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  1. Also, the Aurora was a the base of a really good car doomed by its Olds brand and GM parts bin interior. The Aztek was before its time and previewed where we were going with crossovers. The Fiero finally got good when the Pontiac guys were able to get more power for it despite Corvette guys’ protests. The Honda Ridgeline is a very good and comfortable truck that does everything most people need in a truck. The Cybertruck is shit.

    These are my car opinions and they are correct. 

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  2. It’s not relevant to try and go down this road because the tax systems are so different. The relevant thing is that nearly all of Europe is doing their share, likely more proportionally in many cases.

    Which is fine, it’s good. But just take that talking point away. We are behind them. 

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  3. 1 hour ago, Make em eat Taco Bell said:

    and this won't get much attention but here it is 

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-settlers-kill-two-palestinians-occupied-west-bank-mayor-says-2024-04-15/

    Israeli settlers kill two Palestinians in occupied West Bank, mayor says

    By Reuters
    April 15, 20242:03 PM CDTUpdated 2 hours ago
     
     
     
    CAIRO, April 15 (Reuters) - Israeli settlers killed two Palestinians on Monday in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus, Salah Bani Jaber, the mayor of Aqraba, told Reuters.
    "About 50 settlers, a large number of them armed, attacked the residents of Khirbet al-Tawil village east of Aqraba in the province of Nablus. They opened fire on the youth and this led to the death of two of the youth and the injury of others,” the mayor said.

    This violence was is response to the murder of a 14 year old Jewish shepherd. As with most things, the finger-pointing will go back to pre-1948.

    https://nypost.com/2024/04/13/world-news/discovery-of-israeli-teens-body-sparks-wave-violent-settler-attacks-in-west-bank/amp/ 

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  4. Not a fan of the loan idea but if this pretense unsticks things, OK. I’m a big fan of all the things in this bill.

    Who knew Iran just needed to attack Israel to get money for Ukraine? 
     

     

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  5. There is lots of blame to go around. What you see in terms of world on fire, but especially Ukraine, is the result of a foreign policy that has at its core the goal of managing crises and not winning or ending crises on favorable terms. We just can’t imagine winning one of these things and especially we won’t allow ourselves to ask “how can we help Ukraine win and not just survive.” 
     

    If you set the goal to manage crises, you end up with crises to manage.  The time to help Ukraine win was 1.5 years ago. The window has closed and now the best we can do is help them survive. 

    Never let lawyers run your national security. 

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  6. One thing to ponder here is that Iran shot something like 350 missiles, drones, and other projectiles at Israel. Nearly all got shot down, but Iran has now established that option as a “reasonable” response and action, anything less will be viewed as not so serious.  
     

    We saw in real time how Iron Dome normalized Hamas rocket attacks and established the expectation that Israel should suck it up and just hunker down defensively.  Israel will be highly inclined to set a difference precedent with Iran. If an embassy warrants 350 projectiles, how many does an attack on Iran proxies warrant? 20? 100?

    This is not a sustainable game for us and Israel.  Deterrence has failed and Iran can’t learn the lesson that it can shoot missiles at Israel with no kinetic response. 

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  7. 6 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    And the first reply is about “Islam-religion of peace”…when the killer was a generic white dude. Gotta love the predictability.
    On the bright side, shows you how those pussy Australians are. Had this dude been in the US, his crazy ass could have obtained multiple firearms and racked up 10x the body count. What a bunch of losers the aussies are.

    As a side-show, a Russian and Syrian with big followings in Sydney started a social media storm by claiming it was a random guy named “Benjamin Cohen.” Their followers are really stupid so they had to clarify “the Jew.”  An Australian news station picked it up, so hopefully he’ll get paid. 
     

     

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  8. 4 hours ago, elfenix said:

    Europe isn’t especially violent or war-prone but Europeans and their spin-off/mentee cultures are very, very good at war.

    This is a big part of why Israel’s existence drives the Islamic world nuts, not really religion or even land for co-religionists. Jews left the Near East as tribesmen and came back organized as a Western nation with Western ways of war, thought, and social organization. Their existence in the middle of the Near East is a constant reminder of what the Islamic world believes is their humiliation at the hands of the West, which is supposed to be inferior. That’s why there’s so many comparisons to the Crusaders. 

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  9. We had gotten to a point where Biden was talking about conditioning aid to Israel and seeing opinion shift in a big way against Israel and then Iran launches a major attack that accomplishes nothing except probably shaking loose a huge Israel aid package.  Lol, maybe the Zionists do control the world, even the ayatollahs. 

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  10. More fun with numbers: we could implement a one-time Elon Musk tax and fund all of the current Ukraine supplemental with less than half of his worth.

    Elon would still have enough left over to purchase at least 4 Gerald Ford class nuclear aircraft carriers. 

    The idea that we are even marginally impacting our economy with this is just laughable. 

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  11. 13 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    We also spend more gross dollars on walking shoes and bubble gum than any other country on Earth.  

    "But what about as a percentage of GDP to make it a scalable comparison?" 

    What do I look like, somebody who can walk and chew gum at the same time?  

    We cold double the current supplemental request and we still would not be donating Ukraine the equivalent of 5 thousandths of our GDP, or by another metric one Elon Musk, to fight all Russia. 

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  12. 8 minutes ago, Bevo said:

    Interesting, I thought the UK was providing a lot more than they are. I can't believe Slovakia has provided more percentage wise than both the UK and the Czech Republic.

    I mistakenly thought the Czech Republic and Poland were purchasing lots of US equipment and donating their older stuff to Ukraine. I guess that really hasn't been happening.

    It is also interesting that with all the bitching about Germany, they have done more percentage wise than most countries. I don't see France on the list so Macron talking shit about other countries especially Germany seems pretty messed up. Unless I'm missing something, France appears to be all talk.

    Overall, the percentages pretty much match proximity to the war with the closest countries to Russia providing the most and the countries furthest away providing the least.

    Overall, those numbers seem low. I'm curious how much those countries have been spending on defense as a percent of GDP. I know that they have all relied on the US but those times seem to be fading.

     

    Well, they have been. Your idea of the size and ability of these countries is all upside down.  Yes, the Czechs have emptied a lot of their inventory and purchased a fleet of Vipers, Venoms, and F-35s (24). The Czech Republic has 10 million people. How many F-35s do you think New Jersey can buy, or the Los Angeles MSA?!
     

    The $60 billion package currently being held up in the U.S. Congress is .002 of U.S. GDP, btw. That’s what we’re fighting over. 60 billion is .08 of Polish and .2 of the Czech GDP. Again, we are talking scale. We wouldn’t even move up the list of per capita but it’s a battlefield game changer THAT WE PAY TO OUR FUCKING SELVES. 

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