I'm asking in good faith here. If it's so critical, then why couldn't the same data be collected and published by another sovereign nation?
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#142I'm asking in good faith here. If it's so critical, then why couldn't the same data be collected and published by another sovereign nation?
Or even the UN? That organization that this administration wants no part of...
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we have military hegemony, then why can't we open the strait of Hormuz?
The US could/can, they're just not willing to undergo the mass casualties it would take to put boots on the ground and put those boots up the ass of the people controlling Hormuz. Which absolutely cannot be achieved purely by air.
> The US could/can, they're just not willing to undergo the mass casualties it would take to put boots on the ground
It doesn’t matter what the reason, if you can’t do something you can’t do it.
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How many million graduate students do you need to give the US the military hegemony and political influence over allies and adversaries that the F-35 program provides ? Looked at from a policy maker's viewpoint, things look very different.
In the right case just one. The US invasion of Afghanistan required some extremely rare language knowledge to be successful.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we have military hegemony, then why can't we open the strait of Hormuz?
The US could/can, they're just not willing to undergo the mass casualties it would take to put boots on the ground and put those boots up the ass of the people controlling Hormuz. Which absolutely cannot be achieved purely by air.
This is just a different way if saying that we can't.
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77,302,580 Americans made it happen. 87,037,184 voting-elligible Americans sat it out.
If those who sat out were forced to vote for one of the two major party candidates, Trump’s margin may have been larger. I think liberals and progressives have a higher propensity to vote, so you can’t assume the non voters are less likely to lean Trump.
How long were the lines to vote in black neighborhoods?
https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/104/6/1341/9774...
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#148What really puts all of this into perspective for me is I work in academia and one of my friends works for a defense contractor. He told me the maintenance cost per flight hour of F-35 was a bit more than $40k, which is significantly more than I make in a year as a grad student. It's crazy basic science is what's been the focus of so many cuts while it's so cheap.
How many million graduate students do you need to give the US the military hegemony and political influence over allies and adversaries that the F-35 program provides ? Looked at from a policy maker's viewpoint, things look very different.
The frustrating thing for me, having worked as an avionics technician, is that the F-35 is actually a waste of all that money
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Sat it out, or were forced out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_efforts_to_restrict...
The GOP rigs elections in their favor and it's well known, but they don't have the power to throw out an additional 87 million votes if they don't go in their favor. The logical conclusion then if despite everyone voting D then getting their votes tossed out is either violent revolution or liberation with the aid of another nuclear-armed state.
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77,302,580 Americans made it happen. 87,037,184 voting-elligible Americans sat it out.
So 164,339,764 made it happen? I don’t like any direction this administration has taken, but acting like it’s not the completely legitimate will of the people is BS.
The will of the plurality you mean? He didn’t win a majority of the votes. He is the legitimately elected office holder; but it was not the will of the people, it was the outcome of this particularly electoral process. Many American electoral processes require a run off without a majority for this reason, and it’s an intensely weak platform to claim a mandate from - not only did more people not vote for you than half the voters, if you add in the people who could vote but didn’t, it’s by far not “the will of the people”.