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I'm against the US taxpayers paying for something twice. They already bought it. Just take each net dollar contributed that year as a raffle ticket. And only 1 item per person, then roll again on the list.

All excess and unneeded war supplies should be raffled off to the taxpayers who paid for it. I'm only half joking.

The idea that the only reason rapprochement happened between Israel and the Saudi block is because Iran became a threat is generally accepted knowledge by anyone who actually looks at the place. If you are going to deny this, your knowledge of the middle east's current affairs isn't worth...

... It objectively did. Literally everyone says this, it's fairly common knowledge. Neocons like Ben Shapiro even say it.

When it's already in a bad state, yeah, it's far worse. And for just males in their 20s it's near a 40% difference. No, it very much wouldn't. Russia being a threat actually guarantees NATO doesn't unravel. Russia not being perceived as a threat is what weakened NATO from the 90s thru 2020...

I agree the shape is similar, but Ukraine is far worse. In fact, the total males under 30 number is a lot less for Ukraine vs Russia, by a total of 3.5%. (Ukraine is at 13.5%, Russia at 17%). That's a big difference. The 20s is killer, with 5.2% for Russia vs 3.2% for Ukraine. That's the thing...

Just looking at those, and Ukraine is doing far worse than Russia (the people in the 20s not being there is huge). But I agree it's a stupid argument, population bombs don't matter until literally the next generation. Ukraine is doing a very normal thing: toss the future because otherwise...

But it's stuff we aren't able to send to actually important stuff. The arsenal isn't infinite, and using stuff here saps our ability and more importantly, the political will, to do it in other cases. Yeah, it sucks, but also it's literally irrelevant to the actual strategic picture. If Ukraine...

Kinda but not really. While ~21% of the debt is owed to foreign governments, 34% of the debt is owned by the government itself, but the rest is held by some manner of mutual fund/private hands/etc. The government still has to pay all of that. So it's $21T in debt to people that aren't the US...

I doubt it. Captain X is usually good faith. Because Ukraine requires western support to survive (much less win). And Russia cares more than the West about what happens to Ukraine. I don't want Ukraine to lose. I just don't also see it as the US' job to back up Ukraine endlessly. If Ukraine...

No, you overestimate their power to kill people and get away with it. You need to remember that this isn't a conspiracy in the sense that people actually organizing against people. Instead it's a bunch of people with similar-ish views, and the system is an emergent property of it. Quite frankly...

Keep comments on topic about Tucker. This isn't one of the many Ukraine threads. Tucker's opinions about Ukraine and maybe a quick talk about those opinions are right or wrong? On topic. Generic Ukraine talk? Off topic.

See, oddly, I don't want an independent media Tucker. As far as independent voices go, he's just okay. His uniqueness came from where he was: in one of the biggest media empires in the world, and who he was talking to (average fox viewer). Because of this, he had a lot of power to change minds...

Honestly, the more of these drop, the more I get the impression that Tucker's a genuinely good person, and that's a) rare, and b) not something you can tell without candids like this.

In Rome, they were in effect (though not cause). Bread and Circuses, anyone? But note the difference between Rome and Tucker: Rome did this to stop riots. Tucker wants government control of the economy for a claimed benefit for workers. That's socialism in effect and cause.

No, I mean his default assumption is that most capitalism is bad. He repeated this on many an occasion: such as calling for banning AI trucks to preserve trucker jobs, hating 'vulture capitalists' etc. These are antithetical to capitalism, and quintessentially socialist: "The government needs to...

It sucks he was fired. I was never fond of his socialism, but him opposing war brought a very different view to viewers that they rarely could otherwise engage with. He spoke out on a bunch of things that mattered. He may have been a socialist, but he was right about a bunch of stuff regardless.