monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

So, you know, it's hard to even get your mind around this, but these are people - Russian citizens - sitting in St. Petersburg, 4,000, 5,000 miles away, calling people to rallies, saying, you know, be at such and such a place at 1 p.m. on Saturday for a rally on so and so. And in many cases people actually showed up. You know, Facebook has sort of gradually become a little more transparent about this. Took them a long time to acknowledge any of this had happened, but they have said that 13 of these Russian Facebook pages called a total of 129 rallies, that about 338,000 different Facebook users viewed these events, the calls to these events, and about 62,000 Americans at least said on Facebook that they planned to go to one of these events. So you have people, Americans, being manipulated from thousands of miles away by people who they assumed to be fellow activists but are actually these Russian trolls.

https://www.postalexam.com/articles/details/special-benefits-for-military-veterans

I don't see any good reason to presume that there is some change in culture caused by an increase in mental health issues. If that were the case, it would show up across society and would surely have caught the attention of mental health professionals and those responsible for monitoring health issues in the country

I'm not sure this is just a matter of availability.. There seems to be something simultaneously more specific and broader going on.

As anthropologist Hugh Gusterson noted in The New York Times last year, more than a third of the 43 worst mass killings in the United States between 1984–2016 were perpetrated by veterans, though vets never exceeded 13% of the population during that period.

I hope we have more and more whiny teens brave enough to take on folks such as your self.

There's an underlying malaise all right — but it's nothing new. Chronic un- or under-employment, broken dreams, deteriorating neighborhoods, and environmental destruction have plagued inner city residents for generations. It's just that it's been democratically extended and introduced to other parts of the country, to other ethnicities, with newer, more powerful, more convenient, more accessible poisons. And at the base of it is the pursuit of corporate profits above all else. I know that sounds crude but it seems to make the most sense. And always has.

Well they do seem to commit mass murders at a rate more than double their percentage in the general population. It would be surprizing to see a similar rate among postal workers who are vets.

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As anthropologist Hugh Gusterson noted in The New York Times last year, more than a third of the 43 worst mass killings in the United States between 1984–2016 were perpetrated by veterans, though vets never exceeded 13% of the population during that period.

It would be surprising to see a similar rate among postal workers who are vets.

Adorno wrote:
The phrase, the world wants to be deceived, has become truer than had ever been intended.

The left's war on veterans' rights is shameful.

July 18, 1984 when James Huberty massacred 21 people at a McDonald's restaurant.

He writes in a style that I often as not find impenetrable.

I wonder if there's an equivalent internationally. The erosion or dismantling of welfare state provisions in Europe has made some of the wealthiest populations of the world a little more like everyone else. Evening out the playing ground?

Seems to be a non sequitur — where does the comment refer to a "war" on veteran's rights?

the Florida children are a bloody inspiration.