billyhoyle

Here’s the thing. You aren’t the arbiter of who is an American. That’s the US constitution and our laws. You making up your own arbitrary definition of who is an American is about as meaningful as if you created your own personal version of the Olympics. It’s also strange that you have created a cutoff at a third generation American counting. Native Americans might not consider you to be American. I also don’t think you understand how genetics works-your genes don’t change based on where your parents are born. If you can’t celebrate that one of the best wrestlers in the world is American (born here, trained here, representing our country), ask yourself why that is. I’d also consider changing your handle, since using JB’s moniker to espouse this nonsense just isn’t right.

Incredible restraint in funding Hamas, Hezbollah, and militias that attack US troops? Hopefully it doesn’t happen, but if Iran were to launch a major attack on Israel capable of overwhelming Iron Dome, the US would immediately enter the conflict using drones, missiles, and naval assets. Iran knows this, and hopefully that deterrent prevents escalation. Iran failed in its counterintelligence program in allowing the assassination of a Hamas leader. Their own failure won’t trigger an all out war (I hope). When Russian spies carry out assasinations in Germany or the UK, the result isn’t a war between Germany/UK and Russia.

Elor has been so dominant. Hopefully NBC gives her some coverage.

Why would anyone ever doubt the GOAT? How was he not the favorite?

That is a nuanced point that is fair. I’d argue it’s not a political winner compared to focusing on immigration or inflation because when you have parents from different races you don’t have to decide which you identify with-you can identify with both. And you can emphasize the different experiences at different times. However, he didn’t make that nuanced point. His exact words were “all of a sudden she’s black” when she has always been biracial. If anything, she has identified more with being black since she went to Howard. I don’t think she had some political plan in mind when she did that. If he focused on her being far to the left of Biden, I think he’d be much better off than what he has done.

I would imagine you use truancy as a way to identify parents who are neglecting their kids and having a kid that just never goes to school is pretty neglectful unto itself. Parents have basic responsibilities and failing those has consequences. The punishments here are decided by a judge so there is due process.

This doesn't make any sense. The atmosphere consists largely of N2, O2, and CO2. N2 and O2 do not absorb in the IR spectrum because they are symmetric molecules. So as the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere increases, the atmosphere will absorb more IR radiation emitted from land, and retain more heat on the planet. You can prove it to yourself if you'd like if you just look up the IR spectra of the three molecules and then look up the recorded amounts of atmospheric CO2 by year. I think something that might help is understand what heat actually is. Here's Feyman explaining it in simple terms. So the question is what causes the atoms to jiggle more? One answer is atoms absorbing radiation and emitting vibrational energy.

I think her platform is just that she isn't Trump. It's stupid that we are basically having the exact same election for the third time in a row. If Desantis had won the nomination, I don't think this would be close. Trump is probably still the favorite, but it is way closer than it should have been given the circumstances...And Trump keeps self-sabotaging with things like picking J.D. Vance as V.P. and pretending to not understand that people can be biracial to attack her for being black (neither of those things will play well in the suburbs). When Biden was the nominee, Trump was running an extremely disciplined campaign and basically just letting Biden implode with his ineptitude...Now that whole thing is out the window and we have one candidate attacking the other for being "weird" and the other attacking based on racial identity. Not our finest hour.

Isn't it good to hold parents accountable if they don't give a shit about their kids being in school? It's not like this happened to parents if the kid was absent for one day, but if you have a 12 year old never showing up to school, that is 100% the fault of the parent and might indicate much bigger issues goin on at home. I don't get why "Lavern Spicer" thinks it is an effective strategy to attack her for preventing child abuse.

Odds are that you won't have to.

Wow. Well, at least he if he medals he will have earned.

There's a guy named Robert Kennedy Jr. who might be right up your alley.

Let’s not forget Lebanon, as Michigan ROTC found out in an embarrassing way.

Maybe some would be outraged, but probably not most. The US did kill Bin Laden and many others involved in the planning of the attack. KSM they just had other purposes for (source of intel for CIA)-the consequences of which make putting him on trial in a death penalty case impossible. 2003 was a different time though, and we were barely a year removed from 9/11, so it’s hard to second guess the way he was handled. I’m sure Obama, Trump, and Biden would all have loved to have seen him put on trial, but 16 years after announcing it was something they wanted to do, it still hasn’t happened.

To answer my own question: +160. This is free money, people! The guy never loses unless it's on purpose!

Because old people listen to the radio. It's an advertisement. She's paying for it to be shown.

KSM was originally charged in 2008 when Obama took office. Bush had held him without trial since his capture in 2003. His trial still hasn't even started yet. So that means between 2008 and 2024, including all 4 years of Trump's presidency, they couldn't bring KSM to trial. That seems ridiculous on its face, but it is a consequence of how complicated the case is both in terms of national security (what he might say publicly in trial, what CIA might have to reveal as part of the trial, what precedent it sets for the ability to hold detainees without trial in the future) and from a legal standpoint since he is the single most notorious person to undergo waterboarding. Given how complicated this case is, it would likely take many more years to be able to actually get him to face trial, and once he was found guilty and sentenced to death (which he 100% would be), it would then be decades before his appeals were exhausted. In a normal death penalty case it takes decades, but this case has so many avenues for appeals, I can't imagine it would be possible to ever have a death sentence carried out.

Not only is Iran forfeiting not required, it is also against the entire spirit of the games, and those who engage in it should not be enabled to continue to compete on the international stage.

There's no doubt that they would be great wrestlers. Same for the women's gymnasts as well. It takes elite athleticism and incredible work ethic to be a great gymnast.

I think this has everything to do with J.D. Vance's connection to the VC community because VCs are some of the strangest people on earth. If you've seen the TV show Silicon Valley, Peter Gregory is based on Peter Thiel. David Sacks is another example of this. Other VCs are just as strange and in a way it has rubbed off on what Vance thinks is normal behavior. Trump's whole persona and part of why he is such an effective politician is that he can channel being a populist/normal guy who says things most people think but won't say. He is naturally funny. J.D. Vance is really antithetical to this and says things that most people don't think, and after he says them the reaction isn't generally very positive. I think Trump's political instincts are strong enough that he gets this and might end up replacing him.

Thanks for the tip. Not going to work for her now after reading this.

“In his 1947 classic Family And Civilization, Harvard sociologist Carle C. Zimmerman examined the way changing family forms affected the fates of the Roman and Greek empires. His historically informed sociological analysis concluded that civilizational collapse is presaged by a dissolution of families, as well as by a loosening of sexual mores, and a rise in both androgyny and homosexuality.” This "observation" is inherently a prediction that the "loosening of sexual mores" and "homosexuality" lead to "civilizational collapse." Well, the U.S. had its most successful period in history in the 80 years that we as a country have become less sexually oppressive. The countries that are the most oppressive to women and gay people have proven to be the least successful (Iran is a great example and the societal collapse that has happened since the revolution). Ironically, if the U.S. adopted similarly highly oppressive laws as we see in Iran and tightented "sexual mores" just as they did after the Iranian revolution, we would likely see a similar civilizational collapse. So this guy really was just simply wrong in his observation, and the collapse of the Roman Empire had nothing to do with the acceptance of gay people.

Check back in a year. He has been wrong for 80 years. Maybe this will be the one!

We have nuclear weapons-we aren't going to be invaded. My point is that this guy's prediction was wrong because the premise happened and the country itself is more successful than it has ever been by almost any measure. So yeah, eventually it all may go to shit, but the reason won't be for what this guy thought it would be.

It's interesting that since he wrote this, the U.S. has been extremely successful relative to the rest of the world (1950s to present). When is the collapse supposed to happen? The countries that are the most socially oppressive tend to be the ones that collapse (Soviet Union, Iraq, Lebanon, etc).