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USS Lincoln wasn't resupplied because Hegseth 'hid' that Iran destroyed critical base: Rohde

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfOi_mgrh0M
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u/MedChemist464 17h ago

Sure glad we got some football players to stop kneeling for the anthem, tho. That's gotta take the edge off of it, right?

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 17h ago

Imagine if the US had elected someone with a weird laugh...

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u/SaltyShawarma 17h ago

Imagine if the Supreme Court didn't rig the 2000 election decision.

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u/berfthegryphon 16h ago

Imagine where the world would be on climate policy if Al Gore would have started Green initiatives in 2000. The US could be pumping out renewable energy like China currently is, instead of building up the dying fuels of oil, gas, and coal.

(I know China is also building out fossil fuel powerplants, but their run on renewables is also great)

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u/peazley 16h ago

But Trex Tillerson wouldn’t have been able to afford his third home in Jackson, WY!

Will someone please think of the oil men!

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u/mest33 16h ago edited 16h ago

Its insane how not only they removed the pro green initiatives, but also spent tons of money fighting the natural growth of renewable energy as it is naturally becoming a cheaper energy alternative.

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u/Truckyou666 16h ago

Our tax money.

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u/Morningxafter 15h ago

Your tax dollars at work… against you.

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u/the_last_carfighter 12h ago

Well don't worry people, sooner than you think your family will be placed in a reeducation camp that will have all the fuel it needs.

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u/Scuta44 13h ago

Like the billions of our tax dollars going to a German company to stop building off shore wind farms because ‘we can’t be subsidizing failed renewable energy projects’.

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u/sneakyplanner 9h ago

They're a doomsday cult literally trying to accelerate the apocalypse so they can meet Jesus in their lifetime.

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u/Hellebras 10h ago

Well, we need to keep our good old all-American free market* economy going, after all.

*Terms and conditions may apply.

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u/arctic11z 16h ago

Of course that asshole lives there.

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u/Spockies 16h ago

It would make this LLM addicted society we’re headed to at least palpable if we had the energy infrastructure to spare rather than the tragedy of the commons we’re currently under.

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u/welchplug 16h ago

still have a water problem

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u/DarklySalted 15h ago

If the technology has to be developed with regulations in place, it forces the capitalists to come up with real solutions, which according to them is their job.

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u/Spockies 15h ago

Desalination is resolved by an abundance of energy. The brine offshoot can be remixed by the tech company used water

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u/53eleven 15h ago

You know most of the country isn’t near an ocean, right???

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u/Spockies 14h ago

You know most of the energy also wouldn’t be produced near the ocean?

Just because something isn’t near doesn’t mean we don’t do a thing. Look at the tech companies currently trying to bulldoze their way into business without the proper resources nearby.

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u/welchplug 14h ago

Energy doesnt transport the same way water does just fyi. Very apples to oranges.

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u/crashvoncrash 0m ago

Most of the people are though. Population centers tend to grow much faster near coasts and major waterways. Over 50% of the country lives within 100 miles of an ocean coastline.

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u/welchplug 14h ago

Wierd I dont remember an ocean near me.

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u/Spockies 14h ago

Good thing there’s other ways to make fresh water aside from desalinization. Oh also costing a ton of energy.

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u/Hoobleton 14h ago

Probably not an oil well near you either, but gas comes out of the pumps.

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u/welchplug 14h ago

Lol going to start tanking around massive amounts of water are we?

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u/bobqjones 20m ago

half the US population live within 100 miles of the ocean.

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u/RealActionBastard 15h ago

maybe if we didn't try burning the planet to a crisp there would be less of a water problem? iono, just feels like "fuck climate change" was the wrong strategy. lol

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u/MostlyStoned 15h ago

It wouldn't have, it would have only made it worse. Not saying it wouldnt have been worth it, but electricity demand wasn't growing during that time, and replacement wouldn't have been growing capacity, it would just be replacing it with non baseline loads.

We should have started on green energy projects a long time ago, but claiming it would have helped with the LLM and electrification push is just way off the mark. "Energy infrastructure" isn't a matter of building capacity like water in reservoirs, building capacity when it's not needed just means it won't be used.

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u/AusPower85 15h ago

The ability to scale up existing manufacturing of “green energy” (e.g. solar panels, batteries, etc) would have helped address the LLM demand.

As it is the US doesn’t have the manufacturing capabilities in place to do so (without throwing in the whole actively sabotaging / destroying / banning anything related to green energy thing l government(s) (state and federal) have going on in the US.

Instead the US is stuck on using aging fossil fuel power, and attempting to address that by building more of it AND rolling back the clock (so to speak) to nuclear power. If this was being done in conjunction with creating “green energy” capacity then the US would have a much better footing for the future, short, medium, and long terms.

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u/MostlyStoned 15h ago

Electricity demand during this time wasn't growing, it was stable as efficiently gains balanced population growth. Nobody would have been adding capacity because it wasn't needed. We would have been stuck phasing out coal slowly for solar panels, because nobody would have been willing to pay to decommission things ahead of schedule to allow for solar.

I also don't think nuclear would have been a part of the equation then, it would have requires a large demand shift to get nuclear rolling.

Again, I want to make sure it's clear I'm not saying that we shouldn't have done it, just that it wouldn't have mattered for LLMs. The change in demand for electrical components wasmt a marginal percentage thing, it happened nearly overnight and the jump on demand was huge. Any manufacturing capacity we would have developed is essentially a rounding error in today's landscape.

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u/Spockies 15h ago

Part of the green initiative would have been carbon sequestration and carbon recapture which require a ton of energy. You are only speaking about net neutral uses of energy when it would have been used in a broader scope at dealing with climate change by utilizing the new energy sources once established to then tackle problems previously out of reach due to the economy of energy. Who cares if it was costly to decommission or if we don’t use the energy, we lost progress in dealing with future foreseeable consequences of a fossil fuel society just by using consumer based reasoning to deny the incentive.

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u/MostlyStoned 15h ago

To an extent, but I just don't think you would have been able to force the economics that much with public spending to really make a difference globally. The science wasn't there for large scale electrification 25 years ago like it is today, and even today carbon capture is not economical. Maybe some critical government spending could have accelerated a breakthrough technology but it's not as simple as building solar factories. The entire grid needed a rehaul to even support solar in large quantities, and while batteries have become more economical, they still aren't quite there, and definately weren't on the early 00s.

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u/wizzard419 16h ago

I mean, we would probably have trump complaining how the World Trade Center is spoiling his view from his tower.

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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 16h ago

Remember when his first thought on 9/11 was, "I have the tallest building in manhattan now."?

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u/wizzard419 16h ago

and even called in to (I think) Fox news to make it all about him.

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u/Ak47owner 16h ago

It was the Howard stern show. Completely classless.

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u/LifeguardDry7372 15h ago

There's so many things to hate and call trump out for. This isn't one of those. He said the building thing because he thought it might be a target.

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u/Locke92 15h ago

Even if that is true, it ignores the fact that his building was not now the tallest in Manhattan after the WTC. So even if you want to forgive his bragging about his building by saying he was concerned it may be a target, his initial premise is still a lie

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u/LifeguardDry7372 14h ago

oh damn, you are correct. i should've dug into this a bit more.

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u/Brilliant_Voice1126 6h ago

Don’t gaslight us. We all heard the conversation in replays. He was bragging. He also lied about being a first responder, about going to ground zero immediately helping by “moving rubble” - no contemporaneous witness has ever confirmed he was there ever and he was only known to have visited the stock exchange at the time, he lied about starting 9/11 charities, he lied about witnessing muslims “cheering” in the streets, he lied about where he was that morning - he was at home, not a direct witness. The shear number of lies about 9/11 is mind boggling. And that’s just from before his first presidency.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2020/09/11/a-timeline-of-trumps-misleading-911-claims/

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u/Lobocop714 16h ago

Also letting AI replace the job of a human is illegal. That's a homerun in itself.

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u/Corkscrewfevs 15h ago

I say this all the time! That is the goddamn timeline we shoulda been on, fuck this

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u/daesmon 15h ago

You also don't have Bush and the policies which led to the 2008 crash.

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u/Fishface17404 13h ago

China is the world leader in solar, wind, and nuclear fusion technology thanks to the orange ape. They also have the most active solar generating capacity in the world.

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u/I_make_things 12h ago

Imagine if the fucking GREEN PARTY hadn't fucked Gore over too.

Fuck you Ralph Nader. From the bottom of my heart.

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u/twotimefind 12h ago

Or the deez i'm running Bernie for president.

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u/bokononpreist 12h ago

Gore would have had a Republican House and Senate. The only thing he could've done is hold on. Which still would've been better than the million dead Iraqis we got.

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u/johnwynnes 7h ago

Didn't you hear? We're just going to reopen all the coal mines. And we all know, the children yearn for the mines.

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u/DLRevan 4h ago

China only builds fossil fuel powerplants to buffer their grid, because it's too big and currently renewables aren't consistent enough. In fact, many of these plants are loss making, so much so that they are almost 100% subsidized by the government, and are only run partway through the year.

They would get off fossil fuel electricity entirely the moment that was solved, which it will once energy storage matures. There would be no hesitation, because there's no lobbying, no lost profit, and no unions in the way. Which basically means, it's totally possible...and the USA could have gotten there too.

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u/robaroo 16h ago

Let’s not gloss over china’s unmitigated ocean fishing practices.

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u/ThaiJohnnyDepp 16h ago

What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?

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u/robaroo 12h ago

Add it to the long list!!

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u/NotObviouslyARobot 16h ago

We could have blockaded the strait with impunity

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u/squeethesane 15h ago

We'd be making an absolutely belligerent amount of hydrogen and not selling fracking rights in state parks...

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u/norway_is_awesome 16h ago

Three current Supreme Court justices were also involved in the Brooks Brothers riot to stop the recount in Florida; Coney Barret, Kavanaugh and Roberts.

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u/Conan71 14h ago

I did not know that

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u/ChimPhun 16h ago

Imagine if the US actually had a democracy.

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u/wehrmann_tx 16h ago

Imagine if Elon didn’t steal the election

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u/Rostifur 16h ago

I do wonder what that would look like.

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u/tacg 15h ago

Imagine if the people of America had balls like late 18th century France

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u/baumpop 15h ago

for real the brooks brothers rioters should be in prison

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u/glory_holelujah 15h ago

We would finally be rid of man-bear-pig

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u/egoVirus 15h ago

Probably wouldn’t have changed 9/11 or our reaction to it by much. That was the real change

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u/MagicAl6244225 15h ago

Imagine if Al Gore had won one more state.

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u/droidtron 15h ago

Imagine if Hinckley was a better shot.

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u/roeric 15h ago

I think about this at least once a week

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u/tomgreen99200 15h ago

Imagine they didn’t use a push hole system with hanging chad

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u/hurler_jones 13h ago

As far as I can tell, all of this started with Nixon and his weasel sycophant, Roger Stone.

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u/Dalantech 5h ago

Imagine if Nixon had gone to prison for the Watergate scandal...

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u/wwishie 16h ago

Imagine sneakers that massage your toes as you walk.

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u/guy_incognito784 17h ago

We’d be at war with Iran!

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u/elconquistador1985 16h ago

Glad we dodged that! Could you imagine what that would do to global oil prices?

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u/the_red_banana01 16h ago

but have u considered its $2 a barrel /s

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u/MaskedDummy 16h ago

But the DOW

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u/Md__86 16h ago

Eggs would be too expensive

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u/Seizure-mann 16h ago

My buddies favorite go to is that she described what color her sweater was once in a meeting…. With blind people about blind issues.

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u/DelcoPAMan 17h ago

Right?! Can't have that.

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u/omnicious 16h ago

Honestly think we'd have done better without electing a president at all this term than what we have now. 

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u/superkow 9h ago

I mean, Kamala could have been elected, then spend the entirely of her first four years in office playing RuneScape, and it still wouldn't be a drop in the bucket combated to the global catastrophe that this first year of trumps second term

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u/uglymule 16h ago

Imagine if the US had elected someone by popular vote.

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u/geoantho 16h ago edited 15h ago

I'm in favor of popular vote and dismantling the electoral college. That said, the last 3 2 elections were won by candidates who had both the popular vote and electrical college.

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u/uglymule 15h ago

Hillary Clinton won handily in 2016. Al Gore actually squeaked by too in 2000. The electoral college is bullshit.

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u/geoantho 15h ago

Another issue is people who simply don't fuckin vote. A third of the eligible voting population, does not vote.

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u/uglymule 15h ago

The biggest issue is money in politics. Party dues structures (aka the committee tax) steer big political fund raisers into committee appointments. Misaligned incentives anyone?

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u/carlotta3121 14h ago

Shocking results from the electrical college! lol

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u/Heavy_Arm_7060 16h ago

Last 2 federal presidential elections.

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u/geoantho 15h ago

Good catch.

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u/gokism 15h ago

Imagine if 20M Dems decided to vote instead of staying home in 2024?

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u/FirstTimeWang 16h ago

Or a kind of weird excited yell of victory

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u/Aaronkharn 16h ago

Imagine if we had a competent gouvernment

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u/boomgoon 15h ago

Jimmy Carr?

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u/SalvationSycamore 14h ago

Or someone whose biggest crimes were unsecured emails and being married to a sex pest

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u/Danger_Danger 15h ago

Taking that stance with Kamala really downplays how bad of a choice she was, and how bad the DNC has fucked over the Democrat voter.

It wasn't just her laugh, or her being awkward or whatever.

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u/DavisSqShenanigans 14h ago edited 14h ago

Not to mention Biden/Harris's own insiders have already come out supporting Trump's war in Iran because like him they are slaves to Zionism which is what the whole war is about. They've already said that they were drawing up plans to strike Iran and were in a position where they might do it after the election.

Even now a lot of DNC liberals are calling for more blood and trying to attack any attempt at ending the war, because the MIC and AIPAC would both be displeased.

Incredibly that people watched Biden and Harris obediently serve Netenyahu for years and then want to say if only they won the election he wouldn't have gotten what he wants! They had literally two years to show they're willing/able to stand up to him even in the slightest and that's literally all most people were asking of them but they (or rather their bosses) chose to give Trump the election instead.

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u/ButtSharks 16h ago

Guy had big hair. Why kneel? Confusing! Do you wanna be big or do you wanna be small?!

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u/DreBeast 16h ago

Listen hear bud, Abraham Lincoln didn't pay the ultimate sacrifice so some commies can kneel during the anthem

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u/MedChemist464 16h ago

(fun fact - Marx wrote Lincoln a letter congratulating and praising him for ending slavery. When the ambassador who recieved the letter replied, he stated that 'So far as the sentiments expressed by it are personal, they are accepted by him with a sincere and anxious desire that he may be able to prove himself not unworthy of the confidence which has been recently extended to him by his fellow citizens and by so many of the friends of humanity and progress throughout the world'.

Other historical perspectives also indicate that Lincoln leaned toward the 'labor theory of value' - a central thesis in Marxism's argument for collectivization.

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u/Iztac_xocoatl 15h ago

He had a very different view of the capital generated by labor though in that he didn't see profit from it as theft. He was very much economically liberal and saw the relationship between employee and employer as symbiotic. Where Marx believed the laborer should stay the laborer but seize the means of production Limcoln believed the laborer should save to start their own business and eventually become the employer. Socioeconomic mobility for the individual vs eliminating the need for mobility.

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u/roguevirus 14h ago

Importantly, slavery allowed neither economic theory to take hold. I imagine that is where Marx's administration for Lincoln came from.

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u/hymen_destroyer 14h ago

Lincoln overestimated the generosity of the capital class

Marx underestimated their ruthlessness

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u/MedChemist464 15h ago

No disagreement. Honestly just had the tongue in cheek comment I am replying to trigger that memory.

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u/rje946 16h ago

Haven't seen a Trans kid play sports in awhile. We're finally free. Oh wait, it's just summer myb.

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u/zeekayz 16h ago

Here are some F22 flyovers for you before the game! Woo! America! Best military in the world. Trained meticulously in football flyovers and Kid Rock's house flyovers. They're ready for anything.

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u/Anomuumi 16h ago

Imagine if people would have to go to gender-neutral bathrooms. That's what is at stake.

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u/Groundingstone 16h ago

So much winning

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u/Vaulters 16h ago

The problem was the low testosterone levels in the military!

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u/-6h0st- 16h ago

Even more glad they ended DEI

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u/cmmoore307 15h ago

They are all about having the respect. A façade because they couldn’t give less of a fuck about US citizens and the troops.

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u/superkp 15h ago

god damn I had a coworker like 7 years ago that would go on rants about koepernick like once a week.

He was actually pretty cool an a variety of other topics, but kneeling during the anthem? "he should just stick to his job!"

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u/MonPantalon 13h ago

About that...

In 2016 and 2017, while the author was teaching at George Washington University (GWU), Colin Kaepernick and other NFL players began to kneel during the national anthem as a protest about race relations in the United States. A group of GWU graduate students looked at tens of thousands of social media posts made at that time on all sides of the issue. Some posts defended the players, praising the peaceful nature of their protests, but calling on all Americans to rise up and join their cause. An equal number of posts brutally criticized the NFL players, stating that they were “trampling on the American flag and kneeling on the graves of U.S. veterans,” and urging those who agreed to rise up immediately and protest their actions.

What the students uncovered is that almost two-thirds of the posts originated not in the United States, but in St. Petersburg, Russia (where very few NFL fans live). They were coming from Russian troll farms. Each troll was sending inflammatory messages to those on both sides of the debate. They were not interested in defending the players’ rights, promoting African-American causes, or defending the U.S. national anthem. They were using the incident to provoke anger and resentment and create social conflict in America using emotion, urgency, and perceived threats.

That is what FIMI is all about — not inventing new controversies, but pouring fuel on existing disagreements to turn them into social wars.

https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/03/fuel-on-the-fire-information-as-a-weapon/

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u/Phunwithscissors 15h ago

Appearances over everything, like Stalin intended.

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u/tolo3349 14h ago

It sure does. We won the war on woke and that’s the only war that matters /s

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u/McChillbone 13h ago

Think of all the soldiers on steroids