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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
> only if foreign holders of US assets are willing to suffer financially As a foreign-domiciled holder of US assets, my vibe is that losing the rule of law would indirectly lead to significantly more financial suffering. How well did b
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
The US must liberate Saskatchewan from the tyranny of Ottawa! (do I really need to mention the gloves, here? Remember "Remember the Maine")
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
a) Presidents shouldn't get to "just troll". b) Military option at this point only requires multiple C-17s, 6 hours (or less), and (if we're lucky) a resignation or two?
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
It seems a fair number of commanders have been resigning; a question to ask ourselves is: what have I been doing, beyond typing on HN? > ...the United States is not run by the military, nor should it be. Americans, and their elected rep
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKOkqNabBrs (the faux cyrillic is annoying, but the tune itself is good for a palate cleanse in between RtC headliners?)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
aut 商 aut 官? I'd say "Systems of Survival" certainly called this US administration. Aside: IIRC a few members of the House of Berndadotte have reliquished 官-dom in order to better pursue 商-dom. (end of aside) (is part of the
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
at the moment, I think De Gaulle has done way more for NATO ;)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
> Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) predicted [a Greenland war powers bill] would easily pass if an invasion was imminent I wonder what "imminent" might mean to Tillis? Anchorage to Nuuk is only ~5 hours by air (Newburgh to Nuuk, ~3h
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"I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)(nytimes.com)
1 points by aebtebeten 9mo ago|0 comments
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Have you called your members of congress yet?
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I think not; closest I get in a cursory search is https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falange_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_las_J...
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Not Anabaptist (she had to be bribed to attend her confirmation* :), but we probably do live more {low-tech, at the mercy of agriculture} than the median HNer? https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/religious-intoler
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
a) Hwaet do boys struggle in class? b) have you been reading the birefringence part of my TODO file :)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
> just looks like theater Very effective* theatre, considering how rapidly the brandished extortion has retreated from military to economic. > The soldiers are from different nationalities. Exactly; see https://news.yco
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Variation on Iota(toolofthought.com)
18 points by aebtebeten 9mo ago|3 comments
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I'm hoping on the "things will be different"; for more context regarding the "couple of months ago" see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46671917
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
That's not the training; cf ATP 3-39.33: https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN35675-ATP_3-... > U.S forces responding to planned rallies and demonstrations, spontaneous crowds, and civil
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
No rationale for the military wholly refusing; that's a straw man. This suggestion is that the insurrection act could be moving from the fire into the frying pan: I'm not saying the military would be good occupiers, only that they
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I'm suspecting they'd stay neutral, but even that would be better than ICE alone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666605
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Have you called your members of congress yet?
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Some thoughts on humility vs monumentalism in a niche culture: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-an-amish-paradox-by-char... (how does "low" vs "high" compare with "lying flat"?)
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I've said elsewhere on HN that the military (here, specifically a battalion of the 11th airborne, presumably picked because they actually have cold weather gear?) could turn out to be a far more congenial occupier than ICE currently is
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
For that matter, if we're still doing WTO, I doubt their pivot to economic extortion falls under the safe-harbour of "justified trade measures"...
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Related: EU-US trade deal 'on hold' after new Trump tariffs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662068 > The EU's ... Anti-Coercion Instrument, offers a range of punitive measures ... Among them are .
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46659677
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
In my personal life, I've learned the hard way that when people seem to be acting irrational with regard to an iterated game, before ascribing irrationality to them it can be very helpful to examine if they're short timers, acting
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Arctic_Endurance how I believe the tripwire would legally work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46634146
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
I'm sure Canada could join Operation Arctic Endurance; has it yet?
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
That may actually be an advantage: position Europe as a neutral block that trades with everybody, and it may actually be valuable enough as a neutral that anytime one of those three has designs on it, the other two would naturally have to c
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by aebtebeten 9mo ago
Another quick thought on JEER: if he'd only gone with "Sandworm" he could've been the God-Emperor of Dune? The sea is still rising around the imp; that kernel has yet to be rubbed away... Will work harder on it, when I&#

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