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Because car dependency is a fact of life for people living in the US! The price of gas has a larger and more direct impact as a result!

Approximately 0% of these people are saying car dependency is good.

You’re right to point that out, although I do think a lot of the urban design choices are downstream of the US’s relative size and emptiness during the relevant time period.

ever heard of a guy called Tim Houston

taxes are now glonzo

and don't forget: we lost eight servicepeople (so far), lost 3 F-15Es (so far), and seriously depleted our SAMs and long-range precision weapons! All to make things significantly worse!

fuck it let’s ask Grok

Tim Houston, but if the arrogance was justified and less obvious

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nuke what

I agree. There's nothing I can pinpoint that she clearly did wrong from a tactical standpoint, even with the benefit of hindsight. At the same time, I'm willing to entertain well-reasoned criticisms of her campaign. It's important to take whatever lessons we can.

Human nature, as exemplified by sheep

Yeah, saying that Harris has no responsibility for losing is just as insane as saying voters have no responsibility for Trump winning. But if you're going to criticize her campaign, you need to have something more than "she lost."

East–West Crude Oil Pipeline - Wikipedia

Seems like there's an existing pipeline within Saudi Arabia which terminates in the Red Sea:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%E2...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Fa...

Related question: are there *any* international pipelines which facilitate the export of oil & gas to markets outside the middle east?

Important for people to realize that the credit for tactical success should almost exclusively be given to career civil servants, not the fucking morons in the administration.

Quebec is in many ways the Quebec of Canada

Think of it like driving with a suspended license: every second you’re driving is technically illegal, but that doesn’t mean that you’ll get dinged separately for turning right on red.

“The system is immoral” and “anything immoral must be illegal” are two opinions that a shocking amount of people hold concurrently.

Orphaned Tactics Oops we did it again

Wrote up some thoughts on the current war with Iran. You can't have a strategy if you don't even have a policy.

open.substack.com/pub/bafriedm...

RETVRN to pressure treated wood

The business's income is substantially derived from his labor. If you have to get pedantic about the technical Marxist definition of "working class", you're completely missing the point.

He also works for the business.

The NAFO people are toxic sociopaths.

The theory that fascism is a suicidal ideology for broken people with hopeless lives continues to be proven again and again.

I think part of the issue is confusion over the distinction between “working class” and “blue collar”. The former arguably has more of a technical economic definition (capital vs labor), whereas the latter is more malleable and sociocultural. But the median voter uses them interchangeably.

Yeah, I agree. I'd prefer someone to win CD2 by pretending to be more conservative than they are, and then doing progressive stuff at every opportunity once elected. But I also feel like we can't be *too* mad about the fact that he is who he said he was.

I you run out of ammo you get an automatic time-out to go back to base and restock. That's just logic, come on.

Yeah, and Platner grew up in Sullivan, which doesn't have its own school. Sullivan got consolidated into RSU 24 in 2009 (which has its own school) but that was well after Platner graduated Bapst.