Because cops in America all fancy themselves the Punisher (don't even get me started on that) where everyone is out to get them and every one they shoot is one less bad guy on the street.

No incentive to change when they can get away with killing with impunity and fulfill their murder fantasies.

Asshole who shot this kid probably bragged to all his buddies about smoking a dude with a knife and got attaboys all around.

"He's the one

who likes all our pretty songs

and he likes to sing along

and he likes to shoot his gun

but he knows not what it means"

Exactly this.

Kneeling for the anthem is inserting politics into sports, playing the anthem before the game? Not at all inserting politics into sports.

Pride night? Not allowed. First responder (read: cop) Night? Totally cool.

And yet, as a leftist redneck, I whole heartedly approve of the change.

Feel a little more seen, even if it doesn't mean anything.

What Hamas did was horrible, a terrorist attack and atrocity for sure, but we're watching an actual genocide and half of the world is cheering it on. I feel like I'm talking crazy pills. What the fuck is wrong with people and what can we do to stop this?!?

I am by no means an expert, but what I have gathered is that it, like almost everything in combat, is incredibly complex.

With the correct support and combined arms usage tanks are an absolute devastating force on the battlefield still. Used correctly they can completely change a battle.

But they aren't war winners by themselves, and have never been. Unsupported a single tank is exactly a big expensive target, just like a modern fighter and or a single soldier.

The idea that tanks can be wonder weapons and that they alone can turn the tide of a war has existed since WW2, but they have always had weaknesses that need to be covered by supporting elements in order to be used effectively.

How the Abrams will do in Ukraine is anyone's guess. The Abrams has never seen combat without the might of the US's military logistics backing it up.

All that being said, if you are in a firefight, would you rather have a tank backing you up, or not? I'd take the tank support.

I see boomers posting “Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.” on FB all the time, and they genuinely, unironically think they were here >strong men create good times< instead of where they really were, here >good times create weak men<, and so now we are absolutely here >weak men create hard times< thanks to them.

They're just so close to seeing the point.

I have seen the slavery thing. But I'm sorry, the holocaust made Jews useful? Who said that and where? What the actual fuck?

Using it to determine if you get pregnant and then suddenly aren't. So they can charge you for getting an abortion.

Two have basically nothing to do with each other.

We are still the richest nation in the world. 2.3 billion sounds like a lot, but its nothing to the us gov, it's nothing to the defense budget alone, and it is actively wrecking the military capabilities of one of our top geopolitical rivals.

I'm not going to pretend to understand the intricacies of the Russia/Ukraine situation, but I know this is peanuts compared to what it could cost us, and we don't even have boots on the ground. This is the deal of a century.

Be mad at the corrupt piece of shit republicans forcing you to go into crippling debt for healthcare and education, not the innocent Ukrainians fighting for their lives and democracy.

Beyond that, what's to say the court doesn't just declare it unconstitutional.

We're well past them pretending they don't legislate from the bench, they're just striking down or upholding laws that they like at this point.

Lemmy right now feels like reddit from the early 2010s. The community is still quite small, it's mostly still early adopters and folks looking for an alternative to big social medias, which attracts a different crowd than the mainstream.

It's actually a hit of nostalgia for me, I'm kind of into the weirdness and intimacy of a smaller community, but I certainly understand where you're coming from.

One of my favorite niche subreddits has over 600k members, the biggest equivalent community has about 350ish users here, there's a certain quality that comes with that quantity of users.

But if we stick with it more folks will join and we can make this place into what we want it to be, and that's pretty cool imo. Lemmy is still in it's infancy compared to reddit, and it's not perfect, but I think we can build it into something even better, and missing the good parts of reddit can inspire us to make sure that we incorporate them into lemmy in the future.