Lord Ratner

Okay, so no longer the largest generation. Interesting. But I'm pretty sure they're still the largest voting block, as far as actual participants go: From AI Baby Boomers cast the largest number of votes in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Using standard Pew generation ranges and the Census Bureau’s single-year age data, the estimated totals were: Generation Approx. voters Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964) 47.2 million Generation X (1965–1980) 39.8 million Millennials (1981–1996) 37.8 million Generation Z, voting-age members (1997–2006) 19.2 million Silent Generation and older 10.3 million

Are you in the airlines yet? You should hear what these guys say when they get close to 65 and start arguing for no retirement age. They make it sound like the actual hard part of the job is remembering where ops is or which taxiway they usually cross you across the runway at. Not reaction time and hand/eye coordination.... Obviously experience is important, but after ~10 years of experience it's no longer the save-your-ass knowledge that accumulate, it's layover trivia and ancestor worship.

How strange that the Baby Boomers are the largest generation and voting block.

Yeah it would be really fucking nice if for a change we didn't have literal invalids sitting in some of the 500 most powerful positions in the country. The gerontocracy needs to come to an end. It's absolutely bananas that the people with the least skin in the game are running everything.

I just grabbed an H&K VP9A1 F because I'm tired of stretching my little girl hands as far as they go to hit the slide release. It's actually a really nice pistol so far. I'm not crazy about the trigger-guard-mag-release, but I guess nothing is perfect. Also been working on a custom storage wall since I have a 3D printer. Pretty happy with it so far

Hopefully they don't make a martyr out of the guy. Just give him an lor and make him serve as long as you possibly can.

And yet here you are defending them. "Human animals" is pretty generous for what those people did on October 7th. No, the children of Gaza did not participate in the rape and massacre, but they also weren't targeted. They were positioned like sacrifices by their parents and their parents' friends to make sure they would die when the Israelis attacked. "Human Animals" does not come close to describing that level of depravity. You can whine and moan all day long about the asymmetry and unfairness of the situation, but there's no amount of poverty or oppression that justifies sacrificing your children. If your moral compass is so defunct that you can't wrap your head around that, honestly it makes the rest of your positions a lot more understandable. It doesn't make them any less wrong, but at least there is an underlying consistency that can be predicted. “We love death like our enemies love life.” - Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh Killing monsters is never an atrocity (or genocide), no matter how many of them you have to kill, and no matter how many of their children they hold up in front of your weapons. It's ugly and tragic, and an inescapable feature of war for the entirety of human history.

How many pseudo-governmental militias does Israel train, fund, and direct within and surrounding Iran? You guys bend over backwards in ways that make a stripper jealous, all to excuse the acts of a bunch of islamist lunatics who are literally awaiting the prophetic arrival of the 12th imam. I'm a simple man. I just judge a society by what they say and do. And in ~75 years I have yet to see an Israeli street rally calling for death to the Muslims. I haven't heard the orgasmic phone calls of young Jewish men telling their parents they had raped and slaughtered Muslim women and children. I haven't seen any of them strapping bombs to their chest or jumping on buses with knives to kill as many Muslims as they can. You shed alligator tears for dead Palestinian children who are only dead because their parents decided that the 72 virgins in heaven are worth more than the lives of their kids. How many is too many, you ask with no conviction or thought. Because you know that if it was your daughter or wife you would kill every single one of them if that was what it took to stop them. And if you wouldn't, your wife or daughter deserves better than you. It's always been very simple for those of us who don't let the emotion get in the way of the reality. If the Israelis put down their weapons and opened up their borders to the Palestinians, how many Israelis would be left alive by the end of the week? And if the hypothetical was reversed? And let's not pretend like it's just because the Palestinians are oppressed. Absolutely nobody was oppressing the Iranians. No one was oppressing the Pakistani rape gangs in the UK. No one is oppressing the immigrants in France. Not all cultures are equal, and we will continue to support the ones that don't believe in the forcible conquest of the rest of us. If that means we print some more fake money to give to the Israelis so they can give it right back to us to buy the weapons that we make with other fake money, so be it. I'll worry about foreign aid to Israel and other allies once we stop mortgaging the future to keep old fat people alive forever.

I'm not so sure about that. I don't think Vance is winning any favor with Trump over the Iran negotiations. That's not even necessarily a critique of Vance, but Trump believes himself to be the world's best negotiator, so if he sends Vance to Iran and Vance comes back with nothing but trash, especially when Vance is the voice of anti-interventionalism in the administration, I think he is going to get cross with Trump. And to be clear, I think literally anybody, no matter how good, who ends up disagreeing with Trump on something will be in his bad graces. But Trump was never an isolationist, so it's just more likely that he and Rubio will be aligned more on foreign policy than he and Vance. Also, as we learned with Obama, the power of the charismatic president does not transfer over well to their endorsements. So Vance may be the heir apparent, but Rubio is still going to be the more marketable politician.

Who is denying that? It's in the name. You are not called being called out for describing them as pro-israel. You're being called out for giving them a completely unjustified amount of power in your mind. This is exactly like when liberals bring up the NRA Boogeyman, as though the NRA has controlled American politics, ever. The NRA did not create pro-gun politicians. It merely supports them. Now remove the NRA and replace it with AIPAC. Some of us believe that supporting the only pro-america democracy in the Middle East who happens to be a technological powerhouse is a no-brainer. The fact that we can share intelligence with them is another bonus considering they are probably the best espionage outfit on the planet. I also support dumping a shitload of money into Ukraine. So I'm not sure where your narrative holds up there unless of course zielinski is hypnotized by netanyahu and so really it's Israel all the way down 😂 Edit: oh and you can bet your ass if another country that shared our values and priorities was surrounded by barbarian cultures that sought a religious revolution that spanned the globe, constantly trying to exterminate them in the most horrific ways, I would definitely support us spending 5% of our foreign aid on that country.

I don't know any of the tech billionaires who believe the crazy stuff and believe in God. So while Peter Thiel has a couple screws loose, I don't believe Vance has the same pathology. Also I don't want my politicians to be blue collar, I want them to have blue collar backgrounds. Vance fits that perfectly. He's for damn sure not a tourist 😂🤣. I find his foreign policy however to be mostly incoherent/irrational, far too close to Tucker Carlson. And since when is going to Yale bad? If he went because Daddy was an alumni, that would be one thing. I've got my fingers crossed for Rubio. He's been the surprise hero of the administration.

They're not a foreign lobby you walnut. Thomas Jefferson was so livid about the US failing to support the French against the British, he resigned. Was Thomas Jefferson secretly a French lobbyist? Americans are allowed to have foreign policy views. And they're allowed to donate and vote based on them. That doesn't make them puppets of a foreign government.

Sure wish there was a difference anymore.

Ah yeah, the Jews. The all powerful lobby that donates less to American politics than SpaceX, Coinbase, or Bloomberg, and who's lobbying is outdone by Lockheed, Facebook, the Realtors lobby, and AARP. But they have "complete subservience" from the US 🤣😂. You just can't live without the idea of a conspiracy. Weak tea.