Conservatives, as a rule, have to hide and lie about their true intentions in a democratic system, because those intentions are unpopular to all but those who would benefit and their sycophants. Hell, even Burke gets into that.

HHH is full of it in that one, and he knows it. A heel’s job isn’t to draw boos, a heel’s job is to draw so much heat that you’ll buy a ticket to the next show in hopes that you can see him get his ass beat. No one is under any impression that Reigns will get a humiliating comeuppance from a fan favorite any time soon.

American Bad Ass Taker = GOAT Taker. Fight me.

1. Vince hasn’t cultivated anyone else to be a top guy, and there (arguably) isn’t anyone else not named John Cena who has a top guy look. Ambrose could be that guy, but they’d have to retool the product to resemble the Attitude Era, which leads to:

There are 320 million of us. Certainly, with the right process, we can find 22 who can play soccer with the best of the world, don’t you think?

I still maintain, with admittedly relatively little evidence, that Klinsmann wasn’t so good at playing politics with the US Soccer powerbrokers (board, MLS, Nike et al), and Arena had been undermining him and lobbying to return for at least the past two years.

You will have to live with people whose opinions you find repugnant if you want to be part of a unified, stable society. If you are opposed to a society where people can have opinions you find repugnant, I will block every step of your way.

You can’t be waiting for other people to have the right mindset and do the right thing - you must have it yourself and fight for it.

In which case it’s your belief that we’re no longer all in this together. What does that say about us as a nation?

That link was largely a review of the existing literature. I don’t have access to the rest of it at this time.

https://books.google.com/books?id=y8M5vx-Lrk0C&pg=PA264&lpg=PA264&dq=nuclear+winter+myth&source=bl&ots=Wsa4w_2Uew&sig=6j4ZXGPq7P6YUz8P5WgV9yUEQN8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwju9pi2quPRAhUM72MKHd8LB084ChDoAQgpMAM#v=onepage&q=nuclear%20winter%20myth&f=false here is some light, chopped up reading on the controversy. It remains…

Doubtful. Most of the sustained damage will be done by the four to five high-altitude EMP blasts over Manitoba and Nebraska that lead off the attack. You’re pretty much stuck to anything but foot traffic at that point if you’re non-military, and they’ll be getting the big bombs soon anyway.

Nuclear winter is mostly a politically useful myth. The bombs aren’t going to generate enough smoke from cities with modern construction methods.

Will bigger bombs be produced again? Probably not. You get much more bang for the buck with 6-10 small weapons than one big one.

Old school MRVs, sure. Newer MIRVs with better targeting systems are able to pinpoint much better and disperse warheads over a very broad area. Furthermore, it’s not the ‘70s anymore where the Russians are sending multi-megaton missiles to compensate for bad targeting technology.

There’s much more symbolic value to Russian soldiers marching through Times Square than there is in having an incredibly valuable geographic location rendered unusable for a decade or more.

Very much so. Something to consider is the Western Front in World War I. Within 20 km of the front on each side, moonscape. 30 km from the front in either direction, it is idyllic French countryside. But from the recollection of the war, we’re led to believe that the entirety of northeast France was a giant crater.

What are your political goals in this scenario? Why would you be scared to death of not killing everyone there? Why would you even launch a first strike if you weren’t sure you could keep retaliation to an acceptable (i.e. survivable) level?

Countervalue targets are well down the list, and will only be struck if political goals cannot be met after the destruction of counterforce targets. You don’t want to glass cities right away, because if you do, who will you negotiate with? Likewise, if done with an invading army, why would you want to destroy your…