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[quote quote=5298]Maybe not since the 60’s. I’d say we were unified in WWII, the Depression, the 1950s, WWI, and earlier.[/quote]
That’s likely just airbrushed memory. Lots of political division existed in each of those times. Even during WWII there were significant forces resisting the war effort. We just don’t hear about them much because success has many fathers but failure is an orphan.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Not sure what qualifies as treason these days, but it’s certainly conduct unbecoming if he was contacting foreign militaries with assurances outside the chain of command, I would think. I mean, play this down…If an admiral in the south china sea decided to call his counterpart and let them know that “there is no attack coming,” what could possibly be the motivation for it?
How is this different? I’m not outraged at all, but I’m genuinely curious what the utility is of Milley calling his PLA counterpart outside the chain of command?
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A true American hero. He was clearly Preventing the nuclear Holocaust that Trump was set on creating. I mean, everybody knows Trump was a warmonger.
And it’s worth a chuckle that he had to call general li.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Good point on the pilot demographics. There are plenty of issues of demographics in the Covid era. Maybe we will have cooler heads prevail and get people vaccinated while also expecting them to live healthier lives.
In a lot of ways, Covid is a judgment disease. It comes after people who have poor self care habits HARD.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m w/ GR. We’ve been a hot mess since our founding, we just don’t want to admit it.
For every person who pines for the 50’s there’s someone who reminds us of the Red Scare and Brown v. BOE Topeka.
You want the 60’s? I give you vietnam. Wait, no that was the Democrats.
How about the 70’s? More Vietnam (the Republican flavor), stagflation and the rise of Japan.
80’s were great? I offer you conflicting views of the arms race, Iran, Beirut, etc.
What about the 90’s? Criminal justice reform, welfare reform, the contract with America, and the first politician in America I ever personally heard called a fascist (Gingrich).
I don’t need to go beyond that. We’ve always been a mix of points of view. Some of them are toxic, some of them rational and reasonable. None of them ever were owned by one side of the political spectrum.
Unity doesn’t mean believing the same things, it means believing we can work as a country despite our differences. On that I’m less sure today than 10 years ago, and it’s only because of one thing: The balkanization of information sources. We have gone from espousing generally American values to cowering in our little corners of hate. That hurts us and our politicians relish it because it makes us tractable. See Covid as a prime example.
I keep this board going because I believe that occasionally we get people to come at issues from all sides. GR’s now infrequent drive bys are an example of that, and healthy for us.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Seems a bit political.
There are plenty of mandated vaccinations in the military, some of which are far riskier than the COVID vaccine (anthrax comes to mind). And for anyone watching, military members don’t have “constitutional rights” per se. That doesn’t necessarily mean that the government can or should do anything it wants, but it isn’t like joe schmo on the street.
The note about the vaccine killing “thousands” is disingenuous. The avoided loss of life from the vaccine is far, far beyond the losses of life even peripherally related to the vaccine itself. Reminds me of my old neighbor who wouldn’t wear a seatbelt because somebody got hung by one once in a rollover accident.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Very happy to be wrong on this one. I think we have a very good quarterback. Wow. McKee was throwing darts out there.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Before getting all inflamed, ask yourself whether a person needs to have a degree in data science to speak with authority on data issues.
I admit to being from Missouri on this one. Credentials actually tend to create as many problems as they solve.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I’m philosophically aligned to the need for people to take the vaccine, but am shocked that this sort of coercion from the federal government is legal.
There is a straight line causal relationship between some safety practices (steel-toed boots) and injury (crushed feet).
There is in no way any straight line workplace justification for forcing people to take a vaccine against a disease that is neither highly lethal nor highly likely to be transmitted in most workplaces with minor precautions in place.
Again, I’m for vaccines, but this seems like massive overreach.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I am pretty sure that unless you are in the undeveloped world, you should be worried about birth rates below replacement, regardless of where you are.
Kids just don’t like sex these days, I guess.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)I had a chuckle at this one again this morning. Fauci states that nobody in the entire chain believes they were funding gain of function research. You mean the same chain that would be politically tarnished if they admitted it?
C’mon man.
Rand Paul is poking at something that I think needs to be poked at…namely why the U.S. bureaucracy is funding virus research in communist China. I’m amazed that more people are torqued off about this.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)Marriage has NEVER been a great deal for men. Why would it be? A Man’s best strategy is to have as many children from as many women as possible and to let the community take care of them.
Congrats to libs for letting us play out the worst of our evils.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)It’s not what they ARE doing, it’s what having the information gives them the power to do. If we learned nothing from 9/11, it doesn’t take much for civil liberties to be removed in a “crisis.”
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