Democrats follow the exact same shit with blacks.
blacks get bad test scores? schools stop looking at test scores
blacks have bad credit? Biden taxes people with good scores to subsidize people with bad scores
Communism has always been about punishing people who make good choices, to reward people who make bad choices. That is why every communist country has always had a shithole economy.
My GF and I were considering buying the new Lexus EV RZ450e. She currently drives a Lexus hybrid. Neither of us are environmentalists at all, the sole purpose of the EV was to have lower cost-per-mile as a commuter car & bc I didn't want her to get a Tesla.
But after I did more research - the huge battery pack in EVs does NOT last over long timeframes. You can still drive a ICE car that is 20 years old, no problem. But an EV isn't going to last because the battery degrades over time. And replacing the battery is so expensive it isn't realistic to do on an old, depreciated car anyway.
Even if you don't keep your car 10+ years, this still matters because it means EVs will depreciate far more aggressively than ICE cars, because the buyer knows that he's buying limited battery life.
She also got in an accident in her hybrid and what would have been maybe a $2k repair turned into an $8-9k repair, and on top of that a lot of repair shops wouldn't even touch it out of fear of dealing with the battery.
the left handedness thing is such a stupid lie.
bro if repressing faggotry ACTUALLY WORKED like we know left handed people can be forced to be right handed, then shouldn't it be mandatory?
I thought the whole point of "conversion therapy" bans is that the therapy didn't work?
Name 1 politician who doesn't work for the jews & has better than a snowballs in hell's chance of winning.
Don't you dare say Trump. He was the most pro-jewish President in modern history. He practically turned his policy over to Kushner as time went on.
You are correct.
However, US ground support doctrine shifting towards precision guided weapons launched from high altitude resulted in the A-10 losing all its advantages versus the F-16 in this role.
While the A-10 can lift more ordinance, the F-16 is much faster so it can show up to the fight much sooner.
Ironically, at high altitudes, the F-16 is more survivable since it can dodge SAMs while the slower A-10 really can't.
I say all this as a lover of the A-10. But the role it was designed to serve no longer exists in modern warfare, thanks to PGMs.
I think we should sell our A-10s to allies instead of scrapping them. They would be highly effective in the Pacific in a low-level anti-shipping & possible anti-sub role.
COIN is not a legitimate concern for serious military hardware. COIN is shit-tier work that can be done with crop-dusters. You don't build your top-capability airframes to be good at blowing up rice farmers & goat fuckers. You build them to fight China.
Cheap "little bird" helicopters could put just as much fear into Somalis in Mogadishu, except they were far more accurate and had more staying power.
In the late Cold War, the A-10's gun would have been successful at killing lots of Soviet tanks in a Fulda Gap scenario IF - big IF - the rest of the US air force had done an excellent job of SEAD 1st and taken out or suppressed all the Russian SAMs in the area. But hell, even a cheap ZSU-23-4 would likely win a duel against an A-10.
The good thing about Apaches to kill goat fuckers is that they can just sit in a hover out of range & take their time pumping short bursts from their 30mm at dudes all day long. That's a lot more effective against someone who can't shoot back than an A-10, which has to spend the vast majority of its time getting into position just to do a short attack run for a burst of a few seconds.
Source on his heatmap pic in the 1st post: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Heatmaps-indicating-highest-moral-allocation-by-ideology-Study-3a-Source-data-are_fig6_336076674
The highest value on the heatmap scale is 20 units for liberals, and 12 units for conservatives. Moral circle rings, from inner to outer, are described as follows: (1) all of your immediate family, (2) all of your extended family, (3) all of your closest friends, (4) all of your friends (including distant ones), (5) all of your acquaintances, (6) all people you have ever met, (7) all people in your country, (8) all people on your continent, (9) all people on all continents, (10) all mammals, (11) all amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds, (12) all animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae, (13) all animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms, (14) all living things in the universe including plants and trees, (15) all natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks, (16) all things in existence
It takes them just a second to pick a side. There is a fight between a vagrant and a law-abiding commuter, and they know who they will come up with excuses for, and who will get epithets. Immediately. Whereas normal people will identify with the law-abiding normal guy.
Again, it’s about who you have empathy with. You may later think about it, learn new facts, and change your opinion. But when you first learned about the death of Jordan Neeley, you immediately knew who you were rooting for, and who felt like a villain to you.
And if the person you immediately felt empathy for was Jordan Neeley, I am sorry to say, your brain is broken. A normal person’s first impulse—again, they may change their mind upon reflection, but their first impulse should be to empathize with the normal person.
Again, this is so revealing, because when you choose you pick a side. The point isn’t that it’s bad to have empathy for homeless vagrants. What is twisted, however, is to have empathy for someone like that AT THE EXPENSE OF a normal person.
It’s good to have empathy for a homeless person. But if you kick your children out of your house to house homeless people, you are a psychopath & should go to prison. Empathy for outsiders is fine, perhaps good even. Empathy for outsiders at the expense of your own is twisted.
You are not, in fact, having "empathy" for the vagrant. In fact, YOU ARE EXPERIENCING HATE. You are experiencing hate for the normal person. And your brain is tricking you, representing it as empathy for the other guy, so that you can keep telling yourself "I am a good person" … even though you just experienced hate for a totally normal person.
The tell that it’s not actually empathy is that their "empathy" always produced bad results for the targets of their tender mercies, and yet they never adjust their behavior: Jordan Neely was indeed failed by his government. As all parents know, enforcing limits is an act of love, and refusing to endorse limits can be an act of hate. He was on track to die of an overdose in a gutter, to the total indifference of every good soul now feigning outrage.
LazerPig shitting on hyped up defense topics is one of faggotry's greatest contributions to the discourse.
He wasn't entirely fair with the A-10 but I agree he made a number of good points about the fact that the A-10's BRRRRT gun is basically obsolete in modern warfare.
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1654412039987527681
May 5 - Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia's Wagner Group mercenary force, said in a sudden and dramatic announcement on Friday that his forces would pull out of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut that they have been trying in vain to capture since last summer.
Prigozhin said they would withdraw on May 10 - ending their involvement in the longest and bloodiest battle of the war - because of heavy losses and inadequate ammunition supplies. He asked defence chiefs to insert regular army troops in their place.
"I declare on behalf of the Wagner fighters, on behalf of the Wagner command, that on May 10, 2023, we are obliged to transfer positions in the settlement of Bakhmut to units of the defence ministry and withdraw the remains of Wagner to logistics camps to lick our wounds," Prigozhin said in a statement.
"I'm pulling Wagner units out of Bakhmut because in the absence of ammunition they're doomed to perish senselessly."
The kid was so confident he shut the girl down completely.
She also said "Game of Thrones series" which was wrong, and she'd know if she read the books, as opposed to having watched the tv show, that the series is called ASOIAF.
Also the girl was clearly lying. She's never read any books. She was just naming famous tv shows and movies she knew were based on books.
probably drug related.
choking someone for a couple minutes then letting go soon after they're unconscious is not going to kill a normal healthy person.
people can hold their breath 2+ minutes pretty easily. actual brain damage takes 5+ minutes.
idk if the autopsy is ever going to be released
Why the fuck is Democrat hack & corrupt Chicago libtard Rahm Israel Emanuel the... ambassador to Japan? Is he a fucking weeb or something?
It was reported in February 2021 that Emanuel was being considered by the Biden administration as an ambassador to either China or Japan.
It would have been honestly hilarious to send him to China. They would have hated him.
The Biden admin stupidly sent out the message that regional banks were unsafe while big banks would always be safe.
So all the big depositors acted rationally and switched their accounts to the big banks.
The Biden admin also caused this by massively inflating the currency, crashing Treasury bond values & causing the crisis in the 1st place.
Liberals are stupid when it comes to economics. They always do dumb shit and ruin everything they touch with their idiotic ideology.
He tried to push people in front of the subway, too.
One of the libtard reddit threads had people come in and comment that they recognize this guy & he tried to shove them in front of a train like a week ago.
This guy was a mentally ill menace who fucked around 24/7 for years, and finally found out.
Why would anyone go into their comments instead of using twitter to reply to their posts instead?
You can hate on DW all you want, but they're still better than anything on the Left.