Politics does play a factor, but it is not the only factor. How much your money buys is multifactorial. Florida & Texas have similar politics, but Texas is better overall for your savings/value. Even if Florida is a low tax state; lower taxes than Texas, Texas has better overall geography, which includes natural resources. Many people don’t know that Florida has a state minimum wage that is expected to reach the legislated minimum of $15/hr. Texas has no state minimum wage. Nevertheless, Texas has a lower cost, and higher median wages. The ability to build housing involves political will against property owners who want more expensive properties to sell in the future. In California, the people are protective of their properties, and houses as an investment. The local governments protect those properties in their appraisal growth. For some bureaucratic reasons, California, and their local governments don’t do a comparable job in housing people compared to other states/cities. Regulations are often politicized, so yeah, politics is a factor.

Actually, Texas is retaining the most people that relocate in the whole US. Once a person moves to Texas, it is extremely likely they will die a Texan. Also, Florida and Texas gain more high income earners than other states.

It is about protecting the sanctity of human life. Most abortions are used as birth control because they are unwanted liabilities. They are not even considered investments into civilization. I give 2 anecdotes of two “accidents” that graduated from high school early and went on to go with productive lives. These two “accidents” are good for civilization, not bad. From the perspective of selfishness and lack of sense of duty, it is always what we want versus what we need. That is the problem with democrat thinking, and why they don’t know how to run a government. It is why the issue comes up that younger generations have to pay more for less service because social services are burdened on younger generations than the people who actually benefitted from it. Abortion actually weakens democrat states in the long term because their fertility rates are even lower and if they leave Republican states because of abortion, it simply purifies the state from people who are for their own interests over the collective interest of the state. That is not to say that abortion is an inherently bad policy, but you apply the when, and where, you need it. For example, overpopulation can be a problem; a strain on resources. Red states are already gaining population increases due to immigration, bringing in more wealth, and higher incomes, than they are losing. Population, wealth, and high incomes are the necessary ingredients for a powerful state. This is true in international politics, and no different in competing states within a union.

Kroger and Albertsons don’t dominate the grocery market. A monopoly is a company that is in a market devoid of competition. Who shops at Krogers or Albertson’s these days? I haven’t stepped into either one in decades. Hyperbole and hysteria creation is all this is. If they do manage to merge, it doesn’t bother me one bit because I will never shop there. The article is correct. The only people who care are capitalist-haters and zealous bureaucrats.

Where do you watch these Israeli videos?

Unfit for command. Time for a strong black woman to be president. Move out of the way Joe.

Vertical tabs are a good feature for modern desktop monitors. I tried it on MS Edge and Brave Browser. I have Tree Style Tabs on Firefox, but the problem I have is the horizontal tab bar is difficult to remove if for it not that is make break something during an update. Not only that, but I use Nightly as my primary browser.

Californians have their own identity and within California you have independence movements within the state away from California.

You would think a democracy would outlaw misinformation and lies from politicians as to be honest to the public, but no…

That is your opinion. Thanks, come again.

Texas should bring Oklahoma with it. Then it should join OPEC.

You mean Biden’s unnecessary $320 million pier that blew away from the wind being a conspicuous example of incompetence in leadership?

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Seems like you missed that the US is a kakistocracy.

Paying attention to the quote I have of your statement

I dont think its unreasonable to assume that the Russian military command genuinely believed the they were a lot stronger than they actually were when this started. Just based on what news I’ve been following, it seems like its very common for Russian officers to lie to their superiors about how strong their units are for the sake of looking good.

If you don’t have the capacity, then you can’t. How do you know they are “trying”? NATO said Russia is a threat to NATO and the US says Russia is a threat to national security. This statement seems to indicate that NATO is crossing their own lies. It is a contradiction, one of many coming out of NATO.

It’s possible to have aspirations beyond what your current capabilities are. Look at Benito Mussolini’s entire military history. Russian state media regularly makes claims that they will reconquer the Baltics and Poland. They even said they would nuke the North Sea to destroy Britain with a tidal wave. Are we supposed to just ignore what they say?

I am going to make a bet you can’t back up your statements. NATO is too stupid to figure out the military strength of Russia and takes their word for it, instead?