To be honest, I'm surprised Biden didn't Executive Order Space Force out of existence because it's been a farce and the butt of jokes from day one. And those uniforms....Christ on a crutch! Whoever the designer was must literally be laughing all the way to the bank after conning the government into okaying those ugly things. Sheesh!
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And if Democrats propose to subtract so much as one dollar from the military in budget talks, right wingers and conservatives go apoplectic and scream bloody murder about how Dems don't support the troops. Look, I was in the military (Navy: 1976-1996) and even I think they get WAY too much, more than they need in fact.
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Communist states have been around for over a century now and yet somehow we continue to delude ourselves into thinking that people living under communism are suffering and yearn to live free? If that were really true, then all of the CIA's many attempts to engineer coups to overthrow communist governments would have met with a lot more success than they did. Life under socialism is not exactly comfortable by our standards, but the vast majority of people saw their quality of life greatly improve by just about every metric. Of course, for the tiny elite of landed aristocrats and industrial magnates, the transition was quite traumatic as all of the privileges they took for granted evaporated basically overnight and they were reduced to living like the common people they were used to bossing around. So the logical option for many was to flee, often taking as much of their wealth as they could bring with them, which in turn helped them set up successful businesses once they arrived in America. If you thought that your average Cuban ex-slave or Korean peasant with no wealth to speak of could make it to America and succeed by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps, I have a bridge to sell you.
The problem is that the US military hasn't had an enemy that came close to parity for quite a long time, so it's under no external pressure to make sure that it's spending its money wisely and taking good care of the troops. Burning more cash for flashy weapon systems creates a ton of jobs and looks great on recruitment videos, and because F-35's aren't flying actual combat missions that could expose their design flaws, the military isn't forced to re-evaluate unless there's some freak accident which is a rare occurrence.
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I was hoping he would too but at the end of the day it’s a new branch of the military which means it pretty much gets blank checks to do what ever the hell it is that it’s supposed to do (which is?!?). The US military doesn’t like any threats to its unlimited resources. There’s gonna be a lot of push back if someone wants to get rid of Space Force. Ugh god just saying that ridiculous name makes me cringe.
Could they at least change the name to something less asinine? How about Galactic Warrior Corps.?
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administrators in a Kansas City area school district were furious after a racist petition was circulated in a local high school calling for the reinstatement of slavery.
The petition was posted online by students at a nearby high school in the same district - LEAD Innovation Studio.
Stutterheim said that she attended a meeting on Monday at LEAD Innovation, where the principal, Ryan Staley, told parents it was his understanding that the petition called for reinstating slavery.
Park Hill High School has a student body that is 14.4 percent black and 63 percent white. As of last year, the school's student body numbered 1,906 pupils.
As of 2019, the population of the school district stood at 71,541 people. Its K-12 student enrollment stood at 11,617.
Of those, more than 67 percent are white while 12.3 percent are African-American.
Hispanics make up slightly more than 1 in 10 students, according to district data. Just 3.5 percent of students are Asian while 5.5 percent are multi-racial.
It's fair to call Haitians desperate people because many of these are desperate people.
However, I certainly agree that playing on emotions is a poor way to determine policy, because there is no limiting principle. The desperation in Haiti does not mean that everyone there who wants a road to American citizenship should be free to get it. I can understand that people in Haiti may not want to go to the neighboring Dominican Republic, due to the history of self-serving policies that penalized Haitians, but it doesn't stand to reason that the US, a country with a high cost of living and a major push for a higher minimum wage, is the right place for them. Desperate people would be willing to compromise.
There is a strong moral argument for Open Borders. The libertarian economist Brian Kaplan made a decent graphic novel about this with Zach Weinersmith (SMBC.) It remains politically unpopular.
It becomes more unpopular if there's the idea that everyone who wants to be an American citizen will have access to good facilities and services.
One of the big questions is what the limiting principle should be. Should everyone who wants a shot at American citizenship be granted it?
A political complication is that Democrats do not want to enforce immigration policies, and want to make it clear that if they get their way on immigration reform, anyone who gets into the United States prior to the reform is on the way to citizenship. That encourages more people to try, but Democrats don't have the votes to make them citizens.
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The argument isn't that there shouldn't be limits, we really can't take in every one who wants in, it's that hunting down those entering on horse back and throwing them to the ground like animals isn't the way to enforce said limits...it seems like a pretty easy point to grasp.
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The reason nobody is stating any exact limits is because immigration quotas are silly and arbitrary. In terms of broader targets, given that our natural population growth rate is slowing and will likely turn negative soon, we should aim for at least 3-5 million new arrivals per year try and stabilize our population trajectory at a 1% growth rate at minimum. Of course, these new immigrants should be fast tracked to citizenship and strategically settled in swing states in order to dilute the Bubba vote as much as possible.
It's not the number, it's the process.
In my opinion, if immigration could be streamlined, simplified, and made easier to access then we might have less issues.
Having people huddled under a bridge isn't good.
Having people able to get visas or the right documentation before they reach the US border, or something that speeds up the process ....
People shouldn't have to swim across the rio grande, or huddle in make shift camps with little food or necessities.
People should know ahead of time if they are even eligible to immigrate to the US before leaving, and if not the US there should be other countries they can go to
There has to be a better way. And if we can figure it out here in the US, then maybe we can help other countries dealing with similar situations figure it out.
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