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19 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
Right, however Del Rio isn't 8,000ft in the air, has 23,000 less people, averages 44F in temp starting in October (and doesn't warm up above freezing until March/April), and averages 134 inches of snow per year.
Regardless, using humans as pawns in said political stunt is poor form and we Americans are better than that.
I can think of a few thousand very well appointed resort rooms and some very nice winter coats from dozens of overpriced ski shops that could be provided to those migrants free of charge! That might mitigate those cold temps if the left was actually serious about helping people. But we both know that would never happen. Their care for fellow humans extends precisely as far as the "coexist" bumper stickers and "hate has no place here" lawn signs.. and not an inch farther.
Their nimby-ism is on full display when they cry 'logistics' over 50 people in Martha's Vineyard or even the possibility of a few migrants in aspen while conveniently ignoring the absolute shitshow they've forced on del rio for literal years. Out of sight out of mind I guess.
Oh wait! and when they do pay attention to the border they publish literally false stories slandering border patrol for supposedly "whipping" migrants from horseback based on a single misleading photo.
I have zero sympathy for the flaming hypocrisy of the left on the immigration issue. They've been using these immigrants as human pawns to bludgeon the right for decades while completely avoiding any consequences for their virtue signaling sanctuary city and amnesty policies.
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58 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:
Being purposely sent to the Rockies Mountains, in the upcoming winter months, after entering the U.S., by people knowing that support services are lacking in that area is inhumane. Those people crammed under a bridge in Del Rio did so by their own accord trying to enter the U.S., thus exposing themselves to any risks for doing so.
I personally think if people are wanting to immigrate to the U.S., and aren’t on a student or work visa, can wait outside the U.S. until their application is processed and they’re issued a visa. Instead of right and left using this as political fodder for votes, both Dems and GOP need to put pressure on the Biden Administration for immigration reform (i.e., keeping Title 42 in place until they figure it out).
Del rio doesn't have the support services to deal with tens of thousands of migrants either. It's a town of barely over 30,000 itself. Same applies for Laredo, Eagle pass, El Paso etc. Lacking the facilities to deal with huge numbers of migrants isn't unique to Martha's Vineyard or Aspen.
Shipping migrants to upscale liberal enclaves might be a political stunt, but it's also giving them a microscopic taste of the logistical shitshow border towns deal with on a daily basis.
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I still fail to understand the mandate outrage from military members. The military can literally order you on an ALR-extreme suicide mission in some bullshit war halfway around the world. Of course they don't have your best interests at heart. The military can mandate things about your fitness, alcohol consumption, drug use, grooming standards, and they can even put you in jail for things that are perfectly legal in the civilian world.
And you signed up for it. No one made you. So if they need you to be vaxxed so the rotator doesnt get held up by a customs shitshow at your deployed location.. tough cookies.
Do I think the mandates did anything? No. Do I trust the government or big pharma? Also No.
Do I think the vaccine risks are zero? Also no.
But the military mandated it for a multitude of reasons, some bad and some less bad. And in the grand scheme of things a 84% increase in a 0.01% chance of maybe getting myocarditis doesn't even register on the scale of things that are actual health dangers. Id believe the "my body is a temple" argument a lot more if it weren't for the bro-science pre-workout powder, twice-a-year cardio regimen, 7 shots at roll call, 3 monsters, and a pack of zyns per day. Because I promise all of those things are far worse for your heart.
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There's not much that bothers me more than Air Force PA / journalists botching aircraft visrecce. I can understand the occasional nonner poster with flanker clip art but the people whose literal core job is to report factually on the mission we do is a bridge too far. @HuggyU2 you're a far better man than I. FFS the F-22 has never been stationed at Shaw and Looks absolutely nothing like a viper
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Back on the nukes thing, I would definitely still bet on Russia having a big stockpile of functional nukes. They pulled out a lot of their fanciest toys for this Ukraine debacle and a lot of them appeared to function as advertised.
Watching them utterly bungle their logistics chain and severely underestimate Ukrainian resistance/creativity has been a joy, but that doesn't mean we can write off all of their high end threats. Honestly, pulling off a successful invasion of a country backed by the entire western world is a much taller order than maintaining a handful of nukes.
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On 9/7/2022 at 2:29 PM, BashiChuni said:
ah yes lets talk about cost/benefit.
your side is still masking toddlers....tell me about that cost benefit.
also in some cases still mandating and definitely still pushing a vax that does nothing to stop covid.
get out of here with your cost/benefit gas lighting.
Dude you seem really determined to pigeon hole people into one "side" or the other so you can set straw men up to argue against.
I never said the government response, or fauci, or the CDC were perfect. I also specifically already mentioned that masking kids makes no sense, tech censorship is bad, and mandates on the civilian population were a gross overreach. So just calm down for a second.
My whole point here is that we live in a big country, and a lot of people reacted in knee jerk fashion with incomplete information to this thing in a lot of different ways. Some states did nothing and some states went batshit with rules. And to a certain extent.. that's their prerogative because our government is designed that way. Were there some severe infringements on peoples rights? Yes. Were there states that sat on their hands and exposed potentially vulnerable people to needless risk? Also yes. Hopefully we can investigate and debrief both.
But that is the nature of living in a very large country that pushes governance down to a low level. So cobbling together the reactions you specifically don't like a-la Fox & Friends and insinuating a giant coordinated conspiracy is silly.
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17 minutes ago, BashiChuni said:
is that what the constitution and bill of rights says?
must have missed that.
Kindof, yes. Our constitution's take on federalism delegates massive authority to the states to govern differently based on the desires of different groups. And I'm not aware of any part of the constitution other than speech/religion/arms that says freedom will always be prioritized 100% over safety/health especially in a public sense.
Regulations for "public health" are always a cost-benefit analysis, and depending how you weigh the variables (freedom vs safety), the answer to that cost-benefit analysis will be different. This is why the constitution is so great, it pushes governance down to the lowest level where things can be decided with higher fidelity.
And when the cost benefit gets skewed too far away from freedom, that's what the courts are for.
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2 hours ago, TreeA10 said:
Hhmm, death rates also match obesity rates. Weird.
Checks. They also almost perfectly match the inverse of vaccination rates. I'd bet it also maps pretty closely onto education and poverty rates.
So you could argue those states, having such vulnerable populations, could have benefitted the most from more covid mitigation measures. Losing substantial weight isn't an overnight process so perhaps vaccination, masking, and distancing were good stop gaps as people worked to get in better shape.
But instead the residents of Mississippi yelled freedom at the top of their lungs, continued shoveling hot pockets down their gullets, blew off mitigation measures and as a result have 4 times the death rate of Vermont.
Which is totally fine. That's what the people in Mississippi want to do. And the people in Vermont want to be vegan marathon runners who live in an overbearing nanny state that probably destroyed tons of small businesses.
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On 8/24/2022 at 3:28 PM, BashiChuni said:
that's all well and good....IF people hadn't been forced to close their businesses, IF people hadn't been forced to take an experimental drug or get fired, IF kids hadn't (and in some states STILL) been forced to wear masks in schools, IF big tech hadn't censored only ONE side of the argument AT THE FUCKING DIRECTION OF THE US FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AKA CDC
hell NYC and LAX STILL "require" MASKS in the airport. thankfully people with a brain don't wear one. but hell man it's not fucking over.
IF all those things hadn't happened i'd tend to agree with you...no problem. But all that shit did happen. and the decision makers were wrong. hundreds of thousands/millions of lives were fucked up. there needs to be accountability.
You're not wrong. Social media censorship is always bad. The wrong decisions were made by government in a lot of cases. Closing peoples businesses on the grounds that they're non essential is horseshit. Masking kids for years on end is pointless. Vax mandates for civilian workers is a huge violation of medical autonomy and privacy.
But when you have a country of 320 million people in a patchwork of 50 states you're going to get a wide variety of responses. And cobbling together the ones you don't like into a big laundry list doesn't constitute a conspiracy. My state (Texas) did almost none of the things listed above. And if I asked you pre-pandemic which states would go batshit with regulations and mandates, you probably could have predicted it with high accuracy.
But that's the cool part of the United States. You can choose where to live. It sounds like the voters in California and New York value perceived safety over freedom. I think that's ass backwards and it sounds like you do too. So shocker, I don't live in California or New York and I never will.
On the flip side of the coin, the 5 worst states in covid deaths per capita are all Republican. I'd bet there are plenty of California and New York people who think these states' covid response was batshit.
The lesson learned here is that there are trade offs between safety and freedom and you should live in a place that aligns with your values.
edit: and if the federal government response is your primary concern.. maybe the Republican party should kick their trump addiction. Because no one in the history of the United States drives Democrat voter turnout like he does. Hitching your wagon to the mid 70's orange clown who denies election results, mishandles classified, and has zero appeal outside of the far right is not a way you get the things you want at the federal level.
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13 minutes ago, FourFans130 said:
For posterity, I am on the side of arming the Ukrainians to defeat the Russians instead of fighting that with American or western European troops, but the world is never so perfect as to have a beautiful hollywood ending.
Anyone wondering where this is going: watch Charlie Wilson's War, consider our experiences in Afghanistan, and then watch Send Me. I don't think it foreshadows what will come in Ukraine, but that sequence does show the outcomes of decision making that fails to analyze possible impacts of 2nd and 3rd order effects of our actions or in-actions.
I'm sincerely hoping Ukraine comes out the other side of this as a free democratic nation allied to the West. Even if they do, if we think the weapons that are getting sent there right now WON'T at some point kill westerners, we're naive. If that's the cost of doing business, then so be it. Hopefully we at least acknowledge and prepare for that outcome.
If ever we needed competent, courageous, and wise leaders to make tough and messy moral decisions, it's now.Spot on. Perhaps American defense contractors should consider designing secret kill switches into all of our military tech...
Because we seem to be stuck in an endless cycle of arming countries in proxy wars vs Russia/China only to turn around and have the exact weapons we gave away used on us a few years later.
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39 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:
Clearly there is a correlation between getting multiple shots and contracting COVID.
*citation needed. I know joe and Jill Biden are important and I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure one old couple with repeat infections is not a statistically significant data set.
Also I've been reliably informed by far right pundits that getting covid isn't the concern. Dying from covid is.
So what's the problem here? Biden got the vax which was designed for and was far more effective against the early variants. (Which were also more deadly.) This boosted immunity in the early stages of the pandemic when it was particularly dangerous for the elderly.
Now that the virus has had 2+ years to mutate, the vaccine is less effective, and the strains are more contagious but thankfully less virulent. (Something literally every scientist worth their salt predicted..)
And as the data changed the CDC and basically every state has lifted mandates correspondingly. Turns out the dems are still in charge and we aren't descending into a "zero covid or bust" 1984 hellhole. Things are just kindof going back to normal now that it isn't as big of a threat. You guys so desperately want there to be a conspiracy but I'm just not seeing it.
Perhaps the one valid complaint you have left is how slow the military has been to get their policies in line with emerging medical guidance. But if you expected timely policy updates from the military I have a bridge to sell you.
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12 hours ago, dream big said:
I know you’re probably sad about Fauci, how will you ever know when to wear your mask again so you can always be a good little complicit citizen!?
You got me! I'm actually a mask mandate-loving cuck, and this cartoonist's subtle, biting political commentary doesn't have a homoerotic trump fixation at all.
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1 hour ago, Sim said:
I don't always get my political wisdom from ham-fisted hyper biased cartoons.. but when I do its from the guy who's sucking trump off so hard he invariably portrays a 76 year old man as a fit beefcake.
Such compelling stuff. Much commentary. Wow.
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Reuters is also good for basic facts and the breaking points podcast (recommended ad nauseum by Rogan) is great for in depth analysis.
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On 8/15/2022 at 10:54 AM, TreeA10 said:
Even if the documents found in Trumps house were TS, TS/SCI, etc., if we apply the Comey standard used in regard to Hillary and the classified documents found on her home brew server, the FBI has to find intent. I am assuming this will not be the case because if the FBI didn't have double standards, they would have no standards at all.
Help me understand why applying the "comey standard" here would make anything better. His bungling of the email investigation led to Hillary not being held accountable.. is that what you want to happen again?
Seems like your argument stems much more from what feels "fair" rather than what the right thing to do is right now. It's political tribalism at its finest.. the other team got away with it, why shouldn't your team get away with it too?
This is the kind of childish tit-for-tat game that ends with no one being held accountable and the DOJ being used as a club only to try to whack your political opposition.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, either classified matters or it doesn't. If you hold literally any consistent principles above political tribalism you don't get to be mad that Hillary isn't locked up while simultaneously defending/quibbling for trump.
They should both be in jail and I honestly can't think of two people who deserve each other more.
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12 minutes ago, Sim said:
Lol the mental gymnastics of trump apologists..
"we don't even know what they were looking for"
"okay so they were looking for classified but we don't know if they found any"
"okay well we know they found classified but he probably declassified it beforehand"
"okay so he didn't follow the process to declassify it but surely other administrations have done this too right"
"okay maybe we've never had another president do this before but it's probably not like important classified"
"okay maybe it's classified pertaining to nukes but probably not like anything actually dangerous like bombs and stuff"
Can't wait to see where the parade of quibbling and justifications lead in the coming weeks. It's been truly entertaining so far.
Just here to remind everyone that standards should exist. And you should hold those standards above your political biases. Because If any of us were under investigation for anything remotely close to this or what Hillary did, we'd likely be in jail. Which is precisely where both of them should be.
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1 hour ago, Day Man said:
latest scuttlebutt is that it's nuclear-related😳
Ruh roh 😂
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19 hours ago, dream big said:
Those administrations had their shit in a sock? Or is it: the George Soros infested media didn’t scrutinize those administrations nearly as they did/do Trump? Bush got us into two wars we arguably lost, Obama decimated our military, the effects of which we are still feeling, but the worst…Trump had mean tweets. Got it!
These “insider accounts” always need to be taken with a grain of salt. Not saying Trump isn’t without fault, but many of these “insider accounts” are mid level peons just trying to get their 5 mins of fame.
I'm talking about admin.. not broader policy. You know.. the kind of admin that prevents you from getting a landscaping business and the four seasons hotel mixed up when you're shopping for press conference locations.
Not here to debate George soros or military funding or which wars we should and should not have fought. I'm simply pointing out that the trump administration was notoriously all over the place on administrivia and it's pretty hilarious you'd even dispute that. Knowing who he is as a person and his level of disrespect for basic processes it seems not just probable, but likely he purposefully or accidentally mishandled classified.
And now the DOJ is trying to make the warrant public and trumps legal team is potentially trying to prevent that move. Must be some good stuff in there.
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4 hours ago, arg said:
Were classified documents found? Did I miss something?
Honest question.
That is the going theory. FBI hasn't yet released what was found in the raid.
5 hours ago, CaptainMorgan said:
I’d be very surprised if Obama, Bush, and Clinton didn’t have some classified docs in their possession after vacating the office.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk1) would that make it okay?
2) I actually kindof doubt it. Looking from the outside-in those administrations seemed to have their shit far more in a sock than the trump camp. Also probably a better general respect for national security and classification procedures. There are literally insider accounts of trump attempting to flush documents down WH toilets.
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Some hypocrisy In light of recent events..
The "lock her up" crowd suddenly not caring at all about mishandling of classified documents.
The "but her emails" crowd suddenly caring so much about mishandling of classified documents.
It's wild that people are so mentally broken by political polarization they can't even recognize a standard and apply it equally. Either classified documents matter or they don't.
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On 7/26/2022 at 1:43 PM, Mariano roman said:
dear all,
anyone selling a Breitling limited edition?
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Yeah I'm selling this one, beware it's appreciated since I bought it. I won't take a cent under $269,696.
alternatively.. you could be more specific about what you're looking for
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3 hours ago, nsplayr said:
I've been to all of those places except Portland relatively recently and they were all really nice! Millions & millions of people live just within the city limits of those places. Literally ~6.9m people, I ran the numbers lol.
I've never lived in any of those cities, but the city I do live in/near is also nice!
Some folks are just overly negative about life in general and especially places where they aren't from and where people from the "other group" like to go. e.g. right-wingers think they hate NYC/SFO, left-wingers think they hate "flyover country," etc. Both NYC/SFO and "flyover states" can be really nice depending on what you're looking for.
I saw someone shit on the sidewalk within 3 hrs of arriving in SF earlier this year.
I was in LA for an overnight stay 2 years ago and saw more homeless people in 24 hours than I have seen cumulatively in the rest of my entire life including many years living in other major cities.
There are very nice parts of California. But those places are either very far from the cities, or near the cities and prohibitively expensive
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13 hours ago, Random Guy said:
Which ideas, can you list a few?
When you say 'The economy will tank in 5 years', can you be specific about what that means? Ex: unemployment is 8-9%, stagnant or decreasing [real] wages, increasing reliance on imports, reduced mortality and birth rates, ?
Specifically relating to the green new deal:
Policy: spending massive sums of taxpayer money to achieve climate equity. The idea being that climate change "disproportionally affects people of color and marginalized communities" (Read the bill it's in there) so we have to dump truckloads of government cash into said communities and green energy initiatives to achieve equity.
Result:
-Skyrocketing energy costs making us uncompetitive with China, while also not solving the worldwide carbon emissions problem.
-Higher inflation due to government spending/skewing of the energy market-Increased reliance on foreign oil. (How's that working out for Europe right now?)
-Increased outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to countries without garbage climate policy.
So I've given you a few examples, care to expand on why you think her policies won't empirically hurt the economy while also doing nothing to solve climate change? -
Do the pre course workbook. You'll have a pre-test (grade doesn't matter) which will kick everyone's ass other than the nerdiest of MAF guys. Similar but not identical test on the last day and you must get a passing grade. Vast majority of the pre course workbook directly related to pre and post test questions so don't just chaff it off.
As an RPA guy there will be a ton of gee whiz info for you that isn't super applicable which was the same for a lot of caf dudes. But if you have a genuine interest in aviation it's all good stuff to know and the course was taught really well.
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Vance being the experimental test bed because they were so far ahead on timeline is maybe the fakest news I've ever heard in my life. In the 2018/2019 timeframe Laughlin literally sent instructors TDY to Vance solely to fly the line because of how far behind they were. Nothing against the Vance dudes in the trenches at the time.. the timeline problems were likely caused by manning blunders at levels far above them.
The experimental programs started there because they were behind. That and yes-man commanders looking to get in the good graces of the aetc/cc at the time.
It's amazing how quickly you "fix" timeline problems by just chopping flights out of the syllabus.