Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Ryan McBeth" channel.

  1. So the moral of the story is: Americans need to get their security clearance. It's ironic how loudly we promote capitalism, but when the capitalist interest of minimizing costs renders us economically uncompetitive, only government interventions and positions can keep us on a payroll.
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  2. Although hiring Americans is arguably worse for the housing shortage, as we're not as open to being domiciled in a dorm with random coworkers in our own country and would demand our own place even if it's just a campervan (which can still take up more usable space than a shared room).
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  3. Ranked-choice polling would facilitate politics towards that middle, but this is exactly what's getting preemptively banned in GOP-ruled Red States. Hence we're trapped with winner-take-all ballots and the political extremism this method stimulates.
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  4. Path dependence and anchoring are real sociological phenomena, meaning being founded under Trump and the leadership he appointed at the time could affect the cultural foundations of the Space Force itself as it builds its identity as a separate branch.
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  5. The infographic may be largely false as a description of Project 2025, but the points are real threats. P2025 at its core advocates for executive impunity, enabling a right-wing President to institute those listed ideas.
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  6. That's why I call them "traditionalists", because they're trying to reinstitute a traditional hierarchy with themselves and their toxic intolerant ideals on top.
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  7. ngl That merch pitch at the end got me chuckling, since as a fairly informed Millennial veteran I understood all those Presidential references 🗳 Don't need any more shirts though, but would consider bottle-opening fridge magnets 🧲
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  8. For those curious, "Da'esh" (داعش) is the acronym used in the Arabic-speaking mainstream to delegitimize the group from Islam as a whole, and is pronounced like "dah-esh" (or "dah-EESH" to make it sound more toxic). It's notable because acronyms in general rare in Arabic, and is similar in sound to terms that translate to "one who stomps on" and "one who sows discord".
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  9. Drones need sensors and/or linked remote controls. You’d be hesitant to deploy those drones if some of them end up sinking your neighboring squadron, or passing neutral vessels whom you can’t afford to piss off.
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  10. The Korean War happened not even a decade after the US entered WW2. American forces were using a lot of WW2-era equipment back then too.
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