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The Saltening said:
honestly if Hitler had just removed jews from Germany and stayed in Germany without the whole trying to conquer europe thing I think he would have been fine. He was literally elected to fight the same exact shit we are facing today. I don't know all his policies but from what I understand the people liked him a lot.

Moral of the story. Don't do drugs. Not as many as Hitler.
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If Hitler stayed in Germany then Soviets would attack regardless. 3rd Reich was a crusade against communism and it would be a success if 1) They didn't cancel invasion of Britain, which gave US ships a cozy midway spot to supply the Soviets 2) Hitler didn't micromanage shit on the Eastern front and listened to his generals.
 
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Xarpho's Return said:
Interesting how TPTB wanted to burn Big Pharma at the stake for their role in the opioid crisis then all was forgiven with the vaccine.
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The reason Purdue Pharma was a big deal was because they bypassed a number of controls in order to sell their opiates on a massive scale. Once these drugs got into the hands of pharmacists and doctors, it was over. However, they did not do this by underhanded trickery. It was a combination of bad conditions.
  1. Starting in the late 1980's and the early 1990's, the New England Journal of Medicine (the most prestigious medical journal in the US) and the World Health Organization began to question whether opiates were really as dangerous as everyone thought. Opiates have been around for centuries and always avoided due to their addictive properties. Medical technocrats began to question this wisdom because opiates do take pain away and are the best pain medication on Earth. These officials thought "we're doctors, we should be able to handle this."
  2. Regulators fell in line with this thinking and loosened regulations when major medical authorities suggested it. Believe it or not, but the FDA has notoriously high standards for drug safety and drug manufacturing safety - it's to a point that foreign drug companies can't enter the US market because our standards are so high. However, when the WHO, NEJM, and representatives from drug companies spend time and money to court the regulators... well, it works.
  3. Purdue literally paid doctors and pharmacists to sell these drugs by offering lavish vacations (e.g. they'd invite doctors to ritzy, all-expenses-paid seminars on their drugs). Massive incentive for individual doctors. It does not help that many doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and nurses got addicted to these drugs or over-prescribed in general. Seriously, people would get minor surgery and be sent home with a half a year's worth of full strength opiates.
  4. Related to the above, protocols for actually controlling these drugs were not robust enough. Theft was easy because the expectation was that doctors would never lie about this stuff (whoopsie!).
  5. Insurance companies incentivized opioids by covering them over expensive surgeries. If you have a problem that could be fixed with a surgery that costs insurance $150,000, or it could be brushed away with a cheap pill script, what do you think the insurance companies will cover?
The biggest issue of the opioid crisis was that the regulators, insurance companies, individual medical professionals, and the grandaddies (WHO, NEJM, and other organizations of "prestige") received zero punishment, zero scrutiny, and bore zero responsibility.

When it comes to other drugs, the usual cause for harm is drug companies hedging their bets that a carcinogen won't become a problem (e.g. J&J and its talcum powder) or drug companies simply not foreseeing problems that never arose in clinical trials (e.g. birth control pills giving fat women blood clots).
 
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StarkRavingMad said:
He's right on the money.
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the problem is RFK's definition of healthy is going to mean everyone eats dogs and cats. RFK will run into the same problem the Obamas did, the second the niggers whine they have to fold. RFK's too much of a boomer-lib to go "fuck you nigger" and trump won't let him say "fuck you kike" to big pharma so nothing will get done.
Hey Johnny Bravo said:
If service to country were a requirement for voting and holding political office, a lot of our problems would go away.
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probably not, Israel showed how bad it ends up going. Some religious group will get either better positions away from the military or will be able to get away with not serving and it causes people to hate them and doesn't really help voting overall. Look at how wonderfully shit South Korea, Taiwan and Israel's governments are functioning. When we had the draft all that happened was kikes and niggers figured out ways around it and the retards just got the worst jobs. Starship Troopers makes sense if you don't care about being a mine sweeper and are going to win the war. The second a Lebanon situation happens everyone starts choosing the silliest MOS possible and doing their best to avoid anything resembling being in a courageous spot. And the problem with making everyone serve is that there are plenty of absurd roles you can be placed in. Didn't fucking Wonder Woman serve her country by being a fitness instructor? Are you really telling me thats what Robert had in mind when coming up with his novel? Women bouncing around in bikinis and getting the same respect and voting rights as someone on the front lines of a warzone?

Beyond that most veterans are the biggest retards on the planet. Their kids can be trooned out and they'll just sit there with a smile on their face. Their houses taken away and given to illegals and they just face the flag and pray. their own political opinions kept closeted like a homo in nazi germany because they fear losing their precious benefits. You're demanding people show Martial courage while forgetting how quickly that keeps people from showing Civil courage.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
I'm just saying one side has the army of unemployed "activists" doing voter registration drives while the other side has to go to work for a living. Be careful what you wish for.
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AGAIN. You should be on top of that.

Registering to vote takes no time or effort at all, and you have all the time in the world to do it before the final stretch of an election season.
 
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Get the rope Macaulay! said:
probably not, Israel showed how bad it ends up going. Some religious group will get either better positions away from the military or will be able to get away with not serving and it causes people to hate them and doesn't really help voting overall.
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Israel made exceptions for the ultra-religious because they were the OG settlers and the secular leaders would not survive politically without those concessions.

South Korea and Taiwan have functioning governments. At the very least, there is not an election every 5 minutes like in Israel. Also, military service is compulsory and not a component of voting. In Starship Troopers, you don't have to serve. It's a choice. In fact, you can be a Civilian (a member of the non-voting public) and have a very successful career. You just can't vote or participate in politics.

People choose to serve so that they can vote and be in politics. The philosophical idea here is that no one participates in politics unless they have some skin in the game and have proven they actually give a shit about the political body they're participating in. What we have now in the US are people who actively despise the country and operate in ways that are deliberately damaging to the country.

How many communists do you know will serve for 8 years in the military, without getting kicked out for some dumb shit, just to vote?
 
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BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny said:
Rasmussen poll of support by pet ownership
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Lots of interesting things. Men who own cats are more likely to support Trump, while men who own dogs are more likely to support Harris. A wider margin of married women with dogs support Trump compares to cat owning married women. Unmarried cat woman support Harris by D+37.
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That can't be right.
Men who don't own a dog house are obviously democrats.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
If service to country were a requirement for voting and holding political office, a lot of our problems would go away.

Commies always mock it but, in Starship Troopers, a mental retard with the intellectual capacity of a 3-year-old could obtain citizenship. The Federation would find something for this person to do if he or she wanted to serve.
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McCain, that is all
 
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demicolon said:
if 1) They didn't cancel invasion of Britain
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I don't think the Germans had the naval and logistic resources needed to mount such an operation and win.
demicolon said:
Hitler didn't micromanage shit on the Eastern front and listened to his generals.
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That isn't quite what happened, initially, Hitler's plan for Operation Barbarossa was to pin down and distract the bulk of the Red army with Army group North and Center while the larger Army group south had the objective to seize the important oil fields from the Caucasus region, that way the fuel and oil issue the German military was facing would've been issued and the Soviets, while not defeated, would've been seriously crippled with such a loss. Problem was that when the moment to launch the operation arrived some of Hitler's top generals made a few changes to the plan, assigning more men to Army groups North and Center and tasking them with taking Leningrad and Moscow while Army group south was deprived of many of its divisions and vehicles that were needed for its original objective, this was because many of Hitler's generals wanted to achieve a "swift and glorious" victory over the Soviets by capturing their two largest cities, to paraphrase something Hitler said regarding this turn of events, his generals were "economically illiterate".

The rest is history as the Soviets managed to stop the German advance at the gates of Moscow, Leningrad turned into the bloodiest siege in human history and Stalingrad would more or less halt the German advance in the south.
 
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Hey Johnny Bravo said:
McCain was disliked for being a neocon. McCain's hatred for Trump and deliberate undermining of Trump stems from the time Trump blatantly mocked him. I like Trump and I've voted for him since 2016 (including primaries), but he made an enemy here when he did not have to.
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Look at what i was quoting, i was pointing out that service doesnt automatically mean you arent a retard
 
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demicolon said:
If Hitler stayed in Germany then Soviets would attack regardless. 3rd Reich was a crusade against communism and it would be a success if 1) They didn't cancel invasion of Britain, which gave US ships a cozy midway spot to supply the Soviets 2) Hitler didn't micromanage shit on the Eastern front and listened to his generals.
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when the nazis invaded czechoslovakia the allied powers didn't just give him what they wanted, the soviets flat out offered to help kick the germans out but poland and romania refused, and then promptly got taken over by germany

the entirety of world war 2 was the allied powers siding with the nazis in the hopes that they would be a buffer to the european powers against the threat of the red army and every single retard plan the allied powers came up with to screw over russia had the direct consequence of helping the nazis, and this failed so badly the united states had to give the soviets war materiel through lend-lease. the only reason the blitzkrieg of poland was capable of happening was because the allied powers made literally zero attempts to stop the german war machine from spooling up in the hopes that they would just beeline straight for moscow. instead they signed a peace treaty with the russians and took over france.
 
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SaidNoOneEver said:
It's a pain in the ass to register the day of if you don't realize you've been purged then show up to vote. Many places won't let you. It's VERY easy to miss a federal election, especially if your incumbent has been there 30 years and guaranteed to win again.
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Generally you should be getting a voter information card that tells you where you vote and so on, and not getting that card should clue you in. If you're just going to the same place every time and completely ignoring the card then a) you won't know if the location you have to vote has changed and b) you're clearly not paying attention to the latest information about the election, usually because you are a habitual voter who doesn't even know what your candidate has promised or if they are sabotaging your county
 
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