middlemc.bsky.social
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That would mean I'd have to read Truth Social posts.
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She also doesn't seem to know the difference between genders and sexes, and even two sexes is debatable since there are naturally born hermaphrodites.
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Taxes and tariffs should be listed on all sales everywhere.
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There is a lot of "just follow orders" ingrained into the military, but Iraq isn't really comparable to Canada.
With Iraq there was some trust that the leaders knew what they were doing and that there might actually be some WMDs to find. Neither applies now.
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As an American I say to everyone - please don't visit right now, our place is a mess and it's embarrassing.
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And you are still confusing a right with a societal benefit. The UDHR is an aspirational document, it has no force of law. The UN is not a government, has no citizens, nor society.
Perhaps you should look in the mirror before declaring brainwashing. Rights don't come out of the void. TANSTAAFL.
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Food and shelter are also not "rights".
They are something a conscientious person would give to someone in need (if they have it to give), but that doesn't make it their right to have it.
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80-90% of base services workers are military spouses and yes they are paid pretty close to the same kind of wages as off base. The one difference is that *some* NAF positions have a defined pension plan, though it isn't the same or as good as other federal jobs.
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The military is not a single voting demographic any more than anyone else.
There are a lot of them that are convinced that the GOP has the military's back, but there are suckers everywhere.
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I grew up in a military household and then did my own years in service. Over that time the so-called benefit of military shopping went from steep discounts that made the low pay possible to live on to "we price match and you don't pay sales tax".
A store with a 10% military discount saves more.
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Under some versions of single payer systems, this is true.
That's not what we have at the moment.
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I think you, and maybe your living partner, are misunderstanding the difference between a right and a desirable benefit we should pay for through taxes.
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You're conflating social services we have agreed on as a society to be beneficial to said society and pay taxes to employ people to do with the "right" to have that benefit.
None of the things you listed are *rights* owed to you.
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Single payer healthcare would be nice, but healthcare is not a "right".
You have the right to take care of your own health. But to make healthcare services a right means you have the "right" to someone else's labor.
Doctors are then slaves.
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In a way you are right, though it's not "stupid", it's optimism at a religious level. They have to *believe* that the market will keep going up or they wouldn't be able to keep investing and convince others to invest too.
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In under 300 characters, sure.
The AIPAC/ADL only exploited a weakness that dems gave them by being so fringe oriented.
That doesn't make AIPAC good people at all, but if we want a party that stands for Americans, it needs to stand for the majority.
You know...Democracy, i.e. majority rule?
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Just because the American left would be considered middle right in most of Europe doesn't make it not be far left here.
That's like saying $7.35/hr pay isn't a low paying job because people in India earn even less.
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I'm a bigot because I don't care where you pee? That's the kind of logic that keeps dems from getting into office.
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Any resemblance to the Hydra logo is purely coincidental.
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I'm not sure Bill Ackman knows what a "confidence game" is.
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Forget the Olympics, what tourist would want to come here?
I'm 5th+ generation American and I worry about taking a trip outside the county and having to come back across the border.
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They are *literally* killing you? So like, you're a ghost posting on the internet? That's new.
Also, maybe if the Democratic platform didn't lean so far left that it was figuratively tipping over, more moderates would vote for them.
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When he gets there they should cancel his visa, arrest him, and then deport him to those "great" prisons in El Salvador.
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I wouldn't call them expensive by any measure, but free isn't always an option either.
Most (possibly all?) "free" checking accounts require a minimum balance ($500ish) and/or direct deposit of your paycheck which not everyone has the option of or they charge a fee (i.e. not free).
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Just DUI hires.
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And we might could actually get some of that if the Democrats didn't spend all their efforts worrying about who pees in which bathroom.
I don't mean to belittle LGBQT issues, but they are a minority and 95% of the rest of us have bigger concerns (the other 5% are bigots).
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1. We aren't a European country.
2. I'm not talking about an arbitrary measure on some political spectrum, I'm talking about a party that actually represents where the majority of "the people" stand.
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Boycott any company that participates.
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Isn't Boeing the company that stranded two astronauts in space for 9 months and crashed a few 747s due to falsifying QA inspections?
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This says a lot about both parties. 36% of Americans couldn't stomach voting for either one.
We need a centrist party.
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What democrats need to do to get elected is to quit trying to cater to the far left fringe. Both parties have ignored the middle, but the democrats pretend there is no middle while the Trumpublicans just lie to them.
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If you are unlucky enough to live in a GOP controlled location you can try calling them to.
Not that it'll do any good. They don't pay attention to any message without a 6-figure "campaign donation" attached.
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Two technical points:
The MMR vaccine has been changed since the 70's. Turns out the 70's version wasn't as permanent as they believed back in the day.
Safety is relative. I agree MMR is very safe, but nothing is risk free. Sadly this last is something the antivaxxers exaggerate and exploit.
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Less Adolf Hitler and more Neville Chamberlain, but without the redeeming qualities.
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Do you mean creeping back into power calling themselves the AfD?
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Is it bad that it took few seconds before deciding this was satire?
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While I agree with the overall sentiment I can only look at this and think how useless it is. One day of no buying stuff, but you'll buy extra the days before and after so you don't have to do without?
Go to the beach, pick up a grain of sand and throw it in the water. It'll get the same notice.
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TikTok went dark? I didn't notice.
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It may not be as "simple as" because we have shifted the vocabulary, but we still have some pretty distinct classes. Working Class, Merchant Class (CEOs), and Gentry (Elites). Elites live off investments and run the show, CEOs "work" for the elites, & most everyone else is a wage slave.
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Sorry it's getting to you Milo.
My personal hope is that there is enough incompetency that nothing gets done. It is the government after all.