It was a power grab. The US intervened softly to stop the growth of the third Reich into a hegemon, funding Britain, France, and the Soviet Union.
When Japan hit Pearl harbor Roosevelt was forced to war and honestly he and his team were probably itching to get in there are flex American power to shape events directly. Truman finished things out trying to box in the soviets once it was clear the allies were gonna win.
Thelose are just “other rich people” that have the good sense to stay out of the public eye.
A network of rich and powerful people influencing the state isn’t “the deep state” it’s “the state”
Like what makes anyone think they are hiding it?
I supported Bernie because he appealed to me as a progressive. If conservatives came along they were welcome to.
I have never been to New York, but if I lived there I would have voted for mamdani because he appeals to me as a progressive.
I support Talerico because of his progressive stances first, his Christian presentation is a nice bonus, and I wanted a candidate who disavows Aipac and Israel.
Talerico has stayed his Christianity leads him to demand separation of church and state, to support reproductive health, to embrace refugees.
If his religion leads him to all the things I want, then, the most concern I have is keeping an eye on him.
Russia can’t even show up for Russia. I doubt Iranians thought Russia would launch nukes for them.
Ukraine had physical possession of nukes but no ability to use them. The Russians never let them have the launch codes.
Ukrainian officials knew they weren’t getting anything worthwhile in the Budapest memorandum because they weren’t giving anything up besides a headache.
South Africa gave up their nukes and decommissioned their nuclear program. Ukraine just formalized what was already true, the nukes were not usable for them.
He probably will be a. Martyr for all the people that were fighting the protestors to keep him in power.
He tried to start a union at his workplace. He wasn’t all bad.
The real world seems to be one where the fascists basically never suffer consqences for their actions. Off the top of my head we have that kid that got punched, Charlie Kirk, and that one lady on January 6th that have suffered real consequences.
I get it, Jack Smith is doing his job. I guess it’s up to the rest of us if we want justice to be done.
More corrupt judges need to be prosecuted when/if sanity ever returns.
“if it came to a vote” Filibuster still exists
The penalty has already gone away. Trump suspended it in his first term and Biden did not restore it. The law is still there but it’s not enforced.
Lots of Americans should self insure. Spending 1200 dollars a month only to have to spend 5000 dollars before copays and then getting a 50% discount is a stupid amount of money for a trivial benefit. You might as well put that 1200 dollars into a savings account and then at least you have 3-30k depending on how long you go before needing care.
Because us poors with 10k deductibles were not getting cancer treatment anyway. They won’t notice people skipping insurance that couldn’t afford to use their insurance in the first place. The insurance companies will notice, but they have no leverage. It’s a zero sum game between insurance companies and members.
They will focus on the top 10% because that’s where all the disposable income is. They will be happy they don’t have to fight with insurance companies anymore.
The only leak is emergency care that they can’t refuse to treat people.
They don’t need us poors to make a profit. Half of all consumption spending in the US comes from the top 10% we are on track for that to narrow to the top 5% in my lifetime.
If people stop getting health insurance, they can just die. That’s the more plausible future.
Prior to 2025 I could assume the CDC was staffed with well meaning technocrats. They could get something wrong, but they would almost always be correct, far more often than me.
Now I have to figure out if they are pushing a crackpot political agenda or giving legitimate guidelines.
Usually it will be the latter, but it’s a cognitive load and that corrodes trust.
Holy shit, that’s not just putting your face in the leopards mouth that’s crawling into it’s stomach as hard as you can.
Exactly. A lot of getting good at something is practicing. No one wants to spend time doing something they suck at, especially in public, but rather than practice in private, we can try to trick ourselves into believing we are actually already talented, faking it to get the practice that is needed to build the skill.
This might also help with mild imposter syndrome.
China has geographical problems that hamstring it against American Empire.
Until/unless they build a blue water navy that can blockade America or an alliance system that can shut us out of the indo-pacific, they are fucked in a straight up conflict.