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Thus far, the answer to that question has been (to the eternal dishonor of the Armed Services) "no." But who knows. Maybe they care more about fatalities than deliberate "fuck you" deployments, active re-segregation efforts, and the return of blue discharges.
They keep deliberately structuring NG "deployments" specifically to deny them benefits and protections. This is gonna get bad. The question is whether the FGOs give a fuck if their people suffer.
That's such an incredibly stupid idea. I struggle to see why anyone would think that's a decent course of action. ... Fuck. The bastards might do it.
*Everyone* hates committee meetings. Universities aren't special. 30 minutes with your local school board, HOA, or town council will make anyone an anarchist.
I'm not even sure it's possible. This is like trying to apply Huntington's theory of military civil relations go academia. A meh idea on the merits, but one actively counter to current reality.
We already sort of do this. NYPD trigger pull weight is a meme in some circles.
Also, the crowd of people mad about "bars open schools closed" is far from homogeneous. Most are mad both weren't open. But there's a subset that's mad that both weren't closed (or the order switched) that are used to give cover to the rest.
Real America hungers for Howard Dean.
It's that old 30 Rock bit. They don't trust us with our urban, queer, cosmopolitan, multicultural, universalist, college-educated, Trader Joes elitism. They could just say "liberalism" but that would require more introspection than they're capable of.
There are things worth losing for. And more politicians need to understand that.
"Super Earth" So that's what we're calling it now.
The issue isn't that they're elitists. It's that they *think* they're liberals, when they aren't.
Do the right thing, and lose reelection.
Seriously, the biggest obstacles here are going to be from municipal atomization.
This, too, is gender.
You're basically trying to build the RCMP, but less shit. You're not going to do that overnight. Forced consolidation is probably your best bet. (Only staties). You'll run into issues with sheriffs, though.
Thanks weird 19th century racism!
This is a reminder for Seattle and Vancouver (BC) Blueskiers that you're getting the two PWHL expansion teams this year.
okay but have you watched women's hockey that shit is gay as hell (laudatory)
Most cops should wear flourescent colors.
This is a reminder for Seattle and Vancouver (BC) Blueskiers that you're getting the two PWHL expansion teams this year.
Underrated police reform is banning their uniforms from looking "cool", "tactical," or threatening. You'll look like Barney Fife, and you'll be happy.
This is the issue when elites think of themselves as liberals when they are not. They go on with this diner safari bullshit but neglect to ask what liberals think. Because they're liberal, so clearly all liberals think like them. It's a sort of intentional blindness.
This is just incorrect learned behavior from previous shutdowns. And, notably, incredibly stupid.
Also, cops are hourly for some ungodly reason. Yes, you can get decent pay, but it basically involves time fraud and knowing the right people.
It's basically mandatory hazing, and the value is wholly unclear.
It's basically "I hate yuppies." And yuppies are basically always queer coded, and *usually* liberal-coded. More broadly "moved cross country to live in the urban core," even when that urban core is rather small, seems to just break people's brains.
They don't respect REAL Americans. (State school grads who move to cities)
I mean, ideally we close the various loopholes that allow the Villages to exist as an entity. But I'd settle for this.
That's why you sneak it in. youtu.be/ZaUXLYwKdMA?...
You are probably smart enough to rationalize whatever narrative about the world you want to believe, but that doesn’t mean it’s correct or you ought to do it
If you need a reminder of who I’m rooting for this season, this was me and Adam on our wedding day. Happy game day and GO HOOS 🔶⚔️🔷 #wahoowa
Soon™️ youtu.be/j4sOQpWxeyI?...
Now, in fairness. This is less 9/11 than "the aftermath."
Bin Laden getting got. The Arab Spring. ISIL. (And subsequent "franchising" elsewhere) The *very much linked* antagonism with Iran. Yes. 9/11 was 24 years ago. But GWOT only "officially" ended 4 years ago.
Anyone check up on Dubya?
They want to stand by their racist friend, as dough faces always have. I continue to wonder how these bastards think their diner safaris are important, while at the same time being more distant from normal liberals than fascists.
They were so successful that they were able to radicalize. But in so doing, they completely lost the ability to actually persuade and do the basic work of elite reproduction.
I know some transmasc folks who have had weird differential experiences when traveling. (Europe viewing them as more masc, for instance)
I should say those *perceived* as femme/masc of center.
Culture is a lot more accepting of those femme of center acting masculine (in very weird and still misogynistically fraught ways) than the reverse.
IMO, the big thing won't be the Hays Code dying. It'll be the lack of an MPAA to take its place.
In fairness to Amtrak, Columbus Union had been actively destroyed a few years prior.
Feels like a female pilot who dies in Zeta.
For Episcopalians It's also accepted to go dig up vestry minutes from ~1926 for names.
You need Republicans on board. So, yeah. I'm aware. There's a perfectly good Arizona route (if you bully UP) that the state refuses to run.
All college towns should have trains to major metro that supply them. (Ideally, you'd run special service for move-in and move-out)
Why aren't there (daylight) connections to elsewhere in Ohio? (Checks online) Oh, Columbus, the most obvious train destination and source of potential ridership, has no Amtrak service.
I'd love better polls to back it, but I'm pretty sure race dep *is* happening in the South due to ed-pol. It's just going to take a while because it's on an age gradient. So it'll hit places with growth first. (SC is gonna continue living up to the old James L. Petrigu line)
Oh no. Miku is 18 now.
I don't even think that's a record or anything.
I mean, we got the "Woke" season and a half of the Rookie. There's some juice there. IMO, the bigger issue is that no one under 50 watches scripted broadcast TV anymore.
You make a show about DoJ Civil Rights Division or NYPD Internal Affairs, and you rip crimes (and results) straight from the headlines. The issue, IMO, is that you'll have no shot at cooperation or LE consultants.
Nah, the big issue with LE is that local LE basically works as if you required everyone to serve a tour as infantry before they could do any other MOS. Up and out is bad. But rotations could help. (Alongside consolidating every police department below the state level)
Shitty self-produced aircraft are still aircraft. The Israelis rely on imported engines.
Nativism doesn't solely extend to international borders, but also municipal and cultural ones.
“I just want Virginia Tech to play like Alabama.” The genie cackles deeply and prepares to grant this request.
I challenge *anyone* to walk miles in the Sonoran Desert, at any time of year, and say they haven't "earned" it.
Easier in military (forced turnover) than law enforcement. And cultural rot is *hard* to kill. Because you need to have the will to do so and sustain it for at least 5 years, preferably a decade.
True. For all the foibles of the Russian military industrial complex, it can produce its own engines. The Israelis can't. (This is an underrated sanctions venue IMO)
Anyone good enough to overcome the Mad vote is probably not the primary cause of the Mad vote. TBH, I'm most interested in how the coming year impacts "seniority" in the House. It seems like it's on its last legs. If there's CBC turnover, I think it's done.
Well. It might be for Russia, just not for the reasons they're thinking.
It's a directional thing. They both hate yuppies, America's great middle class.
Principled leakers don't flee.
Round trip. Though state lines had to be crossed. The initial release was not nationwide.
I once drove 7 hours in a hatchback in an attempt to obtain these. ... Said attempt did not succeed.
TBH, they're not half-bad. The biggest issue is when the malt-liquor flavors come out.
These are *painfully* "sugar-free." Though you did grab the best flavor.
Politics is just theology by other means. Welcome to arguing about how many angels fit on the head of a pin.
Rest assured. They're headed to Raleigh next week. Reality should assert itself soon.
Killing leaders also reduces (or rather changes) competencies within any organization. There's a reason that armies have *long* targeted officers. Now, you can do the same for militants. But it has rather... dark outcomes. (Selects for paranoia and usually intransigence)
Like, we have this model that if only we kill that one evil dude, things will be better. And that's not really true, because the system and discontent and a multitude of other things that produced them is still there. Tojo was no longer in charge in August 1944. He didn't matter.
The fundamental reasons are innately tied to *valuing leadership* and I think a lot of the reason for this is a general disconnect between leaders and the people they nominally serve and rule. Though, in the MENA case, a large portion is also devaluing the people they rule.
TBH, I think the interesting thing is actually that it took this long. Like, even now, people question why we didn't just decap-strike Assad. Or do similar to Putin and Lukashenko. The breakdown is most notable in the ME. But it is a lot broader now. I'm not certain of the valence. But it is new.
The University of Virginia won a football game! This will improve my mood for the next few days.
Seriously. Crises suck. And getting out of the pit can be hard. But it's also important to recognize that being in the pit isn't a moral failing.
Sage. I keep posting intermittently and quasi-randomly about my alma's glup-shitto football team. You've nothing to apologize for.
Noted bastion of Islamism. The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
CvH is a lot like a liberal GHWB. He ain't a barn-burner, but he's a heck of a Party man.
There's an interesting angle to be had here, and that's *why* did they deny the flight. Was it specifically because of CvH and Merkley, or just generic capriciousness?
Zooey Deschanel?
Heading into the 4th quarter now.
Is UVa Football actually good? And other questions that will torment me for the next few weeks.
We need to bring back the norm that leaders resign when they lose their majority.
WOOOOO! UVA TECHNICALLY SCORES A TD IN THE FIRST QUARTER.
It's interesting to see that the Never Trump folks are among the most "kill the bastards" of the "elites" of the current Dem coalition.
They're encouraging him to post for proof of life.
I think the issue is that trying to understand evil is a sort of moral abyss that most people do not wish to stare into. And I think we've *tried* different counterarguments. But "effective" ones likely require abandoning our own principles and mores.
Electricity is sort of insane. I'm rather glad I don't do power for a living.
Yeah, this is less, "AI didn't degrade trust in college" than there wasn't much trust in college to begin with.
Arguably communications tech limited the latter.
I think that part of this is that, fundamentally, a lot of those priorities are incompatible with people's conceptions of decency or society.
I appreciate the increased filming distance each time. This is clearly not the first time.
TBF, a significant portion, is just that they sent their more competent officers to observe. Also, the Mexican-American War probably created some unreasonable expectations. (Winfield Scott is underrated)
"Did you see Paradise?" "I at least got to Merced."
It also has the echo of Balloon Boy in that the conclusion will inevitably be insane and stupid. Like, I don't think we're right. *But* that's because I don't think we can predict how dumb it'll be. (It's gonna be @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social being right)
See. I'm choosing to believe it didn't. Because VP Jorkin would let us know immediately. *But* that also means more opportunities for stupid shit. Not less.
To be glib, it's also the reason there's no engineering Nobel.
They made the Amtrak Superliner IIs!
Also, this take just feels correct. Though I defer to those femme of center. bsky.app/profile/grav...