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18 minutes ago, SuperSpreader said:

No one cares

That isn't true.  Around 40% of voters care!  

28 minutes ago, CastlevaniaNut18 said:

Very depressing the choices come down between two advanced senior citizens who are already exhibiting degrees of cognitive decline. And that’s supposed to get the country through to 2029. 
 

This is batshit. 

It would truly be a black comedy if both of them go comatose a few weeks before the election.  Might as well allow the pickled body of Lenin to run for President at that point. 

I don't think the the lawyer arguing for Colorado really did a good job.  Trump's lawyer was more compelling.  And that's my opinion, even though I think Trump shouldn't be able to run because I think he is an insurrectionist.

I think it will be a 9-0 decision in favor of Trump.   

29 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

It sounds like from Ukrainian sources that people there see this move as:

• Zelenskyy believes that Ukraine needs to keep some sort of forward momentum in terms of retaking some ground, otherwise the west will completely abandon Ukraine
• Zaluzhny would not sign off on wasting gear/men on this sort of stuff - this is why Ukraine often lost ground to Russia but managed to exact 10:1 or even 20:1 casualties
• Syrsky is willing to throw men and gear at any mark on the map in order to take it or hold it (he's the one that held on to Bakhmut for so long)

So it really comes down to: which form of strategy and tactics can defeat Russia: the NATO model (Zaluzhny), or the Soviet model (Syrsky)? Right now the Soviet model of ground warfare is proving superior as Russia continue to take small chunks of land, even at the cost of men and gear. If Ukraine emulates it, will it help?

 

I have no doubt that the NATO model is superior if you have air support, but the west hesitated for far too long on getting Ukraine the gear they needed. If Ukraine had been given HIMARS, F-16s, ATACMS, NASAMS, Patriot, Bradleys, tanks, and more in 2022, then I think Russia would possibly have lost Crimea by now. But the west is weak and lacks resolve. Zelenskyy possibly believes that if he shifts Ukraine back to the Soviet mindset of sacrifice for the greater good (which likely means a big conscription) then he can hold of Russia. I believe he can, but the one thing the Soviet model needs (even more than men) is artillery. 

Does Ukraine possess the ability to produce NATO artillery shells?

1 hour ago, Kal-El814 said:

Step 1: SCOTUS determines POTUS has absolute immunity

Step 2: Biden orders drone strike on SCOTUS, Mar a Lago

Step 3: ???

Step 4: Profit

Very legal, very cool

3 hours ago, Spork3245 said:

Haley was in the SNL cold open and I wanted to fucking vomit.

That's like a rite of passage for presidential candidates, no?  

Also, wheel designs that have the rim (or aerocover) stick out further than the tire itself means your vehicle WILL eventually have curb rash.  Dumb dumb dumb

Ukraine allegedly sunk another Russian Navy ship - a missile Corvette was taken out by what appears to be drone jet skis.

Give away the weapons for for free, but have the EU foot the transport bill

9 minutes ago, Ricofoley said:

Ruh roh

 

Musk Risks Losing World’s Richest Title With Pay Deal Voided

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Elon Musk’s $55 billion pay package at Tesla Inc. was struck down by a Delaware judge after a shareholder challenged it as excessive, a ruling that would take a giant bite out of Musk’s wealth and put the fate of his companies in question.

 

He's currently sulking on X about how bad of a place Delaware is to incorporate in.  I didn't have the context.   Now I do!

3 minutes ago, Massdriver said:

My opinion of her would go way up if she announced a 100 million dollar donation to Democrats from Biden on down the ticket.

My opinion of her would go way up if she released a country album.  I think some of her newer stuff is good, but I actually think most of her country work is better, even if the country genre isn't as popular as straight up pop.

37 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

Republicans are such losers. So, no sports, music, tv, or movies (all too woke). What's left for them? I guess just falling for scams and cosplaying as a Davy Crockett.

Taliban Americans 

I'm a big proponent of UBI.  It's probably going to be necessary when/if AI and other technology advances make large swaths of the workforce unemployed.

I eagerly await the Balkanization of China!

3 minutes ago, best3444 said:

In all honesty there shouldn't be a death penalty. It's an easy way out for subject at hand. Let them suffer in a jail cell for life. Like, if someone is up for the death penalty they should rot in 24 hour confinement until they die. 

If we are establishing that life in prison is worse than the death penalty, then isn't putting an innocent person in jail for life without the possibility of parole cruel and unusual punishment? 

28 minutes ago, Dodger said:

Wasn't there a lethal injection compound that was doing the job, but then people got it banned thinking states would stop execution's but the states that are all gungho about it just said lol no and went on to other ways which are resulting in these "botched" executions? Probably just need to let them go back to using that compound. Unless the Federal government has some way of banning states from using the death penalty altogether. though I assume that's some sort of states rights thing.  

I don't understand why these states just don't use the same drugs that are used to put down pets?  We put our dog down early last year, and it was a painless event for him.  

28 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

I don't understand...if done properly (and I am not advocating for this, I am against the death penalty), shouldn't a person go unconscious within 2-3 minutes without oxygen? And the panic reflex is allegedly caused by rising CO2 levels, not low oxygen levels, so the idea is that a person basically slips into unconsciousness without even knowing they are (similar to how people often getting drowsy and then pass out when exposed to high CO levels (not CO2). So either this understanding is entirely wrong, or they didn't administer 100% pure Nitrogen?

I guess they used a mask, instead of filling the room with nitrogen.  If you going to do it, at least do it in the same way that people actually die by (accidental) nitrogen asphyxiation.

2 hours ago, MarSolo said:

Wait till you find out about Hillary’s emails.

Number 6 will shock you!

If someone feels that they are another race or ethnicity, who among us can judge them?

7 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

Well...the only reason they had to "bite the bullet" is because they didn't have the funding to develop a successor to the Space Shuttle in a timely manner. It's like saying a local town had to bite the bullet and call on the military to fight a wildfire after the state and local country reduced their funding and manpower by 80%.

Could NASA have developed a new rocket and capsule for a comparable amount of money that they spent on their contracts with Boeing and SpaceX?

3 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

And not a single private company has yet to land anything on even the moon. Like...it's pretty obvious that if we want actual results we should be doubling or tripling NASA's budget.

I think you can root for both increased public spending on space stuff, and private ventures.  America would still be stuck hitching a ride to the ISS with Russia's Soyuz if NASA hadn't bitten the bullet and signed commercial contracts with Boeing and SpaceX.

Haley campaign lashes out at RNC, Ronna McDaniel over resolution to declare Trump presumptive GOP nominee

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Nikki Haley's campaign is lashing out at the RNC and Ronna McDaniel following a report that its considering a resolution to declare Donald Trump the presumptive GOP nominee.

I would actually prefer the parties to get rid of the primaries altogether.  Go back to smoke filled rooms where party bosses determine who will be the nominee.  

11 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Not like Orban can say no once daddy Erdogan tells him what to do.

Hungary also has a substantial (for Hungary) Gripen fighter contract with Sweden.  

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4 minutes ago, Jason said:

Three years is a good run when it was supposed to last, what, a couple of months tops?

Yeah, quite amazing.  JPL/NASA's record of successful missions around/on Mars is unparalleled.

32 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said:

Tesla's position in the Chinese market is in serious trouble with the growth of domestic EV manufacturers, and those firms are very much making their presence known outside of the Chinese domestic market as well.

It was a long term mistake for Tesla to expand into China.  They have Elon by the balls, and could simply snatch up all of Tesla's factories and tooling if he gets on the wrong side of Xi.