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this is true but like, i think if you're in zoomer spaces you have definitely seen an uptick in anti-semitism on gen z platforms in my experience

Louisiana requires 500 hours of training to braid hair professionally. This bill would increase it. A Louisiana bill would raise braider training to 600 hours, even as most states have eliminated licensing requirements.

In Louisiana, the Democratic hair braiding licensing bill would require 600 hours of training at a licensed cosmetology school, an annual exam, and a fee. The Republican bill would require an annual 20-question health and safety exam and a fee. Why are Democrats like this?
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It's not for this war--an argument for "no supplemental" is saying you don't think the US military should be capable of defending Taiwan

You can make that argument, but you should make it explicitly

Condition the supplemental, use it as leverage...but a flat "no" means that's what you're arguing

Every time I see people describe Janet Mills as a centrist I realize there is an imaginary Janet Mills that exists in people's brains that they've invented out of whole cloth in order to justify supporting Platner, and then when Platner was exposed as a Nazi they just refused to update their priors.

Not every current event is a repeat of a previous one

Moreover, not every current event is a *worse version* of a previous one

It'll probably be bad, but judging by all the (limited!) information we have so far, there is essentially no possibility of this thing coming even vaguely close to Vietnam

Seven Americans have been killed so far and boots on the ground is entirely restricted entirely to JSOC doing raids in Iraq against PMF, and will likely remain so

Importantly: the regime is not North Vietnam - not in terms of international support, equipment, capability, air defense, etc. etc. etc.

1. what

Crazy video of 20 Tomahawks flying through the Iraqi Kurdish mountains near Sulaymaniyah (filmed by someone standing *above* them), seemingly fired from Navy vessels in the Mediterranean

this administration also fired probably the most promising and mission-minded CNO in a decade because she was too woke (a woman)

This would be a terrible name for such a study because many past campaigns have been morally right and/or did work

Their entire point was that a navy has to be well-funded before you need it because you can’t build one when you need it. If it’s not there, it’s just not there.

This proves them right, not wrong.

Tbqh I assume that the archive plans for securing hormuz assume things like "actual state of war that there is at least some confidence in lasting a while" and "understanding that you will take casualties" and "ground forces" and "allies" and woke shit like that that doesnt make Content for Twitter

That is the most common kind of war, to be honest.

Imo Graham and friends knew this wasn’t going to be speedy and lied about this being the Venezuela model to get Trump on board. Now they’re making the surprised pikachu face now that exactly what they wanted is happening.

“Every farm that is subsidized, every Romantic idyll that is coddled, every aesthetic sustained by the state signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”

“I am so angry that I am going to help Trump minimize the political consequences of his war!”

slopulism will kill the Democratic Party. no tax on tips, Cory booker’s plan to get rid of taxes on half the country. it’s all slopulist nonsense

"You shouldn't talk about issues that are unfavorable for your party" is literally what the Rs are doing here, so I don't think this is the own a lot of people seem to think it is

Basically, I think this nuanced take is much more accurate than like 98% of what I've seen

Regardless of outcome, I don't think you can really extrapolate long-term effects before the war is concluded, let alone when it is still just a week old

I do think a lot of people are presumptively reading

"The Iranian regime hasn't fallen yet/won't fall during the duration of the war"
as
"The Iranian regime will not fall"

This goes for people who are both pro- and anti- this war

we should establish a unit of 'a day of Medicare spending' (about $3 billion) that we use to discuss federal government spending.

I hate Marx and his ideological progeny, which is very funny because I have read and understand his ideas better than a solid 80-90% of the people who adhere to them

Karl Marx on the American Civil War:

Everyone gets canceled sooner or later You may as well just stir the pot.

It’s very unpleasant to be subjected to an insane internet pile-on, but I think many writers end up sabotaging themselves by trying too hard to avoid the inevitable.

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The problem with this plan is that it works at most for one midterm and Presidential election. Then everyone forgets how terrible Trump was and how the entire GOP enabled him.

GWB was a bad President and everyone forgot that in two years and elected GOP House.

I am going to be extremely upset if the major outcome of this dumb war against Iran is to collapse the one fragile mostly-kinda-democracy (with big, significant problems, to be clear) we managed to create in the Middle East.

I’m a popularist who follows the evidence. Democrats must nominate Jerome Powell.

While they all recognize that far-right parties in liberal democracies make useful idiots and fifth columns for their ambitions, there is no 'united front' facing the Status Quo Coalition.

Just several individual regional rivals and one giant orange idiot trying to crash the car.