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RFK is against needlessly classifying documents, especially those of public interest that are 60 years old. There’s a lot of classified information that nobody can justify why it’s classified, which can be deduced to the government is hiding something they don’t want the public to know. It is the public who paid for and owns that information, so withholding it creates distrust in the government. Seems reasonable.

Probably not… but if you listen to him explain it all (his dad’s assassination), it is very compelling. Same goes for most anything he says that people call him a conspiracy nut for saying. His town hall from a couple weeks ago is worth the listen… same with the Rogan and Jordan Peterson interviews with him.

ALL OF THEM! (The War on Drugs has been going on for 60 years ) Anyhow, we have ventured far from the original topic of discussing 2024 Presidential Candidates… I’m split between RFK Jr. and Vivek in the primaries (open primaries). They are both DC outsiders, both highly intelligent, both have good ideas (I agree and disagree with them equally). I think Vivek would be better for the economy of the US, but RFK would be better for the soul of the US (i.e. bring people together, unlike Trump and Biden who have done nothing but pit Americans against one another). As of now, I’m likely going RFK. I think if he has a good showing, he’ll go third-party (I don’t see DNC letting Biden lose the nomination, though, I think there may be some shenanigans forthcoming leading to Newsom being the chosen candidate).

First, I was against children not getting stolen, now I’m against protecting America? Why not divert those weapons to our southern border and do something to actually protect American citizens? The cartels pose a much greater and more imminent threat to the US than Russia does at this point. Sooner or later, we will have to take military action against the cartels, with or without Mexico’s permission.

That 49% of republican support and 78% of independent support is why you wouldn’t see any legislation. Anyone in a slightly purple district would get toasted, and their colleagues likely wouldn’t put them in that position. I’m not going to argue about the trans topic. It was discussed ad nauseam, and ended with a two week ban hammer courtesy of Uncle Bob.

They aren’t using the “replacement cost” of arms being ascent to Ukraine when coming up with their allocations. They are using a depreciated cost. That’s how they “found” another $20 billion or whatever a little while back due to an accounting “error” that did use the replacement cost. Every $10 billion in arms we send Ukraine will cost us $25 billion or more to replace, given full value of replacement, inflation, expedited production and current high labor costs. It sounds like you’re justifying children getting stolen from Ukraine so we can “priceless research and data from/on Russian weapons systems”.

I don’t think it would be politically prudent to make legislation banning gay marriage. It would put vulnerable politicians who could usually skirt around the issue in the “bad” position of actually going on record one way or the other with their votes. More likely, there would be referenda to amend the states’ constitutions, and I’m not convinced there would be the support to do so… I feel most people who were against gay marriage 10 years ago, consider it a settled issue and have moved on. It’s not like with Roe, where the abortion debate raged continuously.

Same can be said with states having varying gun laws and 2nd Amendment rights. I have a concealed carry permit, but if I carry 1/2 mile down the street from my house, I’m committing a felony. Again, I think there should only be a federally-recognized civil union. It’s simply a contract between two people which affords certain privileges (taxes, power of attorney, etc.). Completely erase marriage from the government’s books. Marriage has an inherent religious component to it, so it should be separated. If people want to marry their dog or sister or favorite golf club, whatever. That’s their issue.

That’s quite a leap.. My questioning of the unchecked spending of tens of billions of US taxpayers’ dollars on a proxy war between two corrupt countries means I’m justifying the fact that kids may have been “stolen” in Ukraine? Just wait until we start sending “our portion” of the $2 trillion-plus for the rebuilding of Ukraine when this is done. That’s when the real grift will happen… hundreds of billions will be given, and, in 20 years, it won’t look much different than it does today.

There is also the matter of $400 million meant to purchase diesel embezzled by Zelenskyy and co. Before attacking the source (no idea what GVS is), this was just the first article that popped up in a search. The investigative journalist who broke this story, Seymour Hersh, is a Pulitzer Prize winner for exposing the My Lai Massacre, amongst winning dozens of other awards, so he’s not just some 4chan kook. https://www.globalvillagespace.com/zelensky-and-team-stole-at-least-400-million-of-us-aid-seymour-hersh/ Found the sub stack: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy Aside from that, we were coming down hard on Zelenskyy for not doing anything about the corruption in Ukraine right up until Russia invaded. Then everyone pretty much forgot about it and started putting Ukrainian flag emojis on their Twitter profiles. https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-government-and-politics-494af1bc0145fb2d16c76b0abf3f5cda

I thought the slippery slope argument was a fallacy? But, somehow, letting states decide on abortion is going to lead to gay marriages and birth control being banned, and allowing some guns to be banned won’t result in more guns being banned. Even the gay marriage issue was sent back to the states, I don’t think we’d see a single state with an outright ban. I concede we might see a few only have gay civil unions, not gay marriage, but I’m a proponent of taking the government out of the marriage business and only recognizing civil unions, gay or straight. After all, the government’s only concern in the matter is the legal contract between two people, not their promise to God or Allah or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

The latest is the FBI aiding Ukrainian intelligence's effort to get Twitter to ban journalists and hand over their user data... Twitter did not comply, but I'd be willing to bet Meta and Youtube did.

There simply is no unbiased news left. There is a commentary/opinion/editorial angle to every single article from every single source. It's probably best to get your news from the most biased sources from each side, that way you at least know what's not true.

That’s what C-SPAN is for. It isn’t just social media showing the lack of editorial standards, it is all of corporate media down to hometown newspapers. It’s become news entertainment in the way pro wrestling is sports entertainment.

I’ve always proposed a 10 question quiz on ballots… a mix of common sense, civics and current affairs questions… nothing too difficult… if you get all 10 correct, you get a full vote, 9 right and you get a .9 vote, and so on down to zero. I suspect the number of votes would go from 160 million down to about 30 million total votes when adjusted by the multiplier.

And how would he get those legs in with his size 21 clown shoes?

Geez… you’re acting like I quoted Breitbart. At least I pretended to use an unbiased, semi-scholarly source. … nothing against the substance of these articles, but you’ve quoted a source that has a penchant for “wild ass language”. The top 3 articles on reason.com are: 1) The Government is Coming for Your Gas Stove 2) Zoning Police Criminalize Kindness in Oregon 3) ‘Mamas for Desantis is Proof: Desantis Campaign Too Online Also, all statistics are ripe for abuse… if we were to believe Ketanji Brown Jackson in her dissent, black babies are twice as likely to survive if they are delivered by a black doctor than a white doctor. If we didn’t take some creative liberties in our use of language and statistics, this would be a pretty boring place.

If Harvard was 100% Asian-American students, I wouldn’t think anything of it… they’ve earned it. The thing I see as questionable is the influx of international Chinese students at all US institutions over the past two decades… It’s sort of like if you did a training camp with your opponent before a fight. Maybe it would be fine, but don’t be surprised if people scratch their heads at it… and if things go sideways, it’ll probably be one of those, “yeah, that was stupid,” types of things. And, honestly, I’m not against having international students at US schools, but wouldn’t it make more sense to prioritize those slots for students from ally countries, not the one country trying to replace us as the sole superpower?

H-1B is a non-immigrant classification that isn’t a path to permanent residency. Depending on the job, you only need a bachelor’s… or be a model.. to get an H-1B. Most students are F-1 and have no intention to stay.

“Fact: There are more individuals in slavery today than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade”(1), and it is the Democrats who refuse to enact any meaningful reforms to stop illegal immigration. So, you can say it’s “wild ass language” or I’m being “ridiculous”, but that’s only because the truth lies closer to what I said than makes you comfortable. (1) The Polaris Project (2013)

Barring some sort of Space Jam scenario, I don’t see the fate of our country coming down to NBA players… However, there are similar (and greater) percentages of Chinese International students at our top public schools. To answer the second question, it’s the democrats’ new slave trade. Because they are here on F-1 student visas and can’t stay.

I hope that it’s an open contest, and the winners are chosen via an internet poll. It will be a glorious shitshow. A better plan would be to return federal land to the states and allow them to do as they see fit with it.

Where’s Zahid when you need him? (but the $200/g quoted would be an insane price… unless you were in a remote Alaskan town or something)

The median net worth of an American family is about $120k. Elon is worth $250BB. Him buying Twitter for $40 billion is equivalent to the average family buying a 2014 Honda Pilot with 130,000 miles.

4.5% of Harvard and 7.2% of MIT students are from China (from China and will return to China, not Chinese-American). Why are we educating our “enemy” at our most prestigious universities? Seems stupid.