Wild take when most veterans end up that way because they didnt have any other real options at the time.
Its a middling mamagement role, typically you can't get your own command until one rank higher. It's about 6-8 years of service starting at O-1. There should be a few hundred of them in the Airforce.
However he did a big no no, specifically making political statements while in uniform if the pictures here are accurate. He could be facing time in prison over that if it goes to court martial. So effectively he's tanked his career, and risked his freedom when he could have done just one of those things. Middle management small dick syndrome if iv'e ever seen it. Willing to bet he found out he wasn't getting promoted or something to do something so assanine in order to pick up sympathy points for a political run later.
(not sure how it's called)
I think you are looking for "wealth tax"
Also the US has inheritance tax that kicks in once an estate exceeds 5million dollars. The problem is that you can bypass that limit by establishing a trust that holds all your assets. If before your death you put everything over 5million in a trust (baisically a legal contract that acts like a container for assets that a lawyer oversees to make sure the contract is executed) then it stops being your wealth and starts being the trust's wealth. A trust can have any arbitrary set of rules, for example it could be as simple as: wisely invest my assets and pay out an income to my surviving decendants from the intrest and their decendants. Or ot could be: while i live pay me out, on my death distribute everything left to charities my children are ungreatful brats and don't get anything. Really it can be anything.
Those are really useful if for example you have 3 unmarried adults who want to share property and make sure property rights transfer between them until everyone is dead then the trust is disolved and the property goes to: favorite niece or something. It can also be useful to allow joint ownership of regulated items that otherwise can't be jointly owned (e.g. machine guns) they are also more powerful than a will if for example you want to make sure your grandkids get college money, or dont get any money until 25, while their parents get nothing and so on... anything you can put on a contract can rule the trusts assets.
So realistically the solution here is to cap how much value can be in a trust, say 5million dollars, and limit how many trusts an individual can be a benneficiary of, lets say 3 trusts at a time.
He was famous for the Linux Sucks talks, and used to be pretty chill always signing off his vids with "be excellent to each other" often playing around with old tech, then idk suddenly brain worms.
This is true having talked to a few enlisted they are wary of re-enlisting when their contract is up. Anecdotal I guess but at least some people really don't like where things are going.
They are just emulating their favorite diety.
This is why "Command said the latest military zone will be part of the Fort Bliss Army base in El Paso."
Effectively what happened was the land was turned into a part of the base. At every US base there is a line usually shortly before the gate, sometimes only at the fence line where you are considered "on base". Once you are on base military police can arrest you since they have jurisdiction on base. Kinda like how if you commit a crime in an unincorporated area, the sheriff will arrest you, not city cops since that's their jurisdiction.
Frankly though this type of move is unprecedented, as far as I know. While the fed can just give fed land to bases, I've never heard of it happening like this. It's a loophole to keep it legal on paper but not in spirit.
AES is a solid symmetric encryption standard. I support the use of it. However I think you might be referring to something else?
So, veteran here. I've tried to talk people out of joining the military or at least trying to avoid jobs with high probability of seeing combat. Usually the result is they just start prying about what combat is like and make statements about how much they want to experience it.
Another tack I haven't tried but it might be more effective, is to describe how miserable it is to have the stench of a burn pit wafting over you, always wondering if the distant gunfire will move in your direction, being stuck manning a 24/7 watch where if even one person who can do that job dies or is otherwise incapacitated you will be stuck doing 12hr shifts instead of 8. Then you get back home and have to fight tooth and nail for benefits from the country that fucked your life up in the first place.
War is hell, coming home is hell, forcing that on someone can only be justified if they are literally at home fighting off an invading force.
If only they had stuck with that
Would be nice if we could unfuck the US, also if we could take a bit of money from the military to get heat pumps and induction stoves, and just skip the gas
In the US a city is a government of a municipality. Every city has a governing body that levies taxes, plans infrastructure, pays emergency services, handles code requirements and enforcement, and can pass laws. For example, many cities have a ban in place on burning trash. That ban is enforced by the city law enforcement and applies within city limits. Another example is in Colorado when weed was leagalized by the state several cities made it illegal to open a recreational dispensery in city limits, so anyone wanting to tap into that customer base had to set up their opperation in the surrounding county (county is usually a large square of land that includes cities under it and has less regulation than the city, so burning trash is legal in most counties and anyone living outside the city, but in the county may do so) counties have Sheriffs who enforce the law and can have various non-city entities that do things like run a fire department.
Its all kinda complicated but baisically you have the following governments in the United States: Federal Government (laws for the whole country) -> State Government (laws for the state, baisically a small country, they do actually have their own militaries tax collectors etc...) -> County Government (a large portion of each state that often includes several cities handles mostly crime that happens outside cities, infrastructure, and fire regulations but can do more depending on the state. I think a few states have Bouroughs or some other name for these entities, but same idea) -> City Governments (laws for the city, zoning, sales tax in the city [on top of the state sales tax] law enforcement in city limits, and a bunch of other stuff)
There are exceptions and edge cases like municipal governments that aren't cities exactly and other odds and ends. Which makes law in the US complicated, for example you could get in trouble for having a knife that's legal one town over, but you visited a friend in a city where it's illegal. Lots of other odds and ends, like reporting purchases made out of state so you can pay your states sales tax on that etc...