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atomheartbevo

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  1. Damn, the man understood the Russians.
  2. Yeah, way too young.
  3. There's a saying I came up with 2 years ago - you can't unfuck your daughter's cute 39 year-old 2nd grade teacher, and you can't uninvade Ukraine. The difference is that one act was witnessed by 3 employees of the San Antonio Zoo, the other was witnessed by the free world and most Russians. Of course, historically speaking, invading Ukraine has caused problems for dictators in the long run.
  4. It’s gotta be a combination of things. Don’t forget that a lot of the Russian men and their families who opposed being conscripted and who had the means fled Russia, and those are the ones who would have been in the streets fighting a draft. Many of the ones left behind are either okay with it, are poor as shit, or were dumb enough and didn’t think it would happen to them. I’d say these things: Conscription of the Moscow/St. Petersburg group in large enough numbers More infrastructure hit, to the point it seriously impacts all Russians. Oil and gas and electrical. Moscow has to be hit as hard as Kyiv. Put some drones into the Kremlin. That’s a start as far as I’m concerned. Ukraine is slowly accomplishing #2. Right now, your typical Russian doesn’t feel too affected by the war. The Kremlin on fire, rolling blackouts, etc. would put Putin’s public image of being in control to the test.
  5. Rained with sunny skies and now downpour, Central Austin. Crazy winds.
  6. Some fucking internet pussy: I saw youths driving ATVs and doing wheelies, crime is out of control! Rural MAGA:
  7. If Abbott is permanently going to keep deploying the NG down to the border as much as he can to get Trump’ attention, it won’t be absolutely horrible like you would imagine, but it will be full of people who are not there…because they want to be or see it as beneficial. I have a feeling it will skew heavily towards folks who are trying to hit a certain number of years or those on break from active duty meaning they finished their enlistment contract, but want to maintain a connection while they get a degree, etc. and then go back to active duty later on. Like I said, people who want to do border patrol will join the real deal and make more money and build a career, and not be left hanging/dealing with having a home in say Dallas or Lubbock, and dealing with civilian jobs under the sporadic nature of these deployments. College students? That number will drop quite a bit, because the chances for your education being fucked up are too great. People have already bitched about losing credits or putting school on hold. Those with decent jobs? Why stay a part of Abbott’s failed attempt to seek attention? It won’t be the dregs of society or anything, but it will be people who are punching the military version of the time clock. Institutional knowledge will be lost.
  8. The books can sometime be a beating.
  9. You are absolutely correct and I apologize, I should not lump Tyler in with Midland, because while the racists in Tyler fought for it, much like the Confederacy, they were a lost cause.
  10. Yes, and you know what? A shitload of them have separated or want to when their time is up because they hate this shit, but most have their hands tied and have to bide their time until they finish their obligation and can separate, and they have to keep their noses clean and not publicly criticize any of the operations at the border, else they draw the anger of the higher-ups who don't want Abbott and Co. pissed. None of them signed up to do this shit - if they wanted to do this full-time, they would have joined Border Patrol/ICE, and they'd be paid a lot more (especially when they are putting in 60-80 hour weeks). People tend to forget that those NG troops that get ordered to the border are having to leave school or jobs (which are usually better paying) and they are having to leave their homes to live in some shitty hotel room or fuck-off field tent barracks. None of the college students (and college students make up a lot of NG members) are happy that they are putting their studies on hold because Abbott is desperately seeking Trump's attention. Those who had to leave decent jobs are sweating that those same jobs will still be there when they get back. Not to mention that if you have been in the NG for a while and you've been employed by the same company for a number of years and have done multiple deployments, after 5 years of cumulative leave for various deployments, your employer does not have to retain your job (and even if you're under the 5 year cap, there's all kinds of ways that employers can screw you over and still comply with the law). I've done the NG thing, and granted it was in the 90s, and so it was quite different in some ways (I never fathomed being deployed overseas multiple times, etc.), but it was made up of a shitload of people who had a lot of solid reasons to join the NG and not the active-duty military, none of which were to sit down on the border for long periods of time. And I live not too far from Camp Mabry, and my kids are friends with kids whose parents are at Camp Mabry in some capacity, and we have neighbors there, etc., and I've heard a lot of horror stories, and I'm not talking about the suicides/depression but people being stretched thin, having to work shit-tastic hours, etc. It's not a good look for the NG in general for a lot of younger folks who are looking at the NG, but fortunately for Abbott, a lot of NG soldiers have to stick it out either because they are trying to reach a certain number of years, or for college benefits, or any other number of reasons that have nothing to do with Abbott's desire to draw attention to Texas. 5 years from now, most of these people will have had the chance to separate or retire or go active duty, and you'll see a lot different NG.
  11. The ones that are AI, ask them if they are an AI. On the 5 I've asked, 4 hung up.
  12. Can't spell incest without SEC.
  13. Should name it after A.P. Hill, the Confederate general who was described as "always emotional ... so high strung before battle that he had an increasing tendency to become unwell when the fighting was about to commence" because it perfectly encapsulates who they are. Plus, he had gonorrhea.
  14. Iran issues new threat to US -- This is not the time Iran, we have leadership looking for a distraction.
  15. At least Midland and Tyler are is very publicly telling everybody how racist they are. Edit: Tyler is not to be lumped in with Midland.
  16. Well, it ultimately gave the Brits Churchill as Prime Minister - Chamberlain could not have managed the war half as well as Churchill did.
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