Ooh I remember when this idea was first being bandied about. It's related to their recruitment issues - high ranking military members are traditionally in the service for a decade or more, and there aren't as many people like that as there used to be, so the idea is to bring in people from the private sector and let them skip ahead to higher ranks.

The troops hate it of course, and I can't imagine it's a good idea to fluff the ranks of your military with people who lack military experience.

It's still got two governments competing for control of the country, I don't know much about them though.

Love that we live in a country where people who haven't done anything illegal for twenty years are getting deported for no reason but rich fucks get to walk around the White House with boxes full of drugs that they're not supposed to have and nothing happens to them.

live in California to learn Marine Biologist

This part genuinely baffles me. The University of Hawaii has a community college campus on Kaua'i and a marine biology program. What happened, did the University of California pay for an advertising spot in the film?

This man's brain is pudding. He is legitimately just saying and doing random things.

naw suits are bullshit i just wish that the radical anti-suit agenda was represented by someone cool instead of this zionist

lemmy development mentioned

dessalines criticized

commies counter criticism

thread turns into a shitshow

aww yeah, it's Lemmy time.

Germany has persecuted more jews for political reasons this past year than for the past five decades. But yeah sure why not.

it is very funny that the original plan was to do it in Guantanamo, but then after seeing the cost Trump outsourced it to El Salvador.

reciprocal tariffs

So is the party line here that these are just a reaction to other countries' tariffs and that if those tariffs are removed the US ones will be too? I have no doubt that they're lying and calling things "tariffs" that really aren't that, but if that's the logic then this move makes marginally more sense.

edit: okay I saw the thing where they decided tariffs are when you have a trade deficit and that is fucking hilarious. Does Don really expect other countries to start buying American shit? Our stuff is obscenely overpriced at the global level! The only way that happens is if he intentionally weakens the dollar, and if he does that we can't import anything anymore.

So you're saying that if I change my name to "Diversity Trans Inclusion" then I can disappear from every government list and database?

The only thing I ever seem to learn about foreign cultures (across space or time or both) is that the people in them were basically the same as the people everywhere else. All differences are directly attributable to material conditions.