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  1. Oh man this is gonna get all the crazies wound up, of course “they” wouldn’t let him live.
  2. This will be a mark for him in the eyes of most of MAGA.
  3. There should be at least a tier II dot for tensions in the Pacific and South China Sea, especially with The Philippines which is a treaty Ally. And there should be at least a Tier III, likely tier II, for sabotage, cyber, and other grey zone attacks to ramp up against Europe and spiral.
  4. We are at the point where we have to tell people “don’t fan the flames” means LITERALLY.
  5. It’s people looking to take photos and video to monetize for content and anyone who needed to be in the airspace professionally has no excuse not to be aware of the order. There’s no excuse for it and it’s no different than parking a video van or some shit in front of a hydrant so you can get footage of someone’s house burning down. Fuck them in the ass, it’s the same mentality of looking to cash in and on a disaster. At least one of these planes was grounded due to a drone strike.
  6. I support life in prison for whomever was doing this, along with anyone looting evacuated homes. https://www.twz.com/air/one-of-just-two-cl-415-super-scooper-planes-taken-out-of-palisades-fire-fight-by-drone
  7. Yeah, it’s not just “get where you’re going alive” that should be the goal. In 2018 DC decriminalized fare-jumping (over the mayor’s veto) and told officers that they couldn’t ask for ID from people who did jump gates, citing disparate impact on young minorities. In 2023, after plummeting ridership, they cracked down on fare skipping. Results— assaults fall by 40 percent. Homicides virtually disappear. Vehicle thefts and attempted thefts cut by half (to explain here, the people from the city who were taking the train to steal cars at park and ride lots in the burbs weren’t riding the train anymore). The crime that went up? Fare evasion. Now DC is expanding to crack down on buses, too and I expect better results. But it’s slow moving and you still see fare jumpers taking their chances, anti-social behavior, etc. This may sound like a success story but it’s really a fail story because for four years the local authorities in a first world stubbornly stuck by a patently asinine law to prove their ideological bonfides and let ridership and revenue plummet before reversing course. All they had to do was stop hitting their dicks with a hammer. It turns out that the One Simple Trick of getting rid of rule-breakers means there’s less rules being broken and fucking up everyone’s day.
  8. This is all lightly edited Hitler verbiage that was originally directed at Poland.
  9. dO yOu FeEl BaD FaLlInG fOr ThE bOuNtY….
  10. I tend to believe that Baldoni and the furniture guy were real pieces of shit who got what’s coming to them. I do love the Hollywood and celebrity beat though. It’s all fake beef and manufactured feuds and the dipshit journalists running quotes from publicists as “close friends.” And then you’ve got some actual super predator like Weinstein or Diddy just devouring people alive and the most media saturated environment on earth it’s “we had no way to know.”
  11. There’s clearly a culture clash here as the European interviewer got blindsided by Lively and Posey’s performative bullshit in response to a nice congratulations on an expected baby and a question about wardrobe in a period movie. The chef’s kiss here is these two being up on their high horse here and it’s a promo tour for a film they did with fucking Woody Allen, notorious sex pest and creep.
  12. The deep irony of the Western Hemisphere discussion is that for several decades now, the main complaint those countries have had has been too LITTLE U.S. engagement and care. We may be about to see some monkey paw shit.
  13. 90 percent of the referred to unpleasantness can be resolved by simply tossing fare-jumpers out by the scruff of their necks— that’s who is creating the problem. You notice things more when you ride daily. If you 1 out of 20 rides is shitty, it’s not a big deal if you’re visiting. It’s a different story if you take a minimum of 2 trips every work day all year. You have a zero percent chance of a hobo vomiting in your personal car on your morning commute. (There’s a reason I keep coming back to that). How often is too often to have to get yelled at for not coughing up “spare change” when you just want to get home. A couple times a year, ok, yeah you suck it up. Weekly? Daily? Monthly? At some point you do start to see if you can budget parking and toll fees, especially if transport cost keeps rising.
  14. It’s not near as bad as it’s made out to be, but not nearly as low as it should be. And that doesn’t include the “non-serious” shit that makes life generally suck more: vomiting, shouting, Bluetooth speaker impromptu concerts, panhandling, etc. And of course it’s location dependent as well. But I’m a current daily U.S. mass transit commuter and have done daily all over the world. It’s not just my impression from tourism. Our system can’t compare on the infrastructure or general pleasantness.
  15. Russia is up over 6 percent and was at 5 before the invasion (nominally), and I believe Israel was over 5 even before October 7. A few others, too (not including Ukraine). But the point of collective defense is to not become garrison states, so you are correct that the statement is moronic. The broader issue is that even before taking office we are artificially creating fault lines and grievances within NATO and between members, and we should absolutely suspect that this is to set the groundwork to get the GOP to attack membership in the Alliance.
  16. Have you been on a public transportation system in a large Central European or East Asia city? It is just as efficient, more affordable, cleaner, quieter, and no one talks about the violent crime rate on the metro or bus because the violent crime rate on the system approaches zero. You can spend years riding it and never be next to a bum who barfs in your car. And you can see fare evaders immediately ticketed and shown off.
  17. There is nowhere in the United States with first rate public transport. The problems here are many and manifest. Generally the right likes to starve it of funding so it crumbles. The left refuses to implement the social controls needed to maintain it. The answer is simple— funding, ruthless fare enforcement, draconian and immediate response ejection of anyone who does anything in the system but ride quietly and pay their fare. Big northern cities used to have this pragmatic democrats and republicans at the local level who would do this but those days are gone.
  18. This little scheme works as long as you don’t have anywhere important to be at a required time.
  19. The very wealthiest among us don’t have income, which is the major problem with progressive income tax being your most “progressive” vehicle.
  20. He also announced that members need to spend 5% on defense, a figure we don’t meet ourselves and that is impossible and a moved goalpost. He’s attacking the Alliance preemptively. I think an under-appreciated aspect of DJT is that he has never had a friend. I don’t like to personalize international politics but this shapes his worldview just like being a second rate spy does for Putin. DJT cannot comprehend relationships beyond suckers to bilk, partners in bilking, or assholes trying to stop him from bilking. Trust, loyalty, patience, genuine support— all these things are foreign to him, he’s never been experienced them or demonstrated them and he views them as suspicious. He cannot believe in any relationship where both parties are happy and getting something different but valuable, or giving as much as they can even if it isn’t equal. . That carries over.
  21. The HFAC majority tweeted this out then deleted it. It’s important not to sanewash this stuff, but equally important not to dismiss it as something he won’t try. And there are other things at play here. He wants to leave NATO but that requires Congress to approve. Inciting a flagrant territorial dispute with a member that would draw anger and condemnation from the entire Alliance would be one way to whip the idiot caucus in Congress into doing that.
  22. If there had been a company of American soldiers at Vasilkyiv in 2022 and we told Putin “you wanna kill Americans? Bring it.” That would have been a complete game changer.
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