I’ve seen a good argument that personal violence between men may very well be mentally healthy outside of sports. Basically as you said sometimes you need your ass beat to put things into perspective, funny enough I stopped doing my twitch elbowing reaction in middle school because I did it to someone and he punched me in the face. Stopped the tic and fair is fair.

Cool, if they do this every federal agent needs to be black bagged until the benefits are restored and tax revenue cut off. If they aren’t restored just start shipping pieces of the agents to their kin.

He looks like he would place a landmine under a door mat for the express purpose of selling g someone new legs.

Also just gonna piggy back by pointing out that even just socialism predates the ideological branch that China and the Norks derive from. Just off the top of my head you have communalism (Anabaptist and the Shakers being decent examples), utopianism, leftist libertarians, and whatever the fuck the early rednecks were doing (the Scottish strikers not their Appalachian descendants).

When some politicians predate NASA and the US Air Force yeah it kinda is.

Basically very rarely you will get a situation wherein putting a tariff on specific foodstuffs will lower the price, but you also need to incentives to lower export as well. Like I said I don’t even know if it’s technically possible anymore since the last time I know of it working was back in the 1800s in South America.

They could mix if done in very specific ways, but there’s no way in hell Trump could do that. I’m not even sure anyone could do that anymore.

Remember 20 percent of people will respond in the dumbest way possible in any given statistic, the other 20 percent though? Eh I ain’t got nothing ignorance and stupidity maybe?

The problem with AI is largely the data center shit. Nobody has a problem with Josh pissing around with a learning algorithm to detect when to run his air conditioner optimally, what people are pissed about is building fuck off worthless data centers for bullshit thats almost certainly not worth the corpo hype.

Obviously they aren’t completely worthless, there is worth in them being liquidated and sold off.

We may not remove it completely but we could definitely limit or even wipe out AI data centers even on just a municipal level. Limits on resources used and strict permit requirements would be enough to shit can them in a variety of ways.

Why did this evoke the image of a Sister of Battle looking at her wife.

He also pays his taxes which makes him far better than most rich people.

Maybe that’d have been a valid point back in say 2005 or something but the Russians have pretty thoroughly muddies the waters for such a vote to be possible at this point. While I don’t know about the Donbass in particular nearly as wellas I probably should if it’s anything like Crimea there’s a solid chance that quite a solid chunk of the original locals want to turn Moscow into a smoking crater.

Russia likes to move colonists in as fast as possible and frankly speaking they can drown on their own blood.

I know folks who if they aren’t going to a bar or local concert will fly to Europe to see larger bands because it’s cheaper and easier overall. The fact that ticket master is allowed to exist is a fucken travesty, a pointless middleman who helps no one and makes everyone’s lives worse.

That barely worked with Iraq and the post 9/11 recruitment boom if they think they can take and hold fucken Venezuela a country historically infamous for guerillas they are damned deluded. Also I doubt activating the draft and conscripting a bunch of folks would work out in their favor, there are reasons it was moved away from least of all fragging which could be quite devastating with modern tech. Imagine a AA operator deciding to obliterate Air Force 2 out of spite and hatred.

Nah, a ditch a refusal of burial is what they deserve. Preferably with their insides made their outsides before their final thought crosses their minds or during I ain’t picky.

Fun fact my ancestor had a contract to deliver muskets to a frontier fort for the army, half up front the other half on delivery plus a return contract. Good deal all thing considered, anyways the fort stiffed my ancestor so he fucked with the rifles so they’d have issues firing after first use. He then got into contact with the local Indigenous and Scots-Irish communities raided the bastards and my ancestor got his pay, he got his receipt of delivery before hand and the forest fire erased the fort so no one found out what he did.

Point is the Feds have always been shit for their word.

Every ICE agent deserves a nice long stay on a cruise ship, preferably without power, sewage, and with only hardtack infested with weavals.

Yeah and? You say that like we shouldn’t do that for some reason, also isn’t Cascadia on the old Laurenchian plate? I hope I spelt that right.

But leave the tank museum, a solid chunk of the exhibits aren’t even Russian.