Jikiya

I relate to this as a parent.

I have a hard time imagining a modern house stopping one bullet, and this one stopped them all. Even the dense areas look like they're un-punctured. Gotta get me an adobe house. Which unlike Adobe, is solid.

Finding hard to summon sympathy for someone that would still buy a Tesla after the far right lurch from the owner. I feel terrible for myself, as I should care that 3 young lives have ended, but can't help but think they were likely enemies of a democratic US.

It is literally impossible to get unbiased news. Everyone will have their personal beliefs bleed into what they saw/how they recount the event. More so for companies that send people out into the world to gather said news.

There is just more/less transparency on the bias.

I should note, they said plasma donation, which in the US are usually places that will pay you for the "donation". The blood banks also take plasma donations, but I don't think they will pay. Plasma donation is something that seems to be marketed to people that are just barely getting by. And so people lying about their conditions tend to make more sense, as they are just trying to find ways to make ends meet, or have just a little bit of money to spend after expenses.

This is very similar to what I was thinking.

Tariffs reduce some trade. They do not turn all trade down to 0, and turning a reduction in trade into a war actually would make the number go negative, as now you're spending money (and blood) on the other country, instead of getting money from them. Has to be an extreme situation to turn a (legal) business deal into a shootout.

I feel like this is giving the GOP too much credit. The "old Republican party" never wanted trans in the military, and given how small the percentage of trans people in the US, I don't know that it will majorly impact readiness. But even if it would have, would have been an acceptable sacrifice to any time period of republicans. To pretend like the Rs of the past wouldn't have celebrated this at any time is looking back at the past with opaque rose glasses. It is hallucinating a time that never was.

I don't know about the numbers you present, but absolutely agree that some industries are just worth supporting, from a government perspective. Cannot be reliant on a geopolitical enemy for goods that allow your country to continue to function.

I think Trump losing us allies is a travesty, but there's no guarantee during a global conflict you can get items from said allies.

A bullshit argument "Hen Mazzig" has. That land is owned by the Palestinians. They don't want to leave, it is Israel forcibly removing people from their land, and then whining that the Palestinian's friends won't let them crash on the couch. They want to live in the land that they either bought or inherited from their family.

Did it blow the candles out?

That's not enough butter. I would have been put down young for rioting about criminally low amounts of butter.

Who is your "they" in this scenario? Because R's sure don't fit into that "they".