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and demanding an end to U.S. military assistance to Israel.

Hear hear!

1)military industrial complex jobs employ hundreds of millions of Americans, so it’s not like we don’t get something for our money.

This is what you, still, do not understand. All of the money spent on manufacturing weapons for other nations could be spent improving life for Americans here.

You would only have a point if these nations were paying for these weapons. Which they are not.

This is literally taxpayer money being funneled to defense contractors so they can give weapons away to nations like Israel. They have enough wealth to buy our weapons. We shouldn't be giving them away for free while the Americans who paid for them go without higher education or health care.

Ukraine? Sure, sort of.

Israel? Absolutely not. If they need more money, they can take it from their ruling class instead of our taxpayers.

I've done all that and you're dead wrong.

Can you people please stop saying this as though the equipment we send to them is worthless?

Even if it's already built, it's still valuable and giving it away just means a defense contractor got richer at the expense of American taxpayers.

The US government doesn't serve its people.

Israel has offered peace deals and two state solutions many times before. Palestinians always walk away.

Why do you people keep saying this like it matters? Have you ever considered it's what's in those deals that is important?

Take a look at the Native Americans for an example of a colonized people accepting their colonizers' terms.

I will never understand why that’s so difficult for some people. Calling on Israel to stop the illegal “settlements” in no way indicates support for Hamas.

It's because Zionists have enjoyed complete control over the narrative for decades.

They're in overdrive right now trying to regain that control, and it isn't working.

Many have very low media literacy, don’t understand how to use a desktop computer and are wholly absorbed with social media.

"Many don't know how to use an abacus and are wholly absorbed by television!"

almost guarantees future success for the US.

Or maybe you're not recognizing how we are evolving as a species. Traditional schooling is becoming less relevant as technology improves and disciplines become more specialized. Only the most dedicated students will be able to reach that specialization, and everyone else can supplement general academic knowledge with technology.

It'll be an interesting few decades ahead. I'm saying things nobody really wants to admit, but a lot of people feel are true. They just need it to be articulated.

The ones who will stop progress here are those with survivor bias and those profiting off of the current system.

5. K-12 knowledge is easier than ever to learn or reference yourself thanks to the internet and AI.
6. College isn't for most people, regardless of what we've been told to get us to spend egregious amounts of money on it.

I think traditional schooling will become less and less relevant as technology improves and disciplines become more specialized. Fewer people will be able to stick with academia long enough to reach that specialization, and more people will be able to supplement academia with technology.

Survivor bias usually comes out in full force though when anyone mentions how academia is overrated.

I'd wager a lot of students just don't care because they really shouldn't.

Thanks to the internet, and now AI, pretty much all the information they'll ever need is right at their fingertips.

Why would they focus on academia which teaches them to make things harder on themselves so it's easier on teachers?

Also, modern schools are just propaganda mills these days anyways. Their goals are to get students to conform and waste money at college.

I'm a firm believer that academia is not for everyone, and we shouldn't be forcing it to be. It should be there for those who want it, and nothing is wrong with those who don't.

I didn't know ARM was as powerful as x86.

Something tells me they were paid to move to one of the other proprietary platforms.

More powerful than X86? Or are there other reasons to use it in a desktop?

It actually doesn't matter who said it.

But of course you're going to try and deny it's true because it applies to you, ironically further proving its legitimacy.

Gonna block you now.

yes.

Not from Guinness, no.

I think it's pretty much the exact same thing, but I've noticed they've been slower to update in response to countermeasures like these than uBlock Origin.

I can just buy a world record for oldest skydiver even though I'm 18?