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6hr ago
High end autism. Or LLM.
Spent 3 min cause a thing I have issue with. USgov can not run structural budget surplus. As the creator of a reserve currency other people who want to hold the currency need the creator to make dollars which means the US gov needs to run a deficit. It may be too large of a deficit right now but structurally the US gov needs to be printing money if other people are going behaving the dollar.
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19hr ago
No. I don’t care about Jewish money. I am pissed off about the dominant culture war ideology the majority of Jews have been pushing.
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1d ago
Half jokingly California is a third world country with a 100,000 outer space alien enclave.
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1d ago
Think I’m suppose to specify the oil countries which are mostly desert that can’t support a lot of population without outside resources paid for with oil money.
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1d ago
We basically give every citizen free health care, food stamps, and section 8 free housing. The middle class is squeezed but all the people you could bribe to get drafted are already getting paid.
You would need to gut the free stuff program to get people to take money to enter the military.
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1d ago
Their land mostly sucks. There is a reason the Arab states never developed much in terms of civilization. It’s because most of its desert and not useful to develop agriculture and then more. Sort of like Alaska in some ways.
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1d ago
To be clear Iran cuts down on Chinas oil exporting allies which actually makes it fairly important for policing China and protecting all of the west Asian allies.
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2d ago
Truish.
Is there any part of recent immigrants that aren’t complete fraud?
Fake robberies to let store clerks apply for citizenship. Anything we do like asylum to help out those truly in need turns into fraud.
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2d ago
Non of the asylum seekers followed the law. It was being abused by the Biden administration. Non of them were ever true asylum seekers. It’s a word cell game they played.
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2d ago
I personally do not understand why someone would create an AI bot to argue for them. Especially on non-monetized sites. My point of posting on themotte is to express my opinions, think I am smart, an occasionally get to tell other people they are wrong.
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2d ago
Shapiro seems like their best candidate right now. But this isn’t the Supreme Court where you can place the Jew and nobody cares. What percent of Dems right now would never vote for a Jew?
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2d ago
Compared to other Democrats. Any candidate is hated by 70% of Democrats and loved by 30%. Even as a GOP I don’t see how you hate Newsome. He’s just mid. So maybe his route is no one loves him but only 50% of Democrats hate him.
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2d ago
I don’t understand why we can’t treat illegals as basically like an invading army if we decide we don’t have jurisdiction. You can always be more tolerant than shoot on site but legally give them the position of being an invading army.
Just create a military court for illegals.
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2d ago
Yes that is my point. If you get rid of birthright citizenship you can be a lot more giving with visas for all sorts of things. Now if we give someone a visa to go to school with America we basically need to make a decision on do we want their entire lineage to be American citizens.
This is similar to a big difference between US and European labor markets. If it’s easy to fire someone then it’s easy to hire them.
I think a very good “living constitution” argument can be made that America is an economic zone and we did want people coming and going temporarily (Disneyland, work, education, etc). Birthright citizenship means anytime we give someone access temporarily they can backdoor permanence .
Nobody I know who is catholic has ever had any relationship with Catholic Charities versus ADL having the highest funding of any Jewish group and direct Mossad links.
So yes Jews can get shit for why Israel does in America. This is like Germany 1945 and you can’t find a single Nazi to blame. If a policy is popular with 80% of Jews and backed by Mossad then it’s fair to blame the Jews.
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4d ago
I assume normal military people do these checks. The group labeled “check” this are going to be the pure lefties that get in the way of doing anything.
Don’t waste a tomahawk blowing up a school (or any non-useful thing) is what competent people do. You don’t need a specific group outside the command chain.
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4d ago
This has long been debunked. It counts turnaways at the border. Trump is deporting people who have been inside the country from the last administration. People don’t even show up to the border now
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4d ago
Literally my 3 favorite people. The guy who gets stuff down at deporting third world immigrants, the dude who suddenly got our military to win again, and the boss of it all.
I could not be happier with what those three are doing for my country.
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4d ago
“The team that handles civilian casualties at Central Command, which oversees the Middle East, has dropped from 10 to one.“
So Hegseth gutted the unit that would have wound up with the wokest people in the military. This is why I voted for.
I don’t want civilians killed. But firing that group I 100% support.
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4d ago
With less reasoning but basically what I thought jurisdiction meant I guess I agree with Schooner. I don’t see how you have jurisdiction over someone you do not even know is here. The US government should have a choice on who it decides it has jurisdiction over.
I think based on history and language that is the right decision.
If I were on the court I am not sure I would vote that way. I might go full liberal from the conservative side and take a living constitution view (I translate to I just reason for the decision I want) and fully get rid of birthright citizenship. The world is a lot different than the 19th century. Airplanes exists. Global tourism exists.
Without birthright citizenship a lot of things would work better. Want to have a servant class from Bangladesh where a man and wife come to be maids for rich Americans? You can do that. They have a kid then it’s still Bangladeshi. A 28 year old Indian comes and gets a PHD at MIT and his wife comes? Then I can give them a 5 year educational visa and not have to worry about deciding if I want them to be Americans. Maybe I do; maybe I don’t. This allows you to both be an economic zone and a sovereign people.
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5d ago
Sure. And if you cross a social taboo line without seeming very genuinely interested that’s a reasonable reaction.
I would add it’s very nice having male/female coded spaces. Less of those exists today. I don’t like it when girls join my basketball game. Occasionally it is fine. But if it was 15% female it completely changes male dynamics.
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5d ago
My point was it’s not “intentional filtered by gender”. Though there are strong norms against it. Same thing as a girl showing up to a basketball court. Though I am semi-ok with that if they have legitimate game since there are no such thing as an adult female games.
It does kill some male space vibe. And it’s a little weird to play hard against a girl.
As far as I know Pilates does not exclude male participants. But it’s not a thing men have interest in unless maybe your gay.
Thinking about this comment more. My feeling is things have to change. Like this is a foundational issue. Either you figure out how to connect nation states to being a “people” which I think is a necessity or the entire world is an economic zone.
Maybe nation-states should just die. And it’s just all one big economic zone. If nation-states still have a purpose and meaning in this world then we do need to find solutions on what is a citizen in light of modern technology and trade in a global world.
My guess is America right now probably has 50-100m in America who are just economic zoning. If hypothetically China landed troops on LA they are gone. Many of these people are my friends. But to me America is my blood and soil. To them America is dollars and lifestyle.
(I obviously have other issues with importing third worldism, but ignoring issues with that a nation-state still needs to be a “people”. Blacks take a lot of heat for social issues they cause, but if invaded their jumping onto the front lines just like me).
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