I don’t like him, but enlistment rates are up. Granted it happened during Biden’s term too.

Usually enlistment is driven by poverty. Food. Housing. Self defense training. Trade skill training when you’d otherwise be stuck at McDonald’s or Walmart. Vs homelessness or living in a trailer with 3 generations of your family and your crackhead uncle living in his trailer parked on the same property.

It is why, in part, there’s little government pushback on poverty. Military recruitment goes up.

There was also a surge after trump won. You can imagine who those people were.

Why the 180? Spite for Putin?

What are the odds this was the trade?

Trump (me speculating): You can raze Gaza and the Palestinians to the ground, but only if you target Iran next.

I came here to say Dungeons & Dragons. People of all ages and walks of life play.

Yeah, but I wish this admin could be trusted to get him looked at, honestly, in person, by a professional.

But we can’t. We can only look on in horror as he presents like someone who could have Alzheimer’s.

Fair.

He is Biden’s age, a year or two makes little difference. Alzheimer’s runs in Trump’s family too.

Biden presented with the standard waxing and waning of dementia. He probably was aok some days. That’s how it works. Dementia onset is more like a picture that gets hit by the sun part of the day, when it’s sunny, not a total erasure. A gentle fading.

Alzheimer’s, however, presents with anger, erratic behavior, and paranoia on the trajectory of a downward spiral. Aggression is a hallmark.

I feel like there’s a lost episode of Fringe in here somewhere.

This is how you know your relative has drunk the koolaid. They sound like this, a parrot, repeating what someone else told them to say.

I think the better statement would be both are emotional, which is simply part of being human.

The difference is women are taught very early to regulate and cope.

Ofc none of this is 100%, nothing involving people is 100%, but emotional regulation, coping, and patience within your emotions is something women have more practice with.

I’m not saying no woman ever has bankrupted the family savings to buy a positive emotion inciting vehicle, but the numbers there would be…less.

Practice matters.

Why is everyone so hands off and permissive with Israel? Like they can do nothing wrong when they go out of their way to do wrong things?

Yes. That is the Theil model for social engineering. To do it via suggestion in AI.

Bot responses so trends are assumed where there are none. Movements even.

Suggest one answer or idea over another with ChatBots.

No longer do you have to search through enshittified Google, just tap the AI at the top to find the answer for you.

But why did the AI choose that answer, for you?

Fight Club said it better.

That’s no longer a universal thing.

Common sense. And it will fail because it is common sense.

You should read the mental gymnastics being performed either by republicans or by AI bots for republicans.

A giant circle jerk of Elon isn’t our enemy he just doesn’t understand politics and Trump does. On repeat.

And, Congress sucks, and because they suck so badly and won’t pass hardly anything, this big beautiful bill is the best bill to fix the debt we can get right now. On repeat.

Those two bylines are everywhere. It’s probably going to stick too.

Heartless & privileged. Why are the rich deciding our fates?

These guys do give info on strategy, they’re not exactly secret about it. Bannon used the term “muzzle velocity” to describe the inundation of the press with so many terrible things, We The People would not know where to start or how to organize. They’d instead be scattered without a single issue to galvanize large numbers. Promoting numbness instead of protest. “Muzzle velocity”.

You don’t listen to Bannon, or any of the rest, because you believe them. You listen because it tells you about the admin and their intentions.

And the Jerry Springer vibes.

There were some gems in Sims 3, including the grim reaper asking for a selfie with a household celebrity as he swung by to pick up a person who’d just died. Then, as with most things, EA trashed the series.

This sounds like a Reddit comment.