LeviF

If you're over 35, you're middle aged 😂 Walking what back? If someone says "literal nazis" in political talk they aren't a rational human being, they're a screeching loser. We just had the discussion yesterday about how much better cities were at the turn of the 20th century. Didn't see any pushback from you there. What do you think happened between 1900 and 1955 that made life so terrible for pretty much everyone in America?

Nobody here claimed that everyone had a great life in America forever. Growing up in the area I did we still had people who were literally dirt poor out in the sticks. But to paraphrase a particular Nazarene, there will always be poor people. FLSA passed in 1938 I think so I'm not sure where there would have been child laborers when you were growing up. "There were homosexuals" lol ok and? Nobody denies the existence of homosexuality or the perpetual state of war that humanity seems to exist in. What exactly has everyone going to college gotten us? Prozac for half the country? At best, over-educated middle aged men talking politics on internet message boards? Joe McCarthy was correct. Communist ideologues captured the American institutions in ways that not even he could imagine at the time. As to the last part, why should I care about what national socialists think? Are there more of them now than there were in 1938? What threat do they pose? What power do they wield? We can acknowledge that nations have faults without demonizing the nation. America is the greatest nation in the history of the world, it surged ahead of every recorded civilization ever in every meaningful metric in record time. But it worked for that time for a reason, reasons that we seem hell-bent on undoing in the last sixty years.

The sheer amount of constitutional and historical illiteracy demonstrated above should be apparent to anyone with a high school education, but unfortunately the ideological capture of public institutions in this country means that said education basically taught three historical touchpoints and zero context for any of them. You can feel free to ignore anyone who uses the phrase “literal nazis,” insists that the founders didn’t mean what they said they meant, and pretends that America wasn’t at one time a high-functioning, high-trust society prior to 1964.

“I” am not anything, this is all theoretical as 1. I live in NY and 2. I’m not a governor lol But again the federal government has been happy to allow entire states to flaunt immigration law to include ignoring probable cause warrants issued by federal judges. No war, no national guard, not even a “hey wtf” from a US Attorney. The question is if they will tolerate that what else can (or should) they tolerate?

Well apparently that’s not true for immigration law. Then the question is what else is that not true for?

There’s already precedent on a very large scale with “sanctuary” cities and states. Just comes down to the will to power. How badly does the federal government want a certain policy enforced nationwide?

What did you think I meant by decentralization and constitutional crisis lol

Well who else do you think is going to attempt to enforce federal law when state governments ignore it?

The sheer size and variety of terrain kind of negate any familiarity guys might have with wherever they are locally. As to the rest I did get a chuckle. And I think you give the belligerents too much moral credit. As has been pointed out, you don’t need to fight F16s, or even their pilots. Those pilots have wives, mothers, and children. This is an entirely different generation of warfare that has yet to see a true test. It won’t happen here though. Again I think decentralization and constitutional crisis are much more likely. If there is an aggressor in that scenario, it will be the feds.

Again, are these the same F16s and state of the art drones that couldn’t beat a bunch of opium farmers armed with thirty year old AKs?

They’ll still vote republican. They just won’t enjoy it. Their options are either A. All the leftist policies they hate at the speed of light or B. All the leftist policies they hate at the speed of sound. The “third parties” are all bad. Green Party full of nuts, lolbertarian party’s big draw is teenagers and most of them can’t vote. Because the Hitler comparison is so apt.

Gugny will vouch. The story is embellished in key places for effect but it is him.

All seven years!

Yeah they do I just mean with the amount of money I made at the NFP I would be looking at getting my loans forgiven this year instead of having no school debt as of 2021. I was still on IDR or something similar after I left the NFP just in case I still had something to discharge after 10 years.

lol with my income-based payments I was paid off after 8 years. So no, because I only made like 98 qualifying payments or something like that. But had I been in more debt or stayed at the NFP I worked for right out of college I would have eventually qualified.

It's too bad that Clint Hurt so much that he couldn't play anymore.

Home opener 2015. Bills-Colts. Tyrod's first game. Everyone was very excited. Sexy Rexy in the building, shiny new quarterback, the works. Then it rained. Ok whatever it's football in September can't complain too much. But then there was this guy a few seats down from me. Obviously and obnoxiously intoxicated. His friends clearly embarrassed at how sloppy he was. Kept screaming epithets at Tyrod whenever he took the field. Not racial epithets, mind you. But ones for vertically challenged folks. Which was odd because the guy himself was maybe 5'6" in his air maxes. Anyway last play of the first quarter comes...BOOM Tyrod throws a beautiful bomb to Percy Harvin for the 50 yard TD. Place goes nuts. I go "now shut the ***** UP you goddamn m*dg*t" and he sits in his little puddle of bud lite and rainwater sulking. I think after the Bills went up 24-0 he stumbled off somewhere to puke. Was mumbling something about how real men with height like Lenny Kravitz (???) should play QB. I hope you all enjoy the story of how I met @Gugny

Half expected this to start with "Dear Penthouse..."

We need to talk about his username. Full spelling would be "You Only Live Once in Ohio." But do you really "live" if you're in Ohio? That's a puzzler.

I've always seen the "national divorce" sort of talk as a mechanism for right-of-center Americans to vent frustration both at the current state of government AND the current state of the Republican party. That they see separation from the country as a more plausible route to government representation than overthrowing GOPe leadership. We're already seeing some trends toward decentralization in Florida, Texas, Arizona. States accelerating towards that rather than open war seems far more likely. The question is whether the federal government wishes to attempt state leadership overthrow or perhaps kill people in some fruitless attempt to stop it.

In fairness, from what I understand this is more of a lend-lease type of situation in which Ukraine is basically moving from an American vassal state all the way to just an extension of the American empire as a satellite. In theory this could benefit the American taxpayer in the long run. It won’t, but in theory it could.

Make Detroit farmland again!

Could be policy side, analyst, lobbying, city planning. Of course he’s under no obligation to disclose information about his employment but there’s plenty of jobs where one could find that goal.

@Roundybout Then go move there dude. Nothing’s stopping you. I lived downtown in a mid size metro for years, I understand what it is you’re looking for. But those places are vanishingly rare. Once I got married I couldn’t justify making my bride park on the street or take the bus at night considering the, erm, increasing vibrancy of the city and neighborhood. We rented a place on the city’s outer limits for a bit before we bought a house in the burbs. Country club is around the corner, shopping complex is five minutes by car or twenty minute walk. Two parks within a five minute walk from my front door, including the local little league field. I have 1650 square feet on 1/3 of an acre and paid $200k for the privilege. Put up a white picket fence last summer to complete the picture. And my kids can play in the yard or even in the street once they’re older like I used to growing up. Life is good brother.

Yeah, an agreement that, if it even existed, clearly went south fairly quickly. Membership in a criminal street gang is already an escalator for sentencing under federal law. No need for martial law, empower local police agencies to utilize regional gang task force members to quickly identify street gang affiliate suspects and round them up. And I have bad news regarding 24/7 surveillance of American citizens.