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American manufacturing has been so gutted we can't even manufacture consent in this country anymore
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This morning I had a Superintendent of a Catholic girls school tell me he hoped Trump finally got the Iran situation under control because the cost of fuel was rising faster than the school could cope with and they might have to fundraise, and its such a hassle yall. This man who walks with God doesnt want peace on earth and goodwill towards man, he doesnt want the innocent to suffer less, he wants Trump to rassle those Iranians into check because his gas bill was increasing.
I am not religious, and I tend to take a negative view of organized religion most times, and interactions with this man just end up reinforcing my view. this man has to have been one of the 27 percent
The liklihood that the superintendent of a Catholic girls school is a child abuser is 100%
Its a girls highschool. He also used to coach b-ball there. I think the man is absolutely vile. I dislike going to this school because he is the one I deal with but our shop has a contract w the school, and I am currently the only one at the shop w experience to work on commercial boilers so I get stuck w it. Luckily they only call me out when the regular maintenance guys cant do it.
personally, i'm kinda hoping that the US keeps trying to declare the end of hostilities/ceasefire and the iran keeps blasting military installations and US commercial interests until western influence in the region is reduced to a lone, independently franchised Arby's in Syria that people take selfies in front of as a bit.
i don't know which response camp that is.
I demand an end to the war with victory
Iranian victory
This, but not before they bomb some US tech corporations and datacenters to dust
Yeah ngl it'd be rad if they started hitting those targets they listed.
Yeah, they promised. I expect real governments to keep their promises.
Two thirds or 99%, they don't care what we think. The 1% Epstein Class are only concerned with making more money. If the poor and working class sons and daughters have to die anywhere in the world for Wall St. to salivate, it is a sacrifice the rich are willing to make.
They're not even good at that given that this seems to be accelerating dedollarization. If all they want is a giant number of otherwise worthless currency, can we set them up with an idle game?
the if the "American public" that gets asked these questions were a representation of the real American public there wouldn't be a war in the fitst place.
Every opinion poll is ontologically an immediate victim of selection bias.
america isn't a democracy. lots of things that are overwhelmingly unpopular are done anyway and lots of things that are wildly popular don't get done.
that's no to say that sampling biases don't exist, but there's been no attempt to market the war and no 9/11 to rile people up and everybody understands that they're being negatively impacted by it even if they only care about the price of gas and not iranian lives.
Not sure I agree with the first part but yeah polls are stupid and not worth engaging with. IMO polls are about as accurate a depiction of the population as someone making an observation about their coworkers.
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