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Dog dad. Swiftie and whatever the functional equivalent is for Prince. Air and space enthusiast. Ancient philosophy enjoyer. Coffee hoarder.
Director of national security at the Progressive Policy Institute. Posts are my own and therefore probably bad.
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the gorilla was clearly the anchor being of our reality
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Since Iraq really
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Hypocrisy is not really good but light years better than the available alternatives
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I mean just transfer the Coast Guard back to Treasury
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not just that the Sith stuff was uncoordinated - when push came to shove, it overrode the non-Sith stuff
and partly (if you read theory) the Imperial military suffered from similar pathologies as real militaries under autocracies - coup proofing, deliberately divided structures, etc.
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the irony is that they thought faction was a severe threat and then it turns out that strong factionalism with weak factions was the system's undoing
strong factions tend to weed out the likes of trump before they get this far
in conclusion, the post-1968 party reforms were a mistake
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in the irradiated ruins of the coming post-apocalyptic wasteland, we will continue to argue about the Star Wars
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he was a humphrey supporter in 68 so yes he counts
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it's more nuanced than that, in that many of the olds didn't firmly tell the youngs "no" to start with and instead let them delude themselves they could actually get their way
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immediate term and the contracts that have already gone out, though it's not like this crew really respects the sanctity of government contracts
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it's not atypical for a party out of power in the post-1968 age of hollow political parties
the trouble right now is that we've got an atypical president and supine majority party in Congress
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At the same time it’s hard to believe that that utility justifies the mountains of cash burned to get there
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hegseth needs to read some theory
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those "bureaucratic fools" were onto something
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and in retrospect Sisko recognizes this and says he should have shut the whole thing down once Garak started leading him down this particular path
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To the extent there's a Jessup in that episode, it's Garak - Sisko never consciously approves anyone's murder, but Garak takes the logical next step without his approval and tells Sisko that that's why he came to him for help the first place.
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chaotic good is lawful good that curses on occasion
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So bizarre that the Army lapped up extraordinarily self-serving postwar accounts from German generals as if they were the gospel truth
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He has a checkered history of management at SpaceX, too (which not incidentally is the business of his most closely tied to federal contracts and technical support), especially over time - the more directly involved he gets, the worse the company performs.
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can't leave if you say you were never there
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it's also exhausting to be constantly told that the thing you thought was good is bad, actually
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the problem comes when you try to build houses and The Groups mount lawsuits to stop you
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alas I'm afraid the age gap here is only five years and they didn't hook up until he was at least 18
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not just the men
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I mean: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgSg...
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It seems pretty clear that it's for people who want order and stability at any price after the dithering of the Republic and the chaos of the Clone Wars. Never mind that Palpatine had no intention of delivering - it's quite explicit in RotS that that's the bargain.
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He is, at base, a moron
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the whole "10,000 US KIA three years running to no real end" had much more to do with it
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strangely enough it's also combined with this attitude: theonion.com/marilyn-mans...
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Actually makes a lot of sense when you find out
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