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this is a part if bigger package of bills to reform the Dept of State and give it more powers

>>to gain points with the electorate

are you 100% sure the point of this bill that punishes free speech is to gain points with electorate? or perhaps the donor-class ?

what exactly is flame bait?

losing US passport seems like big deal that affects everyone in US

Who is the judge? Looks like there is no due process, just the discretion of Marco Rubio is enough to revoke passport/visa

Let me guess, you include yourself in the list of smartest people in the world?

Most importantly no due process, no court judgement required. Just the discretion of Marco Rubio

Why is this flagged?

Most importantly, no liberty of US citizens shall be limited without due process.

This bill would allow State Dept (neocons Marco Rubio who just traveled to Israel and met their prime minister) a unilateral ability to revoke visas/passports of anyone without any due process, just through Marco Rubio’s discretion

would this lead to US citizens abroad be stuck and no ability to come back to US or travel anywhere?

Why is it flagged? This is disguisting, the kind of people who do this to suppress discussion

First they came for illegals

Then they went after visa holders

Then they came for permanent residents

Now they are after citizens

It is not proven that he is a shooter, he is alleged shooter, but there are a lot of inconsistencies in the official FBI story.

Plus the suspect pleaded not guilty, so let's respect his right to be innocent until proven guilty.

>>intentionally moved abroad for geopolitical reasons

not geopolitical, but economical. US corporations ran labor arbitrage by shipping $20/hr jobs to China that was paid ~$0.20/hr and pocketed profits (you can lookup S&P 500 chart)

USA got S&P500 chart going up

China got industrialization

garbage company with a garbage business model

salting defeats the rainbow table, kerberos uses PBKDF2 that defeats the rainbows

or just jail criminals El Salvador style. Bukele showed us that having a high crime environment is a policy choice, an explicit policy chosen by the government

>>thanks to no gun control

talking about gun control as a form of solution is talking about spilled milk under the bridge. There are 100 guns per capita in the US and even if gun sales are banned, the black market will be enough to supply guns for another century

its not the 2nd amendment that killed him, it is political violence.

Political violence cannot be deterred with strict gun laws. Remember, it is only law abiding citizens who are affected by the gun laws. Criminals by definition don't need to follow the law and they don't need the 2nd amendment

this is a trivial problem, same way rental car companies solved it:

  1. operator or computer vision detects dirt in salon
  2. route the autonomous vehicle to contracted carwash
  3. return car back to service
  4. charge customer for the cleanup

human taxi is waste of human capital

there are cameras inside, and they can see who made a mess inside the car

Carbon based lifeform trying to create Silicon based lifeform

ASML itself is just Carl Zeiss wrapper

All dealerships are US citizen owned, Huyndai Motor has zero stake in them.

It is your fellow foundational Americans who are screwing you over, as always

the law could be as simple as requiring to blur faces and body silhouettes of all people inside each camera, prior to any further processing in the cloud, ensuring privacy of the CCTV footage.

ironically west virginia is being screwed by its own elites, the coal and other large corporations, not some foreigners

the only secret thing was the agreement from JFK to remove missiles from Turkey, that part was hidden from the public to artificially prop up JFK's image as tough on Soviets, while in reality:

1. Blockade was not full, two American warships, the USS Essex and the USS Gearing, were ready to intercept tanker Bucharest, which could have led to war. Instead, Kennedy ordered to let the Bucharest through the quarantine

2. U-2 plane was shot down and Maj. Rudolf Anderson has died

as for "weapons and cash continue to pour" - it does not conflict with the Russian strategy, you might be surprised, but it is perfectly fine for Russians, that the US's allies are expending their resources on overpriced US military gear, that is dependent on Chinese rare earth exports

it is perfectly rational strategy, given their resources and positioning. There is absolutely nothing "madmen" in this strategy.

It is an edge, a way to exploit an arbitrage on the difference in a will to sacrifice and die between two nations.

When you play heads up poker, and your opponent is not willing to risk his pot, you bully him with your betting strategy and extract value ("big stack bully" strategy)

>> "and relying on the rest of the world to act like statesmen and leaders"

perhaps these "statesmen and leaders" should show more responsibility before unleashing non-stop wars around the world and plunging nations into endless wars, organizing genocides, and faking "muhh weapons of mass destruction" evidence for foreign invasions and occupations

who blinked first during Cuban missile crisis? It was JFK who called Khrushev for deescalation.

who blinked first during Ukraine-Russia war? It was Jake Sullivan who redirected military gear from Urkaine to Israel and drip-fed the ammunition shipments, when Russia showed they are ready to use tactical nukes if necessary and formally updated their nuclear doctrine

the nuclear deterrence is basically a game of Russian roulette, and nobody can play it better than the Russians.

The Soviet bet was that the collective West is more wealthy and hedonistic than Soviets, and has more to lose in the global hot war, and therefore would be less willing to climb up the escalation ladder, thus giving the escalation dominance to the Soviets, as long as technical means of delivering the decisive strike are available (ICBM, IRBM, SLBM, ALBM, MIRV, Perimeter, etc).

examples are numerous:

1. Cuban missile crisis. It was JFK who blinked first in the Caribbean crisis and called Khrushev to deescalate and agreed to remove missiles from Turkey

2. Ukraine war. It was Jake Sullivan that turned off the tap on military shipments to Ukraine, when Russia communicated that they will be using tactical nukes in Kherson