Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.
The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
So are we still more upset about Diverse, but qualified, yet presumed unqualified hires, than DUI hires?
(Asking for anyone who cares about US National Security)
Pete Hegseth needs to go for the safety of the United States & the allies that we still have.
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So the Republican Party has historically blocked:
-Paid sick leave
-Paid family & medical leave
-Universal childcare
-Universal pre-K
-Expanded Child Tax Credit
-Programs to support reproductive health
And they're wondering why more people aren't having children?
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Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.
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Serious question. Kristi Noem was pictured with a Rolex in El Salvador, and got 3k in cash stolen.
She has been on a govt salary for years.
Something aint right
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There’s a term in psychology called habituation: the way we stop noticing things we see often. A painting on the wall. A familiar view. Even a person’s kindness.
The brain filters the predictable to save energy. But in doing so, it risks filtering out what makes life feel full.
Not everything that becomes familiar should be forgotten.
Sometimes, attention is an act of love.
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
Hey MAGA Christians, school shootings have nothing to do with a lack of prayer in public schools.
I’ve studied the Bible extensively and served as a pastor for nearly three decades.
Trust me: there is no prayer that will suddenly make children bulletproof.
Cut the BS—it’s the guns.
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Ukraine has been resisting the “second strongest army in the world” for 1,154 days.
3 years, 1 month, 30 days.
We are still here.
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no one talks about how soul-affirming it is to get a “had so much fun with you” text after hanging out. not a meme. not a tiktok. not a link. just a plain little sentence saying “i like you. i like your company.” we live for that.
like when someone sends “still smiling from earlier” hours after the hang. or when they walk you to your car even though it’s 30 feet away. that’s the kind of stuff that ruins me.
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I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
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Hurrah for Ukraine!
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President Zelensky rejects the Trump regime's ultimatum regarding the ceding of Crimea to the Russian Federation.
"There is nothing to discuss—this lies outside our Constitution. This is our territory, the land of the Ukrainian people. This will NOT happen."
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I don't know if JD Vance killed the Pope, but I think we should deport him to El Salvador just in case.
The same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it.
Today I'm announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate.
Because we don't have a minute to wait.
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BREAKING: Democrat Rep. Maxine Dexter says she will NOT leave El Salvador until Kilmar Abrego Garcia returns to the United States.
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My main issue is that I want pot to be lower status. I don't necessarily think pot should be regulated differently than alcohol, but I think pot heads should be viewed much like alcoholics.
Furthermore, we need to stop blaming the War on Drugs for crime. Crime happens because low IQ young men think they can get away with crime. That's it. Drugs lower IQ and inhibition, leading to crime. Most people in on drug charges are in because they pled down to it or it's what the DA could nail them on, but…
You really don't see a connection between the war on drugs and crime?
That's hard to believe. Are you familiar with the deeds of drug cartels and gangs?
The idea that drug laws cause crime doesn't fit the evidence very well.
You have many polities with harsh drug laws and enforcement with little crime, and many polities with loose drug laws and enforcement with lots of crime.
When a drug is legalized, like say marijuana, you don't see any drop-off in crime or arrests. Many people who were getting busted on marijuana charges end up getting busted on something else (often the whole reason they were busted on a drug charge is because its easier to prove or a plea bargain, but they are violent criminals).
Young low IQ men form gangs and like to participate in violent tournaments. They need little excuse to do this, and where you legalize one drug they can choose another, or hoes, or dice, or protection rackets, or who dissed who at a party or on social media. It's enlightening to actually witness trials related to why people kill each other in the ghetto. If you removed drug illegality as an excuse, which many jurisdiction have de sure or de facto, they just use some other excuse.
The main issue with drugs is that it lower IQ and inhibition in users and especially addicts. Such people are a lot more likely to commit crimes under the influence. If you legalize drugs you will get more users and more addicts, which isn't a good for crime.
The simplest way to stop crime is to demonstrate clearly to young low IQ men that:
1) They will be caught with a high degree of certainty every time they commit a crime of any kind.
2) The punishment will be very harsh and thus not worth the risk of getting caught.
If you can demonstrate this effectively then through a mixture of deterrence and incarceration you can eliminate crime, even in terrible demographic circumstances. The question is whether the stakeholders in the state of the willpower to do this.
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You sound like you're talking through your hat.
I've recently been reading literature on gangs and crime going back to the 19th century, through the early 20th century, the Alcohol Prohibition era, the mid-20th century, late 20th century, and up to today. The role of gangs in American crime- and their power, their financial influence- surged during Alcohol Prohibition, and then in the 1980s, with the street retail trade in crack cocaine.
In particular, there' no comparison between the numbers of …
Many drugs have been made either outright legal or de facto legal (you can do business un-harassed in many open air drug markets today, and people wander the streets obviously high and nobody does anything). Yet gangs persist, in fact they are more common in those districts with lax laws and enforcement.
By contrast Singapore puts people to death for carrying too much pot and its got no crime at all.
An interesting thing with prohibition is it didn't spring into existence in 1920. Most of New Eng…
You want to make the US into Singapore? How about you move there, instead of implying that you find its system superior to the US?
Setting aside the totalitarian implications of that endorsement, consider the practical differences. Singapore has 280 square miles of land area. The US has 2,959,064 square miles of land area, just in the lower 48 states.
Singapore imposes its panopticon surveillance state on a population of roughly 6 million people. The US has 335 million. Around 100 million US citi…
"How about you move there, instead of implying that you find its system superior to the US?"
1) Because there is more to Singapore then crime.
2) Because it's on the other side of the planet and I'm not a citizen, nor are any in my family. Because it's not clear we could get jobs there.
"Setting aside the totalitarian implications of that endorsement"
Yes, people who visit Singapore routinely refer to it as a totalitarian hellhole. It's like they are in North Korea.
Myself, I enjoyed my visit. You s…
Your tourist endorsement of the Singapore regime of perpetual panopticon surveillance is duly noted. Singapore fans would probably embrace North Korea, too, if it were Rich. In that regard, I'm also definitely noting much more sympathy for the PRC system than ever before.
"You are all over the place here dude. Opioids were legal and regulated like you want and they became a total mess. Is the problem legality or illegality? You can't seem to make up your mind here. Except that somehow an exactly…
If you think Singapore is North Korea your basically off your rocker.
I like freedom. Getting mugged is the opposite of freedom. Having huge portions of cities being considered places you can't go isn't freedom. You can ride the subway in Singapore and not live in terror. Anarcho-tyranny is not freedom.
And being a drug addict is not freedom, its being ensalved to a drug.
"because the DEA was tasked to emphasize raiding marijuana plantation"
This is getting pathetic.
I worked in the drug insurance i…
You're the one who brought up North Korea. If only North Korea was wealthy, it would resemble Singapore more than it does the US.
You obviously prefer to extract stray statements out of context in preference to centering an argument on the issue content (fwiw, I have zero interest in being drawn into an off-topic exchange on the merits of Singapore vs. the DPRK). You also moan nonsensical takes like "this is getting pathetic" to yourself, as if you were mounting a germane argument.
fwiw, this rea…
"Singapore vs. the DPRK"
fine to stop discussing. your equivalence talk just makes me think your deranged and ideological. please talk to some people from both places.
"You want a ban on that?"
I don't think Oxycontin ever should have been sold to people that weren't chemo patients or had back surgery. The Sackler's convinced everyone that "pain" was under diagnosed and under treated, and they were able to convince people because it just happened that everyone's incentives were to do so. Doctor's …
"I don't think Oxycontin ever should have been sold to people that weren't chemo patients or had back surgery."
Chemically, Oxycontin is merely time-released oxycodone- which was prescribed for decades for acute pain relief as Percodan, typically in 5mg amounts. It's only marginally more powerful than hydrocodone- 20%-50% more powerful. Hydrocodone is Vicodin- the more common mainstay for acute pain problems like wisdom tooth extraction, back sprain, and shingles outbreak. As with Percodan, 5-10…
Can we please apply your theory to high IQ white-collar criminals too?
There are high-IQ street criminals, too- and illicit drugs dealing makes for a particularly attractive place for them to employ their intelligence, notwithstanding the recklessness of the decision, which is typically made by immature young people who haven't made a serious appraisal of the long-term consequences. Yes, smart people can still make bad choices and wrong decisions. (But it's like Disney's Pinocchio: Pleasure Island. You're 15. You're poor. Wouldn't you?)
That undercuts @fp123's argu…
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Also leaked text: "1415: Strike Drones on Target (THIS IS WHEN THE FIRST BOMBS WILL DEFINITELY DROP, pending earlier 'Trigger Based' targets)."
Only with the MAGA base can you get away with this ridiculous lie.
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Joe Rogan is constantly getting mad about being called a right-winger.
The same Joe Rogan who said part of the reason he voted for Trump was because Tim Walz lied too much.
Also doesn’t want to go to Canada but would like to visit Russia.
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