Need to reframe this:
“The satellites measure success of our roaring industry! The higher values, the better.”
I would say that if presidents are allowed to be this corrupt, no long-term legislation or treaties can possibly be assumed to survive in between presidencies … except that would imply that the US is still a representative democracy when the reality is otherwise.
measuring things is woke
yeah all that “quantitative objective science” liberal BS
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Oh god how do we share a planet with these troglodytes
Perhaps this is what the great filter is. Any species that’s intelligent, but isn’t a hivemind; dies out via the stupidity of the collective – sure, you can have accumulated knowledge, but if half (being extremely generous in our case) of your entire species is made up of drooling fucking morons that will actively drag the rest of you down, what good is it?
Ban rulers, speedometers, fuel gauges and pressure sensors! Cook meat on a gut feeling! Destroy all cups! Long dresses for all so we can’t see feet! YAAARGH!
If we don’t test for CO2, then no-one can complain that we have high levels of it taps forehead - that’s big, beautiful brain thinking right there.
Same thing he did with Covid and the jobs guy last week
Just relabel the satellites as methanedione detector and good for the plants for big beautiful grasses and they are not going to check back
This is some “Don’t Look Up” type shit. Can’t happen if you don’t acknowledge it.
I guess as an American I’m counting on the rest of the world to continue working on problems while we sit here and shit in our own mouths for the next 3.5 years(hopefully just 3.5)
Hopefully by a few different miracles, a much much shorter amount of time
I don’t trust Americans to fix their own problems.
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Yeah because it turns out they can’t aim worth a damn.
I will never understand why that dipstick didn’t just spend some more time at a range. So much so that I’m starting to believe that it was a false flag.
Like, really, you try to assassinate someone under secret service protection – arguably making them one of the most difficult people to assassinate – and you don’t even put in a few weekends of range time? You don’t even zero your optic properly? You get as far as using a rangefinder and figuring out the distance to your target ahead of time, but you don’t bother zeroing your optic. Really? Make it make sense to me.
This is why I don’t care about MAGAts. They are enemies of the human species and we should all be preparing to over throw these people when they try stealing the next election.
I am walking 12 miles a day at time just to get my millennial bones in shape. Pushing almost 300lbs on the bench and curling over 145lbs for sets. Get ready people. We need to defend this world.
I bought a shotgun, and once a month aim to do a gunnery drill for 150 shells. It is exhausting and expensive, but should be a good benchmark for the results of my swimming exercises: About an hour and a half of water weights, walking, and swimming. Probably another 20 minutes in the steam and hot rooms. Figure I need enough strength and endurance to patrol and wield a rifle.
If there is a 2nd American Civil War, the good guys will need infantry, and I intend to be part of the ranks. I won’t excel, but at least it frees up skilled people to hack, drone, or spy on the MAGATs.
My back was fucked. But forcing myself to do manual labor has basically healed my vertebra. I do 12 miles of walking a shift. So my whole core is in its best shape in decades.
I need to go to the range with my rifles and shotguns. My dad was a sniper and trained me how to shoot. I hope to get something that can put a bullet through an engine block. Soon.
On my end, I picked a shotgun for three reasons: 1, to shoot drones, because buckshot has a spread. 2, common and flexible ammo. 3, ease of maintenance. The way I figure, a novice like me won’t ever be able to do sharpshooting, that requires good eyes and lots of skill.
Bird shot works on ducks, maybe it’ll work on drones?
I assume both drones and armored humans would both be potential targets if fighting breaks out. If that is the case, I don’t want to juggle munitions on the field, so it needs to be deadly against both. 00 Buckshot is what I use for practice because it costs me about $14 a box for 25 rounds. 000 is what I am figuring to use as ‘serious’ ammo for live combat, but that costs about $10 for 5 shells.
The way I figure, 000 would be able to hit unarmored limbs, and consequently remove combatants from the fight. Dunno if a slug can beat armor, but I am almost certain that my accuracy is too crap to land a slug on a person. I can regularly land hits at 25 meters with a reflex sight, but that is with plentiful time, an immobile target, and no pressure.
Hopefully, if I join a militia, we would be able to hire a Ukranian veteran to instruct people. My guesses about how to prepare for conflict are probably wrong.
Yup, it was some rather insane actions by the right which finally convinced me to get my PAL/RPAL. I was always going to get it because I like shooting and the history, but this was the final nudge. Got myself a real beauty from the early 20th century that was once used to kill fascists.
I’m thankful for my eye sight. I’m nearing 40 and still have 40-20 vision. I used to hit running deer with my 30-30. When I lived in the Appalachians. I also know shotguns don’t do well against drones as you would hope but they are better than a rifle. Check out what they are doing in Ukraine with drones.
If I was in his position and absolutely had to part with the sats, I would SELL or RENT them out. Like how a genuine businessman would. This bull is stupid on all the levels.
I think the intention is to get rid of the data being provided to fix global warming. If the satellite is sold the data would turn up in some fashion eventually.
I am just amaze at how Americans (and those residing in America) have truly been conditioned and pacified to accept such blatant act of self-harm being inflicted. Never mind the defunding of climate change research, but defunding welfare is really the red line most other governments will never cross. In France, they riot whenever welfare is touched. In Russia, of all places, the only time Putin was seriously challenged by the public was when he announced pension reforms. And then he backed down! A dictator!
Americans have been brainwashed to think free healthcare, unemployment benefits and childcare is bad for them! Not even conservatives in other countries will dare touch the welfare because it is a political suicide! What is happening in the US right now is the culmination of liberal values it was founded on; worshiping the altar of individualism at the expense of the common good.
I remember reading once that we (America) never had a true labor revolution because the labor movement was always divided by racism. It may not always be racism, but during reconstruction the powers that be definitely learned that keeping the lower classes fighting among each other will keep them rich.
We DO have labor history in this country. Unless you’re from one of the union stronghold states like Pennsylvania, it isn’t taught much.
Even in the founding of our country most of the founders were merchant class. France and Russia have a cultural history of killing monarchs. The US has a cultural history of the wealthy finding a way to keep making money. These two things happened in similar ways but the way that they’re framed historically are completely different. Your revolutions are taught to be about bread and injustice. Ours are taught to be about taxes.
Poor Thomas Paine. He tried so hard to help put us on the right track.
It’s somewhat that, but the key point is the manufactured consent that our biggest corporations prescribe via their media subsidiaries. I’d argue America has the best propaganda in the world. WE’RE #1!!! WOOOO
That documentary about Edward Bernays. The Century of the Self. The episodes are appropriately named too! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
It explains how we are here. Basically after WW2 the leaders embarked on a psychology advertising campaign for Western civilization where it would be too uncomfortable to wage a war again like that without all the comforts of consumerism. America is at the peak of it.
The only way the citizen of America will really push back is when the government collectively takes something from them that lies at or near the base of Maslow’s Pyramid. When it gets too uncomfortable. Or else everything is actually fine.
100%, people don’t lead revolutions with stomachs full of food
Bread and circus’s is often times derided but it was exactly why Rome was so successful. Under all the glory, triumph, and corruption the Roman elite knew damned well what happened when the commoners went hungry and they didn’t wanted another Gracchi Brothers incident. Shame for us the modern milksop oligarchy forgot the damned bread.
yeah but, what if they had, like, a really really cool circus?
As someone who has felt true starvation I can assure you that folks would sooner but her the circus for food than enjoy it’s entertainment.
Two factors, probably:
- America has never had a war on our soil, a real bona-fide war anyway. Smaller town or city-sized disputes that got whitewashed and omitted from history, of course. I don’t think we fully comprehend what is necessary to protect our freedom? Not apologist here either, just…that is partly why. Look at how much we constantly boast about WWII even though we just showed up late, well-rested with a bunch of guns, after almost turning Fascist ourselves.
- In America: You protest, you riot, you lose your job because you don’t have enough time off available to drive 2500 miles, or the reason isn’t valid based on made up rules by your employer. Then you lose your health insurance because you have no job. Then you lose your home because you can’t pay the mortgage (or more these days, rent), your car on a 5 year loan is repo’d. So now your family is homeless without transportation or medical care and you’re basically dead at that point.
They set the US up to make failure->death the easy fast default option unless you’re a proper peasant working the fiefdom.
Indeed, the French beat the Americans hands down.
Americans are very much a me country. Look at me I want mine all of that. They would be so much better off if they where a we country they used to be.
i dont appreciate your sentiments
Yep
Watching every organization and person capitulate to this bullshit is exhausting. There’s a real cool word you can use when someone tells you to do something fucking stupid and authoritarian:
“NO.”
Do you think Trump respects when someone tells him no? The guy who’s been accused dozens of times of rape? He (and any other fascist) speaks and understands only one language: violence.
They could tell him to do it himself. Im pretty sure he won’t actually have a clue how.
I certainly don’t know how. I couldn’t even get up there.
I couldn’t even get up there
haha this really tickled me for some reason, like of course a random person couldn’t do rocket science
That’s when you back it up with force
The same thing the Trump administration does every time a judge tells them to stop doing something
Have republicans actually ever done anything that hasn’t been absolute dog shit decision?
Budd Dwyer blew his brains out on live TV. Granted it was on a snow day when all the kids were at home watching TV. Maybe not the best decision but it did lead to one less republican wasting oxygen.
Many of them have died
Not enough :(
yeah but it doesn’t count when it takes that long.
too little too late
It doesn’t have to take that long.
Technically they made the EPA, which I guess they decided was a bad idea.
Yes, but not since the days of Goldwater
The super racist guy who Hillary Clinton supported whom the Goldwater Rule was named after?
That’s who you think was the last good Republican?
He was a member of the NAACP. I don’t think he was any more racist than any other republican of the time. It’s easy for me and you to pass judgment on those who were born more than a century ago. And before you say it, yes he voted against the 1964 civil rights act which I disagree with. He claims he had his reasons, that 2 parts of it were unconstitutional but I’m unconvinced. He also supported gay people serving in the military and was against don’t ask don’t tell. Towards the later years of his life he became somewhat progressive. He also fought hard against the rise of the Christian right. I respect some of what he fought for while disagreeing with some of his views. In any case, I think leftists like me have more in common with Goldwater than Goldwater has with MAGA cunts. We may disagree with each other but we at least agree on fundamental principles like the seperation of church and state.
Edit: I probably admire him more than most because I see Christian nationalism as one of the greatest threats to our country and he fought against it.
Oppose slavery.
But its hard to believe they were the cool party until the 50s. Thank you Reagan.
They were Hoover’s party. They stopped being cool long before the '50s.
Alright, given that i am not from the us my knowledge is somewhat limited here.
Slavery is still explicitly legal in the USA.
Ah employing the same 500iq strategy as they did during Covid… if no numbers are reported, then there must be no climate change!
I have come to the conclusion that Trump is actually an alien. He is helping to prepare our planet for the arrival of his species by ensuring CO2 levels quickly reach a more tolerable level. It’s the only explanation that makes sense.
Honestly, I WOULD prefer him to be some kind of alien super agent. It is a lot less depressing than the alternative.
Sadly he’s just the product of the american “culture” of selfishness and arrogance. They will destroy the world as we know it.
Simulation theory is my reasoning at this point. They’re just throwing shit into the simulation now to see what happens. like a wealthy pedophile who can corrupt anything he touches and destroy people’s lives as they cheer.
My conclusion is that he’s the culmination of the US losing the Cold War. Putin has been investing in kompromat on all the red politicians for a long time, and this is the era of profit taking.
