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SquirrelOrange3 said:
The US military is the world's biggest socialist program but people who "hate socialism" demand we spend more on this boondoggle even though the US military lost to jihadis who paid their own way to fight the Americans.
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It's way too simple to say the US "lost". I think the US military successfully served a mission in Afghanistan for as long as it was needed- just not the one we were told they were serving.

Leaving behind a bunch of stuff just gave us more we needed to expend cash on to replace. That benefit's someone, too.
 
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SquirrelOrange3 said:
I haven't been there since 2019, but it wasn't Islamic back then, at least towns like Vienna, Budapest and Prague, despite the best efforts of Jews to flood Europe with Muslim and African migrants.
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I was in Madrid and all over Spain relatively recently, and despite the handful of Africans there selling knockoff soccer jerseys, it's a far cry to call anywhere I went "Islamic".

Hilariously enough Spain was pretty Muslim in the not-so-distant past...
 
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ButchPlz said:
It's way too simple to say the US "lost". I think the US military successfully served a mission in Afghanistan for as long as it was needed- just not the one we were told they were serving.

Leaving behind a bunch of stuff just gave us more we needed to expend cash on to replace. That benefit's someone, too.
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We flushed trillions of dollars and thousands of American soldiers' lives down the toilet to replace the Taliban with... the Taliban.
 
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hog88 said:
I would
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reminds me of the story of some WW2 German pilot who had some number of air kills, and after the war kept flying and eventually ended up as a test pilot. he ends up testing a british plane, I think, and it crashes, and his first words once he was back on the ground safely was whatever number of kills he had plus one.
 
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DinkinFlicka said:
I'm not who you asked but my guess is that most here aren't really sweating the price of gas.

It usually just acts as a rallying cry that those in lower income brackets can collectively flock to.
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Vol8188 said:
Capitalism? Supply and demand? Scary!
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McDad said:
I agree. I can absorb the fluctuations. But back to the question to LG, this is the pattern for gas prices. What are we supposed to discuss? Big oil opportunistically sticking it to us? The corporate retailers sticking it to us?

Perhaps there aren't any posters here who deliver food for a living and that's why the convo didn't gain traction.
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I'm not raising gas prices as an affordability issue. If its temporary, as we all hope, then one would think that the effect will not be pronounced or lasting.

I am just griping about what in my view is another episode of prices immediately spiking, but taking much longer to subside when the cause of the increase is resolved. The explanation I sometimes read is that the price goes up for the gas stations quickly, and that is why they have to increase it themselves.

But that is no explanation. First, not all stations refill in less than 24 hours. From what I've read, its usually 2-4 days. But second, even if they did, that means that their supplier is increasing the wholesale price based entirely on expected reduced supply down the road. And, third, even if such supply constriction temporarily occurs, the supply is turned back on and the problem over, but prices do not come down anywhere nearly as quick as they went up.

I cannot prove it, but it sure does seem that the oil and gas companies operate together to take advantage of these situations. Not saying they cannot justify a price increase when there is a supply disruption, but am saying that prices ought to come down much more quickly than they do when the disruption is cured.
 
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hndog609 said:
Oh that's nothing new. In the FF he would often find himself citing one person/source as totally trustworthy...if they were stating something he espoused. They of course were reliable for exactly how long it took for them to contradict his POV in which case they were trash and idiots.
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grabbed that one from the RF. I was catching up on one of the guys and found that quote and it was just from last Friday, and this week he is 100% behind AI. weird...
 
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rikberry31 said:
Buddy Iran did not create the infrastructure to get the oil. They seized it without compensating the people who did. Stealing by the government is still stealing.
When a coyote is getting after your livestock you shoot them, no matter the reason they are doing it.
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I'll take that as 'I don't care about the details, I've already picked a side'. Thanks for playing.
 
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ButchPlz said:
I was in Madrid and all over Spain relatively recently, and despite the handful of Africans there selling knockoff soccer jerseys, it's a far cry to call anywhere I went "Islamic".

Hilariously enough Spain was pretty Muslim in the not-so-distant past...
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The only Muslim place in Europe I've visited is the European section of Turkey in 2001, the week Tennessee defeated Florida, since flights to the region were at giveaway prices due to 9/11 and my girlfriends at the time were Turkish. Dang, so many good memories are flooding my mind, a massive dopamine rush.

I don't want to see Europe get overrun by migrants, but it hasn't reached critical mass yet, despite the best efforts of some. I think some people may think it's worse than it actually is because if you visit some landmarks, the Eiffel Tower for example, the people hawking merch are typically foreigners hustling hard to make the most of their opportunity.
 
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lawgator1 said:
I'm not raising gas prices as an affordability issue. If its temporary, as we all hope, then one would think that the effect will not be pronounced or lasting.

I am just griping about what in my view is another episode of prices immediately spiking, but taking much longer to subside when the cause of the increase is resolved. The explanation I sometimes read is that the price goes up for the gas stations quickly, and that is why they have to increase it themselves.

But that is no explanation. First, not all stations refill in less than 24 hours. From what I've read, its usually 2-4 days. But second, even if they did, that means that their supplier is increasing the wholesale price based entirely on expected reduced supply down the road. And, third, even if such supply constriction temporarily occurs, the supply is turned back on and the problem over, but prices do not come down anywhere nearly as quick as they went up.

I cannot prove it, but it sure does seem that the oil and gas companies operate together to take advantage of these situations. Not saying they cannot justify a price increase when there is a supply disruption, but am saying that prices ought to come down much more quickly than they do when the disruption is cured.
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If it could be proven, you would have a historic class action lawsuit on your hands.
 
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