The gambit is that if you declare border land a “military installation”, that means troops can patrol that land and arrest migrants as “trespassers on a military base” without having to declare martial law or any of that messy “posse comitatus” stuff. Of course captives are handed off to ICE immediately and who knows what happens from there.

The same people made a 500-cigarette version because of that Orville meme.

No, but a key tenet is the belief that Jews have a “higher purpose” in life than gentiles, and unfortunately this manifests as ethno-religious supremacy in the more conservative circles. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding Gaza is that Jews have a biblical right to the land over…the people that actually live there.

He’s talked about forcing people with “mental issues” into “wellness centers” where they “go outside and garden.”

Read: send them to fucking work camps.

Does feel like the subtext is that autistic people are inherently broken and need to be fixed. Though I wish I could pin down exactly what problem they have with autistic people. A perceived lack of masculine confidence? (I guarantee they don’t think about autistic women at all)

I guess they just see them as easy targets.

Also, consider not publicly referring to yourself as autistic and learning to mask if you haven’t already.

Buying superfluous tanks is most likely to keep the production line open. If we stopped ordering them, it would have to be shut down. The people who worked the line would fuck off to find other jobs. The expertise would be lost. It would take years to restart the line from here, which is not a good strategic position if shit kicks off and we needed hundreds of vehicles yesterday.

Same reason we subsidise the shit out of agriculture and “paying people to not grow stuff” as that one line goes. Food is a critical resource from both a military and civilian perspective and it’s in our long-term interest that the industry remains solvent no matter what.

Slumlord Don at it again.

Just like with the low flow toilets, he’s holding a grudge because he had to spend money to refit the bathrooms in his properties.

…these “people” can’t all have security details, right?

I’m afraid replacement parts may not merely go up in price, but many could simply disappear from the American market. Higher prices quash demand, and importers may make the strategic decision to stop delivering less popular secondary SKUs if it doesn’t make financial sense.

one of their in-house artists, or a furry artist

Probably one and the same.

In that gen at least you kind of have to grind out some XP before each gym or you get schwacked. Whether that makes it a better or worse game is subjective. In the Alpha/Omega remakes this isn’t much of a problem. But when I tried playing through those I stopped because it was trivially easy for that reason and others. Again, subjective.

If I were them, I’d be worried about targeted violence against me and my party more than random spree killings.

I am not worried about dying in a random shooting, generally.

You’re right, I don’t care about the plight of veterans any more than the plight of anyone else. If anything, I care slightly less because of their culpability in our military misadventures and the trail of death and destruction we’ve left in our wake.

That said, they should be taken care of. Like anyone else should be taken care of.

Pushing to make trained killers homeless and desperate is definitely a move.

The front-facing pundits, maybe. On the ground, if you strip away the MAGA cult there is some understanding that the wealthy are fucking over everyone else, even if the conclusions drawn from that are confused and distorted. And it’s not like we’re talking about pacifists disgusted by violence here. “Rich Men North of Richmond” didn’t come from nowhere.

Generally no. Bulletproof glass is thick as hell and requires extensive modification to the door, plus it often precludes being able to roll the window down.

Some might opt for kevlar panelling in the door. Anything heavier goes back to “extensive modification” and turns an $80k cruiser into a $400k cruiser.

They buy MRAPs from the DoD on the cheap for armored vehicles.

I seem to recall one of their butthurt targets back in 2024 basically saying “just wait until we have control of the FBI, we’re gonna cook your ass.”

Man, I thought that was hubris, counting their chickens before they hatched.

I think you might be a bit confused with how federation works. Just because you made an account on Lemmy.ca doesn’t mean everything you see is Canada-centric.

There’s a decade or five in between “barely postgraduate” and “belongs in an assisted living facility.”

I want people in charge of significant government functions to have significant lived knowledge and experience in the field.

IDF would shit their pants if they had to face actual modern warfighters. Basically all of their victories are against malfunctional ME militaries and irregular fighters, to say nothing about the base atrocities they are committing against defenseless people.

rock

Clearly a stone.