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Iran threatened to close the straight of hormuz weeks ago if the US cut off it's ability to export oil. If push comes to shove, Trump would use that as a rational to justify starting another war over oil.
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Would Trump dare issue the draft? Not that I'm draftable (narcolepsy), but I'd feel really bad if many people I know got pushed into service.
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May 7, 2019 05:49
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Zipperelli. posted:All I hear is drivers should drive because prices are gonna surge like no ones business. Got it. This protest has Prisoner's Dilemma written all over it.
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May 7, 2019 06:36
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Grouchio posted:Would Trump dare issue the draft? Not that I'm draftable (narcolepsy), but I'd feel really bad if many people I know got pushed into service. Unless he plans to nuke Tehran, a draft of millions would be necessary to have a chance to decisively win a war with Iran. Iran has 80 million people and is all mountains. Invading would be more like the plans for Operation Downfall than Overlord.
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May 7, 2019 09:13
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Charlz Guybon posted:Unless he plans to nuke Tehran, a draft of millions would be necessary to have a chance to decisively win a war with Iran. I wish I could find that old post where someone explained this in profanity-laced detail with maps and pictures.
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May 7, 2019 13:21
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Grouchio posted:Would Trump dare issue the draft? Not that I'm draftable (narcolepsy), but I'd feel really bad if many people I know got pushed into service. If he does he'll catalyze the crystalization of the left like none other.
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Instituting a draft would be political suicide that not even this smooth brained mother fucker can dodge unless invaders have landed on US shores or something. I forget what interview the quote came from but that line about "He's not hurting the right people" and the mentality it demonstrates means anyone currently on the MAGA train is gonna get off really, REALLY loving quick if they're suddenly doing inconvenient things like fighting and dying in a war. That has an extremely direct and visceral line of cause and effect that would short circuit the normal right wing propaganda of things like, "No it's the dirty immigrants that took your job, not automation and capitalism." Trump makes draft, I'm getting shot at and killed, gently caress him.
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May 7, 2019 14:28
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Grouchio posted:Would Trump dare issue the draft? Not that I'm draftable (narcolepsy), but I'd feel really bad if many people I know got pushed into service. That would take a bit of the sting out of the trans military ban.
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May 7, 2019 17:37
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Zipperelli. posted:All I hear is drivers should drive because prices are gonna surge like no ones business. Got it. Do the drivers actually get more with surge pricing or does the company just pocket it?
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Taerkar posted:Do the drivers actually get more with surge pricing or does the company just pocket it? They get more but not the entire difference from the base rate. The purpose of surge pricing is to smooth out shocks to the system by incentivizing driving and disincentivizing riding at times when demand outstrips supply.
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Otherkinsey Scale posted:That would take a bit of the sting out of the trans military ban. Trans people would still be drafted. They'd just go to military prisons for not complying.
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Grouchio posted:Would Trump dare issue the draft? Not that I'm draftable (narcolepsy), but I'd feel really bad if many people I know got pushed into service. If Trump did that then either Republicans would support impeachment or they lose the senate in the next election.
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Purges followed by conscription are bad. e: "the next election." gently caress that, if civil society doesn't immediately collapse then he wins.
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haveblue posted:They get more but not the entire difference from the base rate. The purpose of surge pricing is to smooth out shocks to the system by incentivizing driving and disincentivizing riding at times when demand outstrips supply. Yeah, if I only turn on XL or BlackSUV I can make ridiculous money during surges, but it doesn't go up comparatively to what Uber skims off the top.
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EdithUpwards posted:Purges followed by conscription are bad. Declaring a war and activating the draft would be almost shockingly normal by this presidents standards. There'd be no mass unrest over it, at least not any more than Nam Well, not declaring obviously, you know what I mean. Sanguinia fucked around with this message at 20:32 on May 7, 2019 |
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Sanguinia posted:Declaring a war and activating the draft would be almost shockingly normal by this presidents standards. There'd be no mass unrest over it, at least not any more than Nam You really don’t think there’d be serious levels of mass unrest if Trump re-instated the draft? I’m really not seeing why there wouldn’t be. Even the arm chair warriors who hoard guns and love the military are gonna freak out if Trump tries to force them to actually go into combat
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Hunt11 posted:If Trump did that then either Republicans would support impeachment or they lose the senate in the next election. Ehhh, they'd just set up the rules of the draft to avoid any rich white kids from having to fight.
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Niwrad posted:Ehhh, they'd just set up the rules of the draft to avoid any rich white kids from having to fight. his base isn't the rich reminding the resentful white masses that they are nothing but cannon fodder, just like the rest of the proles (the ones with melanin), would be political suicide predicto fucked around with this message at 00:56 on May 8, 2019 |
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predicto posted:his base isn't the rich Not the poor either. His base is middle to upper middle class whites.
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predicto posted:his base isn't the rich Republicans have been feeding their base poo poo sandwiches for decades and their base keeps begging for more. Why would this be different?
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Sanguinia posted:Declaring a war and activating the draft would be almost shockingly normal by this presidents standards. There'd be no mass unrest over it, at least not any more than Nam I don't know about that. The US has become far more casualty-averse and far less trusting/jingoistic than during 'Nam. Iran would be a much a larger cash sink than Iraq (5 trillion and counting) and result in significantly more body bags. Its more likely that a truly protracted war would sink the US both economically and politically. Imagine the kinds of Vietnam-level casualties today: 58, 000 dead and well... probably more than 300, 000 wounded. That's going to drive some rioting.
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Don’t forget that the male-only draft is currently unconstitutional, though I’m sure those SCOTUS shitheads would take it up real quick if Trump decided to gently caress that particular horse.
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There's a big difference between doing something that ~40 percent of the country agrees with vs. ~20 percent, which is about where the draft is. Even if Trump wanted to do it, we'd get a repeat of the end of the last government shutdown where he was still saying crazy poo poo on Twitter and Republicans basically ignored him because the political will was gone.
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I'd always heard that the military doesn't want the draft back either; not only is it bad PR, it costs a lot to train a soldier/sailor/airperson/Marine these days, and they'd rather not waste it on someone who doesn't even want to be there.
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A draft 'works' if you're just pushing bodies into a meatgrinder with a gun that fails more often than it works, but modern warfare isn't that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:A draft 'works' if you're just pushing bodies into a meatgrinder with a gun that fails more often than it works, but modern warfare isn't that.
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Grouchio posted:WW1 would like to have a talk with you. WW1 was pre-modern warfare waged with modern weapons.
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Selachian posted:I'd always heard that the military doesn't want the draft back either; not only is it bad PR, it costs a lot to train a soldier/sailor/airperson/Marine these days, and they'd rather not waste it on someone who doesn't even want to be there. Volunteer armies are almost always provably more motivated and competent than conscripted ones. That concept loses meaning during existential warfare, however.
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Course it also means your army is 100% staffed with bloodthirsty chuds, but y’know “Motivated”, potayto potahto
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Grouchio posted:WW1 would like to have a talk with you. That was literally over a century ago now.
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Data Graham posted:Course it also means your army is 100% staffed with bloodthirsty chuds, but y’know Motivated to kill good, yes. That's their job. Don't have an army if you don't plan to use them to kill people. You can also make an argument that it should be a "People's Army" that builds civic indoctrination/pride, but there are a variety of issues associated with that (indoctrination, jingoism/militarism, low morale, wasting several years of someone's life, cost, etc). P.S. I would prefer an absence of armies, but that's not going to happen anytime soon. 
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Data Graham posted:Course it also means your army is 100% staffed with bloodthirsty chuds, but y’know The officer corps is full of chuds. Enlisted personnel are a cross section of working and middle class America for reasons I'd have thought would be obvious.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:The officer corps is full of chuds. Enlisted personnel are a cross section of working and middle class America for reasons I'd have thought would be obvious. I thought it was only the air force that was really bad and the other officer corps were much more varied.
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Crossposting this because I think it's beautiful: Donald Trump has responded angrily to reports his businesses recorded more than $1bn in losses, explaining they did so to avoid paying tax. Why, that sounds totally normal and legal. Let's see what he has to say about that onTwitter:  Tax nerds at reddit are already going over his tax statements. quote:His claimed losses for one year between '85 and '94 was 1% of the entire country's losses. I think the most astonishing thing about all this is that r/politics is 100% calling Trump a fraud and idiot.
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Hunt11 posted:I thought it was only the air force that was really bad and the other officer corps were much more varied. I think that in most military systems it goes from the navy as the most liberal to the airforce as the most conservative.
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Niwrad posted:Republicans have been feeding their base poo poo sandwiches for decades and their base keeps begging for more. Why would this be different? because FYGMs actually care about their own kids
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https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1125891810595954688 Go gently caress yourself USA Today Also, Ride sharing, personal Grooming, "cable," and food are not "nonessentials."
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As a tax nerd that independent article's description of Trump's depreciation argument is very bad and actually seems to be somewhat supportive of Trump's bullshit argument. Even i you depreciate all your costs of acquisition in a single year, you're still making a loss and the theoretical increase in land value does absolutely nothing for you as long as you don't realize that increase by selling the asset. Trump's basically just conceding that he is terrible at business (or it's some kind of shady 80s/90s structuring, but then the question would be where the money actually ended up). Randler fucked around with this message at 19:43 on May 8, 2019 |
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Anora posted:https://twitter.com/USATODAY/status/1125891810595954688 The real question is how is the average American spending $94 a month on shitbox subscriptions? I know zero people with any of those subscriptions. I'm assuming that there's some kind of $20k a month "Random Plunder Crate" that helps shift that number way up. Edit: Random Plunder Crate™ is now a trademark of Random Stranger, LLC. No one plunder my idea. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 19:52 on May 8, 2019 |
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