We effectively had our Hannibal moment getting locked into a stalemate with Iran.
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Russia is at the point where it's more economical and more effective to mobility kill a vehicle than destroy it. Getting rid of it takes more material on your side, and makes it easier and faster to replace because they can just buy another. Repairing a broken vehicle, you have to either tow it out or have it repaired on-site, with an operation that might take a couple of guys to do and MORE equipment that you can take out with the saved explosive from the other half of the mine.
It feels weird, but it's classic attrition warfare.
Stand-up was literally started as an idea by a man who self described as a fascist. Behind the Bastards did a decent two parter on it...last year?
I was about to say, you nod along with Ted until he starts into the racist bits.
Nah, aside from the WH UFC fight, the "Michelle Obama is trans" bullshit has been floating around since 08 when Obama was running the first time.
No, there's a scaffold in front of the WH to support the asinine UFC fights tonight (and the stands for those). It's a temporary structure, theoretically (though of course, Dear Leader has floated the idea "as a joke" of just keeping it in place permanently "for other events".)
Not if they're hit with a missile or another satellite. Debris could pretty easily be rocketed up into a higher orbit from a military strike.
remove and destroy
Nah, we only wanted to remove it. Trump and Hegseth have both been public that we should start building another huge wave of nuclear weapons, and you need uranium to do it. Far easier to try and mug someone else for theirs (and their oil and whatever else you think you can get) than it is to actually buy it and refine it yourself.
Every time I hear about a solar flare now, I kind of hope for a repeat of the Carrington Event.
Or they're doing what my company does, and holding offerings open to harvest resumes, either to sell the data or to have people they can throw on a list for their recruitment staff. Also just pumping numbers for board meetings - "we had 9k applicants for these 3 positions" sounds impressive and not dystopian to a certain type of investor.
For those not doing the math - assuming a trillion dollars just gets dumped into a bucket labeled "world hunger" (because we as the world decide to start taxing millionaires, billionares, etc heavily), and assuming we'd need $93 million to eradicate it annually, we could eradicate world hunger for the next 10,752 years.
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So, interesting points. However, consider that just in the last few years:
The big problem with fucking with a midterm isn't ease, it's just scale. When you have cops, the federal and a lot of state and even local DOJs, the President's personal goon squad (which has now been significantly inflated and equipped), and the FBI willing to harass, intimidate, or arrest voters, steal ballots, and challenge every single race, everywhere, all the time, all backed by think tanks and funding orgs that are backed by some of the richest people in the entire world, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to stop up the gears of democratic elections.
Sure, your locals can challenge the results. They can make noise. But at the end of the day, "move fast and break things" works surprisingly well as a governance tactic if your desired end result is maintaining power, because by the time people have untangled the knots you've woven, you're already ten steps ahead and "well it'd be REALLY HARD AND EXPENSIVE to run a special election (if your locality even has a legal way to do that - most don't).