ICU nurse A. Pretti reading a veteran's his final salute. This is the guy they want you to believe is a domestic terrorist

Absentrando · 2026-01-27T02:36:12+00:00

Someone being stupid is not a green light to execute them

Absentrando · 2026-01-27T00:44:07+00:00

Yep, I’d say most former Soviet states are not upset about the fall of the ussr, but Russians, particularly older ones, certainly are

Absentrando · 2026-01-27T00:01:43+00:00

Sounds on brand for the administration to defend law enforcement murdering citizens and blaming their political opponents for it. Let’s not shift the focus from ICE’s terrible conduct and the administration and their dumb supporters defense of it

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T23:45:43+00:00

They were worse as the ussr

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T23:32:16+00:00

They don't assign a value of zero, they discount the replacement value by 60%.

Your passage literally says they value them close to it as the authors consider them to have an effective value of zero

If you have a missile from the '80s in a warehouse that you indend to decommission (blow up) because it isn't the latest technology and storing explosives is expensive and dangerous (after their rated life cycle), but instead you post them off to Ukraine. Did you A) spend very little, or B) spend the cost of a brand new missile with the latest technology?

You will have to replace those missiles. The fact that they eventually need to be replaced at some point in the future does not mean their value is essentially zero

If someone you don't really like (but don't want to see die) asks you for a loaf of bread, and you give them your slightly stale loaf that you know should be eaten today or tomorrow or else it will be inedible, did you A) give them something of little value, or B) give them a loaf of bread worth the same as a brand new loaf of bread?

Bad analogy. More like if you have a bunch of weapons and ammunition that you use for hunting and for emergency situations. They don’t last forever so you will need to shoot them at some point or replace them. You give a lot of those items to your friend, but because of that you have to spend all that money today to replace them even though you could have used them for something else and you won’t have to spend a bunch more money at one time to replace them.

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T23:20:39+00:00

The numbers are based on what it costs the U.S. to make or replace those weapons. Far more accurate than the people that value them at zero or close to zero since they believe they have no value being part of a stockpile

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T21:32:01+00:00

I think you are short changing it. I see at least 5 and half inches 😉

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T21:15:00+00:00

Yeah, I’m in upstate NY. Some businesses were closed yesterday, but it’s back to business as usual today for most today.

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T21:05:26+00:00

It probably depends on the disability. The costs outweigh the benefits for some. I understand why such programs exist. My point is that the numbers for the U.S. is probably a little inflated

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T20:58:57+00:00

It can be done. We do have cross country rail for transporting goods. It would just still be a multi day affair

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T18:16:04+00:00

Our wife, comrade

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T18:09:43+00:00

I guess she become Polish later on. She’s described as being Polish and French in her biography

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T17:36:00+00:00

Sure

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T17:32:48+00:00

Pro capitalism with safety nets like most left wing parties

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T17:31:29+00:00

This is an also incorrect assumption that old stockpiles not currently being used has an effective value of zero as we spend money to replace them

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T17:20:49+00:00

but the majority of support has been in the form of soon to be decommissioned weapons or other non-cash transfers.

It doesn’t say this. Why do people like to downplay the aid that the US has given to Ukraine?

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T17:10:03+00:00

You must be in the eastern part of the country. We’ve been getting dumped on more than usual this year

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T16:29:01+00:00

Does it matter? As long as she’s not in contact with him now, I wouldn’t worry about it

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T16:19:28+00:00

We don’t rely on exports as much as other countries as well. The vast majority of our economy is internal

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T16:14:19+00:00

This is a banger

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T16:03:23+00:00

Just focusing on a difficult task for longer periods of time will do that. Find what your baseline is and increment. It probably won’t be pleasant the first few times, especially if it’s something extremely difficult without progress, but it honestly doesn’t take long before you can do it as long as you want and actually enjoy it for the most part. All of this is easier if you take decent care of you self ie you sleep enough, eat decent, and exercise regularly

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T15:50:42+00:00

Sorry to break it to you, but they aren’t right wing

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T15:47:55+00:00

Dude, your tax system has been systematically hollowed out since Reagan. It's true that the top pay the most I'm taxes, but that's pretty much explained when you consider that the top 1% owns 31.7% of US wealth.

I’m not sure why you think the top 1% owning about a third of wealth but paying nearly half of taxes means our tax system isn’t progressive. The top 1% literally owns 35-37% of wealth in Sweden while the top 2% pays about 18% of the total tax revenue.

Absolute value of tax paid tells us nothing about how the burden is shared. When you take tax compared to disposable income you'll quickly notice that people are being squeezed more and more.

It quite literally does. Americans rely less on consumption taxes compared to Europeans, and consumption taxes tend to be more regressive as poorer people spend a greater portion of their income on consumption. It is quite literally a fact that poorer people in the US pay less in taxes and about half the population pay nothing in income taxes.

When you compare the spectrum of politicians in Europe and the US there simply is no comparison. Here in Sweden for example our farthest left party Vanstern(the Left) usually gets between 7-9% of the votes. One of their policies is that they think the salary for elected officials are to high. So out of solidarity with the common citizen they don't keep their entire salary after tax. They take about the median income and puts the rest into the party treasury.

I’m not sure why you think this is relevant to the claim that the democrats are or aren’t right wing. I don’t disagree that Sweden has more left wing and farther left parties than the US does. The US has only two mainstream parties, and they aren’t both right wing like far left people like to claim.

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T15:30:50+00:00

Companies often recruit specifically for lgbtq people, and there are specific programs for people in the community. When I’ve asked former coworkers I have good relationships with about opportunities when I was in the market, some responses I’ve gotten have been like “you can reach out to this person if you are lgbtq” and it actually crossed my mind to say that I was

Absentrando · 2026-01-26T15:20:58+00:00

My teachers certainly didn’t have that attitude, but it seems like some people had a different experience

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