why the fuck is a us citizen allowed to join a foreign military?
Please, pick up a history book.
“Forgotten Veterans: The Americans who died fighting for Canada in WWII”
“Alfred Parkyn was one of nearly 9,000 Americans who volunteered to fight for Canada before the U.S. had officially entered the Second World War.”
My company made significant investments in doing business with our brothers and sisters to the north in Canada. That segment is entirely dead now. Our clients are apologetic to us personally but its pretty clear they don’t want to do business with a US company. I don’t blame them one bit. trump is killing us all.
USCIS spokesman Matthew J. Tragesser told NPR that the goal is to prioritize the denaturalization of people who have been found lying or misrepresenting themselves in the naturalization process
…and from this source:
“When they did fund us,” Kimbal Musk recalled, “they realized that we were illegal immigrants.”
“Well…” Elon Musk interjected.
“Yes, we were,” Kimbal Musk pushed back.
Video of the remarks shows Elon Musk laughing as he jumped in with a different interpretation: “I’d say it was a gray area.”
Here are the two most important sentences from the entire article:
Weiss has said she was concerned about the episode airing without a sufficient response from the Trump administration.
“If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient,” Alfonsi wrote.
I’ll go one further:
The tune from South Parks “Blame Canada” Just doesn’t work well with blame trump but some the lyrics are spot on.
For the chorus, instead of the 4 syllable line of of “Blame Can-a-da” substitute"Blame don-ald-trump".
While those are cool, none of them help an average person, except maybe the trains, and definitely not in the US lol.
mRNA vaccines largely ended the most widespread global pandemic in human history just 5 years ago.
Cars were perfect in 05
Climate change would disagree.
Electric cars existed before gasoline cars… And you know what still doesn’t exist? A repairable, mostly analog electric car thats affordable. Doesn’t exist.
What’s stopping you from buying a used 2012 Nissan Leaf for about $6k? Or how about a 2014 BMW i3 for about the same price? Neither of those are Cell network connected or touchscreen heavy cars.
After you finish the last of the 3 novels, make sure you seek out the additional short stories. They fill in some nice gaps in the before, during, and after.
For rich people, it’s not about using it or making a practical purchase. Its a way to show others how much you care about them (none).
I was thinking about this topic just a few days ago. I have another theory. Yes, yacht ownership is a method of communication, but they’re not trying to communicate with the common people, but instead indicating to each other of their level of wealth so they can find equal peers or greater peers to associate with, or greater to avoid.
A rich person with $10M net worth has almost nothing in common with a rich person with a $1B net worth.
In this case, I’m a spaceflight fan, so I like talking about the topic. Also, I don’t do it for this specific poster, its clear they didn’t even read the article or understand it, but for other that may be thinking the same vague question (because of a flawed premise) that this poster did.
Wouldn’t it make more sense for Brazil to send up their own satellites with rockets that are already capable
I’m assuming you mean “rockets that are already capable” from other nations? Brazil already does this.
than to waste time, money, energy and
Brazil isn’t wasting any money. This is a South Korean company launching a South Korean satellite from Brazil. In fact, Brazil is benefiting financially, which could, to your original point, feed more people because they have the money from these launches.
hurt the environment by trying to launch their own?
Funny enough, launching from places like Brazil is actually less environmentally damaging than launching from the USA, China, or Russia because this Brazilian launch site is on the equator, meaning less fuel is needed to launch from here than other nations with spaceflight programs. This geography is why Europe’s launch site is also pretty close by in French Guiana.
So if your concern is less environment impact, you would want MORE of the worlds rockets to come from here.
I’m not saying Brazil doesn’t need to launch a satellite, I’m saying they don’t need their own rocket program.
As already stated, this isn’t a Brazilian rocket, nor a Brazilian rocket program.
I already addressed that. There are more problems that humanity needs to solve that spaceflight can address.
I like a California roll, and I like that its all veg and grain, so I’ll choose it when thats what I’m looking for, but there are many other rolls I like more. The avocado isn’t a selling point except that its not meat or dairy and there are times I’d don’t want to eat either of those.
Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.
Guac is still “meh” for me. Again, I’ll eat it if its there, but I don’t seek it out.
They don’t need more.
How do you know? Feeding people isn’t the only problem facing humanity, and its not only problem spaceflight can address.
Spaceflight helps feed people.
So no, then. Because even if they were told that (and I don’t doubt you that happens), that recruit knows they’re talking to a uniformed US military recruiter and is actively engaging they are discussing joining the US military. They also know the US military has a long history of fighting hot wars. Any possible recruit the recruiters are talking to grew up with 14 years of Afghanistan war on the news.
This is nothing like being told you’re going to be a body guard of an oil company exec or pop star engaging in civilian activities in another country, which is how it sounds like these folks were sold on joining.
You must be fun at parties…
The guy at no time said US was the same as Russia. He simply said the shitty tactics in recruitment by lies is similar.
If he (and consequently you) are going to be vague about your definition of your definition of the word “tactics”, then you’re going to elicit a response that can assume the worst. The tactics specifically called out here in the article are about Russian operatives employing locals in another nation to recruit front line fighters under false pretenses in yet another nation. Thats a tactic. That’s the prime differentiator as to why this article is news.
He simply said the shitty tactics in recruitment by lies is similar.
Nothing about those tactics is similar to the way the US operates. Then you have this poster making a statement which can largely read they are accusing the USA of the same thing. It doesn’t help that the person you’re talking about is a “.ml” user whose lemmy instance has a long history of defending Russia.
Military recruiters in the states lie all the time about work, benefits, and so on to young people and then when they get shipped out to wherever.
Then OP needed say THAT, instead of his vague statement. Military recruiters aren’t lying they are recruiters nor are they lying they’re recruiting for the armed forces to fight wars.
Young people these days…
Just because someone disagrees with you doesn’t mean they’re young.
I didn’t give you a single example to answer all of your questions. You don’t even know enough to form the right questions yet. That’s why I told you to pick up a history book.
Thats not the takeaway from the example I gave. Its that war is murky. Geopolitics is a constant moving narrative. Its that principle can be more important than civil statute. Its that a nation of immigrants doesn’t immediately divorce itself from its prior ethnic affiliations.
That is indeed a possible risk. You’re going to be shocked to learn about American citizens that fought for Germany in WWI, and were welcomed back to American with no hard feelings.
“allowed”? Which unit of the US government do you see chasing US citizens into a warzone to stop them?
Again, history book. There is no one answer. History has examples of it going both ways and no consistent answer as to what the future holds.
So again, pick up a history book and look at how prior examples of this play out for not only US citizens, but also other citizens in other nations that we in the USA drew our legal inspiration from.
Along with the reading of history, if you could check your arrogance at the door, that would be appreciated too. Starting from a place Ignorance is no crime as long as you’re looking to learn. It is possible to engage in conversations without being an asshole.