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But you still acquiesced with the tax you did pay. It's not possible to never acquiesce IMO.

Would make it easier to read if I was able to open it, but I'm not going to be getting a Reddit app just to do so. I'll restrict myself to saying that like any tracked vehicle the weak point is the track. Take that out and it becomes a stationary gun mount. I never had any experience of Bradleys as after my time, but I had extensive experience of the M113. Unfortunately their weak point is apparently that they catch fire if hit by an RPG. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M113_armored_personnel_carrier PLO ambushes with RPGs caused extensive casualties because of the tendency of the M113's aluminum armor to catch on fire after being hit by anti-tank weapons.

Nah. Gamma has a droll sense of humour and Bob was boring.

Do you refuse to pay taxes?

I've been acquiescent all my life like most people on the planet. Parents, teachers, doctors, policeman, bosses, government etc.

because you are in a better place.

Being dead isn't the problem- it's how one gets dead that is the problem.

I'd agree to anything as long as it'd involve a happy ending for myself.

It's only good if I don't hurt anywhere.

Give me a million $ and I'll be the happiest man on the planet as I survey the fun times to come reclining on my bed in Pattaya. Hint. you can read that last part in more ways than one. Did you get it?

I'd say that applies to all western countries. They do need to make the legal immigration easier so people don't pay criminal gangs instead.

I hope you realise that was acting. He only pretended to be going in harm's way. I'm not really criticizing him as someone had to convince the cannon fodder to volunteer. I liked him personally and I have most of his movies on DVD, including those awful early westerns. He got better with age, and of course his best movie had to be True Grit. It had a great credits song by Glen Campbell, who also acted in it. I liked Darby too, and it's a shame she vanished in the 70s. I just realised that Wayne was younger than I when he died. I always thought he was older than his age.

Now you can get mugged by illegals in Europe instead.

Actually many, many things, but people can do that themselves with their friend google.

Now that the end of the Ukraine war looms must be time for a new war somewhere. Gotta keep the $ rolling in for the IMC. Hence ramping up the anti Russia/ Iran/ China etc propaganda.

Trump's Fiery Immigration Rhetoric Signals Potential for Turbulent Future If it results in the end of people paying criminal gangs to end up dying in the Darien, bring it on. It should never have got to the stage it has. Blame politicians of both parties for that.

Exactly.

and which poor people does apple exploit to make their overpriced products to make a massive profit for the 1%? IMO MS exploits everyone that buys their garbage OS- including myself.

We westerners live in a sick society. IMO it's a society doomed to fail, and not too far in the future either. People forget why the French and Russian peasants rebelled.

Americans used to do those jobs. So what went wrong?

It'll be interesting to see how they magic up 40,000 people prepared to work in the NHS. Perhaps Harry Potter is being asked to help. I doubt there are 40,000 QUALIFIED people lying about waiting for the call. Takes 3 years to train a registered nurse.

Obviously, their "efforts" were insufficient, but there is enough blame to share with the previous Labour government.

I suffered in the NHS during the last Labour government and it was a shambles then, IMO not helped by Gordon wasting 6 billion quid on managers and fancy buildings. Something people may overlook is that health care is a worker intensive situation- there is no alternative to people- technology may assist, but it can not replace people. The largest number of staff that actually make the NHS work are nurses and British people just don't want to be nurses in sufficient numbers- the pay is pathetic, nursing is now a degree occupation, which is a massive disincentive to become one, bullying in nursing is a huge problem, and it's just not a desirable occupation now as it was in the 50s or 60s. That means they have to import nurses and those imports may not be desirable. It's not like there are thousands of Aussie nurses wanting to work in the NHS- Australia is having it's own problems finding enough nurses, likewise NZ. If they want a decent NHS they have to fix the nursing problem- is the government capable of doing so? The jury is out on that.

I do and I also remember that but for Chamberlain buying time for Churchill to get re armament under way, especially the build up in the airforce, Britain would IMO have fallen to the German machine, the same way the British army in France was destroyed by the Germans. IMO Britain was lucky to survive. The question you have to answer is "is Ukraine lucky".

I'd say that is the relevant bit. Tanks IMO are as relevant now as the battleship was in 1941, just before technology rendered them useless. I'm guessing, but cheap, mass produced autonomous fighting machines may be the way of the future. A while ago someone mentioned a robot dog, and I suspect something like that.