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This is 100% fact. Eisenhower made PE a universal part of education to increase overall fitness in the case of war and conscription.

It's just another shell game, robbing Peter to pay Paul. That traditional, red blooded, all American apple pie, run of the mill basic corruption we're all so accustomed too by now

That's also assuming the court martial doesn't end with corporal punishment. Subsequent to wanting to go home every night is wanting to go home, period, and while I'm sure a few are buying the bullshit Abbots selling, I'm willing to bet that most won't exchange bullets over it

Change as you're describing will never happen if Republicans control any part of governemnt. Change also won't happen under Democrats unless it's aligned with corporate interests, tho, Democrats are conciliatory to social change once protesting starts to damage profitability.

I wish I were wrong about that, but that's the options we have. Authoritarian's backed by Big Oil or the public punching bag to oligarchical authoritarianism. Progressives might be moving the platform but the likelihood of public interest resulting in the passing of law is still statistically null, which has been quantifiably proven multiple times over the past 30 years.

We are free to spend our money on the things that keep us productive workers and that's it. In my eyes that's just slavery with more steps.

You're actually entirely backwards there, and I'm no fan of Texas, but they have done a far better job than any of the coastal states, at least in the major metros. Google it, I'm not kidding.

I don't agree with Abbotts position here. Border Patrol has the legal responsibility to patrol the national border - and unfortunately, they've extended that range to 200 miles inland, which is fucking bonkers.

I am sympathetic to Texans wanting to things done their way, as it's their state but it's a national border. If Texas wanted to patrol their border with Oklahoma, I would consider that their prerogative, just as I think it's Cali's prerogative to do so with Az.

Im sus of Paxton or Abbott actually wanting to solve any issues here tho. This feels like more grandstanding and politicking, throwing fodder to the media controversy machine. If Texans were set on securing the border to the manner they see fit, why don't they fall back, idk fifty fucking feet and defend that line?

Seems like that would allow BP to do what they need to do, and if there's just a "second wall" behind, that would allow Texas to do what it wants to do. Fucking Constantinople had 3 sets of walls that stood unpenetrable for 1000 years, its not like multiple walls is historically unheard of.

But, I'm not convinced Republicans want a solution towards immigration. I think they just want the theatrics so they can point at something when you ask why nothing's getting done (a placation I traditionally ascribe to democrats; for example DC renaming a street BLM Boulevard instead of addressing any of the raised issues)

After that power company got blackmailed in the American South and extorted for like 40000 Bitcoin, which they paid...but then within 24 hours the FBI had recovered all of it...which is something no one was supposed to be capable of doing, I'm going to go ahead and say Bitcoin anonymity is compromised.

That means the FBI or DHS has devoted the computational power necessary to track every.single.bitcoin.transaction and then indexed it all well enough to cross reference against metadata.

Bitcoin is as secure as they allow it to be. It's most likely allowed for the same reason the Tor network is, because it's an avenue to move resources or information to undercover assets overseas.

I got banned from r/politics for saying killing Nazi's is a great American tradition, and in my case, a family tradition, all my grandparents, and my wives grandparents were all overseas as part of the war effort.

If you want to find who's really running a joint, find out who you can't offend.

I think standing against genocide is an admirable thing to do.

I know I know, it's not something that we're used too as Americans. We haven't had justified war since, what, Korea? Kuwait? War for spoils doesn't justify, imo. Helping an invaded ally, does.

Following, Israel's response isn't in line with the Hamas attack. Neither was America's war on Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11.

What was the stat? A full 60% of Palestinians in Gaza weren't even alive the last time hostilities broke out? But those kids are dying all the same. Bombing out refugee pathways -that Israel dictated even - really, REALLY isn't a good look. That Gaza has no hospitals left? Bibi openly talking about the forced removal of the whole region...that's CLEAR-AS-FUCKING-DAY genocide.

I got nothing against Jews, in fact, the closest people to me outside my blood family are Jewish. I LOVE Jews. I LOVE their perspective and expression of community and family. I fucking admire that in them. idgaf yr religion or where yr ancestors hail from, but after this shit, with the hard-line right and orthodoxy running things (everyone said Bibi sold his soul to make that coalition), if Zionism means imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, and hatred dressed up in whatever dog whistle you choose, then add Zionism to the list of things I dont support. It can share that stage with Nazism, Stalinism, Objectivism, Corporatism, Calvinism and many more other -isms I don't care to search for atm.

You don't get to take help after a tragedy just to recover your strength then seek your turn on top of the wheel of oppression. That gets us nowhere and exposes you as just as bad as your oppressors. Israel has lost any moral ground they might have claimed to have. They're just a terrorist state in my eyes and I don't want my taxes going to fund their hate campaigns.

I am not on the side of hate. Ever. It's that simple. And if that costs gEnOcIdAl jOe, as you say, the election, then, well, he fucking earned that. And RIP America then. If war breaks out in our soil, we'll never see peace on the continent again, not in our lifetimes, not in our children's lifetimes, and all the ecological damage from all that warring will prob ensure that our grandchildren or great-grandchildren will be the last generation.

The light can be tucked away into the HVAC. The light never needs to hit anyone. You got central heating/cooling? One light, whole building. It's almost criminal this isn't common.

This is already happening, you can find articles about it all over red America.