>>1511707
NATO literally isn't helping us and we're still doing it. All leaving NATO is going to to is make the bill bigger.

>>1511707
Nothing about fighting a war across an ocean and a continent for the benefit of Israel alone is ever going to be cost effective.
You need to figure out what was the benefit for America of staying in Afghanistan for 20yrs, and toppling Saddam and Gaddafi and Assad, and the civil wars in Yemen and Sudan.
I do not think you have more freedom now than you did in the late 90’s. You have more billionaires and wealth gap and shittier public services and more poverty in a real sense and the highest rate of incarceration in the world

>>1511714
>NATO literally isn't helping us and we're still doing it.
By sending troops through NATO bases. How the fuck do you think we get them downrange?

>Nothing about fighting a war across an ocean and a continent for the benefit of Israel alone is ever going to be cost effective.
Getting rid of the main hubs they use to rotate troops in and out is going to make that option LESS cost effective, which makes our government less likely to do it. The only reason we're able to force project into these places are because of the bases we keep overseas.

>>1511701
>What benefits
The US dollar became and still the global reserve currency, America gained leverage over major oil exporters in the Persian Gulf and the power to meaningfully sanction countries, other entities and individuals as a result of said dominance of the dollar. It also gained influence over semiconductor chokepoints. Etc.
>Nothing we've done has made the average US citizen better
They do so indirectly. For instance, the dollar being the global reserve currency makes imports cheaper and lowers borrowing costs.
The point is that you're not doing these things for free.

>>1511725
>Getting rid of the main hubs they use to rotate troops in and out is going to make that option LESS cost effective, which makes our government less likely to do it.
lmao if they cared about the price of their stunts they wouldn't have started this war.

Blase thwarted arguments that Republicans’ proposals, like shifting people onto plans with HSAs or allowing non-network plans to be sold on the Obamacare marketplace, would make health care more expensive for consumers. He said there’s demand for more alternatives as ACA premiums have skyrocketed this year, and “people should be able to finance their health care in the way that makes the most sense for them.”

He added that opposition from insurers and providers to some of the GOP’s proposed expansions is a good sign that the ideas will “break the mold or put additional pressure” on the health care industry to lower pricing.

“When the industry opposes something, it’s generally a pretty good sign that whatever they’re opposing is going to lower the amount, which is going to make health care more affordable,” he said.

Insurers and providers have raised concerns about the Trump administration’s non-network plan proposals because those plans would make it difficult to satisfy the ACA requirement that they provide a “sufficient choice of providers.” They also argued that adding the plans to the exchanges would destabilize the ACA marketplace, prompting young, healthy Americans to leave the risk pool and raising costs for remaining enrollees.

But Blase and Sidecar Health, a benefits company that administers non-network plans for employees, said the companies are crying wolf. Blase is an adviser for Sidecar.

Insurers and providers argue the plans would leave consumers vulnerable to high out-of-pocket costs. Sidecar Health CEO Patrick Quigley said while he can’t speak for all non-network plans, under his company’s model, consumers often have no deductibles and greater access to providers than many ACA plans, which have narrow networks. Enrollees in the plans are allowed benefit amounts based on the median price of care in a given market, and they can shop around to choose doctors based on their budget.

Transparent health care prices create competition, ultimately lowering the cost of care, Quigley said.

But health policy experts aren’t sold on non-network plans or the other alternatives, like expanding HSA accounts, that Republicans are proposing. Hempstead said she welcomes new ideas that disrupt the status quo in health care — as prices are skyrocketing — but it’s “fantastical” to think that ACA consumers would be market movers just because they’re armed with pricing data.

“What you might see instead is somebody who gets duped into thinking it’d be better to have a lower-tier plan and $2,000. That could be a really terrible trade-off for them, because that $2,000 won’t last long if something really happens, and they’re just going to have a way more exposure to debt,” she said.

>The future is coverage for only catastrophic accidents and not preventive healthcare.
Anyone can see how this is a massive scam.

>>1511722
Not just a scam but will get thousands to millions of americans killed as doctors become unable to treat patients until it is far too late.

>>1511724
Amazing how former rep Alan Grayson explaining the Republican healthcare plan in 2009
>Don't get sick, and if you get sick, die quickly
Is the Republican's official platform.

Oh yeah not to mention the dataset was taken in
>2002
So this could not even be helpful for addressing the needs of the current cohort of young white men if that's the goal.

>>1511600
see
>>1401181
>News articles must be recent! Nothing older than 48 hours please.
I think this 2002 study is older than 48 hours old

>>1511628
>>1511611
Why are you incorrectly trying to backseat mod?
The article is from May 2nd, 2026.
With the study being done in March and the findings more recently published.

>>1511636
Yes, this this news article calls on that study from the late '90s to examine the situation today.

I detest janitors and hall monitors that overreach their authority. They need to stick to pushing a broom and cleaning toilets as they have neither the IQ or education to be making editorial decisions.

As to The article, I find that Chinese men have small circles of very close friends.

I believe this is due to the shortage of woman in the late part of the 20th century, and that ChyyNese men at that time had homosexual relationships to compensate for their lack of woman

>>1511677
It's just another case of the right wing trying to censor information that harms their narratives.

>>1511665
>I'm sure billionaires will start fleeing NY soon
Anon
>~$10 billion/year in income lost (2022 alone)
>Net out-migration of residents (especially higher earners) reduced New >York’s taxable income by about $10B annually.
>~$14 billion in high-earner income (NYC-focused estimate)
>Some estimates focused on top earners suggest roughly $14B in gross income tied to wealthy movers.

>>1511667
>blaming the poor that the conservatives in France did in 1788
Conservatives?

Lmao, you're Indian.

>>1511673
>(2022 alone)
So 4 years ago. Meanwhile tax revenue actually fucking went UP in that time, so evidently who fucking cares.

>>1511673
They can either pay more tax or leave, nobody’s forcing them to live anywhere and there’s plenty of places in the world where you can pay basically zero tax.
If they stay in NY and pay more tax there’s two things happen; firstly they can afford it, and secondly NY will be improved by their money going towards public services

>>1511675
>Projection
Classic, and yes, royalists are textbook conservatives. Why else would republicans be sucking up to the royal family of Britain, the same group the founding father fought to break away from?

Democrats need to gain just three seats to win a House majority, giving them the power to block President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda and initiate investigations into his administration.
The shrinking House battlefield is the result of several factors, including increased political polarization. But the weaponization of congressional redistricting, or gerrymandering – which has gone into overdrive since last year, when Trump began pushing Republicans to draw new maps – is a critical element that is only going to accelerate after the Supreme Court’s ruling, according to experts.
"We are now in a cycle of gerrymandering wars," said Justin Levitt, a professor at Loyola Law School who maintains the website All About Redistricting. "What used to be a cold war has gotten very hot."
The court hollowed out a provision of the federal Voting Rights Act that had blocked state legislatures from dismantling districts with mostly racial minority voters. Political observers expect Republican-led states to target a dozen or more Democratic-held majority-Black and majority-Latino seats that previously enjoyed stauncher protections.
"I think it gets worse before it gets better," Levitt said. "And I think there's plenty of room for it to get worse."

The lack of competitive districts can have consequences for Congress, said Matthew Klein, a House analyst with Cook. If House candidates only need to appeal to their base voters to win elections, rather than moderates or members of the opposing party, they are more likely to move toward the extremes instead of the political middle.
“If you look at Congress and how it acted 20 years ago, 30 years ago, even farther back, you see a Congress that is both less acrimonious and also more productive,” he said. “There used to be bills that passed with huge majorities on major issues. We just don’t really see that anymore.”

Gerrymandering has long been a feature of American democracy, but the practice has been supercharged in recent years as guardrails, both legal and institutional, have been torn down. In 2019, the Supreme Court found that while partisan gerrymandering may be undemocratic, federal courts had no role in regulating it.
Last year, Trump successfully pressured Texas Republicans to rip up their map and draw a new one targeting five Democratic incumbents, triggering a nationwide arms race that spread to nearly a dozen other states. That move eviscerated what had been a traditional norm limiting most redistricting to the start of each decade, after the U.S. Census population count is completed.
Last year, Trump successfully pressured Texas Republicans to rip up their map and draw a new one targeting five Democratic incumbents, triggering a nationwide arms race that spread to nearly a dozen other states. That move eviscerated what had been a traditional norm limiting most redistricting to the start of each decade, after the U.S. Census population count is completed.
The Supreme Court’s ruling on Wednesday, meanwhile, has given even more leeway to lawmakers to draw districts for their party’s benefit. And all of those developments have come against a backdrop of technological advances, with mapmakers able to identify Democratic and Republican voters down to the census block.
“If there are no guardrails, there are no guardrails,” Levitt said. “I think the constraint is now realpolitik and imagination, not, ‘We just don’t do that.’”
Gerrymandering is not the only culprit to blame for the lack of competitive districts. Voters have become more geographically sorted, as rural areas have trended conservative while suburban regions moved left.

And just as House members have become more polarized, so too have voters. Split-ticket voting, in which voters choose a candidate of one party for a higher office and another for a lower office, was once fairly common, but no longer.
In 2000, there were 86 House members elected whose districts voted for the opposing party’s presidential candidate, according to research by Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of Crystal Ball. In 2024, that number was down to 16.

>Conservatives have created a system where politicians shop for their voters and not the other way around.
This just makes judicial reform all the more necessary to undo all these anti democratic rulings by the republican supreme court.

>>1511686
god your life is humiliating

>>1511686
>We stripped them of Nuclear capabilities they never had whilst simultaneously giving every non-nuclear armed state aligned against the US to go nuclear ASAP
>And we crippled their conventional capabilitie, even though said capabilities are somehow keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed and still lobbing missiles and drones at TelAviv
>>1511687
That nigger is moving the goalposts more than you'd see in a game of CalvinBall

>>1511686
Those were not the objectives at the start of the war. The objective was a preemptive strike to prevent Iran from taking out every single US base in the Gulf in retaliation for Israel going off the reservation

No more fighting

>>1511672
NACHO status?

>>1511451
So where are the trans supporters on this, are they claiming it doesn't happen, or that it doesn't matter that it happens, or that it's ""gender affirming life saving care!!1" and thus 100% a pure good thing you heckin evil chuds?

>>1511690
troonbots are keeping it in their pants since they want to win an election.
Current propaganda is "culture wars" ignoring that they started it.

>>1511690
>>>/lgbt/

>>1511690
>>1511693
It's not gonna pass and if it does will be sued into dirt. Also, even if it does pass, probably gets taken down anyway for giving scammers a fund to skim.

>>1511690
>>1511693
you talk to yourself a lot esl shill

>>1511642
Spirit airlines was selling tickets and flying planes, trump made a decision, spirit airlines had to shut down because of that decision. Simple as.

>>1511642
>The Biden admin and Elizabeth Warren totally didnt kill a merger that would have saved it.
The merger would've killed their business model anyway. It would've saved their branding, if that, but their entire niche of cheap flights would be gone either way.

I don't think Trump is really responsible for them shutting down in general, but the fuel situation definitely killed them even faster.

>>1511648
Yes, yes. You have a script and you're sticking to it.

>>1511648
No reason trying to reason with a Project 2025 bot. trump could rape their mother and they'd find a way to blame everyone but trump for it.
Every sane person knows it's directly trump's fault with him losing to the Iranians that is why Spirit is bankrupt.

>>1511642
Spirit airline was like my 80-year-old granny.
She still got around, but then I visited her in 2021 when I had covid and she died a week later.
Now she would have died sooner or later, but like tRump, I just hastened the process a little

PS: My parents inherited her house and I am now living in a cool basement

>>1511645
It literally is
Euros caused both world wars. America had to something to force them to get along or else they’d just go back to killing each other.

>>1511645
you're talking to a russia shill, he will only lie

>>1511647
Literally not why NATO was formed

>>1511643
Trump never threatened to invade.

>>1511658
god you're esl

>>1511573
Nothing says authoritarian like respecting minorities.

>>1511573
>a certain supreme commander had no problem with black pilots in the USAAF
>the one who later became C-in-C of US armed forces destroyed an anti-Communist drunkard by letting him destroy himself with his wrong opinions
>1950s: head of the FBI - J. Edgar Hoover - liked wearing women's clothing
>a certain someone said this:
'Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history
>Also this:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children'
There's a very good reason why one of those who helped defeat fascism in WWII was Eisenhower. And why so many Republican voters in the 1950s said 'I Like Ike' twice. The 1950s: an era where the top rate of tax was 91%, yet he was still elected by Republican voters twice. And why he was the last decent Republican president. Certainly one with foresight:
'If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power'
>Trump: 45 & 47. The most corrupt & immoral administration(s) ever. To say nothing of that corrupt & immoral administration's supporters
QED.

>>1511573
>You must accept minorities and can't discriminate against them.
Good job proving rightoids are authoritarians.

>>1511301
>The Daily Wire has been hit with another round of layoffs.
TDW is run by a jew, who cares?

>>1511573
>Authoritarianism is when I can’t round up anyone I dislike into camps
I really hope people like you end up getting drafted

>>1511378
>No marriages or partnerships of any kind should receive any tax benefits at all unless there's going to be infants spawning.
Dis why us black folks be deservin' of mo' a dat reparashun tax rebates.

We doin' our parts ta keeps ups da US population, and stop'n all dese foreener chYnese beaners comin' in and replacing' alla us nat'ral born Americans.
My great-great-great-grandpappy was one of the first slaves coming over from Africa in 1745 and muh ancestors done bilt dis country and ise Donts want no foreeners comin' here and cuttin' inta muh welfare/reparashuns.

>>1511449
Just cause you're infertile, it doesn't mean you should turn to racism to vent your insecurity.

>>1511568
If you didn't want people to turn to racism you shouldn't have given the farm equipment a vote.

>>1511574
you're literally not american, and shills such as yourself are worth vastly less than immigrant laborers

>>1511372
>"left"
>totalitarian retardation
Seems about par for the course with the modern "left", who seek to solve "problems" that don't need solutions,
>rt.com
OP is a fag too.

Donald Trump has said the US navy acted “like pirates” as he described an operation seizing a ship amid the tit-for-tat American blockade of Iranian ports.

“We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” said Trump at a rally in Florida on Friday.

“We’re like pirates,” he added to cheers from the crowd. “We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games.”

Trump’s comparison of US naval activity to piracy comes as legal experts raise alarms about Iran’s blockade of the vital strait of Hormuz and its plans to charge a fee for ships passing through it.

Tehran effectively closed the waterway – a key route for oil and gas shipments – after the start of the US-Israeli air campaign against Iran on 28 February.

The US announced a blockade of Iranian ports last month after peace talks in Pakistan failed to achieve a breakthrough.

The US Central Command, responsible for US forces in the Middle East, said it had redirected 45 vessels to “ensure compliance” with its blockade as of Friday.

Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon chief, told reporters in April that the blockade will last “as long as it takes,” while top US military officer GenDan Caine said it “applies to all ships, regardless of nationality, heading into or from Iranian ports”.

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God he's such a fucking retard that he can't even attempt to spin his actions positively.

>>1511360
Are you his boyfriend?

It was three people he attempted to murder, British MSM won't report on this however because the third victim wasn't a Jew.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/01/essa-suleiman-man-charged-attempted-three-people-london-knife-attacks-golders-green

>>1511473
The third victim was his first victim, what I heard, and he was a friend of the suspect

>>1511475
Yeah, I horrendously explained it. You're correct, thank you.

>>1511181
Loving your own family more than a random stranger is racism.
Racism is a simple preference for relatives over non-relatives and for humans over non-humans and for living things over non-living things.
To be anti-racist is to be anti-human.
Leftists prefer space rocks over humans and strangers over relatives because they are an insane death cult.

>>1511393
Our leaders only have the power we let them have. As in, if we want them to lose power, we have to take it from them. And that's not going to happen by just not voting. Get rid of that lazy cope.
If most of the country just didn't vote in the upcoming election, do you seriously think the powers that be would just go "welp, guess we're done" and step down? That they'd just lose all power and not be able to do anything? That's beyond delusional.

>>1511422
>Elon Musk was explicitly saying this shit a year ago.
You say that like we shouldn't immediately throw his retarded opinions in the trash

>>1511416
They can't explain why he should be pro importing immigrants and white racism? You're correct, no one can, that's an insane strawman.

Quit talking to yourself, but do keep asking retarded questions, it's fun to watch you get roasted.

Let me guess

>concession accept.

Even though I didn't engage, like the controlling little beta bitch you are.

>>1511436
Flippantly disregarding the words of the people who hate you and want to destroy your way of life is RETARDED

>>1511416
Projection.