We'll see what the US's bottom-up and top-down self-inflicted damage does.

#14 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-06-03 08:25 PM | Reply | Flag:

Doomer predictions never hold up.

DOGE went hunting for a trillion dollars and all they found out was that the systems of the US aren't particularly corrupt or victims of massive fraud. Congress spends too much, that's it.

China tends to take the long-term view.
If they took a short-term view

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-02 02:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

Chinese propaganda.

China inflicted the worst manmade disaster in history on itself, and it happened within the lifetime of some of the posters here.

That mission took a year and a half to pull off. Ukraine continues to develop the Hrim-2 SRBM, Paliantysia (a "turbojet drone" which is really just a cruise missile used in 1 way attacks), Peklo long ranged missile, etc. Short range quads don't remove the need for missile defense, it just adds another threat. Elon Musk is wrong, drones don't invalidate the F-35 either.

Im sorry, but this seems like nonsense.
Russian military equipment has proven to be antiquated s^*%.

#2 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-31 08:30 PM | Reply

Russian fiber optic drones change the balance of power in favor of NK on the DMZ.

Dan Patrick is a raetard. And until he puts his personal vendetta away and listens to the majority of people

#2 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-05-29 08:35 AM | Reply

That's not happening. It's not a personal vendetta.

Two of his biggest lobbies are Pharma and Alcohol. Both want THC gone to improve their margins.

The Texas weed industry isn't organized enough to counter that.

Charlie Rangel dies, it's not on the front nor back page.

Phil Robertson dies, front page news.

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21x lower than St. Louis, not to pick on Chiraq.

but as far as kids dying by gunfire in America, it's black kids, in a very narrow range of zip codes that were turned into warzones for drug distribution territory 45 years ago and haven't changed.

In a thread about Connecticut, where it's mostly affluent white people, and the worst city crime rate is 5x lower than Houston, 10x less than Chiraq...

Unless you're fresh off the boat from Madrid, he is whiter than your Mexican ass.
Take a look at his picture, you'll see.

#26 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:58 AM | Reply | Flag:

A muslim with the last name Hasan is one of the least white things you can come up with. You definitely didn't take any college level classes that discuss Whiteness.

No slave army in this reality.

#37 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-22 11:18 PM | Reply

The US always maintains the capability of raising a slave army.

I don't see why I should have to trust anyone with a gun.
But since you do, explain it to me.

#23 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:52 AM | Reply | Flag:

He's whiter than you!

#22 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:51 AM | Reply | Flag:

Not with that name.

Guns are the leading cause of death for children, and you don't think anything is wrong with that.

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:35 AM | Reply | Flag:

Black children. 18x more likely, the rest, car accidents, drownings, etc.

You can just say you don't trust black people with guns. It'd be an honest appraisal of the stats you want to quote.

No way too brown.

Nice sample size bro!

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 10:28 AM | Reply | Flag:

32% of the population has a gun. The vast, overwhelming majority aren't shooting anybody.

I feel like I could trust you with a gun to not go out and shoot anybody. Yourself, maybe, but others, no.

The jury has returned with a verdict many years ago on whether Americans are to be trusted with everyone carrying a firearm.
We cannot.

#7 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-22 07:12 AM | Reply | Flag:

How many people have you murdered, threatened, etc with your guns?

Old enough to be a slave soldier, old enough to own a pistol.

Imagine how much your Social Credit score goes up for live streaming a 1 person invasion of Taiwan.

Of the time spend, 50% of more is spent on classes unrelated to your major - but forced to be taken to guarantee employment for the otherwise unemployable liberal arts PhDs.

#2 | Posted by ScottS at 2025-05-20 02:18 AM | Reply | Flag:

The State of Texas requires you have take something in philosophy, the arts, multiple writing credits, history and politics, science labs, etc, that have nothing to do a CS degree. Abbot the liberal? Mmm, no.

It's already been prototyped, flown, and no sonic boom reached the ground. XB-1 Boom Supersonic.

Cheaper to just get an NFA trust and buy an automatic AR. If you want to miss really fast to begin with.