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The object of war is not to die on your hill but to make the other bastard die on his.
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Just learning the fact that everyone in the officer class must have a college degree would make a lot of people stop and reassess their preconceived notions.
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i also frankly think a lot of you would do well to actually talk to anyone who serves in the guard or who is active duty military, because it's clear to me that these people are mostly an abstraction for you
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By 1972, the contest was basically between "end the war now" (McGovern) and end the war gradually" (Nixon's "peace with honor"). The war was already deeply unpopular by then, although Kent State's effect on it is a bit murky seing as Tet was really where public opinion irreversibly started to flip.
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There's a fine line between running Romania for 34 years with an iron fist and state TV broadcasting a crowd of "supporters" no longer afraid of booing your speech, and crossing it ends in your show trial and execution 4 days later.
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This is an AI generated photo. www.snopes.com/fact-check/p...
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And then they're openly booing your speech during your "support" rally in Bucharest
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"Officer Jonathan Loser of the White Settlement Police Department" sounds like an epithet you'd use when ranting about how you just got a spending ticket from an overzealous cop
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Treaties over the Suez canal don't allow for this. Egypt can only close the Suez to countries they're at war with. Egypt was left off the list despite Trump invoking the Boulder attack for the simple reason that the excuse is a smokescreen and the ban has nothing to do with preventing terrorism.
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I get your underlying point about people making a particular unproven hypothesis the default to be rejected, but you're essentially calling the entire field of Bayesian Statistics, often used in rigorous academic social science, an inferior method.
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Folks screamed that school closures were massively costly to student achievement, which, if true, justified spending a ton on filtration/masks/testing in schools to make opening up less risky and disruptive, but they also opposed spending money on those things too!
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One reason many other peer nations opened schools up earlier is they also took broader restrictions seriously and had widely accessible health care systems, which lessened schools as a harm transmission vector.
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I have found no news article that states that he was an immigrant, recent or not. Only that his wife was a recent immigrant from SA and that he by all indications was US-born, or at the very least has been living in the US a very long time (US veteran, etc).
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In our Research Seminar, Koen presented a framework encompassing the notions of incremental, breakthrough, disruptive & radical innovation based on their novelty, valuation & pattern. Interested? Read more on Koen's work here: osf.io/6cr5t_v1/dow...
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Well, Count Homer, shall we discuss the...
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If Skynet ever takes over, we could probably get it to self-terminate by tricking it into becoming a content moderator on Facebook.
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Not to sound like a goldbug, but a fairly straightforward bet against the dollar would be buying physical/ETF gold, or, at least, including gold in a diversified basket w/ select foreign currencies. Foreign currency authorities might also be keen to devalue to stabilize exchange rates, etc.
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Ron DeSantis is only governor because he beat Andrew Gillum by 0.4 percentage points in 2018. Granted Florida has had a GOP majority legislature in both houses since 1999, but it's insane how consequential that razor-thin election was in making purplish Florida a bulwark of Trumpism.
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Arizona had the audacity to locate its state on a lower elevation, thus unfairly exploiting gravity.
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Not hypotheticals either. Many examples to point to that are trivial to find with a Google search. Happy pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Bans on gender affirming care for minors also means non-drug/surgery therapeutic care, with full consent of the parents, that keeps kids from killing themselves (see net positive for the suicide hotline). Military ban has all the nasty consequences of DADT, which probably still polls terribly. 2/3
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Declining to review Maryland and Rhode Island's bans on AR-15s and high-cap mags mean that these bans stay in place. The appellants were challenging the legality of the bans.
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'Respectfully, I say to thee I'm aware that you're cheating.
When no one makes me feel like you do."
Sticks in my head a lot.
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