Glad to know somebody has some standards in this dead weight of a party. Someone with an actual conscience in some eyes of God decency.
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And thank God for that. Scottie Walker would have happily signed away his constituents' right to vote for political advantage.
But... but a Democrat did something bad one day so nobody can criticize Republicans ever!
Twitter thread going wrong for the OP
Another reply had "Go Woke or Get Smoked" and I'm feeling a suprising amount of Murika. Thought that had shriveled up by now.
Another reply had "Go Woke or Get Smoked" and I'm feeling a suprising amount of Murika. Thought that had shriveled up by now.
Damn. Really gives a whole new meaning to "Tankies." 0_0
I’ve never understood that. I mean if you’re a dedicated peacenik you’re not joining the armed forces regardless of your gender because it’s something that’s morally anathema to you.
Conversely I don’t see how a trans man or trans woman or non binary person is gonna be any less shit at aiming a rifle or driving a tank than their cisgender colleagues. I mean I’m a cishet white boy and if the Australian military took me it would be because they were in dire straits. Otherwise they’re better off with the transgender gym bunny with a degree.
Some people need to believe that war is a manly thing where boys become men and you can't really trust a fellow soldier unless he's as willing to stick his dick in the local chicks as you are.
I doubt the military thinks so either. But I think the military's argument in some cases might be that if people require medication for their trans status, this poses health risks in case of logistical problems or if the individual is captured. I suspect the more likely underlying reason is that the military are conservative and like keeping things the way they are.
I think it has something to do with the OP of the tweet stating that Russia has big
There was an incident in Syria where about 40 US commando types held off hundreds of Russian mercenaries, killing ~40% of them in the process, with the only US casualty being one local fighter getting wounded. The US deployed its patented tactic of "Screw the rules, I have money", aka, overwhelming offsite fire support brought in by stealthy assholes.
The US military is bad at a lot of things, but killing shit loads of dudes in a straight up fight is not one of them. We're big supporters of fire superiority and operational stealth.
That's why we suck so bad at counter insurgency and occupations. It's a mutually exclusive skillset.
The US military is bad at a lot of things, but killing shit loads of dudes in a straight up fight is not one of them. We're big supporters of fire superiority and operational stealth.
That's why we suck so bad at counter insurgency and occupations. It's a mutually exclusive skillset.
The Twitter Left online is so fractured. On one side you have Glenn Greenwald Jimmy Dore, the Green Party, and the People's Party. On the other side, you have TYT, Cenk Uygur, Sam Seder, Vaush, Emma Vigeland, Ana Kasparian, and the Justice democrats.
The former is backed by the republicans, and Fox News, and the latter by the democrats.
And then you have people like me, Secular Talk, and many DSA people stuck in the middle. Why do I suspect people on both sides are acting in bad faith or being funded by groups in the establishment.
The former is backed by the republicans, and Fox News, and the latter by the democrats.
And then you have people like me, Secular Talk, and many DSA people stuck in the middle. Why do I suspect people on both sides are acting in bad faith or being funded by groups in the establishment.
You gotta add another group - the institutional Democrats like Clintons, Biden and Pelosi who bred a very different interpretation of the left
You know, I was just listening to Cynical Historians take on Black Panthers.
It's somewhat similar... but without the guns. Dore in particular is very militant compared to the other side. Seder is far more about understanding the 'democratic process' and finding weak spots to push on. Vaush cares more about debating the 'other side.'
And that's how the GOP is. There is clearly a fight going on behind the scenes between the Intuitional GOP, Alt-right and actual crazy fascist. Trumpers are another layer but they can fit into one of those categories.
Anybody else find the "I stand with <currently trending douchnozzle who got caught in some shit>, who's with me?" accounts super creepy?
Like, how do all those xeroxed people have checkmarks?
Like, how do all those xeroxed people have checkmarks?
Yes, that's roughly my takeaway too.
Reminds me of an incident in the Ottoman-Mameluk wars in the 1500s. The Mameluks were superb cavalrymen, but kitted out for medieval warfare. The Ottomans had adopted gunpowder warfare, and wrecked that superb cavalry with their guns. There's a record I read somewhere of a frustrated Mameluk cavalryman passionately entreating the Ottomans to fight hand to hand, like men should. Funnily, it doesn't work that way.
One cannot help but point out that the manly Russian attempts to pacify the Chechen insurgency by the manly approach of flattening anything and everything were sort of successful in the end (in the Roman sense of making a desert and calling it peace). But the Russian military's casualties were vast compared to the USA's in Iraq, when you factor in that the USA had to demolish a depleted but substantial national military and take over an area and population 20-30 times larger. It is better to be effective than manly.
Honestly, when it comes to the Russian army, I think the big question is whether they manage to shoot anyone before shooting themselves.
All that "manliness" comes at a very real cost.
They're really saying the quiet parts out loud a lot these days. Gotta normalize this shit for their brainwashed audience before their audience has an original thought.
In fairness to the Russian army that's normally because they're very very drunk.