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  1. Surface level (and national) statistics like this are incredibly bad at telling a reader anything useful. Unless you're only interested in making a political point. For instance, what sectors are currently growth sectors that have shit loads of job openings? According to Marketwatch, almost 75% of job gains in the past year have been in government, healthcare and hotels/restaurants. At least some of that space is solid low skill/education opportunity. If you have been paying attention to the tech space, a LOT of jobs are being lost there. A laid off white collar tech firm worker is extremely unlikely to look for a job in hotels/restaurants space. Which is all to say, immigrants taking Americans' jobs may or may not be true in a given area, but to claim it on a national level is simply an unsupportable claim based on the data presented. So old Steven Camarota either doesn't understand math, or he's just beating a drum..... (headline google result:https://nypost.com/2024/02/13/opinion/job-gains-are-going-to-immigrants-and-keeping-young-us-born-men-out-of-the-workforce/)
  2. This is standard retired Army general nonsense. Translation: give the USAF's money to the Army. There is a cousin of this in each service's brand of retired general.
  3. Contracting issues/protest. They got laid off because there is no contract in place.
  4. Could just as easily be the shit on top burning (countermeasure dispensers, ammo cans, whatever else is strapped on top) I'm certainly no M-1 expert, but it doesn't look like flame/smoke pouring out of a critical opening in the hull.
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    There are two John Mayers. The one that makes a ton of money making teenage girls all mushy inside. And then there is the one that makes blues, and no one pays attention to that one. The second one is actually very good. The first one is kindy creepy and past his expiration date. Only Taylor Swift is capable of staying an angsty teenager well into the thirties.
  6. The lawsuit is amusing. On ADA grounds it is claiming that "knowingly engaging in prostitution with HIV" as an aggravating factor (essentially bumping up to a sexual assault) is discriminatory against a person living with HIV. While side stepping that this particular disability is contagious. Regardless, an equivalence to sexual assault (what the Tennessee law does) is akin to attempted murder criminally.
  7. My point is this isn't a political policy/economic wonk led ideological push. Bernie Sanders did not gain popularity because he really won people over on the logic of socialism. He gained popularity based on emotional sentiment of the people, "fuck those rich assholes." Let me re-phrase: The current descent into looney toons land is not because politicians are leading us there. The body of the people has divided into tribes, politicians want to get elected and playing to tribal sentiment and feeding the hate machine is a time tested method. For perspective: my view of our current insanity is heavily influenced by reading "The Revolt of the Public"
  8. I would guess this is all they are really trying to grab up. Small numbers, but free chicken. Probably a handful of folks' pet project.
  9. That dude is a very enthusiastic aviation nerd, but ignorant. He's fundamentally a technologist/journalist in the same vein as the folks who write for a website like ars technica. Gell-Mann amnesia and all.....
  10. Yes, politicians say lots of stuff, they're playing to the crowd. It's what they do. But square all the BS with Bernie's position change. That is a hell of a change for someone who claims the socialism (very ideological) mantle. My point is that American politics is driven by tribalism at the moment. Anything that Red team says must be opposed by Blue team. Anything bad for Blue team is inherently good for Red team. Etc. No, wanting a secure border with orderly, legal immigration with numbers based on the needs of the country is not xenophobic. But xenophobia is a very common human tendency* and if you can't see Trump playing to that in his stump speeches from the 2016 era, I don't know what to say you. Yes he was mis-quoted by retard journalists to make it sound worse, but it was unnecessary. *If you've read Jonathan Haidt's work, openness vs not may be one of the underlying foundational political personality traits.
  11. This is tribal and reactionary, not ideological. Trump played to xenophobic tendencies, so his opponents went whole hog letting in as many outsiders as possible. It wasn't that long ago that Bernie Sanders said open borders was a Koch brothers conspiracy.
  12. What a low bar you have. Rotorheads....
  13. I wasn't clear then. I agree. I think the short term is quite dangerous, a starving predators being aggressive sort of thing.
  14. CH, I would offer this perspective: I think the entire China collapse hypothesis is probably better scoped as: China as a rising/risen global power is done. So I don't think it is dependent on a popular uprising, just a withering. Not saying the CCP will become North Korea, but that's a halfway decent example of withering while maintaining control. I tend to agree with you that Xi is more dangerous as he gets backed into a corner/feels control slipping though. The next decade is going to be interesting.
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