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I feel like there was a big discussion about whether or not the rise of Indiana as an in state football powerhouse was concerning or not and man you really have to have shamrock colored glasses on to think it's not.

I'm taking the field here

Uhhhhh….what?

https://www.war.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/4465551/15-trillion-budget-request-prioritizes-service-members-modernization/ I'd be more open to the "we need to save money" arguments if they weren't coming from supporters of a president who is asking for a $1.5 TRILLION defense budget.

I'd be a lot more sympathetic to this argument if there was some sort of transition plan or phase out, but the overwhelming evidence is that DOGE was just a pack of retards that cost us nearly as much as they saved us (CBS News, Moneywatch: DOGE says it has saved $160 billion. Those cuts have...

here's on the ground reporting suggesting HIV rates and HIV mortality has doubled in Uganda since PEPFAR funds got cut off: There's obviously a complicated chain of causation here that both makes it harder to measure and to say that anyone is morally culpable for the deaths in a way that's...

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://ph.ucla.edu/news-events/news/research-finds-more-14-million-preventable-deaths-2030-if-usaid-defunding

CHAT GPT PROMPT: compare and contrast the posts in this link (=IrishinSyria&o=date']Search results for query: Trump) and the posts in this link (=Bishop2b5&o=date']Search results for query: Biden). Focus on writing style, tone, and evaluate which poster could more fairly be compared to a 13...

Ok, yeah, freaking out about Benghazi and tan suits and the autopen was factual and rational but pointing out that the strait of Hormuz was open before the war started and it’s currently closed is being emotional like a group of school girls.

Yeah I guess the shorter version of my point is that Trump is not acting in the best interests of America or of the world.

“TDS” strike as pretty dismissive of what I think is a pretty serious critique: Trump chose to start an (unconstitutional) war with no viable plan for finishing it and with unclear objectives and as a result has gotten at least 13 service members killed, hundreds wounded, caused the immediate...

Complaining totally misreads my point. I’d rather us lose a stupid war than waste lives and treasure fighting it. So I’m glad it’s becoming clear that Trump has no appetite for continuing this and that the idiot warmongers like Hegseth are starting to lose influence. But I’m not going to...

well, we just unilaterally extended a ceasefire after the Iranians told us to shove it and none of our war aims have been met and a massive problem for us that didn't exist prior to the war is now looking increasingly like a permanent source of revenue for the Iranians.

So we just straight up lost a war with Iran, huh?

Trump has a way of taking critiques of various things that happened in the past and turning them into personal goals. Cleanest example is the critique of the Iraq Wars ad blood for oil. That was meant as a bad thing, and Republicans at the time vociferously denied that either Iraq war was about...

I agree, but I think there are some (extremely dubious) arguments for why bombing isn’t necessarily covered. I don’t think those arguments apply to blockades, which were around in the 18th century and therefore expressly contemplated by the framers.

it almost seems embarrassing to point this out but a full naval blockade is like a textbook act of war and it seems like we would need congressional authorization before starting one, right? Or is the constitution optional?

Netanyahu’s personal timeline doesn’t need to worry about long term American attitudes, he’s burning down the relationship to save his own skin

I don’t know the fact that the Ukraine war is happening in Ukraine and not Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, or Estonia seems to me pretty compelling proof that there’s still value to NATO.

Saw plenty of NATO member troops in Kandahar ten years after we were attacked. Not sure why a defensive alliance would need to show up to a war we launched without their involvement.