if unwilling/unable to participate in defense, they are logistically an addition to the civilian population who are directly in harms way and must be defended, housed, fed, etc. this is just one possible issue - I am sure there are others.
All provinces, except P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador, have agreed to remove the obstacles preventing their alcohol from being sold in other jurisdictions.
with typical american ignorance, I ask... what is the reasoning here?
The Defense Department calculates the cost per flight hour to operate a C-130 at $20,756, so for a trip of five to six hours, it cost the Pentagon $207,000 to $249,000 round trip, or $23,000 to $27,000 per detainee.
a desire to inflict his psychosis on the world? chaos in a system offers the best opportunity to "win bigley" with the commensurate loss borne by the non-billionaire class.
David Nicholas, a Republican voter in Port St. Lucie, Fla., expressed sympathy for those federal workers, but said he still backs the DOGE effort.
"I've been laid off before different times over the years, and nobody really [cared] about my feelings or anything like that," said the poll respondent, who is not a government worker
“Tariffs are easy, they’re fast, they’re efficient, and they bring fairness,” Trump said. He described the levies as a “a powerful weapon” that other presidents had not used because “they were dishonest, stupid or paid off in some other form”.
reminding myself that this is the second extortion attempt zelenskyy has faced at the (tiny) hands of trump.
the man has had some unbelievably bad luck politically, but has managed to hold his shit together in the face of the most powerful, unhinged nutjob on the planet. twice.
I had the privilege of being in a room, just 10 feet away from bernie for 45 minutes listening to a semi-public stratagy session on the 2020 campaign. I have never met a more forthright, empathetic and human politician.
Both Republican congressmen criticized Sanders' visit, with Van Orden calling him a millionaire who "has never worked an honest day."
funny how writing a series of best selling books about his lived experiences as an advocate, organizer and legislator can bring in money under a capitalist system.
those who dont lose their souls while working within the system to bring about change are rare. while I may not agree with him 100% of the time, bernie has yet to show me any reason to withdraw my support.
an expanded explanation of your first paragraph would have been useful for general discussion.
your el salvador paragraph absolutely killed the mojo.
December, 2024, El Salvador, in an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, agreed to reduce bitcoin purchases, removed the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin requirement on merchants, will no longer accept tax payments with the asset, and will wind-down its involvement in the Chivo wallet.
Based on the available data from the Instituto Universitario de Opinión Pública (Iudop) of the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA), here is the percentage of Salvadorans who reported using Bitcoin for transactions from 2021 to 2024: 2021: 25.7%, 2022: 21%, 2023: 12%, 2024: 8.1%.
el salvador was always going to be an example of the very worst tendencies of hard-currency (anti-inflationary, proof of work, etc) crypto, specifically because the very worst of the cryptobro "community" was involved in it.
as of now, some of the worst people on earth are the face of cryptocurrency. major "L", even for the arguably useful chains.
exactly. the fascists put in the hard propaganda work for the past 40 years. yesterday is gone but today, and every future day, is the second best time to pull up and push back.
Carlson appeared to assert that there was a connection between cartels and the historical practice of human sacrifice in some pre-colonial Meso-American cultures, saying: “And these are from cultures that have practiced human sacrifice for thousands of years.”
Homan answered: “I got a video on my phone showing a member of the cartel skinning a man alive.”
into snuff porn. cool, cool. watch it often?
I know people who are activated by this bs. they will repeat this sort of garbage ad nauseam in an attept to shut down an actual conversation. a prime example of what happens when bipedal great apes never manage to evolve a socially beneficial relationship with their reactionary lizard-brained fascist instincts. great filter, here we fucking come.
how do you know we are not living in the dregs of what science should have been?