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Maggoty

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  • The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

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  • It has to be used the right way too. If you just hold a sign and go home then nothing changes. That's the consensus building and demands phase. When you have critical mass and demands aren't met you burn down police stations and setup autonomous zones. The problem with both of those wasn't that they happened it was that the people fell for the media's demonization of them.

  • The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world

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  • I keep telling people this. To add, armed conflicts have a nasty habit of hardening a country. Getting rights back after it's over is a pain, even if the "good guys" win. If you can manage change by overwhelming numbers in the street then it's far better.

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  • Somebody has to give them orders. It's not like it happens magically. And we've spent 70 years building an officer corps willing to tell presidents no. And at the lower levels I'm not going to deny he'll find people willing to do his dirty work. The military is a reflection of society. But that works both ways and there's a giant difference between a military willing to act as a whole and having to find people willing to follow orders.

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  • They also require a high school degree and an entrance exam. And officers are sourced solely from University graduates.

    This is not your grandpa's military.

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  • I'd love to see a source for that. Afaik nobody did an active duty poll this time. And in 2020 the military voted blue.

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  • It's already happened, last time Trump was president. The Joint Chiefs told him no to his face.

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  • Honestly, even when they were ideologues, they're 17 or 18 years old and have been fed Americana mythology their entire lives. Many of them didn't realize it was all bullshit until later. But they do usually realize it.

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  • That's not really true. He has the unwavering support of really old veterans who got the same fox news pill as the other boomers. The serving military voted blue in 2020. The Military Times elected not to do a poll in 2024...

    There are very vocal service members who support him but the military as a whole does not and is not a fan of Hegseth fucking around in the DoD either. For example one published plan has us divesting our only mobile firepower platforms (strykers), just as the war in Ukraine is making everyone else want them. And F-47 did not go unnoticed either. The Air Force went from a study wondering if we needed NGAD to selecting a vendor without a flyoff and naming it. That thing is going to get ditched January 21st 2029. Then Hegseth is fucking around with physical fitness tests which is actually promotions, schools, and unit qualifications. This is making the most deadly parts of military dislike him. For example we've had women working with Delta for 20 years. First of all Delta isn't giving them up, 20 years ago women were officially banned from combat and that didn't stop them. Second it just conditions them to be anti-administration. So when they get ordered to go get an American "insurgent" who held a sign outside a Tesla dealership one too many times, they may just refuse.

  • Senators unveil bill to claw back power over tariffs amid Trump trade wars

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  • If they're willing to take democratic signatures then Trump can't stop it.

  • Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years’

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  • Your treating this as if the same people are voting different ways. It's usually much more along the lines of voters staying home one election and voting in another.

    Edit - autocorrect got naughty!

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • There is training of course. But that is the stress part.

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • Oh good. So you're willing to eat off the soles of your shoes?

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • If the dogs are spreading them with their feet then your shoes are picking them up. They may not survive that long but they are getting transported. Everything dogs walk on, so do we.

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • The same bacteria on everyone's shoes...

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • The stress test is dropping a book on the floor.

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • No. The difference is in level of training. Some service dogs need to remain undistracted. Other service dogs are alerting on things they notice no matter how distracted they are. This is why you ask.

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  • Safety how? What exactly is happening between my dog that stays on the floor and your food?

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • Animals make your food. Shocking I know. At least they wash their hands. All my service dog does is lay under the table, and bother me if she needs to alert.

  • California dog owners, amirite?

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  • You trained it too though, right?

    Right?!?