@johnkonrad @DLoesch This is actually brilliant. Not our problem. If Iran continues to block the straight for European traffic, it's between them.
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Steelhead Fisherman
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BREAKING: US Navy will not open the Strait of Hormuz
Trump gives nations who import oil from the Middle East three options:
1) Buy your oil from US and Venezuela instead
2) Secure the Strait themselves with limited US support
Or
3) Wait for Hormuz to reopen naturally
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Right now half of Japanese twitter is saying "Okay, America, we want to be absolutely sure we understand you correctly - you WANT us to use our Navy to seize oil supplies?"
The Bulwark@BulwarkOnline
Trump on re-opening the Strait of Hormuz: "Let France do it, they get a lot of oil from the strait. Let the Europeans do it. Let South Korea, who is not helpful to us, by the way…Let South Korea do it. Let Japan do it… This was not part of what I wanted to do."
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🚨BREAKING: King Charles & Camilla were verbally abused & heckled by the public today as the arrived at a Welsh Maundy service.
The people know Charles is a traitor.
The Monarchy is dying.
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@Ian60792100 @VladTheInflator @ArthurMacwaters I agree that it sounds logical, and it's probably true in individual cases. But at a societal level the poor have more children and the rich have few. It seems to be more a question of values than of means.
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@StillySteelhead @VladTheInflator @ArthurMacwaters I think the opposite holds true. If someone lives in an impoverished area with a terrible job market where incomes are generally low/stagnant, where its nearly impossible to support one self, would it make your situation better or worse to have children in that scenario?
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the belief that birth rate is going down because of cost of living is statistically false
birth rate drops most after countries become affluent
it’s a self-defeating mechanism
this is the final boss of civilization and has not yet been beaten
X Freeze@XFreeze
The biggest threat to civilization is not climate change or war It is the collapsing birth rate.....It's hitting record lows and consistently accelerating downward If we don’t have enough people to sustain the light of consciousness on Earth, we’ll never make it to the stars. Mars will stay empty. Earth will become a graveyard Population collapse is a choice. We need to stop making it
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@BallparkAkshual @foxnewspolitics I'm Catholic. But thanks for outing yourself as a bigot.
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@StillySteelhead @foxnewspolitics What a jewy comment
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RESTRAINT NEEDED: Ex-counterterrorism chief says Trump must rein in Israel to declare Iran victory. Kent, who quit over opposition to the war, argues the U.S. and Israel have 'drastically different goals' and must act accordingly. foxnews.com/politics/ex-co…
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@Ian60792100 @VladTheInflator @ArthurMacwaters The whole point of the original post is that birth rates are inversely related to income. The more affluent people are, the fewer kids they have.
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@StillySteelhead @VladTheInflator @ArthurMacwaters The affordability of having and raising children. Shouldn't that be obvious?
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Put my guy @RonDeSantis as U.S. attorney general. The Dems will have a meltdown.
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: Trump projected to fire Attorney General Pam Bondi "imminently" 93% chance.
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@tropicalupdate It's been raining every damn day in SW Florida.
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New Drought numbers released today. And Florida is getting worse. More D3/D4 levels now showing compared to last week. And 100% of the state is in some sort of drought. Rainy season historically is a month plus away at least. Bummer. spaghettimodels.com
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@podiatristdon Voting Renner in the primary & unless a miracle occurs, Jolly in the general.
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I’m not going to pretend like By’rone won’t be the nominee. I’m voting Renner for the primary and skipping November. My hope is Fishback sticks around and does media to keep going after Donalds which helps deliver down ballot losses for really awful members of the legislature.
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
Florida Governor Republican Primary 🟥 Byron Donalds: 46% 🟥 Jay Collins: 4% 🟥 James Fishback: 4% 🟥 Paul Renner: 3% ⬜ Not sure: 39% Emerson (A) | 3/29-31 | LV emersoncollegepolling.com/florida-2026-p…
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@Kirk31614869 @LloydLegalist Have you heard her "speaking in tongues?"
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@LloydLegalist Hmmm. Strange way for you to bring the message 🤔
Nothing like bashing fellow Christians and maybe turning off people that might make a connection to Jesus Christ with this message.
God Bless you.
Do better
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Dear rest of the world: Nobody cringes harder at this religious charlatan being Trump’s spiritual advisor than most evangelicals- and that’s including many who voted for him. Her husband wrote some solid music, so he gets a minor pass…but we don’t know what he was thinking, either.
#Trump #Journey”
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@EricLDaugh How many times does the GOP have to lose with a sh*t Trump-backed candidate for you to wise up? It's almost like you are running an op for the Dems.
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump-endorsed Florida governor candidate Byron Donalds leads the GOP primary by a whopping +42 POINTS, with the next closest candidates only polling at 4% — Emerson
HUGE!
He also just broke the non-incumbent fundraising record for Q1
Keep pushing, Byron! 🔥☀️
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@herges @latestinspace I didn't know that, but it makes sense. To say the HCI people at NASA lack imagination is a massive understatement.
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@StillySteelhead @latestinspace The SpaceX suites are designed to allow the use of the touchscreens while wearing the gloves and it gives audible feedback just like your phone can so you know you've touched something .😜🤦♂️
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#NEWS 🚨: Many are pointing out how different Artemis II’s Onion spacecraft interior is compared to SpaceX’s Dragon
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@j_c_hoffman @ColyerAndy @marcthiessen Fair enough. But then we bury them under a mountain of pulverized rock before they can do much mischief. My fear though is that the next administration won't have the stones to follow through. Then we will have a problem.
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@StillySteelhead @ColyerAndy @marcthiessen Maybe. IF they don't dig deep enough to escape the bombs, yes.
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So many longtime NATO supporters saying the same thing right now. I helped bring Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic into NATO. But denying us basing and overflight is inexcusable, as is their failure to help with Strait of Hormuz. No one asking them to bomb Iran, just let us use our bases and help escort ships. If they can’t do that, NATO has no purpose.
Clifford D. May@CliffordDMay
I'm pro-NATO. But I can't think of a single argument to refute what @MsMelChen says here. Not one. If others can, please weigh in.
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@j_c_hoffman @ColyerAndy @marcthiessen Destroying their centrifuges, capturing their materials, blowing up their missiles and production, killing their nuclear scientists...seems like a good way to shut it down. And if they ever start again...we go another round.
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@StillySteelhead @ColyerAndy @marcthiessen The answer is that the US really isn't able to get rid of the regime and the nuclear program this way. If anything they make the regime realize that only nukes can protect them. It's not illegal to be stupid, but it isn't recommended either.
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@xADK46erx @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters Yet, in countries with extremely generous free child care and paid parental leave, fertility rates continue to plummet. It's not about money.
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@StillySteelhead @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters It takes 2 incomes to afford a house today much less own a car with these insane prices. Expecting the wife to leave the work force or now afford tens of thousands in child care breaks most peoples budgets.
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@JOHN54379832 @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters Kids don't care if their parents have a new car or the nicest house. They want two parents who love them. If you raise them with a solid foundation, the sky's the limit (especially in the US).
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@StillySteelhead @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters No, you misunderstand. In developed countries it is considered a massive moral failure to raise your children in circumstances worse than you were raised. This is the reason for lower births rates conditions are worsening for young people. Look at the average age of home buyers.
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@tad_with @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters Somehow people in poor countries have lots of kids without two cars, a 70 inch tv, and a house with a pool.
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@StillySteelhead @johannesmkx @ArthurMacwaters How many more years of work and preparation does it take to get to that "much higher" standard living.
For many it's a binary choice. Invest the time into a career, or into kids. Time is a finite resource and it's not a thing you can reverse course on.
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@RoKhanna That's the same idiotic logic that screwed up so many past wars. You don't tell the other side in a negotiation what your bottom line is... unless you want to lose.
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