The rust belt is a big constituent in my definition of the Midwest, though perhaps in reality only a Venn diagram. As such I’d place Illinois or Michigan as most Midwestern.

Kansas ain’t Midwestern.

One again with the nuclear sites bullshit.

Campae.

campuses [thanks for the typo correction!]

Exactly. Rooting for the people of Iran doesn’t make one a tankie. Being against US military intervention should mean being against US military intervention. One can be “rooting” against the US and still be rooting for the freedom of Iranians. Most of this fundamentalism is historically rooted in US interventionism in the first place! Destabilizing the country yet again will not help the women of Iran.

It’s right there in the logo.

Heavily contingent on pizza style.

This idea is so ridiculously reductive and infantile.

I’ll go you one further. My vote in my state does absolutely nothing because of the electoral college, gerrymandering, and disenfranchisement. So many many votes against the RNC essentially go into a void. We need to stop blaming voters since it will only further exacerbate disenfranchisement.

A “majority” of Americans in a heavily gerrymandered system with extreme voter disenfranchisement and removing POC folks from at voter roles voted for him. Only 65% of folks with voting rights voted in the election. That’s around 50 million who didn’t vote because of systemic pressure or disenfranchisement or both. The people who did elect him total around 72 million in a country of around 250 million who can vote. They aren’t a majority.

The system is shambles and blaming the voters is misguided. It is programmed against the people and towards the needs of the wealthy.

Probably mostly because they are depraved sickos who get off on death, suffering, and ratings. This is a grotesque sport to them.

Secondly because Hassan committed the attacks as a soldier on a US base. Hegseth probably wants to send a message to other soldiers of the consequences of such actions. He’s been doing that since day one in the role.

Thirdly Hassan is a Muslim and grew weary of the horrors inflicted upon predominately Muslim nations by the US military. Can’t have anyone starting to have ethics in the military. Good soldiers follow orders. Islamophobia runs deep in the US government.

But let’s be real at the end of the day every justification for this will backfire. Potential copycats will watch and see themselves as a future star of the same series. The show of force to deter copycats will only do the opposite. That’s basically been the primary consequence of every US military engagement since the Korean War but even further to the merciless genocide campaigns against the indigenous folks of North America.

Gas prices are reaching record levels and bringing the Bolt back is a “huge mistake”. Hard to wrap my head around any of this making sense outside of short term investor concerns.

Wrong snake