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I am not a fan of the traditional American policy when it comes to ultimate defense and support of Israel. Can someone who agrees with it please detail why it is beneficial to the US? Just went through my uncle and inlaws argue about this for several hours and as a libertarian I don't see why I would want my (and my kids) blood and treasure spilled over a foreign nation, in this case Israel. Not looking for "palestine/arabs/muslims literally hitler" or "israel supporters are evil" I just want reasoned points for our support (or lack of support) for either side.

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all, including to my many, many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don’t know what to do. U.N. General Assembly, I'm talking about you. Love! 💖 And thank you to a VERY, VERY SPECIAL man, Jimmy Morales, 🇬🇹 for moving his embassy to Jerusalem. Tremendous! ✡

WE ARE MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Delivering HISTORIC TAX RELIEF for the American people with the magnificent #TaxCutsandJobsAct. 💸

But a moderator, or a small group of moderators, hates it. And administrators are letting mod-bombs stand. Letting another very unfair Spam mod stand. To silence my message. I'm sure they have passion for our great country. But they're being HATERS & LOSERS. They could become WINNERS like me. But they want to silence my terrific message instead. To make it so I can only tweet once a day, like they did to fakefuck39. Whose tweets start out with a very low Score. Making them hard to see. Hard to read. Very sad!

Let me tell you, this is a great, and VERY SPECIAL, moment for our great Country. The RIGHT TIME. Time to take care of our people, to rebuild our nation, and to fight for our great American workers. It's a whole different attitude, whole different way. We can all come together and be proud! We will all succeed & grow together as ONE TEAM, ONE PEOPLE, ONE FAMILY. With one leader. I made a promise to the American people: eventually, we will get something done. And WE GOT SOMETHING DONE, it's beautiful. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Our team will go onto many more VICTORIES! Because President Obama did such a poor job as president, you won’t see another black president for generations! pic.twitter.com/lLgATrCh5o pic.twitter.com/HY353gXV0R

It approves 4,000 jobs in Guam, for our H-2B workers to build tremendous, and much needed missile defense capabilities there. With $355 million to make our military INFRASTRUCTURE PERFECTO as we continue our campaign to create maximum pressure on the vile dictatorship in North Korea -- Little Rocket Man. 🚀 It upgrades our ground combat vehicles, allows for the purchase of new Joint Strike Fighter ✈ aircraft, and paves the way for beautiful, beautiful new Virginia Class submarines, the finest in the world. The NDAA increases the size of the American armed forces for the first time in seven years and it provides our military service members with their largest pay increase in eight years. 💰

So, I went and saw Episode VIII today at noon. I figured, screw opening night; I'll catch it Saturday in the daytime so I don't have to stand in line, fight for elbow room, or listen to a bunch of shitheads talk through it.

tl;dr: I wish I'd just given up on the franchise.

I'm not going to bore you with a lot of detailed analysis because that's not how you watch a movie for enjoyment. I'm just going to tell you it wasn't good and boil the "why" down to the most crucial bit: the dialogue.

If you ripped out the voice track from the movie, rewrote it, and re-recorded it, VIII could have been about as good as VI. As it stands, the dialogue was worse than I or II. Yes, even considering Jar-Jar. After mostly enjoying VII and the much better Rogue One, this was to me the biggest let-down in franchise history.

Isn't it fantastic that lightweight Senator Bob Corker, who helped President Obama give us the bad Iran Deal & couldn't get elected dog catcher in the Great State of Tennessee, is now on board with Tax Cuts! And so is Little Marco Rubio. So happy to hear that! It's FULL STEAM AHEAD for Tax Cuts & Jobs. Give me goddamned steam! Flaky Flake, get on. Chuck & Nancy, if you're reading this -- I think you're reading this -- I saved your seats. Don't let the Trump Train leave Tax Cut Junction without you......Goofy Elizabeth Warren, you too, let's see Pocahontas make peace with Big White Man Chief......bing bing, bong bong, bing bing bing.......You Dems have donors too. 🚂

The sausage is made. You may now officially commence the bitching that you prepared long before you knew what was in the bill.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Rebecca Johnson, brave widow of Dan Johnson, a true patriot & friend of Kentucky. Another victim of the purposely false and defamatory stories FABRICATED & put out by the Fake News Media. They are out of control - correct reporting means nothing to them. Major lies written, then forced to be withdrawn after they are exposed...a stain on America! They should be ashamed. "His fight will go on." We are with you! fxn.ws/2AmL7yI

Thank you, Omarosa, for your service. To The Apprentice, Celebrity Apprentice, Donald J. Trump Presents the Ultimate Merger, and least of all, the White House. Good luck, and maybe, probably, we will make great television together again. #TrumpTV

The USA just decided apparently to abolish "Net Neutrality" making the public Internet beholden to large, established corporations. This is bad news for individuals and small businesses.

What we need is a new internet, a grass-roots one, ad-hoc, created by volunteers.

Many years ago when WiFi was new, there was one such attempt I seem to remember called "Consume the Net." I never had the money to buy the hardware at the time, but it sounded like a great idea. The problem in those days was getting any sort of broadband connection was difficult and expensive. You could get a 56kbps POTS modem, sometimes ISDN (64k * 2) or cable (500-600kbps) if you were very lucky and ADSL was just coming out. WiFi was already running at megabits.

Now we have a different set of problems to work around, but the technology is ubiquitous, cheap and mature.

It would we cool to have the equivalent of open access points on this new co-operative internet that you could scan for and join if you promised to behave.

Any ideas?