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Showing content with the highest reputation on 03/26/22 in Posts

  1. The Biden 82nd airborne pizza eating photo? My son is in this photo.
    34 points
  2. On a related note; While living in a wall tent somewhere in the Aleutian Islands on Christmas Eve, 1942, Dad had a slight problem. An Army Air Corps friend of his stopped by a few days earlier and had given him a fresh pint of whiskey, but Dad was a teetotaler. So, he decided to pass it on and called for two of his sergeants (both Irishmen) to present themselves. After the initial salutations, Dad told them he had a problem... that he had come across some contraband and was in a quandry as to how to dispose of it. He then place the pint of the very scarce hootch on his field desk and asked them if they could think of a proper way to get rid of it for him. Dad said he had never heard so many genuine “Oh, Yes Sirs!” in his whole 20 year active duty career. Lol Dad had a knack for winning hearts & minds.
    25 points
  3. I see Sark has a designated driver. Smart move by CDC
    16 points
  4. Occasionally galaxy brain analysts will compare our defense budgets with countries like China or Russia and will criticize the percentage we spend on payroll/benefits/morale as opposed to “stuff.” This shows why that is such a stupid fucking argument, because you don’t get a highly professional, experienced, competent force if you don’t make the military attractive as a career at the enlisted level.
    16 points
  5. My kid is an active duty Marine and I agree with everyone else about your opinions, Neville Chamberlain.
    15 points
  6. It’s telling how all of the supposed off-ramps and compromises the no escalation camp throws around boil down to “how much are you willing to be robbed of, Ukraine.” ”Putin no longer wants to sack Kyiv and install a puppet government. Now he just wants you to give up the East and Crimea and a land bridge and also he wants Ukraine to be defenseless. In exchange he won’t bomb hospitals and libraries. He’s clearly willing to bargain, why can’t Ukraine accept a deal here!”
    15 points
  7. I've had a similar conversation with my kid. This kind of thing was the norm during the Cold War that the younger generations never experienced. Regarding the concern about nuclear annihilation. Gen-X to Millenials and Gen-Z.
    14 points
  8. You know what? I’m gonna expand NATO even harder now.
    14 points
  9. Hey guys can’t you just consider it from the rapist’s point of view for a moment? He’s a human being after all and we don’t know what he’s been going through. Maybe just let him finish up. It’s not you or me he’s raping. He might even agree not to do it again, and we should take his word for it in that case
    13 points
  10. Gonna do a long cat post on Russia and empathy for Russia and Russians. Up front: I love Russia. I have loved ones in Russia and will for the foreseeable future. Russia was the first foreign country I lived in for any extended period. My Russian has degraded, but I used to read the Russian pantheon in the original. My exposure to Russian spiritual writing led me to Orthodox Christianity. My bookshelf is full of known and not so known Russian writers, my walls with Russian icons. In art, music, literature, science, and culture Russia stands with Greece, Italy, and England in what it’s given the world. No exaggeration. I have to think that what I’ve felt as I’ve watched what Russia has turned into since the poor but hopeful days of the 1990s and early 2000s must be comparable to what people who genuinely loved Germany or Japan felt in the 1930s. It is a horror. Everything bad and dysfunctional about the nation has been amplified to the extreme. Everything good and beautiful has been distorted into something unrecognizable and enlisted in service of evil aims. If you love Russia you should hate what it has become. Russia is not a special snowflake and does not have special security needs that trump the rest of the world. It is time for Russia to grow up and take on a more mature and cooperative view of security and politics. Other nations have managed this. For some it was traumatic- Germany, Japan. For others it was painful but managed— the melting away of the British Empire and French colonies. These are also proud, historic nations with legitimate security concerns that have moved past paranoia and aggression and might makes right. Even the United States has been appropriately chastened by Iraq and Afghanistan and we now are more modest in our use of power and our ambitions, hopefully for good. If you love Russia you should hope they lose this war, quickly if possible, long and painfully if it comes to it. They aren’t going to achieve anything good for themselves or the world if they win. Most of us have seen someone we love completely lose the plot in a similar way. The things they want for themselves are bad, they exaggerate their faults. Even the qualities we used to value and love are twisted into something horrible. They hurt people around them and they demand we sympathize. Mature people know that the only response is to help the people they hurt and to let our loved ones experience the consequences of their actions. Even if it hurts us to see that happen. We don’t help anyone by making excuses or trying to shield them from the tragedy they create for themselves. Even when the people they are hurting aren’t perfect, even if we haven’t always been a perfect friend or dad or spouse, we have to recognize who is wrong and who is right. Finally— nations do not have emotions, interests, or aims. People do. It is not in the interest of the Russian people to be sanctioned or to see boys come back in boxes from an unneeded war in Ukraine that will not make Russians safer or more prosperous. There is a lot of truth in the analogy that the Russian people are traumatized to the point that they have trouble knowing what’s actually good for them. Many of us have seen this as well. We can’t want to help Russians more than Russians want to be helped. Only Russians can decide for themselves that they hate being abused more than they love the good times with the abuser. It’s not our job to make that process less painful for them, in fact, pain may be the only way they figure it out.
    13 points
  11. 11 points
  12. My dad (a LTC) always said the NCOs made the Army function. Smart officers got out of their way.
    10 points
  13. MAC is doing that thing that redhats do where they ignore reality and instead play in the magical land of hypotheticals where the rules are made up and points don't matter. It's the basic failing of today's conservative movement. They refuse to engage on the facts and will instead bloviate on nothing but rhetoric and theory. Btw, for all the cries of negs and being victimized, @MaybeACoordinator sure has gotten literal pages of dialogue and discussion. Must be that cancel culture I hear so much about from MAC and sack and putin
    10 points
  14. Totalitarianism is when someone gases his constituents so he can take a photo op in front of a church. When one tries to stay in power after losing a legitimate election by falsely alleging, ad nauseum, that said election was rigged, and then tries to exert political pressure on officials to give him the election, and when that doesn’t work, foments actual violence against those officials. Who has done that recently? Why is that not disturbing to you?
    10 points
  15. 9 points
  16. The “neutral Ukraine” argument is the dumbest version of “just sit back and take it” propaganda There are two sides, but it’s not Russia v NATO. It is Sovereign Nation v Controlled by Russia. So there is no neutrality position, either they are a sovereign nation and can do whatever the fuck they want, or their national policies are dictated by Russia. This mythical place where Ukraine doesn’t join NATO or doesn’t join Russia doesn’t fucking exist and it’s a reframing of reality. Agreeing to not have an army or Russia will invade again isn’t a neutral fucking country, that is a country under control. Sweet Jesus
    9 points
  17. Any treaty with Ukraine that Russia signs is going to be a smooth buttfucking for Ukraine unless it’s a treaty they’re signing with a seriously weakened and chastened Russia. That’s the whole fucking problem and it has little to do with NATO. The absurdity of the Russian position is self-evident if you flip it around and say that Ukraine should have the right to demand reciprocity from Russia. Why the fuck shouldn’t Ukraine get to tell Russia how big its military should be or tell Russia what political parties are acceptable. Why can’t Ukraine demand Russia “de-Putinize?”
    9 points
  18. This. There's an amazing irony in Americans suggesting that Ukraine ought to be satisfied with forced neutrality or a limited military to appease an aggressive neighbor when not a single one of us, left or right, would listen to such bullshit for one second if it were pointed at America.
    8 points
  19. Not sure if posted before, but Fallon’s bits are usually good, and this is worth a chuckle.
    8 points
  20. I’ve said it once and I will keep saying it: If a primary part of your political platform is making it harder for people to vote, it’s because your ideas are unpopular and suck.
    8 points
  21. 8 points
  22. and in case you're keeping score at home, consider who started the whole "red state" and "blue state" nonsense. consider who made a point of calling out and going after liberal areas and conservative areas, geographically. tell me which presidents went into press conferences and talked about the political affiliation of local officials, mayors and the like. who talked about sending aid to certain states over other states and the reason for doing so. who wanted a transactional relationship with certain states and their governors. think about when this all really became a "team sport". i'll wait here. probably for a long time.
    8 points
  23. You literally brought up totalitarianism
    8 points
  24. I think someone hits return entirely too much .
    7 points
  25. The best opportunity for peace is for Russia to have its military capability reduced and for Putin to lose support in Russia. That’s the current direction. His invasion of Georgia was largely ignored in 2008, which is basically the same script of what we are seeing in Ukraine with Putin declaring support for separatist factions. Six years later, he annexed Crimea. And now he just wants to a greater portion of southern Ukraine, right? No. If Ukraine wants to deal, that’s cool. It’s their people getting killed. But fuck anyone who criticizes their resistance , or our extremely restrained support for their resistance. Ukraine surrendering a single fucking inch is not a path to peace.
    7 points
  26. ^A convoy from Ossetia towards Ukraine. Trophy latest Russian counter-battery complex Zoo-1M. Ours pull the trophy Russian tank T-72B3 One of the mines used by Russian ships to mine the approaches to Odessa, fearing the arrival of NATO ships, was brought to the Bosphorus. 🇹🇷 In fact, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy posed a threat to international shipping in the Black Sea. 3rd Regiment Lights 🔥 Trophy Orc Command and Staff Machine The destruction of the enemy's military equipment continues with the forces and means of the "South" grouping of troops. Mariupol 🇺🇦 The occupiers' plane "landed" forever Orcs from North Ossetia came to Melitopol Destroyed Russian BTR-82A.
    7 points
  27. Yep. My dad (Col. USMC) said his Gunnery Sergeants were his go-to’s. Especially when he was in Vietnam as a Platoon Commander fresh out of OCS.
    7 points
  28. Do we? Mine is fighting age. With an outsize sense of duty and compassion, and he’s an adult and I can’t stop him from joining. I had to actively convince him not to go to the border of a war zone (he was aiming to go help refugees, not fight, but a Russian missile don’t GAF). And if the fight expands quickly, he may not have a choice; we already talked about hauling ass to the underground station if he hears the air raid siren. But you’re taking this far afield. NATO is not putting boots on the ground. That is not how we are playing this. And further, this planet ain’t about you or me, or our sons. It’s about a shitload more than that. If a people have any means of fighting off an invader, they can and should do so. Capitulating because other people are afraid they will end up getting hurt in the fight is insane and irrational. “We should surrender half of our country to Russia because America is afraid that Putin might do something to attack them.” That makes zero sense. I wouldn’t do it. You wouldn’t. Our sons wouldn’t.
    7 points
  29. When JohnnySack and TurkeyChew are the ones pos repping you, you might be an idiot.
    7 points
  30. OG troll shibboleths. That rant was more of a troll culture madlib than anything resembling coherent or thoughtful. Come on conservatives, I so desperately want to be a stodgy conservative pushing back against some of the troubling progressive trends, but the current conservative ethos is so unserious, incoherent, and dishonest, even when you’re right, you only make things worse. Stop with the dramatic emoting and be the rational, thoughtful people you like to pretend to be. Be the rugged man’s men you fantasize about. You’re not a victim, you’re not being canceled, and your news source is also mainstream media, even if it’s not really news. Stop selling yourself short. You’re the party of Lincoln, so stop acting like a bunch of fools. Stop debasing yourselves, stop breaking everything, and have some dignity.
    7 points
  31. You know who else is probably paranoid of land invasions given their history of devastation from the east? Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Finland.
    7 points
  32. Pretty apt description of Abbott and his past 4 years. Overriding local authorities on homeless and covid matters Abortion bounties Trans bounties Voter suppression cloaked as vote integrity protection Operation Lonestar Redistricting Panel to determine how to get all teachers into private/charter schools He's def been on a roll.
    7 points
  33. Especially if other teams try to cover him with a white dude.
    6 points
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