Where does that funding come from?

I've had great jobs, introducing yourself at meetings that include people you don't know is just part of it

I have done this innumerable times at multiple jobs. Maybe it happens a lot more than you think

Are we reading the same article? It says it was a counterprotester who threw this into the right-wing group

Not necessarily, Iran wasn't taking the threat from Israel and the US seriously when Khamenei the elder was assassinated, but they certainly are now. I think it depends on how much intel Israel is still getting from inside Iran

This is literally George W. Bush's fault, he's the one who pushed the DST changes several weeks earlier in the spring and later in the fall in 2005. This and Hurricane Katrina happened at the same time.

The bill requires that a voter's name match their birth certificate, and many women (and some men) changed their names when they got married.

Hegseth's father was a basketball coach for high schools across Minnesota before retiring in 2019; his mother is an executive business coach who has taught with the Minnesota Excellence in Public Service (MEPS) Series, a fellowship and leadership program for Republican and center-right women.

She'd probably say "You've always been a disappointment to this family. You should've gone to war with Iran last year."

No, that was Jean-Claude Van Damme

I think I missed the part with examples of how the media is creating consent for this? On the contrary, I feel like I've seen mostly articles about capitalist interests: how this is going to raise gas prices, increase inflation, and hurt the economy. Outside of the typical right-wing propaganda outlets like Fox News, the sense I get is the media recognizes this is deeply unpopular and there's little rationale for it. I do wish they'd push harder on those points rather than just reporting "facts," but that's a longstanding criticism.

it was never meant as a directed/individualistic comment

You should probably have said something like "my bad" and explained yourself then, rather than insult people who read your words and all took the same thing away from them. Your intentions are meaningless when your words don't explain them

"How willing have you been to go and put your life on the line to stop these atrocities?"

Literally puts life on line to help others

"Why are you so stupid that you don't understand my rhetorical device?"

You could just say "good work" and move on rather than debase yourself like this