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Vote Blue. 🌊 Army Vet. Cannabis should be legal. Probation sucks. It's not playing with Legos, it's a build. Religion is evil.
Masison, WI Katılım Eylül 2012
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93 percent is the number.
But the number that actually explains the psychology is this:
0.4 percent.
That is approximately the percentage of the American population currently serving in the military.
0.4 percent fight the wars.
99.6 percent watch the flyovers.
This ratio, a tiny professional military drawn disproportionately from poor and rural communities, fighting continuous wars on behalf of a population that has almost no personal contact with the human cost, is what makes perpetual war psychologically sustainable.
The draft ended in 1973 because Vietnam proved that a conscript army brings the war home in ways that are politically unmanageable.
When every family has someone in the war, the war becomes everyone's business.
When 0.4 percent fight and 99.6 percent attend football games, the war is an abstraction.
An abstraction you can support indefinitely.
An abstraction you can fund without feeling it.
An abstraction that doesn't interrupt dinner or election campaigns or quarterly earnings reports.
The professional military did not just change how America fights.
It changed who the war belongs to.
And wars that don't belong to the people paying for them can run forever.
Patrick Strother@PatrickStrother
It is also getting worse. I grew up with Vietnam but it wasn’t until 9/11 that we escalated to this state of perpetual war, including having 5 or 6 conflicts at a time. The propaganda machine never stops. It’s part of our patriotic bread and circuses at NFL games and other American pastime events. When you invest more than a $ trillion in the military you feel guilty if you aren’t using it every day.
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In 2022, SpaceX was charged with illegally firing workers who spoke out against Elon Musk.
Then, Elon Musk helped elect Donald Trump, and Trump's labor board dropped the charges.
Was this a political favor? I'm pressing for answers.
CNBC@CNBC
Sens. Warren and Blumenthal investigate NLRB decision to drop charges against SpaceX for retaliatory firings cnbc.com/2026/04/16/sen…
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Dear Virginia,
A NATURAL BORN CHEATER is rigging the midterm elections!!!
TODAY is the day that changes that!!!
Same-day registration at your polling place.
Vote YES and let’s lock in fair elections and lock this FUCKER up!!!
#VoteYesVirginiaToday 💙💙🇺🇸

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The SAVE Act is effectively dead in the Senate.
Thune admitted the votes were never there and moved on to "more pressing stuff."
Here's the principle: women shouldn't have to do one extra thing more than a man to vote.
Want voter ID? Fine. Issue it to every citizen for free.
The burden of proving citizenship should never fall on the voter when the government can verify it at zero cost.
Voting is a right.
Not a privilege you earn by having the right paperwork.
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I was getting Arby's for my son and I tonight. I looked at the prices of the meals. $13 for many of the items. Nearly $30 for fast food dinner.
It would have cost $12 total less than ten years ago.
Every dime I have saved towards retirement is worth a penny now.
Having a 401(k) with a million bucks is paltry when you consider how hard inflation will continue to eat into it each year after you quit putting money into it.
The system is rigged. Only cheaters win. The rest of us work our whole lives only to be poor at the end due to massive inflation from socialist ideas like minimum wage and absurdly wasteful and fraud-riddled government programs.
The country is in debt up to its eyeballs and our money is losing value every year, at a growing rate.
What a disappointing end to the American Dream.
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