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But yeah, the left always assumes no one can react to them. They even use that as an insult against people -- reactionary. They think they can pull the "you charge less money for this" lever and NOTHING else can change -- including you just refusing to work, or the store refusing to stock the price controlled good. Once you realize this is how they think, that they think for example they can slash police budgets and police capabilities can't go down and crime can't go up, and that no one else can pull levers and levers can never be pushed, well, a lot of the madness starts making more sense.
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Another way I've seen this put is that the left doesn't believe in unintended consequences. Anything that happens that they didn't intend must be the fault of a bad actor deliberately sabotaging them, like a greedy store owner refusing to sell milk at a massive loss just because he's MEAN.
 
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At this point it's either surrender to them and let them take a mile, as you kneel down to them repeating "nukes" and "WW3" without launching anything, or actually having balls and letting a country defend itself on equal footing.
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I probably shouldn’t say this but there are area denial weapon proposals being pitched to 3 and 4 star generals with a hand in Ukraine. Most of the forces don’t support prolonged cross territorial assault as it could trigger an Solomonic ultimatum on either side of the coin. The outcome that is currently being working towards is not one of victory but stalemate equivalent to the 38th parallel. Nobody wants this to escalate any further than it is now outside of chickenhawks.

Intelligence has come to understand this is a war of resource and attrition, not for freedom against the Russian regime or a battle against western nazis. This is entirely a war on oil and arable land. If you don’t believe me you can look at the maps, similar things are happening in Israel’s battle for offshore drilling outside of Gaza. These events don’t occur in a bubble.
 
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We need a reworking of the asylum system which has been weaponized by the federal government to disenfranchise American born citizens who have historically been here.
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The federal government deals with immigration laws that restrict it by simply ignoring them. It is able to do this because libtard and neocon judges think immigration law is a disgusting relic of a benighted past and consistently rule against anybody trying to hold the feds to account. I'm pretty sure our current asylum system doesn't allow the feds to mass grant asylum to people for reasons like "your country is poor and there's a lot of crime there," but they do it any way, because who's going to stop them?

It's a problem of personnel, not law. More than anything, Trump's hands were tied by his inability to fire anybody in the federal government. The courts ruled that deciding who works for the federal government isn't under the purview of executive authority. Turns out, running the executive branch is under the jurisdiction of Congress! Who knew?
 
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Sammich said:
I think that was the point, derailing the news cycle for a couple days, seizing on a strange interaction to draw attention away from that horrible interview kamala did, trying to pull the eyes away from the cat eating shitshow. I think loomer is a weird creepy bitch, and she's complete poison, but it's non issue. It is puzzling how lidl did seem to push it at the same time as it was being pushed hard by the usual suspects. I think she just hates trump and wanted to jump on the chance to take shots at him. That's fine, who cares, but you silly geese just took the bait!
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The Chad StarkRavingMad:
Supports Trump
Happily married, has a kid
Doesn’t sneed about men
Happily participates in threads including this one

The Virgin Lidl:
Hates Trump
Lives alone, childless
Simps for a website forum admin in exile
Hates men so much she started a thread about it
Shits up threads, makes everyone mad at her
 
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The Ugly One said:
The federal government deals with immigration laws that restrict it by simply ignoring them. It is able to do this because libtard and neocon judges think immigration law is a disgusting relic of a benighted past and consistently rule against anybody trying to hold the feds to account. I'm pretty sure our current asylum system doesn't allow the feds to mass grant asylum to people for reasons like "your country is poor and there's a lot of crime there," but they do it any way, because who's going to stop them?

It's a problem of personnel, not law. More than anything, Trump's hands were tied by his inability to fire anybody in the federal government. The courts ruled that deciding who works for the federal government isn't under the purview of executive authority. Turns out, running the executive branch is under the jurisdiction of Congress! Who knew?
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I think a reestablishment of ethics oversight committee would change the game to fix what held Trump back. A secondary house judiciary subcommittee that dealt specifically with federal shortcomings imposed upon the state legislature. It would be fun seeing how Dems try to wriggle their way out of fair rules for all.
 
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They want that Chernobyl 2.0 buffer zone to prevent future excursions.
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The armies of Russia and NATO have been built around fighting in fallout for 70 years. most harmful radiation decays within a month after a attack but combat with armored vehicles and aircraft can take place within hours after a detonation even at ground zero.

A radiation belt would do nothing against a NATO blitzkrieg or Russian deep battle offensive. IMO, the Russo-ukrainian war is giving a lot of false impressions on the future of warfare. Ukraine is so poor and the Russians so degraded (from their soviet might) that neither side can establish air superiority or cohesive cooperation between the branches of their own military. so the only thing they can do is to revert to trench warfare.
 
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John Badman said:
I think a reestablishment of ethics oversight committee would change the game to fix what held Trump back. A secondary house judiciary subcommittee that dealt specifically with federal shortcomings imposed upon the state legislature. It would be fun seeing how Dems try to wriggle their way out of fair rules for all.
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The #1 thing that has to happen is allow the President to override the OPM and fire anybody he wants.
 
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It annoys me how Ukraine vs. Russia has become a political issue, to me there's almost nothing more American than shitting on Russia. The poor vatnik fucks. There's not a lot of things I'd side with the Democrats on but this is one of them, it's not a party issue, it's something all 'Muricans should be able to get on board with.

The people who screech about their tax dollars annoy me, as if the Ukraine aid is anything more than a few pennies. Out of all the bullshit taxes go on, weakening Russia by arming Ukraine is some of the best bang for my fed bucks.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
Kamabla talking to useless campaign staff, and she has the mannerisms of an old gay man, the way she can't keep her boney hand from limping looks incredibly fake.
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“You’re braceleting me?”

Too bad the girl didn't give her a necklace. It’d be satisfyingly droll to have this ditzy, pajeet cunt on camera JOYously saying to an actual black person “you’re necklacing me?”
 
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Romulus augustulus said:
The armies of Russia and NATO have been built around fighting in fallout for 70 years. most harmful radiation decays within a month after a attack but combat with armored vehicles and aircraft can take place within hours after a detonation even at ground zero.

A radiation belt would do nothing against a NATO blitzkrieg or Russian deep battle offensive. IMO, the Russo-ukrainian war is giving a lot of false impressions on the future of warfare. Ukraine is so poor and the Russians so degraded (from their soviet might) that neither side can establish air superiority or cohesive cooperation between the branches of their own military. so the only thing they can do is to revert to trench warfare.
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Militaries have developed for CBRN but industry has not. That is the main concern, not how we can fight but how we can recover. A nuclear war would put a major food security cornerstone out of commission for bare minimum a decade using even low nuclear yield.
 
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It annoys me how Ukraine vs. Russia has become a political issue, to me there's almost nothing more American than shitting on Russia. The poor vatnik fucks. There's not a lot of things I'd side with the Democrats on but this is one of them, it's not a party issue, it's something all 'Muricans should be able to get on board with.
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How antisemitic.
 
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Is the solution just to built more grain storage and refinement facilities? We can’t just move major hubs.
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U.S. Agricultural Exports in Fiscal Year 2025 Forecast at $169.5 Billion; Imports at $212.0 Billion

The US now imports more food than it grows. This was one of the only things for most of our history we did not have a trade deficit in. Now, the US is food self-sufficient in fewer categories than ever in its history.

Almost all US food is bottlenecked by a few supply chains. Almost all US food is produced in single regions as huge monocultures and shipped around.

This can be referred to as "food miles": how far food goes from where it is grown to where it is consumed. The average piece of food you put in your mouth, if you live in the United States, has traveled 1500 miles to 2500 miles to get to you.

In the EU, this is 150km (93mi).

You eat shit food, grown 1500 miles away, picked by mexicans, shipped using finite fossil fuels, so that you can enjoy less quality produce for cents cheaper -- which isn't even true, because studies from 2022 by the NIH show that local produce is cheaper in Canada.

The entire country was sold out by the boomers. Every single thing that made America great is rotten. If you live in America, you live an objectively inferior quality of life than in other majority white countries. You pay more for worse healthcare, you pay more for worse food, you die earlier, and you are surrounded by niggers and nigger-worshippers. The one thing America has is more money - but your cost of living is so fucking ridiculous it hardly matters, and chances are that money is just in the oligarch's pocket and you don't see shit from it.
 
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