Consensual nonmonogamy > incest? OK guy.

*can* be. It’s like how not all smokers will get cancer. Many will, and there’s a very strong chance that if you smoke you will, but it’s not an absolutism.

This is a hell of a lot closer to our mainland than the Spratleys are to China.

Oh good, thanksgiving has come early. Pass the stuffing, will ya pops?

Ukraine isn’t a NATO member, so there was no mutual self defense treaty to protect it. The ROC, on the otherhand, has a security umbrella from the United States. We are treaty-bound to defend it from any hostile act.

A Pacific mutual defense treaty in the vein of NATO to include Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam would be a good start.

Do you have any evidence that he’s being a bad father/husband? Jesus, the fucking projections people make when discussing other people’s drinking habits is absurd.

At least you admit you’re projecting. Not every heavy drinker is necessarily an alcoholic. It’s important for people to remember this.

Jesus Christ. What qualifies you to diagnose him as an alcoholic? Drinking a lot does not make one an alcoholic.

God I love people who have found Jesus on the subject of booze and then make it their mission to get all preachy about it. There are plenty of alcoholics out there that are not ruining their lives or ruining other peoples’ lives or constantly making bad decisions.

It’s spot on for that person’s alcoholism. It is not an accurate representation of all alcoholics.

The Patriots are just the fucking worst.

Ah yes, the United States Congress, the bastion of legislative productivity.

But, he’s not wrong. Hypocritical sure, but not wrong.

Why don’t you make this available via third party podcast clients?

Is Robbie Gould infallible?

It’s their way of coping with the cognitive and moral dissonance of American life. They manufacture tyranny in an attempt to assuage their guilt over their complicity in such an unequal society.

Except, the Philippines and Vietnam are our implicit allies in these FoN drills.

The notion that China can “call in” their US treasury holdings has been widely debunked. From a practical standpoint, the own bonds with a set maturity date, they don’t get to just call in the debt. It’s true they could sell them, which would cause the value of US treasuries to plummet, but that would hurt them more…

it’s not?