Just for the record, I don’t think there’s anything to this. It’s very hard to do voter fraud on a scale that matters, and I need more evidence than some strange ballots. If evidence emerges, I’ll change my mind, but I don’t expect that to happen.

That said, if I were to come up with an argument for why they did it this way, it’s because of how fascism is lined up behind a specific leader. Nobody below him matters. However important those people think they are, they are replaceable parts. This line of thought is so ingrained into fascism that they don’t even think of supporting anybody else.

Which is really important for reasons beyond possible voter fraud. It explains why people would naturally vote that way on their own, and then the voter fraud theory is cut up by Occom’s Razer.

But other than literally all that, what are you on about?

Making sure a pedophile is setup in the new Administration so that they can ban porn involving consenting adults.

Woosh

Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.

I mostly scream in agony to make it weird.

The history of censorship is littered in the most braindead contradictions like that.

While I understand the sentiment, US veterans are in many ways victims of the capitalist system themselves. At 18 years old, they’re pressured by family or school administration to go into the military. They may have grown up poor and have no viable career path once they leave high school. College is a pipe dream. Combine that with recruiters who will use every high pressure tactic in the book and outright lie to get you to sign (“sure, you can get leave later on to be the best man at your friend’s wedding”). All this is happening before they’re legally allowed to drink, and they certainly haven’t finished developing into their adult self.

They go off to the military. Most will get through with nothing more traumatic than boot camp (which can be pretty traumatic) and some shitty food, but some will die, and others will be injured or have PTSD.

Keeping those services and improving them is part of cleaning up our mess. So is dismantling the capitalist system that creates more of those veterans.

Really? You accept that they happened, they are bad, and we should work towards a better society where that doesn’t happen regardless of what coat of paint the government puts over their actions?

Oh, yes, it is.

We went there during Thanksgiving, and my wife looked around for a place that was open on Thanksgiving and had a good special dinner offering. The city subreddit said this one diner was amazing, and it happened to be a few blocks from our hotel.

It was bland and came out lukewarm. It was, at best, OK. We went back there for breakfast, because sometimes those kind of diners are only good for breakfast, but that was also, at best, OK. I have no idea why the city subreddit was raving about it.

A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.

“Lost in Vietnam”? Oh, no, they were saying much worse than that. It used to be that if you suggested the US lost Vietnam that you were “insulting the bravery of the troops” or some shit like that. It was only after the War on Terror became unpopular that you could say the US lost Vietnam (because, you know, it did) without some jackass wingnut bringing out the faux patriotism.

The DoD itself spent $820B in 2023. To get over $1T, you also have to include veterans benefits, like the VA hospital system.

The full bill for Vietnam started coming 20 years after the fact as all those veterans got older and started heavily using the benefits they were promised. From the start of the War on Terror, we’re about at that same point right now. So unless the plan is to rug pull those benefits from people who really need them, then there’s going to be a huge bill coming that no amount of efficiency trimming can ignore.

If Democrats did the rug pull, Republicans would cry bloody murder. If Trump did it, they will cheer him on while veterans suffer.

I saw more Confederate battle flags around Indianapolis than I did in Atlanta. Fuck Indianapolis.

The current structure of the credit doesn’t get used up like that anymore. Tesla vehicles are still eligible. Musk thinks removing it would hurt competitors more than him.

Not always voluntary. Some tried for a third term and failed. Theo Roosevelt tried for a third term in 1912. Though his first term was taking over after McKinley was assassinated, but it was only some months in, and that would be covered as a first full term under the later amendment.

This is one reason why the “leave the country” people are so off. There’s a notable rise in far right wing nuts all over the world. Even if Poilievre loses, you’ll still have a very large contingent of people who thought he had good ideas.

No, running away isn’t going to solve it. I do understand that some people are in danger, and leaving might be their best option. For the rest of us, no.

Since much of that can be shown by simply quoting things Trump says verbatim, what are you on about and why are there so many random bold words?

Tuberville himself wouldn’t, but a lot of Republicans thought that was dumb as shit and was directly hurting military readiness. He does not have a good reputation in his own party thanks to that stunt. Tuberville’s voters will still come out for him, but it takes more than that to get things done in Congress.

It’s quite possible that more than a few Republicans will ignore Tuberville. The senate breakdown will be 47/53, so it doesn’t take many to stop it.

Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that’s entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.

Fun adjacent fact: even when the British Empire had moved off of wind sails and into coal, those coal ships didn’t have the range to possibly cover the entire Empire. Coal stations were setup around the world, and the coal had to be transported by sail. The previous technology helps get the next generation technology going.