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The gambit is that if you declare border land a "military installation", that means troops can patrol that land and arrest migrants as "trespassers on a military base" without having to declare martial law or any of that messy "posse comitatus" stuff. Of course captives are handed off to ICE immediately and who knows what happens from there.

It's definitely a design of its time. The primary concern was "halt a Soviet armored column from bowling through to Stockholm" so I'd assume they would have been primarily used defensively on major roadways, where the lack of a turret is less of a problem. And in that same vein, eliminating the traditional turret brings the unit cost down quite a bit, so a smaller economy could build more of them and theoretically mount a more competent defense.

The same people made a 500-cigarette version because of that Orville meme.

No, but a key tenet is the belief that Jews have a "higher purpose" in life than gentiles, and unfortunately this manifests as ethno-religious supremacy in the more conservative circles. A lot of the rhetoric surrounding Gaza is that Jews have a biblical right to the land over...the people that actually live there.

He's talked about forcing people with "mental issues" into "wellness centers" where they "go outside and garden."

Read: send them to fucking work camps.

Does feel like the subtext is that autistic people are inherently broken and need to be fixed. Though I wish I could pin down exactly what problem they have with autistic people. A perceived lack of masculine confidence? (I guarantee they don't think about autistic women at all)

I guess they just see them as easy targets.

Also, consider not publicly referring to yourself as autistic and learning to mask if you haven't already.

That the opps can obtain just as easily.

I'm no Delta operator, but I think it's generally a bad thing to be outnumbered in a gun fight. Especially if you're by your lonesome, just means you'll get outmaneuvered and destroyed if you can't escape quickly.

There's almost 1.5 billion people in China. No, despite their efforts I don't think they can keep tabs on every single one, much less act upon that information.

I don't think 155 people is enough to allege direct Chinese support for Russia. Maybe if they were all in advisory positions, but they seem to be cannon fodder. Likely volunteers or people tricked/pressed into service.

There are many more Western volunteers fighting for Ukraine right now, and that's not reason to take allegations of "NATO troops" being involved seriously.

I'm a left-leaning gun owner, and I don't buy that. "We're ready and organized...but we're a super secret dark brotherhood so we can't show you!" does not inspire confidence.

For every one of us there are probably 6-12 MAGA zealots by my estimation (vibes-based, admittedly).

Lib right should be one of those Mad Max war rigs.

Buying superfluous tanks is most likely to keep the production line open. If we stopped ordering them, it would have to be shut down. The people who worked the line would fuck off to find other jobs. The expertise would be lost. It would take years to restart the line from here, which is not a good strategic position if shit kicks off and we needed hundreds of vehicles yesterday.

Same reason we subsidise the shit out of agriculture and "paying people to not grow stuff" as that one line goes. Food is a critical resource from both a military and civilian perspective and it's in our long-term interest that the industry remains solvent no matter what.