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@ScottJenningsKY Yeah Trump in his first term lost 51k jobs on average, so no wonder everybody is happy.

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@PeteHegseth @DeptofWar @POTUS It’s the same response every single time: issue a blanket denial, blame "outside forces," and offer zero receipts. We don't need emotional posts in ALL CAPS; we need transparent facts.

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@ScottJenningsKY But 78,000+ cuts hit DoD civilians. Slashing planners, logisticians, maintainers and support staff means delayed work, thinner logistics and more of the burden falling on uniformed personnel. This was not cutting bureaucratic overhead.

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@Acyn In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which provided statutory authorization for Johnson's escalation. So it was undeclared, but congressionally authorized.

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@mattmcknight @Acyn Take HPV: Scandinavia prevents far more HPV-driven cancers through high vaccination and organized screening. Those cancers never enter your 5-year-survival statistic. You’re grading the US on treating cancers after they appear while ignoring systems that stop them appearing.

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@mattmcknight @Acyn If your claim is that obesity explains away US 95 vs Denmark 55 vs Sweden 47, quantify the counterfactual. OECD explicitly treats HALF of ischemic-heart-disease mortality as healthcare-treatable. You don't get to assign every excess American heart death to obesity by assertion.

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@mattmcknight @Acyn This is getting silly. You attacked life expectancy because populations differ. So I gave you treatable mortality, and OECD age-standardizes it to the SAME population precisely to address population age differences. US 95. Denmark 55. Sweden 47. What exactly is your argument now?

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@mattmcknight @Acyn Treatable mortality measures who dies from conditions medicine already knows how to cure.
US: 95 per 100k. Sweden: 47 per 100k.
That isolates clinical performance. You dodged the metric because cherry-picking an affluent NJ immigrant cohort is the only way your claim survives.

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@mattmcknight @Acyn Treatable mortality: US 95/100k, Denmark 55, Sweden 47. That's the comparison relevant to whether their healthcare systems work. NJ Asian women are irrelevant. I could find an ultra-long-lived subgroup in Afghanistan; that wouldn't prove Afghanistan has a great healthcare system.

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@mattmcknight @Acyn That's selection, not a healthcare-system comparison. And the NJ figure is 89.1 overall; 91.3 is Asian women. Your observation shows demographics and selection matter. It does not show healthcare doesn't.

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@ScottJenningsKY Obama removed 98% of enriched uranium; cut centrifuges ~19,000→6,104; capped enrichment at 3.67%; ended enrichment at Fordow; disabled Arak’s plutonium route; accepted extensive IAEA monitoring. Trump gave Tehran its strongest argument yet for actually wanting a nuclear weapon.

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@Acyn The Catechism of the Catholic Church is explicit here:
§370: “He is neither man nor woman. God is pure spirit in which there is no place for the difference between the sexes.”
§239: “God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God.”

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@Acyn At the same time, he whines constantly that the EU and others didn’t help him enough with Iran.

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@sentdefender Has all this work provided evidence that US. consumers are experiencing scarcity? Has it generated an appreciable increase in US. cocaine prices or reduced purity? If not, then these are just TV successes that these operations produce.

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@atrupar ~757 U.S. service members wounded/injured

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@josephwrio @Acyn Scandinavians living in the US live roughly 3 to 4 years less than residents of Scandinavia. Meaning they do better than non-Scandinavian Americans but worse than Scandinavians. If you have other data please feel free to share?

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@White_Shadow81 @eatcodeean @Acyn Treatable mortality: deaths that timely, effective healthcare should prevent. US: 95/100k. Denmark: 55. Sweden: 47.

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@peglegmorris @eatcodeean @Acyn You can remove murders, car crashes and suicides from the argument entirely. OECD treatable mortality (deaths under 75 avoidable through timely, effective healthcare) is 95/100k in the US, versus 55 in Denmark and 47 in Sweden.

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@peglegmorris @eatcodeean @Acyn CDC explicitly tested this. After excluding births <24 weeks to improve comparability, U.S. infant mortality was still higher twice that of Sweden/Finland/Denmark.

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@eatcodeean @Acyn Research disagrees with you.