The soviets were authoritarians…
Ones with a terrible human rights record.
Like, even if you ignore everything except a left/right economic scale, their wealth inequality was insane. Most people had the same: nothing. And a few people had almost everything of value in the country.
That’s not communism, that’s an oligarchy. The only further right on an economic scale would be a single person owning everything.
Same with HW bush…
Didn’t stop him from becoming president on Reagans coattails.
And HW not only caused just as much damage as Reagan, he was smart about it so still gets a fraction of the blame. His name is almost never brought up anymore.
People just talk about the idiot fall guys, because the whole reason they’re there is to be the lightning rod of criticism so no one looks at the ones calling the shots.
It’s a shell game, but at least when it’s an idiot they’ll get caught and some things will be stopped, or at least noticed.
Today, a university-wide email went out from Harvard President Drew Faust detailing the initial results of a survey completed by Harvard students which asked about individual experiences with sexual assault and campus perceptions of sexual assault.
You find things where you look for them…
Of all the schools surveyed, Harvard had the highest participation rate: 53% of all degree-seeking students across Harvard schools responded. This was significantly higher than the 19% average across all the schools surveyed.
And you only find them when people feel confident and safe enough to speak up.
You seem to be arguing for the trump/RFK method where you don’t count things and then deny they happened…
Because they can’t understand that being more exposed to more ideas tends to make you less conservative.
Vance is Yale educated and the professor who set him up with his wife also got her SC clerkships… He and his wife were literally groomed to be a political power couple similar to the Clintons.
Stop acting like hes stupid and uneducated.
He 100% know what he’s saying is bullshit, hes a liar not an idiot. trump is an idiot, and believes it.
That’s why Vance is so much more dangerous, it’s like comparing HW to Reagan. Both evil, but an evil elderly person with dementia does less damage than an evil intelligent person.
Yep.
https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/harvard-university-palestine-solidarity-committee-letter/
But no matter how “tough” they were to appease Biden’s admin and their own donors, it’s not enough for the rightwing.
It’s the base reason you can’t meet fascists halfway.
They fought against free speech and watched their students be abused, and now they’re getting shit for not going further.
It’s literally the plot to First They Came For
And when I was in the military we kept having to go out to sea so they could fly helicopters on and off the ship…
Because you train as close to how you’ll fight as possible.
If you’re talking people doing routine patrol flights, sure it’s the same as fighting. But no one is going to an airshow to watch a helicopter casually fly by.
Like, do you have any frame of reference how much it costs to do that shit in a f16 let alone f35? It’s around 10k/hr just got an f16, and that’s not including the pilot or mechanics, just fuel and parts.
It’s not taking your Prius to the grocery store, it’s taking the Lambo on a 12 hour drive for the hell of it.
But like, you all know this isn’t a hypothetical we’re discussing, right?
It’s literally propaganda:
As recently as 2015, the Department of Defense was doling out millions to the NFL for such things as military flyovers, flag unfurlings, emotional color guard ceremonies, enlistment campaigns, and — interestingly enough — national anthem performances. Additionally, according to Vice, the NFL’s policy on players standing for the national anthem also changed in 2009, with athletes “encouraged” thereafter to participate. Prior to that, teams were not given any specific instructions on the matter; some chose to remain in the locker room until after opening ceremonies were completed. (It’s unclear whether the policy change was implemented as a direct result of any Defense Department contracts.)
In 2015, Arizona Sens. Jeff Flake ® and John McCain ® revealed in a joint oversight report that nearly $5.4 million in taxpayer dollars had been paid out to 14 NFL teams between 2011 and 2014 to honor service members and put on elaborate, “patriotic salutes” to the military. Overall, they reported, “these displays of paid patriotism [were] included within the $6.8 million that the Department of Defense (DOD) [had] spent on sports marketing contracts since fiscal year 2012.”
https://archive.thinkprogress.org/nfl-dod-national-anthem-6f682cebc7cd/
I guess it was a decade ago, some people might not remember I guess.
but I do prefer it when the public gets at least entertainment out of it.
So you only dislike propaganda when it’s not effective?
Cool story bro, but I can admit I was wrong. I didn’t think this shit works on anyone, but you seem to downright enjoy it.
Especially for naval aircraft. I would assume the same for air force, but they don’t typically land on boats.
What air shows come with aircraft carriers?
Like, you know they can’t just roll up anywhere, that’s why LHDs are the biggest at fleet week, and NYC’s pier isn’t exactly low quality.
I don’t think Canada wants to hurt so many innocent people because Trump runs his mouth
If that’s true, that’s backwards logic.
Because Trump is hurting a lot more people, and while unlikely if his voters feel the pain they will realize it’s not working. Congress can hold trump accountable, but they won’t until well into the “find out” phase.
So our traditional allies shielding the American people from our own government may seem like the ethical move, but only if focused on today and ignoring the future…
Which is how we ended up here.
Long term, America needs consequences yesterday, but we’ll have to settle for today
Quick edit:
Sure some people may have voted for Trump but a whole lot didn’t. They don’t deserve that.
As close as majorities are, a handful of seats getting pressured is all it would take. You think there ain’t a single red district getting their power from Canada?
You think Montana is a deep blue area?
https://connect2canada.com/2022/04/mapping-the-canada-u-s-energy-relationship-2/
It really doesn’t take many people to switch to take congress back, but if we never pressure them, they’ll never fold.
You think that’s adequate training for active fighter pilots?
That would explain the downvotes, it’s not like flying commercial where you just need hours in the sky, it involves specific maneuvers and simulated dogfighting at highspeed.
It’s like saying NBA players should practice by playing Cornhole, it makes sense if you don’t understand either activity and think throwing something thru a hole is close enough…
We literally need their energy…
They can flip a switch and large parts of northern US loses power, and it’s not like we can just flip the switch back, because the switch is in Canada.
Fucking flip it, stop normalizing trump and start treating him like he treats people, he’d have flipped the switch and broken it off already if the situation was reversed.
I say this as an American; other countries need to stop protecting us from our bad decisions or as a country we’ll keep making bad decisions. There has to be consequences
Or…
And this is a crazy thought…
They could do the training?
Like, you said you agree the anthem at sporting events is dumb, so when exactly will the flyovers happen?
True.
But what’s also true is the fighter pilot flyovers, anthem, and pledge of allegiance. All of them are problematic and should have ended long ago.
Like, I just get tired of people acting like trump came out of nowhere and shit was perfect.
We can’t just keep watching the right destroy shit, then settle for a pause in the damage. We need to start fixing shit before there’s nothing left to be fixed.
America replaced patriotism with nationalism decades ago, and refusing to address it will make another trump a question of “when” not “if”.
Most democrats are right wingers and would rather vote for the Nat-C’s then allow poor people more opportunities.
Dem voters? According to polling that’s false.
The primaries always seem to prove that.
The last primary saw the old guard DNC remove all delegates from an entire state…
They also try to call primaries before the amount of states voted reaches double digits, fraudulent primaries don’t prove anything about voters
Martin is lying thrugh his teeth when he says this isn’t about keeping the thumbs off the scales.
(Assuming you typo’d because he said this is explicitly about keeping thumbs off scales)
So you’re one of those people who believe his entire political career has been a long con for this exact moment? Like, just because you didn’t know his name till he became chair doesn’t mean he just appeared out of the blue.
If you want to see how he leads a party, look at Minnesota, which became a progressive stronghold under his watch.
He and everyone else will support lazy “centrists” (which are actually far-righters) because they don’t give a fuck about stopping the Nat-C’s.
Why?
As I just said, he has had a long public career where he’s literally done the opposite.
He’s fine with incumbents losing primaries, he just doesn’t think the party should have a say in who wins a primary…
It already happened…
We threw the old guard out of the DNC months ago, that’s why the media suddenly became ok with bad things being said about the DNC.
And before anyone claims Martin is fighting Hogg or other progressives, you should read this article: https://www.sctimes.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/25/dnc-chair-martin-gives-david-hogg-ultimatum-on-challenging-incumbents/83276026007/
“No DNC officer should ever attempt to influence the outcome of a primary election whether on behalf of an incumbent or a challenger,” Martin said Thursday during a conference call.
And:
The chairman said voters should decide who primary nominees are, and that this change is not about shielding incumbents or boosting challengers.
“I am a huge fan of David Hogg, and I’m glad he’s a part of our officer corps, but it’s important for us to maintain the trust that we have built with Democratic voters and to keep our thumb off the scale as party officers,” Martin said.
That’s it, and it’s something we should all agree with. Especially progressives because in a fair fight progressive policy always wins.
The entire reason the old guard sucked so much, is they kept their thumbs on every primary scale. We don’t have to do the same to beat them, we just need a fair primary.
The voting members?
It’s been a slow shift back to the left for a while.
I feel like you’re talking about elected politicians, they’re not “the party”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Martin
That’s the new chair, his track record is winning elections, not raising a bunch of money and still losing like prior chairs.
He ran Minnesota’s state party for years and it’s a progressive stronghold because he didn’t stand in progressive candidates way.
But you want a great sign the DNC isn’t in billionaires pockets anymore?
Look at how mainstream media is treating the DNC now, there’s all types of talk about how voters don’t like the DNC, ignoring that a fresh guard took over in February.
When neoliberals held control of the party, the big news media channels were never critical
There’s a very good chance we see justice now that the neoliberals are out of the DNC. They didn’t want to hold Republicans accountable because then people would expect neoliberals to be held accountable as well.
The people want them held accountable, and they’ll vote accordingly. With a fair DNC that’s the candidate we’ll get. And without a neoliberals being shoved down America’s throats, winning elections are easy.
People don’t blame Biden’s admin enough for refusing to hold trump accountable for all the shit from his first term. It wasn’t just bad then, it depressed turnout and let trump back in.
Thankfully rational people control the DNC again.
The White House told NBC News that Hurts and other players not attending the celebration have “scheduling conflicts.”
Buckle up Buckaroos…