Why are certain people continually elevated despite mistakes or evident quality issues?

How cozy are the most influential cliques with dangerous MAGA figures?

What info is everyone sitting on down there?

for the peanut gallery "where are the democrats" literal mr. democrat chuck schumer is trying to stop this.

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It's also my belief that their implementation of those principles was a first or second draft, that worked pretty well for its time, but needed revisiting even before Trump and MAGA came along and smashed it. Writing the next draft is something we have been planning for some time

lolf it just gets worse and worse

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which laslie also emphasizes in his own history of the air force's recovery after vietnam. red flag, for instance, only works the way it does because people can criticize each other openly and honestly. otherwise you just wind up with putin's scripted exercises

www.amazon.com/Air-Force-Wa...

one of the things biddle emphasizes in his MILITARY POWER is that militaries that are overcome by the authoritarian culture are, almost invariably, inferior in performance to democratic militaries built on trust, honesty, and openness

www.amazon.com/Military-Pow...

campism: not even once

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going to war with venezuela would be stupid and evil and also i think allying with russian stooges and weird cults is not a good way to make that point

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trying to explain aggressively alienating your allies, spewing endless blather about autarky and economic self-sufficiency, intimating that we'll cut them off if it ever comes to it, and then acting surprised when they respond accordingly