but the days of global American military precense won’t be back for 20 years at least.

Skynet possibility aside, it seems impossible to regain dominance. When the Pentagon cannot make a good argument for rebuilding GCC bases, because of their obvious Iran capability to destroy them again a week later, they are further effectively admitting that the budget requests needed to overcome that incapacity can no longer be passed by congress.

100 helicopters that have been getting a million dollars of maintenance a month. But in reality you got 50 “good enough” and 50 that literally can’t fly.

This is a bigger, though newer, problem with F35. Lockheed clampdown on providing manuals to US army, and all service done through them, makes it an extremely expensive program. Low flight readiness ratio reflects the requirement to canibalize parts from some planes for the ones that fly. For decades, US weapons programs have been an oligarchy enrichment program to spend as much as possible, independent of security/capability enhancement.

I’m not sure of any “made up origin of Israel”. King David did exist, and the time of most of old testament written.

What happened to Christianity after Rome sacked Jerusalem Church in 70AD was the eventual erasure of Jesus from Christianity. The early 2nd century gnostics argued that exodus 6:3 proved Yahweh was a demon instead of the fatherly figure of El that Jesus was recognizing. The entirety of monotheist Yahweh God stems from a song that King David’s musical director made up (psalm 82) where Yahweh kills all the other gods, but no one ever claimed to be a witness to the Astral plane’s process of that happening.

When the Gnostics believed in Jesus philophy over warmongering Moses primacy Torah version, that ignores all Jewish prophets condemning the fall of Israelite dominance as God abandoning pieces of shit genocidal evil rulers. Christianity would instead adopt the competing philosophy that every word in bible must be true, culminating in 4th Century roman papacy led by Constantine that declared Jesus and God are equal matter. This formally, forever after, cemented Christianity as being anti-Christ because the Roman empire (now officially Christian) that used the 70AD destruction of Church in the name of Jupiter as the new chosen people, now Christian, shifted to Yahweh viewing the Roman empire as the chosen people. All heretics and non Romans should now be genocided in the name of god, just as Moses said, and the parts of the bible where Israelites were mentioned were transformed them into proto-roman catholics. As late as 16th century, Saint Anne was invented as the Irish-Britany celtic goddess mother of Mary, somehow proto Roman/Catholic. Now you know, Jesus is a quarter-god Quebecois celtic.

Korean intervention was to overturn democracy. WW2 European intervention was only to prevent USSR full takeover of Germany. Domino theory is not about proving that nazi scarcity oligarchist economics are the best, but to diminish any country that might want to escape nazi colonialism.

I’ve yet to see an example movie of such a trope. Believable though.

21.2C Sunday. About 0.15C higher than previous record set all the way back in prehistory of 2023. 1C higher than 1982-2010 average. This is without beaking the Nino record of fall 2015. Very close to the record, but also possibly peaking and rolling off on el nino index.

record global air temperatures for last 2 weeks. Record northern hemisphere summer (all time) records for 20 days or so this year. Latter temperatures are inherently the cost of global warming. Milder other 3 season temperatures can affect snowfall and fresh water levels, but don’t affect immediate liveability/comfort.

I see. Some of the stroads have electric poles on the sidewalk! … found waldo.

including possible areas of common ground

The ultimate one is a zionist supremacist genocidal radical religious establishment/Mossad rule over the US. How they can cooperate to diminish DSA, and block all progressive agendas.

Interesting meeting, probably about resisting impeachment proceedings after Dems win. Jeffries shouldn’t be house speaker, IMO.

We pay huge costs as colonial servant. Trade is not “benefits of a state”. Trade balance has been mostly even for years, and in US favour if you exclude resources that US/Trump has never wanted to tariff on anyone. Making Canada poorer and hostile does not help the US, and means less jobs and sales for both.

This is more an example of advanced senility dementia that spouts more and more absurd out of his mouth, rather than any imminent declaration that any bon seller is a commie traitor insurgent. Though central banks around the world might want to consider this out of control spiral, and sell before they are threatened not to be allowed to sell.

Still this is just the dotard mixing up his talking points, although technically he could claim winning this war. The bond market no longer has an air force or navy, and its missile production facillities are down at least 90%.

Buying the best value product is not influence. Sticking to worst product from direct real enemy convincingly trying to destroy you is influence. Ideological reasons is influence. Continued military cooperation with enemy is influence.

Establishment does not want power redistribution. Most people look to government as having a role of providing shared prosperity, instead of just forcing you into war and to go die for your King’s amibitions. A conditional welfare system is rationed by political preference, and expensive to police and administer. UBI provides the shared prosperity at a 0 effective tax rate. You’re simply transfering very high income’s taxes to lower income people in a net 0 transaction for the state. With UBI, every corrupt empire spending plan must justify taking away equal cash alternative to every citizen/resident, and so the political power of establishment/rulership representatives is redistributed to the citizenry far better than election promises meant to champion a specific constituency (necessarily at expense of all others) without the obligation to follow through and deliver. More bureaucratic allies of the empire is also a corruption, if their function is fundamentally useless and can be replaced by UBI.

UBI leads to massive economic growth because wealth always trickles up, and redistribution is just step 1 in trickling up to all workers and owners who make more to sell more to broader population that can buy more.

A better closing sentence would have been. The objection to UBI is that the establishment loves more fascist totalitarian power instead of losing that power.

Zionazi, Corporate, Oligarch fascim will put up a good fight. UBI is more power redistribution than any wealth redistribution. It becomes easier for everyone to make a lot of money and get richer. The objection is about reducing fascist totalitarian establishment power.

It’s a false claim. Medicare Advantage (Part D) is private insurance to cover more than Medicare. Medicare for all would be a public/private split, where the private part is generally considered a luxury benefit.

Dementia is very significantly advanced. A Narcisist liar forcing all minions to believe his own lies transitions to dementia by total absurdity of the lies, and strategy delusions to win anything.

The bad: SAVE voter rigging act where his hick redneck base don’t have the airport IDs they would need to vote, to falling for Netanyahu manipulation into a collapsing war

The ugly: Pushing South Korea and Canada away through absurd demands from joining the war (US desperation for SK weapons they are untrained on) to formalizing colonial subjugation before ink is even dry on other concessions.

The pure dementia: 20% toll/tariff on all shipping through SoH. SoH is US territory. “Economic D-day but details come later” against entire world. Blockade certain to destroy economy prior to mid terms in addition to risking more direct alliances with Iran and against the US, and certain to unify Iran to wait for his impeachment.

Canada/Carney should have discussions directly with auto makers, Deere, Caterpillar, Boeing to discuss what they can do to keep Canadian market access. Auto sales in Canada were the same level as UK and France, despite half the population in 2024. Competition to Deere/Caterpillar for China is 10x better value.

On AI, Ford said something stupid about if Ontario doesn’t build them, then Trump will. Huawei has a 50% cost advantage over Nvidia, and there are plenty of open models optimized for it. These models can be tuned for Canada if they need be, but the point would be that serving open models at low latency to Americans and Canadians is good competition to US.

Norad is how the US survives only thanks to Canadian cooperation. Canada has been very weak in continuing military integration, and “values”, with the US. It’s time for US to pay their fair share for our assistance in their survival.

My best guess for what happened where some of the details leaked Friday were palatable, and Provinces removing bans, while (as Manitoba) said “please don’t buy any of their shit”, was Provinces technically okaying the deal, as long as there were loopholes like bad prices.

The only reason I’m not upset with this, is that I will game the algorithm to make my price almost free, if these MFers want any of my $, that is. Maybe a good use of 20c of AI to harrass their algorithm into giving me a nearly free seat.

I agree the US spies. It is easy on a full general compute stack, ie. PCs/phones. Routers is harder, but NSA experts could probably find suspicious chips on hardware, and if those experts were part of a government for Americans, they could find violations installed at NSA’s requests too.

I’m not saying its right because I’m right. I’m making very specific proofs. You need to challenge the proofs instead of hand waving about how you feel it sounds.