Yeah, it would look like that Spetsnaz drop on Kyiv’s airport.

Not just in Iran, Lindsey Graham seems to think we’re also gonna invade Cuba, probably parts of Latin America, and who knows, maybe Canada or Mexico to top it off. Multi-front wars aren’t a bad idea right? We have the logistics to fight two separate long-term wars, so what’s a third or a fifth?

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For a lot of right-wing Latin American governments, genocide of native peoples is icing on the cake when it comes to military operations.

Damned Hoxhaist bees.

Actually, Texas slapped barbed wire on the underside of these when they put them up. I feel like the feds might do the same.

Graham has been the warhawkiest warhawk to ever hawk a war since the Bush years. He’s Douglas MacArthur reborn - we always need to preemptively attack everyone because we’ll be DESTROYED if we don’t, that sorta thing.

Money does buy access to a lot better treatments, though.

Yeah, not every NPC is like this, but in a city, there should be a notable amount of people with power like this. Small towns even probably still have one or two people with Actual Player Class Levels, doubly so if their village is under constant threat or is otherwise Interesting.

No it’s not. At least not in the big three chili parlor chains here (Skyline/Goldstar/Dixie). I haven’t ever run across anyone who adds cocoa to their chili and I’ve lived here for 30+ years.

Yeah, this feels more like “people haven’t experienced being in a walkable community with good transit”. My buddy is having to move back to the States after a year in Germany, and he’s so upset that he and his wife are gonna have to get a car again and not just walk/bike everywhere.

Heinlein was…rather directionless on his politics. I think it was Clarke that once remarked that Heinlein’s politics depended on who he was sleeping with - which is why you get weird whiplash from the anti-governance free-love (and incest and racism) in Methuselah’s Children and Farnham’s Freehold to a full throated defense of utopian fascism in Starship Troopers.

The truth is those “career experts” are now long gone. The ones who needed to continue working have either gone into industry or left for greener shores. The ones who could retire, did (a good chunk of them also having left the country). It’s a billion times easier to stop doing science and turn off all the equipment, than it is to turn it back on. Even the agencies that are hiring again, are having trouble - my friend is a PhD physicist interviewing for Los Alamos right now, and normally, there would be HUNDREDS of applicants for these government positions.

They got 60 applications for two jobs, total.

Nobody wants to work for the government when we’ve just learned some billionaire friend of the President can fire you just because Grok told him you were worthless.

No no, she’s busy making sure that the Air Force Academy is like, super Christian-fascist.

Damn. Their headquarters is literally less than twenty minutes from me. Always thought they were shady fucks despite being “Best Place To Work in Cincinnati” year after year - you hear tons of horror stories out of TQL if you live here.

Nah, I almost guarantee these kids are being trafficked. There’s no way at least a good chunk of them aren’t - the potential for abuse is way too high, and we’re all aware of the type of people DHS is hiring right now.

New Zealand too.

Hegseth sent a couple thousand Marines to the Med, and he apparently thinks a ground invasion is at least ONE plan on the table. I do truly think Hegseth thinks that it’s just like Iraq in a video game, where it’s all flat, featureless desert.

Or, more likely, Hegseth doesn’t care about the lives lost, and thinks that we can just throw bodies and missiles at Iran to cow then into submission. That seems in line with his stupid “warrior ethos” shit.

Engineering too. A huge chunk of my company’s design engineering staff are H-1B because you can get away with paying a lot less.

I however, give you Genesis 1:28: ‘And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”’

Combine this with the Revelation, wherein Jesus shall return and build the perfect Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, and you can see where a lot of more apocalyptic, “what does it matter” Christianity comes from really easily.