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I mean, “this” is a strike by a labour unit in negotiation with its employer. That is how unions get their leverage.

The Big Honkin’ Ships idea was after 2006. Not a 1990’s thing.

Association with criminals can be a hurdle during security clearance. Best way over that hurdle is being honest about it,

I have been to many factories. If you think there is capacity to produce replacement modern tanks faster than replacement crews, then the sales reps have you snowed.

It’s cool that you want to go to war in Spitfires & Shermans again.

But you can train crews faster than build tanks

The participation of women in the workforce doubled at that same time. As women are no linger a largely untapped resource, we would need over 2 million persons available to step into the workforce if we want to repeat the mobilization scale of WW2 without impacting essential industries.

In many respects, they are there now. We don’t need to devolve to name calling.

One could reasonably describe some current US activities as efforts towards ethnic cleansing, but there is no genocide going on. Fortunately, I don’t see anyone making comparisons to the Holocaust. It’s just you trotting it out as an absurd strawman to beat-up on. Nazis were still Nazis in...

That would be the intellectually easy path to meeting huge growth targets. It would also ensure we continue to lack sustainment capability to actually be able to employ the grown force.

Authoritarianism is domestic. Military adventurism and wars of conquest are not domestic. The badge of tyrant might fit for one who is authoritarian at home and an imperialist conqueror abroad.

No.

When Nazism is a legitimate comparable to something, the solution is not to stifle speech nor to deny the legitimate comparisons. The solution is for that something to stop behaving in ways that are legitimately comparable to nazism.

Then why did you use “fascism” as a synonym when responding to comments referencing Nazis? If you are going to insist Nazis are not fascist enough, then you should not use the terms interchangeably.

You are advocating see no evil, speak no evil approach. But there is evil. You cannot address a problem that you refuse to acknowledged it. MAGA of 2025 has a lot in common with Nazis of 1936. Insisting that this not be discussed because someone might get violent is advocating to pretend the...