it out.
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@AlexisSnyders No it is not. The US arms industry makes the same amount of export money as the Russian arms industry.
The difference is that the Russian arms industry is their #2 source of GDP, behind Oil and Gas. China is their #1 customer.
In the US, it's #38, and declining. It's been doing nothing but going down as part of our GDP since 2008, accounting for less than 2.5% now.
The Russian arms biz is far, far, FAR more important to Putin's economy than the US biz is to America's. War pays far bigger dividends to Vlad. Syria was a blessing to him.
Russian GDP = 2 Trillion vs US GDP = 23 Trillion, less than 10% of the US GDP, with half the population. Their domestic defense spending is $200 billion, the US is just under $650 billion.
But the Russians get more for their Ruble than the US gets for it's dollar, so those things are not equal.
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I can handle and support two tickets from the DNC side, because pairings matter on a ticket. If you don't believe me, I have two words for you: Sarah Palin. And two more: Dick Cheney.
1. Tulsi & Mayor Pete are my pick for Foreign Policy.
2. Warren & Sanders are my champs for Domestic Policy.
Gabbard & Buttigieg are far, far more appealing the moderates and independents, and have serious Foreign Policy chops, having seen war for themselves. They wouldn't get steam rolled at the bargaining table. They are clearly not the TYT choice, but they are a natural pairing for the Ken Bone voter.
But Liz & Bernie are the truly progressive choice. Yet this is also an era where Dictators are trending, we're attacked, and foreign policy has to be a factor as much as income inequality, environmental salvation, and demographic hegemony
In the end though, you know the DNC is going to force Booker & Harris to the front. They're the focus-group designed, windtunnel tested, Made-For-TV loyal terriers of the Party, and they will do as they are told by the insider leadership, not the voters
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Whoa.. Holdup. This is spin and misinformation, straight up. County clerks are already a main player in most county elections with few exceptions coast to coast. They are quietly powerful people, and the little brothers/sisters to Secretaries of State for running elections already. They do elections, voter rolls, campaign finance, the CENSUS (you know, counting voters), and more. Sure, Texas is gaming that for Republicans. But Marc is being incredibly disingenuous. portraying this as some sort of aberration. Not all county clerks are created equal, BUT:
He needs to retract the spin he put on this, and now. Because this is outright gaslighting.
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One, two, three, four
We are cells at work!
One, two, three, four
We are working for you!
Another day I’m out here slicing, slicing
Filthy germs and viruses, show your ugly face!
Won’t let ‘em get away, I’ll chase ‘em, chase ‘em
We are professionals, we’re cells at work for you, and so
Here we go!
Let’s get down to work!
Let’s get down to work!
Every day’s a battlefield — you better prepare!
- Cells at Work theme
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@seer1623 Agreed. Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania understand this, and have been hosting US military rotations ever since the Georgia invasion, including A-10's, to make sure Putin didn't get too cocky. They're officially covered, unlike Ukraine. But still in a vulnerable geographic location.
Sadly, the Baltics and Norway were also NATO factors that objected to Georgia and Ukraine being admitted, to avoid antogonizing the Big Russian Bear next door.
The official label for Putins plan is "Greater Russia". Google up Aleksandr Dugin and "Eurasianism". Putin's plan isn't a mystery, it's open policy. It's not to remake the USSR, it's to remake the Russian Empire as a white orthodox ethno state with no shared identity with Europe, and use the Middle East muslim nations as a buffer.
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@corbeau-_- The logic is sound. For the Americans, despite what everyone likes to think and say on the internet, arms is way down on their economy list. Like 24th in their economy. It's actually similar to China. Their economy is not built around gun and bomb dealing. And that has an effect on their politics.
But then you look at Russia and France. Arms dealing is Russias #2 industry, has half the population of the US, and is a tug-o-war with the US for #1 in the world for arms sales, dollar for dollar. Same story for France. It's a cornerstone of their economy, and that means their politics will revolve around the economy of war too. France thrives on wars, period. The US and China doesn't. Oh, they're involved, but they don't revolve around it. Unlike Russia and France.
Look no futher than the Foreign Legion's history as a Mercenary force, and the things they did under the radar in Africa. Bloody involvement in diamonds and gold mining. For the sake of the French economy.
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Sensible gun legislation that allow for self protection and lower mass-shooting body counts:
1. Restrictions of TYPES of Firearms to be manufactured and sold retail
in the US:
a. No pistol revolver of greater caliber or velocity than .38 Special,
with a maximum capacity of 6 rounds in the cylinder. Manual cocking of
the hammer is required
b. No pistol automatic of greater caliber or velocity than .380 ACP,
with a maximum capacity of 5 rounds per detachable magazine
c. No shotgun of greater gauge than 20 (no cap on shell length), with a
maximum of 2 barrels and single load (manual breech) per barrel, no
internal or external magazines or feed mechanisms
d. No rifle of greater than .308/.30-06 caliber, velocity and barrel
length unregulated, single loading breech with no internal or external
magazines or feed mechanisms. That means no semi autos or lever/pump
action. You must hand load each shot into the breech or bolt face.
2. Importation, resale or re-issue of ALL legacy firearms that do not
conform to Section 1 is forbidden.
a. Legacy firearms shall not be loaned, sold, traded, pawned, gifted, or
passed down. You either keep them for the rest of your life, or turn
them in for destruction. Felony prosecution applies, and all legacy
firearms will be destroyed belonging to the offender
b. Section 1 firearms may not be traded in any way without a local LEO
background check and a 4 week holding period in trust through the local
agency before release to the new owner upon clearance to take possession
c. Muzzle devices that effectively limit the report of a firearm are
expressly forbidden for use with all Section 1 and Legacy firearms
d. Barrel and stock lengths and furniture shall not be regulated for all Type
1 firearms, all Legacy firearms remain subject to legacy NFA and future rules regarding these
items
e. ALL firearm sales will be subjected to a background check and no firearm may be taken
possession of for 2 weeks after time of purchase, and all applicants must present proof of
completion of an approved 4 hour ATF firearms safety and legal responsibilities course
f. These limitations on Table 1 firearms apply to all non military applications, including
Law Enforcement Agencies that are not noted by charter as Special Weapons/Response sub units
There. Common sense gun legistlation that isn't a confiscation, and
reduces the mass murder firepower in this country over time. It doesn't
stop murder, but it sure as hell will reduce the bodycount more and more
over the years without taking away the right to own a firearm, and
keeps hunting grade weapons available. It basically says you get nothing more
powerful than guns from the Old West. Call it the Annie Oakley bill if you like.
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When it comes to getting your hands dirty in the ground war, fancy and expensive doesn't work.
Cheap, durable, and easily fixed/replaced works.
Our guntrucks weren't science fiction marvels armed with lasers, they were hummers and delivery trucks with armor bolted on and a motor pool of salty grunt mechanics.
At 25,000 feet in a dog fight with strategic implications, sure, go Fancy Spendy. At Angels 2 with purely tactical implications, you have to accept some losses, and have the money to replace the equipment AND the men, AND still field lots of them afterwards. Sorry, that's just war logistics. Never, ever go with an "eggs in 1 basket" strategy when getting dirty with the ground conflict, which is what the F-35 does, and the A-10 does not. You shoot down 1 out of 2 F-35's, CAS just stopped. You shoot down 3 of 9 A-10's for the same price, the other 6 keep delivering Mk83 pizzas.
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Key categories of military purpose rifles/weapons excluding cannons and dedicated GP machine guns:
1. Assault rifle. Tailored for the Offense, meant to provide high volume, rapidly employed fires while on the move towards and inside of objectives. Characterized by lighter weight, higher capacity, mid range kill power. M4/M16/AK-47/M1 Garand (for it's time). You would not be wrong to put the civilian term "carbine" in here.
2. Battle rifle. Tailored for the Defense, meant to provide accurate, hard hitting long distance fires from stable positions. Higher weight, lower capacity, longer range, higher caliber. M14/FN-FAL/SMLE
3. Precision rifle. Most commonly adapted from civilian hunting platforms for prosecuting single high-payoff personnel targets. High caliber single shot lethality, deliberately restricted from volume fire or rapid maneuver, used from increased standoff compared the Battle Rifle by specialists either organic to the unit or operating alone. Remington 700 (M24/M40)/M25 (repurposed M14)
4. Anti-Materiel Rifle. By purpose meant to engage equipment and vehicles, personnel at ranges beyond standard precision and battle rifles, and for the destruction of explosive devices. Extreme range, multi-payload family Macro caliber rounds, extremely high weight and extremely low mobility. You wouldn't use this to shoot up a nightclub, but for assaulting an individual who was well protected at long range. M107A1 .50/NTW-20 20mm.
5. SMG. Submachine gun. Pistol redesigned to handle immedate, very close range high volume fire for assault in enclosed areas, defense when a rifle isn't feasible (pilots), and in civil actions such as policing and urban pacification, and silenced black operations. Small (pistol grade) ammunition, ultra low weight, concealability and suppression, high capacity, low accuracy, low penetration. Semi automatic versions in the civilian marketplace are labeled as "PDW's", personal defense weapons.
So? What is an assault rifle? It's a rifle suitable for fast Warfare purposes, where you go to the people you kill quickly, with enough power to kill alot of them in a short period of time. Big, small, short, long. Doesn't matter. You can move fast with it to your targets, it's high capacity with a rapid fire rate at average rifle distances and below with reasonable expectation of lethal hits bullet-for-bullet. It's for ASSAULTING, not defending.
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@ArthurWahoowa Depends on how familiar you are with the "Bayou of Pigs" incident, both Ross Perot's and Ron Paul's role in supporting it, and their white nationalist friendships and donors. Perot, Buchanan, and others have been the darlings of the Constitution party until recently. But here's some fun reading for you, not that it sounds like you're not looking for factsa and are arguing for the sake of spin because you want to defend them. Probably because you like the sound of the name "Constitution Party", which is how they sucker Evangelicals in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Dog
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2003/constitution-party-hopes-take-politics-extreme-2004
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2013/09/16/longtime-racist-joins-constitution-party%E2%80%99s-executive-committee
https://newsone.com/1805245/ron-paul-was-implicated-in-attempted-white-supremacist-island-invasion/
In short, they haven't succeeded in bringing back the Dixie States, so they will either take over America by force (Fort Sumter, anyone?) or take over some other promised land and establish their Confederacy there. They definitely would root for the South to win the civil war, my guy.
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@Therapistinthewhitehouse Thats not germaine to the point though. The point is that it's a flawed saying that people are accepting as wisdom, not the amount of effort or that recalling truth doesn't require good memory. In point of fact, it requires the BEST memory, but the point still remains that its flawed saying that people fawn over, erroniously. People need to be more careful about what they accept as 'wisdom', or else they fall into the trap of regurgitating bumper sticker-level folksy sayings that don't make sense.
Such as Nietzche: That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. False, that which nearly killed us leaves us scarred, crippled, and scared. But because it's Nietzche, no one bothers to question that validity of that statement.
"An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind". Also false, it teaches everyone to stop poking people's eyes out.
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Parnas is about 47 years old, Soviet Ukrainian by birth but his parents moved here in the 70's, so he grew up here, not there. I know you were all expecting a thick accent.
His first real job after college in NY was selling Co-Op properties for Trump at Kings Highway Realty
Later he moved to Florida (of course) and had a few failed businesses before hooking with Igor, then fled Florida because of the debts they left behind. Last year, he worked as a translator for a Ukrainian mob Oligarch's legal team. A guy who owns a bar in Ukraine named "Mafia Rave". You can't make this shit up. Parnas also attended Bush's state funeral as Rudy's guest.
In a wierd way, they are tied to indicted (for corruption) Israeli Prime Minister Bibi as members of the board for a "charity" for jews displaced by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, working with...Anthony Scaramuchi and Mike Huckabee. Again, you can't make this stuff up.
Sounds like another bribery operation to me, and from the looks of it, Trump is planning on investing in developing West Bank Settlements in Israel. Which goes right back to him moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and reversing 40 years of US official policy on West Bank development. He's getting into the Israeli real estate game. And Bibi is going to help him do it, for a price.
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Sanders & voters stand alone against: The entire Democratic Party, The entire Republican Party, Fox News & it's allies, MSNBC, Politico, CNN (Kinda), Every 3rd Reich Wing media demagogue, Bibi's Israeli Regime, Wall Street, Big Pharma, Big Oil, and the Election Industry.
If you judge someone on the strength of their enemies, then he is Hercules.
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I spent a year being educated into the LDS faith because I was engaged to a Mormon, her parents were moderate Mormons, and her grandparents were very wealthy orthodox Mormoms. So the pressure started for me to assimiliate. And I gave it a shot. Coming from an old school Catholic family, it didn't seem particularly daunting.
And I loved the local Bishop, he was an oddball for Mormon orthodoxy. He was an Army chaplain (I was in the Army) and liked to curse from time to time me when the hat came off. A closet Jack Mormon. But as I spent a year of mornings in seminary classes with the counselors, I came to understand that they operate like the Scientologists. They slowly, perniciously disclose their beliefs, and after a while I started to understand all the dark points of view they held. No, not the polygamy that everyone associates with them. It's racism and what all those "missions" are all about. They aren't trying to save anyone, they had a core belief that you can't go to hell until you have been offered the opportunity to convert. If you don't convert, THEN you can go to hell. And I was going to be expected to go on a mission in order to get married in Temple. They are sending missionaries abroad in order to condemn people (particularly blacks in African countries) to hell.
This blew my fucking mind when it finally dawned on me. My fiance's little sister was watching a seminary childrens program that had puppets like Sesame Street, but then a homeless Black puppet was on the screen approaching a child. That was Satan, according to her mother. Because Satan is black and black people are the cursed descendants of Cain. There is an active eugenics thing going on in that church, a white Eugenic program where they bring acceptable people and families to Salt Lake by using that tithe money to buy them houses. In church, Mexican converts were present, but they sat in the back and they only were there because they were migrant farm workers working on my fiance's Grandparents farm. They HAD to go to their church. The richest families that had the most to tithe sat in the front.
It was fucking crazy once you realize what you're looking at. But they're smart enough to keep themselves mysterious. Today I simply identify as comfortably agnostic, now that I've seen what a tribalist church does when it influences a government.
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I lived on Kodiak with my step dad when I was young. Guy owned 2 commercial fishing rigs. I didn't know it at the time, and you wouldn't have known it to look at him, but he was filthy rich. The money he paid to the state to permit those 2 boats and crews each year was a fortune in and of itself, not to mention what was invested into those boats, nets, and paying crew.
So when I see our captain here, I see not just Morgan in his waders, I see it's about local millionaires taking on oil company billionaires.
In that contest, I still side with Morgan, simply as a matter of corporate creep, but guys like him will overfish if it makes him more money as well.
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Eberhart and Tappenning founded it, but they only did so because GM trashed their incredibly geeky EV1 and went on the warpath to torpedo any chance of an American EV market.
Musk was, in essence, their first and biggest Backer. Eb & Tap were still up in the air on their product. Elon DID lead the development for the Roadster, which was the granddaddy of all other models, which made him the natural choice for chairman and CEO for both his investment in the company and his biz skills. The dude does pack a physics AND econ degree.
Last quarter, Ford (with it's government contracts) sold 580k total vehicles including pickups & cargo trucks, but only 77,000 were cars. Tesla sold 97,000 cars. 20k MORE THAN FORD
Think of it like this: If Eberhart and Tap were the Wright Brothers looking for an investor, then that investor turned out to be guru Howard Hughes.
And Tesla sells every car it makes during it's model year. You won't find a green-sticker special at the Tesla lot that's been sitting there since 2017.
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I mean, if you want to get pedantic about it, the China of today is only 69 years old since their revolution, since the US is rated at 241 at the point the Declaration of Independence was ratified.
China has hardly been 1 nation under the same dynasty/government/culture with fixed borders over the last few millennia, so the old "3000 years old, oldest culture on earth" bit doesn't hold water.
But don't tell them that, they tend to get very sensitive when it comes to their Han nationalism and master-culture identity.
If you wanna go back to the age of the US as being a Western-style nation in the New World, you would have to go to the Virginia Company in 1607 establishing Jamestown, or 23,000 years if you go back to the first nation tribes that came here across the Bering land bridge. So stick that in your opium pipe and smoke it, Jin.
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"The Army Field Manual"
Care to elucidate on which FM that is, Gina? Because it sure as shit isn't on the list of -10,-20, or -30 Warrior Tasks, in books such as the STP 21-1 SMCT. What Joe's on the ground are taught is how to search, detain, and segregate suspected combatants, not how to shake them down or make them talk. What little interrogation your battallion S-2 guys might do is literally straight forward Q&A in the PHA (Prisoner Handling Area). They're not even allowed to tickle detainees.
Look, I get it. People don't like Haspel for 2 reasons: One, we WERE doing ruthless things to prisoners, and it was sanctioned by the highest levels to do so, and she complied. Two, she's a Trump appointee.
BUT, I would note 3 things:
1. Trump didn't really pick her. Like Nicky Haley, she was suggested to him by people who advise him who might actually have a fucking clue. And some of his appointees have stood up to him, such as Tillerson (which was shocking), Rosenstein (REALLY shocking), Haley (not so shocking), and from her conduct, I bet Gina would too. Unlike Pompeo, who was NEVER a CIA guy before he was put in charge of it. Gina is, no matter how much you dislike her connection to Rendition and torture, an actual professional at her job.
2. She's a Career CIA agent. Not a rich schmuck that Trump picked out of a hat to dismantle the very agencies he wishes to destroy
3. It's not the Salvation Army. It's the fucking CIA. I EXPECT them to do cloak and dagger shit. Not sit around and sing songs about butterflies. I expect the FBI to be ultra ethical and super legal, I expect the NSA to be quasi ethical and fairly legal, but I expect the CIA to get the job done. If SEAL Team 6 had been super legal about what THEY do, Bin Laden would still be sitting pretty in Pakistan right now, watching TV.
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@tomaccino I've been around the world myself, son, and not to the tourist destinations where they show you the pretty parts. Philippines (no, not Luzon city where the white students live), Iraq, Djibouti, and more. I think you can guess how. Having cellphones, couches and internet is not the 1st world factor. Your metrics of '1st world' benchmarks are outdated for 2024. The hardest, most bleak places in Africa have those too. What they lack is access to things like universities that can actually teach something that puts them on the global stage, *modern* medical science support within arms reach, advancing economies that participate globally. No, Ukraine has not had those. Slovenia sure has. It's the tech haven of Eastern europe, especially around Ljubljana. Even Moldova is far more removed from the agrarian time warp that most of northeastern Ukraine still lives in. And it IS an agrarian economy nation.
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If you think controlling the House is going to solve our woes for the next 2 years, you're mistaken.
The odds are simple:
The House is ALWAYS a wild card every 2 years, but will fall under Democrat control shortly.
But the Senate, by simply playing the odds, will not. It's 4 to 1 odds the Dems will actually LOSE even more seats in the Senate by the time they take the House, pushing them even further into the minority. The possibility of reversing that won't happen until 2020, when Trump (assuming he's not swinging from a gibbet or suffered Death by Bucket of Extra Crispy) is pretty much out of office, a greater number of Red senators have to protect their seats than Democrats, and Anti-Trump momentum reaches nuclear levels through a combination of bad economy and general corruption. No, you won't see him again, and the GOP is gearing up as we speak to pick his replacement. Someone they can sleeze onto the ticket without the ridiculous circus the last 2 years have been, and solidify the gains they have made by presenting someone less impeachable (on the surface). Oh, they will say they've picked someone more sane, more palatable, and less partisan. But if you believe that...you must be a Trump voter.
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@iamthegoat2359 It's a dog psychology exercise with them every time. They also sniff out and attack weakness. The best posture is to not fidget or act like you just ceded all authority (and rights) to them.
Hands firmly on hips, stand tall, act patiently annoyed, force direct eye contact, like a parent dealing with something stupid, say little and respond briefly and curtly. Keep questions brief and official sounding. Act like you're watching them quietly, and gathering evidence. It's a pissing contest, and you have to project that you're an in-charge adult and not gonna get steamrolled or hand them an easy citation, and any shenanigans will not be forgotten if it's time to testify before a jury or recall their behavior (calmly) to their line supervisor. Don't be a cocky, mouthy punk. Be cool but also be Alpha. Speak softly, & carry the threat of a big attorney. Backed up by mature behavior as can be seen on the body cam. Juries don't respond well to defendants who act nervous on body camera either.
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@trulywylde5726 You think Isreal is.....diverse?? What planet do you come from?
Lets see here...Fascist nations that aren't diverse...let me think...
North Korea. Pretty sure everyone is Korean.
China. Everyone I meet is going to be Han.
Saudi Arabia. All about the Arabs. Shocker.
The Greeks have definitely been playing with it. How diverse are they again?
Brazil....all about getting rid of their ethnic minorities right now. There might be alot of sub-latin diversity there, but you ain't finding a lot of slavs or asians, are you?
Chad. Pretty sure every face I see will be black. Oh, they may have over 200 "ethnic" divisions in there, but still not seeing eastern asians, hindus, pashtuns, or anything other than Black African faces or traditions.
Iran. So Persian, I would feel out of place if I didn't fly into the airport on a Rug
Cuba. Oh yeah, I'm sure ol' Fidel was just welcoming in everyone from Denmark, Rwanda, Pakistan....
Syria? Not exactly brimming with diversity there, either.
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@dominicmammano5297 The 1994 ban standards were deliberately chosen to be ridiculous by Republicans and NRA sympathetic Democrats who wanted to neuter the bill as much as possible.
Real legislation would be easy. Canada's standards work just fine.
But barring that, you regulate the manufacturers first to only allow 2 types of weapons to be made:
1. Rifles: anything with 6" or more of barrel measured from the end of the chamber to the end of the barrel (edit: NOT MUZZLE DEVICES) to be classified as a rifle, and thus only be hand loaded and chambered, no magazine at all whether internal or detachable, and no devices to assist in hand feeding. 1. Bullet. At. A. Time. By. Hand. No more than 1 barrel physically attached. To include shotguns.
2. Handguns: Anything with a barrel under 6" may be a handgun, but no self chambering and no more than 6 rounds with non-removable magazines, single round feed only. Whether in a stack or a cylinder (top or gate feed). Single action trigger mechanisms only. Which means you must manually rechamber and reset the striker/hammer after each round fired. No more than 1 barrel physically attached. No assisting devices to cocking, chambering, loading, or firing.
3. All "grandfathered" weapons made or sold prior become non-transferable and the manufacture of compatible repair parts and all magazines of any type prohibited. This includes speed loaders. No trades, no sales, no loans, nothing. You get to keep your pre-ban gun, it's your property. But it dies with you. You have the right to bear your arms as your property, but no one gave you the right to be an arms dealer.
If it fires with each pull of the trigger, it's day in the civilian market should be over. Including repair parts, mags, and all transfers.
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Gun control, at this point, needs to be about 2 things: The rising bodycount numbers that increased levels of lethality in retail and 2nd hand gun purchases (lots of bullets, real fast, and AR's and other semis falling off the trees, everywhere) are causing in each mass shooter incident, and the access that criminals and the psychotics have both over the counter and on the streets for more common shooting murders.
You can't do a gun grab. Not gonna happen. But you can cut off the supply of prefered mass murder tools and the parts that keep them running at the manufacturer level, and by taking away an owner's ability to sell them off to his Ruby Ridge Klan homeboys. Oh, you get to keep your grandfathered AR and magazines all right, but you might as well put it in the casket with you, because it should go with you to your grave. And if you wear out the barrel or firing pin, touch luck Jack, no more parts for you. No more Glock 17's with 27 round Magpul mags that Uncle Joe the Oxy Junkie can trade to his shady dealer to get his fix, which then finds it's way into a thugs hands.
Cut them off at the source, and time will make them an endangered species. When all that potential Vegas shooter can get access to is a single shot bolt action .308, single action revolver, or a double barrel shotty, then suddenly he isn't so emboldened that he can to Go Out in a Blaze Of Glory surrounded by 40+ victims. Having tons of easy firepower is a motivator for psychos.
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He's become less prominent than newer, more bombastic white nationalists, so he's pissed. Whatever, he milked the Archie Bunker demographic for his wealth already, he should just go back to his ranch and STFU.
This reached it's peak level of furor with You, Glen, arm in arm with Limbaugh and O'Reilly. Take some fucking responsibility rather than trying to pin this on "the media" that rejected you for what you've done. Or just be mad because you've been beaten at your own game by Jones, Bannon, Hannity, and Leosch, and lack the balls to call them out. I suppose it's just easier to blame CNN.
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The DNC Variety Flavor Pack:
1. Elizabeth Warren: Warm cup of Sleepy Time Tea while you study
You can just feel the caffeine free relaxation.
2. Bernie Sanders: Moscow Mule
Tangy, tart, still feeling the burn after going down. But it's half gone now.
3. Beto: An open tall boy of PBR left on the counter.
Did you really have to flick your cigarette butt into my hip can of suds, Ted?
4. Ojeda: Vodka Redbull
Can't explain why, but this tastes angry & EXCITING. Drink responsibly. May start a bar fight. Leaves a PTSD aftertaste.
5. Sally Yates: Blue Label Old Fashioned
Dignified. Strong. Sorry, too good for the likes of you and we're out of stock now.
6. Joe Biden: 12 oz can of Orange Crush left in the fridge since...FOREVER
It's fine. I suppose. I don't hate it. I just don't like it, either. Just...just leave it hidden on the bottom shelf. Can't stand all that artificial sweetener right now.
7. Nancy Pelosi: A Venti latte gone cold (Wait, I didn't order a decaf...)
You'll hold your nose and drink it. You paid enough for it. People expect you to finish it, recycle the cup like a good boy, and you'll bloody well like it , goddammit.
8. Kamala Harris: A lukewarm can of Pepsi
You can just taste the corporate goodness. Now with an even slicker trending ad campaign.
9. Corey Booker: A lukewarm can of Diet Pepsi
Like # 8, but with an ever grittier artificial aftertaste.
10. AOC: Mojito
Fresh, minty, trying to get the party started. May cause manhood conundrums in old men.
"You can dance! You can jive! Having the time of your life...Ooh, see that girl. Watch that scene. Dig in the dancing queen..."
11. Chuck Schumer: That 1980's Bottle of Squirt your parents refuse to throw away
I can't believe we still have this around. Bitter, but bubbly in an angry kind of way. Like a grapefruit, it's supposed to be good for you, but tastes like it hates you.
12. Hillary Clinton: Classic Coke
Yeah, you know it's not actually good for you. The history behind this can of "Nope" has more baggage than a Samsonite outlet store, but it's supposedly an American brand that just won't go away. Even if you can't stand the taste, still being shoved in your face fucking EVERYWHERE by the establishment. This company has connections ....
13. Michael Bloomberg & Eric Swalwell: Zima & a 6 pack of Smirnoff Ice
Teens should be wary of anyone who offers you these. Ineffably creepy.
14. Oprah Winfrey: Unobtanium Merlot with Mescaline
Starts out as a Feel Good Idea to some, but will turn into a Bad Trip.
15. Obama: Szechuan Dipping Sauce
Discontinued, but you'd drink it straight like a drowning man gulping air now. Unappreciated in it's day, the nostalgia force is strong with this one. Most of America would pay anything to have it back for a limited time.
16. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Tapeworm Shots
What is wrong with you? A recipe best forgotten, but never forgiven.
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That 2020 cyberpunk future arrived right on schedule.
Cyberlimbs, thoughts sent brain to brain by wire across continents, flying cars at CES, sex robots, corporations controlling government, privatized space companies, power suits, drones everywhere, self driving electric cars, environmental catastrophes, techware fashion, a rising China and growing urban density, VR & internet warfare.
It may not look like we predicted, but the essentials are all there.
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@admiralbenbow5083 Exactly, though I'm referring to land mass and natural resources, not population. They have half the population of the US, and are a well educated, brilliant people. They were, after all, the first humans to reach orbit. So why the hell do they have a history of constantly trying to conquer other people and their land for?
Answer: They don't. The problem isn't resources or intellect, it's attitude. They're just plain culturally malevolent, and like sinister leadership. A nihilist world view and everything they do as a nation has to have a layer of schadenfreude. Treachery is like a national sport. They get off on it. It's sick. /pol/ if it was an actual nation.
China may be sneaky and bloody in it's ambitions, the US is greedy and sanctimonious, the EU is a mess that spends all it's time trying to deal with...itself, India is a nightmare of spiritual bigotry, but Russia? Just plain mean for the sake of being mean.
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@gogreen7794 It's the same home it's been since I bought the place 13 years ago, and we DO have state laws capping property tax rates, but it's an amalgam. County, city, state, and ASSESSED MARKET VALUE as determined by the COUNTY ASSESSOR. Jesus, if these other guys don't even read their tax breakdown statement every year or ask why your Escrow suddenly skyrocketed, don't act like you know anything. In this case, it's the county radically raising assessed values because they are trying to outpace inflation ...because they can, because they smell the opportunity in this inflation chaos to do it, and because it's a sh***y trick to grab cash. In this case, the County Assessor wasn't supposed to raise the assessed taxable value on my McMansion by 18% in one year. Yes, that's what they did. And the year before they did 11%. That's 29% in 2 years. Yet the market does not even remotely reflect that. Not even close. Last year marked the first year real market home values in my area went down
So, obviously, they weren't going to give up a penny in tax dollars, and went the opposite direction. Half my payment is now escrow, and half principal and interest.
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@DCED - Normally I'm in the same boat. I'd just save a bill or two more to deal with things like RAM price hikes, and just suck it up. It's New Generation Hardware time right now, and I was planning on bolting together a new primary gaming rig that could power a BFGD for Xmas/New Years. But not this time.
Between the still-inflated memory costs, nVidia's insane pricetags, the end of Moore's law, and the cherry on top of this turd sundae: soon to be 25% tariffs...it's not going to happen.
To the dorks who think a Tariff is anything other than a tax on US consumers, and that suddenly wafers are going to be fabbed in Nowheresville, Wisconsin....get neutered. The Chinese will STILL make the only product on the shelves, they will STILL get their wholesale money, it will simply cost more now, and that goes to the USG. You didn't play China. The USG played YOU, and you just got Taxed. Congratulations, you're covering the deficit at the register now. No magical fab plant opened up in Bumfuck, Indiana because you paid more that went to the Feds.
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Simply put, too many on the right would absolutely lose their fucking marbles over there being not just a First Hubby, but a gay First Hubby. A significant portion of that 24% of America that is devoutly Republican are evangelical fundamentalist bigots. They have clergy who have taught them, and their kids, that it's Satan incarnate. It's a more bitter pill for them to swallow than even having a straight, evangelical Black president. They lost their fucking minds for a decade over that, and still haven't recovered.
And Pete is a brilliant scholar, leader, veteran, and proven civil servant. Won't make any difference. They would rather have a straight, white philandering con man who took the chicken out of their pot every time.
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Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High, Hang Him High
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Unfortunately, guys like Gavin are much, much more dangerous than the Alex Jones' and Trumps of the world. They can mobilize the young, they can use large words, and they will throw that punch instead of being a blustering, cowardly middle aged fat guy who couldn't punch his way out of a Chuck E Cheese without having a stroke. They're more charismatic by far, and they tend to be less heard of by the masses. And that makes the masses complacent to their threat. They don't need to be heard of by the masses, they need to be heard of by their underground acolytes and potential recruits. If Bannon is today's Goebbels, then the rest of the younger hate group vanguard luminaries are the Gestapo Colonels. The ones making the real moves in the field, the boots on the ground enacting policies and directing the troops, not just sitting around writing the propaganda and shouting into the mic.
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@pauld.b7129 <--- that's why the EV industry need to meet at the table and establish a common standard of battery modules rather than build bespoke, bolted in batteries like Tesla. Ones which can be swapped out cell for cell at stations just like filling up your tank.
You pay for the juice and some nominal fee for battery maintenance and recycling overhead, but no reason it can't be handled like swapping your 5 gallon propane tanks at Home Depot. When you initially buy your vehicle, you should be paying a DEPOSIT on the standard pattern batteries, rather than intending to own those specific serial numbered ones. Mile for mile, electric is almost always less than 1/4 the cost of gas. Beats it hands down economically. If that rose to 1/3rd to cover battery maintenance for your local Shell gas station to charge & keep them servicable, that's still a huge economic win. Especially if you can offset your local Chevron's electric bill paid to the grid by converting that ubiquitous, giant ass cover found at every station to an array of solar panels.
It makes particular sense for Commerical applications. Picture a big ol' Peterbilt electric rig (with assloads of torque for that full load) pulling in at the truck stop, but instead of loading up 120 gallons of diesel, quickly hot swaps out the half dozen commercial-spec universal battery packs that were expended out of his stack of a dozen, and his company paying for the juice used and some upkeep percentage. FedEx, the Postal Service, and UPS would particularly love this for local routes, since they could festoon their entire rooftops in panels to defray grid costs to charge their fleet of delivery rigs bringing your Amazon chinese knockoff trash to your doorstep.
From a nationalist standpoint, this is a double win because it helps cut the cord with foreign oil. EV's may offend some people's traditionalist gas engine sensibilities and comfort zone, but when they realize there's a patriotic element to making the switch, then you have one more weapon in the arsenal to convince people it's a good move for their country that takes the polarized, hot button feel-good environmental and/or "roll coal to stick it to the hippies" element out of the argument.
It's not the auto manufacturers you need to convince. It's the Oil Companies and gas station owners that it's time to get with the times. But to do that, they need a product. Hot swap standard battery service at your local station.
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Weird how every district you look, all the votes end up being less than a percent. EVERYWHERE. How mathematically unlikely. But profitable.
Keep those odds that tight, and everyone invested in the election industry boom profits. News, advertising, pundits, youtubers, printing companies.
REALLY mathematically odd when 24% of the voters are Republican, 31% Democrat, and 41% independent. But always just a percentage or two.
But hey, make them all super tight all the time, and we end up with the best democracy money can buy. Billions upon billions of dollars every 2 years.
Edit: We should list American Elections for Sale among our top 10 national export industries in the GDP. Foreigners are buying the product, too.
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They also used to tell me not to watch documentaries. Because they wanted me to write papers based only on books they agreed with.
Because in the world of Academia, they think that Books are some sort of Holy Media that is not to be questioned by you filthy plebs & heretics, and is the only acceptable format for enshrining facts. The one and only magical power that Books have over anything else is the inexplicable knee jerk reaction that If It's Inside Of A Book, It Must Be True, and all else is LIES!
It's the Bible effect. Had the Old Testament been originally released only as an audio book on iTunes, it would never have been taken as seriously, only a dozen people would have died over it rather than untold millions, and would be found only in the Young Adult Fiction genre between Twilight and Harry Potter :P
Try and picture a preacher doing the following before his congregation:
Preacher A: Holds up The Bible, and shouts "Heed the words in The Good Book! Salvation is within it's pages!"
Preacher B: Holds up a CD case, and shouts "Heed Track #3 in this Good Soundtrack! Salvation is within, but you gotta skip to 38:44..."
Kinda lacks the same effect, don't you think?
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I take serious issue with the legal system treating recordings as hearsay.
Two years ago my '09 Triumph was stolen in Oregon, and found in Washington. Guy was caught, and laid out an argument that he knew me and gave him permission to use it, and we had a falling out. Obviously, I didn't know the guy. But the neighbors camera caught it, and neither I, the DA, or the defense knew about the video file until the day before I was going to testify. Therefore, being presented late, on the day of trial. DA told the defense and guy changed his plea to guilty. But if they had called it 'hearsay', he would have had a bogus defense.
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Ok, gotta play Devils Advocate. What if this was a Pro Gamer move, and she really cut a deal with *Bernie*? They both knew the numbers, knew they were splitting the vote between them, and it's Highlander Rules come Super Tuesday. There Can Be Only One. Look at what happened to Gabbard when HRC implied she was in Putin's pocket. She got a temporary but sharp bump.
An Accusation Fail on Bernie makes him a martyr & Sexist Claim Invulnerable for the rest of the electoral cycle. As opposed to Uncle Joe. A walking, shambling Gaff Machine.
Would you sacrifice your own campaign to support an ally who was doing better in polls but believed all the same things you do to ensure a policy win, even if you personally lost?
Edit: Of course, I don't believe that, the vitriol on stage seemed too genuine, but if this was all theater crafted between Sanders and Warren to boost the healthier campaign, then it's masterful.
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Spineless from the start
Sucked into the part
Circus comes to town
You play the lead clown
Please, please, spreading his disease
Living by his story
Knees, knees, falling to your knees
Suffer for his glory
You will
Time for lust, time for lie
Time to kiss your life goodbye
Send me money, send me green, heaven you will meet
Make a contribution and you'll get a better seat
Bow to Leper Messiah
Marvel at his tricks
Need your Sunday fix
Blind devotion came
Rotting your brain
Chain, chain, join the endless chain
Taken by his glamour
Fame, fame, infection is the game
Stinking drunk with power
- The Mighty Met, Master of Puppets
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- An arrogant, trashy, obnoxious, embezzling sleaze who had his family handle his failed businesses, lived bigger than his means to appear rich, loaded with unimaginably huge debts.
- Played the Patriot card when it was profitable for him, falsely paraded as some kind of role model, but who sold us out to an enemy to cover his debts because he couldn't handle sacrifices or accountability for the country, and because his ego was hurt. Publicly stabbed every ally he ever had in the back, and threatened or sued anyone who dropped dime on him.
- Even in the face of overwhelming evidence, his supporters and the government still couldn't believe the proof that he was in bed with the enemy and stealing everything not bolted down.
That man was Benedict Arnold
Remind you of anyone we know ??
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I like Liz. I really do, and possibly as President Pro-Tempore of the Senate. But a POTUS needs to be many things, including a bit of a hard ass when it calls for it, particularly when sitting across the table from Vlad when dealing with foreign relations. I just don't see Liz, or even Bernie, doing that and standing their ground without being bullied. I don't see Booker doing it either. It's a kind of litmus test that cannot be failed. Look at Angela Merkel. She's a fine person, and a great leader. But she gets slammed and clubbed ruthlessly for being a quiet, meek person. It's not fair, but it IS a thing.
The one and only person I see sitting across the table from Putin and completely owning him with dignity, grace, power, and getting completely under his skin is former AG Sally Yates. A tall, powerful but soft spoken figure who oozes statesmanship, doesn't get flustered under any amount of pressure, and who's resume is built on tackling Mobsters and Spies. She's Putin Kryptonite and a commanding figure. She is, in a word, Presidential. Like Lincoln.
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Ken Bugbee Oh really? Branch, rank, units, and MOS qualifications held if you please. You're talking to a retired NCO and multiple Iraq vet, and am positively giddy to hear this.
OIF II, 1st CD, '03-'05, order of the Spur and Saint Barbara. Also OND, OJS, Hurricane Katrina, etc etc
You can even witness my crew training on my channel if you want to see MY bona fides. I just LOVE sniffing out false valor.
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Once you fall off the grid, for any of the 9 core reasons, you ain't never getting back on.
It's a one way trip to the bottom, and everyone above you keeps making sure you stay there.
Go ahead. Be homeless and try to get a job with wrecked credit, debts, no phone number, address, email, Facebook to snoop on, license or insurance & a car, and a ragged look about you.
Gainful employment is only for the established now. Everyone else is supposed to go off and commit harakiri in the woods as far as "decent society" is concerned now
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@miguellopez3392 You'd have to think of the battery like a deposit, like when you get a 5 gl tank of propane for your BBQ. You're not keeping it anyways (well, some people do), but you're fronting the cost of A battery module rather than your battery module. Once you've done that, so long as you yourself don't trash it utterly, it's like a tank swap at Home Depot. You're paying for the propane in a nice, clean and maintained cylinder they give you when you turn in your old (and probably ratty) one, and the small fee for the upkeep from that point forward. This defrays the cost of recycling and maintenance of the module, but the bulk of your expense is the going rate for the energy.
There's also the question of the "I ran out of gas" scenario. AAA could show up with modules if I ran out of juice on the road, but I don't know what their policy or practices are for getting an empty Tesla to the next charging station are.
But I completely agree with you that fast charging has come a long way. I have a 1100 watt eBike that I ride the crap out of, and a 1.5 amp and 8 amp charger for it. I can ride 25 miles on a single charge, and either gently preserve the battery life by waiting 5 hours on the 1.5 amp, or I can suffer a loss of long term life by having it topped off in 90 minutes on the other. Yeah, I could feel the heat when on the fast charger. I try to keep it between 25-80% charged at all times to preserve it's service life.
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$20 US says that ridiculous, 2nd rate car bomb was the result of a hostile nation that loves the idea of Brexit, EU dissolution, NATO disbanding, and a few other things....
It didn't have to be deadly, it just had to be very public, and it just had to widen the wedge between Northern Ireland, and by extention, the UK, and in-doubt relations with Ireland, and by extention, the EU. Yeah, I could see the Russian FSB or GRU behind that. They've already used a chemical weapon as an assassination tool on sovereign foreign soil.
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@keithball6480 I wasn't thrilled with buying a crossover SUV in the first place, but had the CR-V hybrid for a month now. I still think there's a few too many 'new fangled' gizmos stuffed into cars that drive prices up for silly luxuries, but I have to admit: I love the car now. It's just dialed. The steering, suspension, weight, fitment, and snappy but not overbearing hybrid powertrain. And it's subtly tasteful. Nothing garish or clashing. I haven't had a Honda in a long time, so I wasn't expecting this much polish and the tight driving characteristics. Even if the current 'honda tax' at MSRP isn't great when everyone is going KIA or Hyundai to avoid it, I don't regret switching back from 'Yota to Honda. It feels like a higher class brand now. By honoring MSRP, I feel Honda gave me the better deal. There was something a little chintzier about the current Toyota level of polish and design vs their old rival from Japan. Not much, but enough. Very adult, not like my old Integra ricer for hooning around town in.
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She serves on the Senate Armed Services committee, so she's not as weak-kneed on military concerns as people think. You don't get that job just being some hippie who misses Woodstock.
She's made her policy positions clear enough.
1. First and foremost, Consumer protections from predatory Banking buccaneers.
2. Stanching the bleeding from that insane tax cut.
3. Massive Education overhaul.
4. Sensible military spending, an end to our deployments that have been going for almost two decades. I can understand that, I'm a multi-deployment Iraq veteran, and my son was a toddler when I first deployed, and old enough to enlist himself when I finished my last one. That's goddamn ridiculous. She's no Anti-Military quack, she's just not a Raytheon/Boeing/General Dynamics stooge. As someone who did 25 years in the service, I have NO problem with us spending our money smarter, rather than just spending more of it. I'm a military fiscal tightwad. If being a grunt taught me anything, it was how to make things work on a shoestring budget. And the value of a well-executed cover up :)
5. Judiciary oversight and protections from partisan SCOTUS decisions. She's not for super-liberal justices, she's just for maintaining the non-partisan standard.
6. She hasn't made MAJOR statements regarding health care, she's pretty much just in line with the rest of the DNC for protecting the ACA and improving it. She has NOT come out for a Single Payer system, but has white-papered health care tweaks.
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Survival in America is a gridded board balanced atop a single, central stilt. That grid is made up of more and more things as years go by. And if you knock just one square out of anyone's grid, it tilts, and they fall off.
And America makes sure you can never get back on, no matter how hard you try.
Your credit score, resume, grades, Facebook profile, having a cell phone number and home address, an email. The right hair and clothes. The right skin tone. Driving record. All grid squares, ready to knock you off into the pit, and other Americans dying to knock yours over. You're never getting back on the grid. Not anymore. There's no starting over. No recoving. No miracle story. Not for you. Not today. Because if a potential employer, the courts, anyone...realizes you were homeless once, you might as well go back to it.
You fell off the grid, citizen.
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Eloi: So, I was talking to the Keeper of Lore, Storyteller Wiki, and he told me that before we started using the Oral Tradition to keep and pass down our history, we actually used to use the written word . In, like, books and shit. Can you believe that?
Morlock: Ah, you heard about that, did you?
Eloi: Yeah, so what happened? Why did we go back to the Oral Tradition?
Morlock: Well, that all goes back to two of our ancestors. Mine, known as The Zuckerberg, and yours, this dude known as OverSimplified. They kinda made the whole "reading history books" thing irrelevant. Now get in the oven.
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@kyleschmitgall3658 Oh, well what do ya know? So am I. Branch, rank, units, deployments if you please.
Me? OIF II '03--05, OJS, Hurricane Katrina & Rita, OND 09-11, 1st CD, 4th ID, order of the Spur & St Barbara. Retired NCO, 25 years service.
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How do you "feel" about the economy?
Well, I tell ya, Chuck. I don't "feel" the economy. I count the economy. It's composed of numbers, not feelings. There's no feelings there at all, it's cold hard math. I currently make X number of dollars versus Y dollars 4 years ago for Z number of hours worked, and the price of B goods and services has increased C amount when it was just A dollars 4 years ago, which correlates with how many X dollars I have now. To sum up, if I had to work 25 hours to pay my rent before, I am working 32 to pay it now. Don't need an economist to tell me how that "Feels", because I can count, Chuck.
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Well, the times are about to get even better for Raytheon, no matter how we feel about it.
There's a world war on the near horizon, lads. Nearer than anyone is willing to admit. And we better get our minds right about it NOW, not after it kicks off. Dictators haven't been this fashionable since the 30's.
Iran, North Korea, Russia, China, Serbia, Belarus, and others are lining up as new Axis, and have conquest plans.
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