The Russians know white Americans better than white Americans know themselves.

A lot of the integration happens at the corporate level, so a lot of americans just don’t know or realize. If you ask an american to tell you about Boeing I doubt the first thing listed would be cruise missiles or UAVs.

A breath away? There are literally unidentifiable federal agents abducting people off the street in rental vans and holding them without charge. Dude we’re already there.

Basically since stopping the draft in the 70s, the US armed forces has always used tactics to recruit teenagers without many prospects.

As an American is super scary. This country targets young underachievers for military service and the scams recruiter will pull to get some poor kids is appalling. Then once those kids are in, they are not only abused by the military but predatory lenders flock to offer them loans for all sorts of things at extremely…

How would you feel about a hacker registry? Or maybe a registry for people who know how to pick locks? How about a registry for people who know Karate? How about a registry for people who can count cards? Or one for people at a certain IQ level. Why shouldn’t the government register everyone’s fingerprints?

You’re assuming these sort of tactics haven’t always been part of their recruiting efforts.  

You don’t think it’s likely that they have a long history of hitting those numbers only by tricking people? To them it’s probably a matter of not changing what is working. 

I never realized! It’s not like an enormous portion of our GDP goes towards it.

The US military has hit the vast majority of recruitment numbers for 20 yrs. they have 0 need to trick anyone

U.S. Army esports team

The US military using bait-and-switch tactics to draw gullible young people into the armed forces?

The anti-mutant mania in the X-Men movies is an aspect of the series that always gotten on my nerves. They ostensibly exist in the Marvel superhero universe where other metahumans exist (even if we don’t see them), right? But you don’t really see that kind of attitude from the public in other Marvel (meaning…

I remember in X3 where Storm says that they don’t need a cure and that they’re fine the way they are while standing right next to a woman who can’t have physical contact with anyone without putting them in a coma.

Ok yeah I’ll admit that bit was kind of a silly argument and I’ll concede on that. But still, mutant legislation would be too difficult to enforce fairly if everyone’s treated the same.

The problem is that when you start regulating people based on their superpowers, you have to define what a superpower is. And there isn’t really a workable definition for what makes a person superhuman.

Yeah- I think there should be exceptions for people with stupid powers but it might be fair to know what people can throw train cars with their mind (especially bc people get brainwashed constantly in the Marvel Universe). It kind of reminds me of the vampires “God hates fangs” thing in True Blood- there’s a lot of…

This is pretty much where you have to apply a generous amount of willing suspension of disbelief for the civil rights metaphor to really work. Furthermore, while there’s plenty of mutants from the Marvel universe who really would have a shitty time of it, in reality I suspect that a beautiful woman with the ability to…

Say, for example, there are a string of baffling bank robberies where money is disappearing from locked vaults through which no one has gained entry from the outside. Wouldn’t it be useful to know that there is a mutant living nearby who has the ability to teleport?

That is probably not what Republicans think about for Senator Kelly, because then they would hate him for introducing gun control metaphor. Really, they like him because of the racism.