Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Something Is Changing in the US Military" video.

  1. I've survived the other extreme, having lived in the low-tax weak-state libertarian paradise of Subsaharan Africa, where personal family and faith dominate public policy. It's just as dangerous and dismal as "collectivist" nations, but they trade tangible improvements like decent infrastructure and industry for blind optimism and self-confidence. That environment of local gang territories, strongman entrenchment, arbitrary "rules" and "fees", random violent petty crimes, and harsh punishments with zero deterrent effect (for with nothing substantial to fear losing, any risk becomes promising) is where I see America heading should MAGA with its much more narrowed sense of compassion continue to advance.
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  2. That identification has to come at no cost to the voter anywhere in the world. Remember citizens who are homeless or overseas are also fully eligible to cast a ballot. We specifically abolished all forms of a poll tax because at all prices it was such a deterrence to valid voter participation.
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  3. Scary, but not unheard of. The previous culture war of the Civil Rights Movement was a lot more visible and violent. Same with the labor movements of a century ago, not to mention the straight up Civil War.
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  4. ​Biden wasn't the one who cultivated the Afghan leaders who abandoned their people, and were entrusted to do their duty as we departed as the Office of the President (i.e. held by the previous guy) firmly promised.
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  5. We need a voting system that allows for convergence on more than the winner-take-all from the collection of all losers, perhaps ranked-choice ballots.
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  6. The one with delayed macroeconomic consequences, while emboldening aggressive adversaries with personal endorsement.
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  7. America's role as the world's police fighting smaller local conflicts before they organize into industrial-scale wars is the reason for post-WW2 global prosperity. Pax Romana, Pax Mongolica, Pax Britannica, and Pax Americana are named as such because that one power maintained trade security for like a third of humanity at the time.
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  8. Trump made it a vital campaigning platform for the GOP though.
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