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"War doesn't decide who's right, only who's left."

Ray Gun and Carter are both essentially failed presidents. It's just that the USSR finally collapsed on Ray Gun's watch. Americans, who tend to value business acumen well higher than historical insight, love to confuse delayed effects with immediate causes.

It gets better. One of the Senate witnesses described scenes of workers in the assembly plant jumping up and down on fuselage parts from other factories, to make them fit properly.

Comes up a lot in history studies. It goes to the theory of releasing causes vs underlying causes. There's a lot of interaction. The phrase "causal texture" comes up quite a bit. It's why it's so hard to assign blame for historical events until well after everyone's dead. It's akin to thos...

The Civil War was caused by economics, with slavery being an issue inherent to the economic system that was in question. The whole US had been founded on slave labor, given that the European colonizers had always considered the losers of armed conflicts anywhere to be a good source of same. "Ru...

Well, yeah. Most of the advertising you see for cities is Chamber of Commerce type stuff, aimed at attracting affluent people who will come, spread some of the all-powerful green stuff around, and then leave before they become part of the problem. This is seen as a way for cities to make up for what...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68834525 A Boeing engineer told US lawmakers that he was harassed and threatened after he raised concerns about the safety of the company's planes. Whistleblower Sam Salehpour said Wednesday that his boss berated him in a 40-minute call and his tyre was punct...

The total solar eclipse moved the ionosphere just enough to shift the frequency of WWV standard frequency and time signals by +/- one Hertz over a period of a couple of hours, as measured remotely at the other end of a skip path. The transmitters are magnitudes more stable than that, as they are con...

Legal sports betting has also turned networks like ESPN into shills for the casinos. They used to run games you might have missed in the off-prime hours, now they run very dumb people discussing the over and under like they were in some damn bar. It's another step toward the total dumbdown of Wester...

Whistleblowers are testifying before a Senate committee. It's being covered by Nooz outlets that don't have marching orders to do all drumpf all the time. Boeing is in very deep doodoo. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-68838169?src_origin=BBCS_BBC Witness Ed Pierson says the FAA "n...

> Detroit sign Culver City has one of those HOLLYWOOD sign imitations too. After all, that's where half the movies got made. Back in the days before generative AI, the Florida motion picture bureau had a deepfake photo of a FLORIDA sign right on the hill that HOLLYWOOD uses, city microwave tower and...

Isn't that part of aging? 20-year-olds and their recording artists jump on whatever song lyrics outrage their parents and sell lots of recordings and concert tickets, then 40 years later they're all on Internet with everyone else decrying pronouns, genderfluidity, liberal politics, and "those k...

Ray Gun gets a 9 on inspiring the base, but a 4 on policy. He did permanent damage to many industries such as media and communication, and basically gave the country away to the war planners, Ivy Leaguers, and old-money bloodsuckers. Everything since has been a descent into hell. History is a bitch-...

Ranking presidents is stupid. There's a feedback loop between the times and the president's rising to the occasion or not. A couple of Republicans had the good luck to be in office at the time Russia was going through a transition period, now they're saints for saving the world. That's why academic ...

Yeah, yeah, California is a shithole and Mississippi is the last best hope for civilization.

Then why aren't there hundreds of thousands of people going homeless just so they can live in Mississippi?

I'd be funnier if I hadn't gone over my tolerance level for right wing media brainwashing. It's a full time job keeping that poison out of my head.

Trump won't physically threaten people, he has the whole US right wing for that.

All this is happening when Netanyahu is in office. The US government plays a peripheral role at best. The US government didn't wall off Gaza and let it turn into a terrorist base. "Battle lines being drawn, nobody's right if everybody's wrong" -- Some forgotten 60s band that actually playe...

There's a causal texture to all this going back to WWII, at a minimum, and the dawn of civilization at the earliest roots. Gross oversimplifications do nothing except cause false hopes that make the problem worse. At a minimum, we need better leadership in Israel and a general rejection of extremism...

The Senate is dysfunctional enough without the Senators being picked in those proverbial smoke filled rooms by party hacks who got where they are by being rich enough to make megabuck donations. It's obvious that the filibuster broke the Senate. They should have imposed strict cloture but instead th...

Both parties make the problem worse, but the Republicans seem to do more damage more quickly, and it takes longer to clean up their messes. The current economic problems are deep-rooted, and caused mostly by bad policy and artificial shortages due partly to class struggle and partly by failure to ag...

Too many people, too little transportation, no profit in lower-middle class housing, very deficient social services, weak leadership, vastly underrepresented neighborhoods, high taxes for low results, and far far too little insight.

Nobody won the Cold War. Both sides made disastrous mistakes. Russia dropped out first, due to its weaker economic fundamentals and essentially personality based political system, despite all its propaganda to the contrary. At some point propaganda has to be backed up with real governance beyond jus...

Good start, now someone needs to take on the news business.

With gas prices spiking it looks like we might be in for another round of inflation Some of the "experts" who yak on TV would agree with you. I would tend to agree myself. You can't have wars going all over the Middle East without disruptions to the shipping lanes. That causes these short...