Rogue One was the worst SW movie I'd ever seen until TRoS, which is an abomination of an un-movie that should be subjected to DAMNATIO MEMORIAE.

Yes, TLJ is trash. All its support is impotent Trump 1.0 Left-of-Center hippie nonsense in the face of surging fascism, aged like blue milk.

Here is my tip for getting Xmas music out of your head: you need a more powerful earworm. I find most any song from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory works wonders (with the exception, of course, of the bathroom break classic Cheer Up, Charlie)

Oswald was a Communist attempted defector and Castro-phile who hated JFK. He trained on marksmanship in the Marines. He bought the rifle used in the killing and practiced with it. He tried to kill General Walker with the same rifle a few weeks prior.

Only possible conclusion: “CIA musta dunnit!”

If the point is strategic victory, it doesn't miss the point. And even if we still conclude that a country can go on longer "than expected" when bankrupt (not my reading of WWII), this still clearly requires insanely extractive social costs which RU can ill afford to pay given latent instability

The lesson of WWI/II is that total war postures generationally tax the empires which commit to them. It's precisely the USA *not* being bankrupted in either war which determined the ultimate course of politics from 1941 to the present. Everything else exists in that shadow

The original American immigration policy was the correct and most efficient one:

"Oh wow, you made it here? Okay, you clearly want to be here, welcome and good luck, my fellow American."

The best way to sustain broad support for immigrants it to ensure they hit the ground running so they aren't funneled down the many anti-social and aggravation channels that stem from displacement and poverty.

Fast fashion and the de-unionization of textiles are abominations that must be purged from the earth.