120%

Though I think he would care about competency in the field of ‘kissing his ass’ among sycophants and those that use him.

Can easily believe that, though can not confirm.

So much has happened, and this regime is not even a year old. . .

“May you live interesting times” is a curse we are all suffering through.

I just. . . I don’t understand the internal logic. How can one get the cause-effect relationship so mixed up. . .

I mean I know the answer, fox news and similar propaganda, but the dichotomy hurts my brain.

The training and requirements to be an ATC are insane, in a extremely thorough way. I highly doubt the Republican administration would be able to find competent replacements among their ‘patriots’.

That said, I doubt further that they would actually care and not just tell people to eat cake, or just privatize the ATC network to some billionaire.

They say that like the law matters to ICE and the Republican administration.

Unfortunately, Budapest is in Hungary, i.e. Putin fan Orbin’s country.

It absolutely does, cogs in the meat grinder.

That said, It brings everyone down to that level.

With guns, the mightiest general can still be killed by a lucky private. In most fantasy worlds, that would be near impossible for a basic untrained person to be a threat to a skilled warrior or mage.

And you are right, in the US there are an insane amount of gun deaths from murder, suicides, and accidents. Too many of us treat them like toys or emotional support Glocks, use them to be their masculinity.

Well, if it’s a shaped explosion round, aka HEAT, then it ‘forges’ a jet of molten copper upon detonation, that is what ‘cuts’ though armor plate. Pedantic, yes. Technically not forged by human hands, also yes.

I think it’s the ‘equalizer’ aspect. A knight would have to train for years to be proficient in swordplay, horse riding, and usage of a lance. Longbowman had to train from childhood. A wizard has to study magic for years.

A peasant could pick up a gun and theoretically kill any of them.

Americans in general are also more familiar with guns than swords or bows, so the “effectiveness” is more intuitive for our minds.

Of course she’s not, she’s a darling of the Fascists at least until the eat professional women as well.

True, but that kind of “both sides” is not helping. One side is hamstring by corporate donors and we need to primary the corpos out. The other side is actively taking food out of babies mouths, destroying public services, etc.

Both are issues, but one is truly heinous and cruel.

FFS, such thin skinned snowflakes. /Jk

Because his claims to care about “American jobs” are performative at best, is not in the white house to be a President, but to be a Grifter.

You can be against Zionism and isreals genocide against Palestinians without being antisemitic. Criticism of the actions of a government =/= hatred of a race/religion.

False equivalency.