I’m lost for words. Every time he says something, it’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard. And I always think to myself, this is it. this is peak stupid. There is no way he can say something dumber than this with a straight face.

I really thought we peaked when he tried to tell their Navy, that they don’t know what happens when you put water on a magnet. The god damn navy.

But here we are. With the president of the USA, telling us, with a straight face, being serious, that no one knows how magnets work. Next he’ll probably try to tell us we don’t know how electricity works.

I don’t know anything about Trumps successor.

It’s why I specifically said “more qualified”

Because it worked out so well the last two times the democrats tried to elect a female president.

Clinton lost to Trump.

Harris lost to Trump.

So what chance would AOC have against a more qualified republican candidate? And I say that with the assumption than anyone who isn’t a Trump is by default, a more qualified candidate.

I just love, that even in this, they seem to find a way to still, blame Obama and Biden for it.

This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

The cope is strong with that one.

I think most of the world is considered left wing compared to the US.

Hell, even our “extreme right” would be more left leaning than the US left.

So yeah, any website that has international contributors, will be “left wing” from the perspective of the US.

Need some more of this energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU1mXS0KgqA

Hear me out. “The boys” isn’t a parody on the US. It’s the other way around.

It’s really not that complicated. Someone or something. Had to finance the research that lead to the technology. So, yes. Capitalism did indeed make your iPhone. It’s the driving factor of financing technological advancements outside of perhaps the military

That doesn’t mean those working the lines, writing the software, cleaning the office, maintaining the buildings, etc, deserve a fiftyeleven:th rate payoff.

It’s the same with all of your paraphrasing posts. It’s just unnecessary. You could just let the content speak for itself without looking like a clown.

It can be true that capitalism did indeed make your iPhone, and that it’s growing out of control in terms of exploitation and evolving into an oligarchy.(US)

It’s always about vetting the source. YouTube can be a source of news, just like articles online can be a source of news. But you have to ask yourself if the author and/or publisher is credible.

That’s why I hate every single little “infographic map” that gets posted on repeat. There’s often no traceable source at all. And people just accept it as fact because it aligns with their world view.

Dude, there’s no way you can argue your way into making someone feel bad for not wanting to risk their life in a violent resistance against their own government.

That’s a choice every person have to make for themselves. You don’t know them. You don’t know their situation.

You seriously need to take a step back and sit down.

I’m perfectly good. I just don’t believe the majority of Americans keep all of their liquid assets in cash. Seeing as the IRS have the ability to freeze assets.

Unless the US as a UNIT, all keep their life savings under their mattress, they’re not going to achieve much by refusing to file their taxes.

I dunno man, IRS doesn’t fuck around. That’s literally how Capone went down.

In fact, tax agencies all over the world typically don’t fuck around. It’s one of the few cases where you’ll often be guilty until proved innocent.

It’s a very general broad topic. Probably depends a lot on what you need. And more importantly, how rich your are.

I highly doubt Bill Gates have to wait 3 months for a specialist appointment.

I don’t know exactly how TSA works, I have not flown that much within the US. But I agree that’s pretty bullshit.

I’ve never been afraid of a copycat. Not once.

I will let you take a second. And think about why it only happened once.

Yeah I’ve seen those. I think… I know I’ve seen what looks like that. But if the technology inside is updated I can’t say I know. Never had a problem with my balls being too warm in them. And I can’t recall ever having my shoes on inside. Always had to put them aside. But that could easily just be airport policy at the time.

Anyhow… what irked me was the post acting like scanning shoes was some fake phony security scam. Almost every single airline and airport policy is there for a reason.

E.g. after the Lockerby tragedy. Airlines had to make sure that every single bag has a passenger that is on board the plane. As someone had checked in a bag with explosives, and then never boarded himself.

Regardless, someone did try to blow up a plane with explosives hidden in their shoe. It’s a very well documented incident.

After that incident. Security was stepped up globally, we had to start putting shoes to be xrayed, and we never saw a single case of anyone trying to smuggle explosives on board in their shoe ever again.

If it’s removed completely, it’s because they have other methods that make it obsolete.

Aviation rarely make the same mistake twice (Boeing goes hold my beer).

When I was a kid, I got to step inside the cockpit and say hello to the pilots and look at all the instruments, mid flight. After my grandmother asked if that was ok. Fat chance of that ever happening again after 9-11

According to Australian Border control. They specifically swab feet and shoes, to test for traces of drugs on people they think look suspicious. Or people flying in from high risk areas.

And the times where I’ve flown to the US from Amsterdam, Munich, Frankfurt, and Copenhagen. I was always put in a room where they swabbed my stuff, hands, feet, phone, laptop (at the gate). And I asked them why and what they’re looking for. They gave me the answer that they are mostly looking for drugs.

As drug smuggling is something they deal with every. Single. Day. where as people trying to board with explosives is extreamly rare.

I did not say they care if you have drugs in your system. I specifically said the opposite.

They just want to make sure you’re not carrying drugs on you. Those who have drugs in their system, are far more likely to smuggle drugs than those who don’t.

They 100% swab your feet and inside of the shoe for drugs.

Hands and close personal items, such as wallets and electronics are for multiple reasons. Including explosives.

The machine they put the swabs in can detect multiple substances, explosive compounds, precursors, drugs.

They don’t care if you got traces of drugs in your system. But they do care about you trying to smuggle it. That’s why they test for Traces, externally and internally.