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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Yea they are combat deployments, you know nothing about marine expeditionary units and what they do. trust a marine to confuse a firefight with a humanitarian mission
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Thalantos posted:The Iraq war really saw a lot of blurring of those lines. I've heard a lot of that. It seems like that has been how it always has been? I figure back during the various wars of yesteryear, no one was truly safe. Though I figure it is especially true now since we are sitting in the middle of territory that the enemy is in, because they aren't a firm group anymore, just people that run around form place to place. Isis's mistake was trying to become a solid target.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Thank god for Marine Combat Training Agreed. Marines are intense, but if there was ever a hero group of people I'd want on my side, it's the USMC 
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The military is a really cheap jobs program for young males that is unfortunately saddled with a tremendously expensive procurement apparatus. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't bleeding us dry while simultaneously being used to make the world a worse place. dont forget exploiting americans inherent nationalism and simplistic patriotic values to serve as political cover for a massively corrupt cycle of lobbying and graft
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boner confessor posted:trust a marine to confuse a firefight with a humanitarian mission I think you've proven yourself to not know what you're talking about.
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Nov 22, 2016 03:04
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Shagman posted:No need to link ADL or SPLC articles, or argue about the not so subtle connections with the LARPers. That's for the best, since you're starting to see people on the right claim that the SPLC is in the tank for the Dems now and can't be trusted. Doesn't matter. Nothing matters. They'll just say that Trump can't control who supports him.
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Thalantos posted:I think you've proven yourself to not know what you're talking about. if that helps you sleep at night, buddy. i'll let other people be the judge of that like i was saying, the median age of a veteran is over retirement age and that's why they're all dying
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Shagman posted:Full article about Richard Spencer's NPI conference Nazi salutes: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/ gently caress this is good
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boner confessor posted:trust a marine to confuse a firefight with a humanitarian mission That would have been a good burn but the fact is you don't know anything about marine deployments or MEUs.
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Thalantos posted:The Iraq war really saw a lot of blurring of those lines. Just look at Tammy Duckworth, what a loving great American. I heard most Purple Hearts during OIF went to motor t guys and supply marines.
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People ought to be able to tell the alt-right are fascist without them breaking out in swastikas and "Sieg Heils." Unfortunately they don't seem to be able to. The average person is a moron about generalizing. They can't draw a line from the Nazis hating the Jews to the alt-right hating the Muslims and figure out that they are the same bastards in a different cultural context. They don't realize that in 1930, the average person hated the Jews (mildly) in the same way as the average person (mildly) hates the Muslims these days. Simplistic narratives present the Nazis as hating Jews with no social or historical context. It's presented as if a nation suddenly stood up and decided to genocide the Mormons with no forewarning, or justification, or gradually growing hate - just because a madman hypnotized them into hatred from nowhere. They don't realise that mild anti-semitism was a perfectly acceptable opinion back in those days.
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boner confessor posted:if that helps you sleep at night, buddy. i'll let other people be the judge of that I was talking about suicides! gently caress Christ's third nipple, Jesus!
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:Just look at Tammy Duckworth, what a loving great American. You know how you always see top brass with poo poo like bronze stars and you wonder how they got them? Colin Powell got his by running into a burning helicopter and pulling people out.
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The absolute best part of that Atlantic article is that it links to a Peter Brimelow (noxious white supremacist goober) article where he describes how antifa totally pushed the NPI's poo poo in. Strange, I haven't heard this reported by the media at all....quote:A point generally suppressed in the MSM reports: the relentless weekend-long attack on the NPI conference by an organized “Anti-Fascist” Leftist gang–always described euphemistically as “protestors.”
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Proud Christian Mom posted:The military is a really cheap jobs program for young males that is unfortunately saddled with a tremendously expensive procurement apparatus. It wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't bleeding us dry while simultaneously being used to make the world a worse place. It honestly has alot to do with the fact that it's gotten really big and expensive during these 15 years, and bush tax cuts really hosed up how war usually works.
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Mantis42 posted:The Wall actually will be built and will probably do an okay job of stopping border crossings, please do not take John Oliver's stupid bit seriously. You should probably worry about literally any of Trump's other policies which will be a thousand times worst than his stupid vanity project. Building an actual wall along the entire border is a massive undertaking that will have tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars vanish in to nothingness* even before getting to the actual cost of the project in terms of materials and manpower. * pockets of Trump, his associates, and anyone else who can steal a slice of that giant pie. I don't think Scotland will give a poo poo since if Brexit goes through they're going to vote for Independence again and it'll likely pass by a healthy margin. At that point Trump can get hosed because IIRC Scotland by and large hates him. Shagman posted:Full article about Richard Spencer's NPI conference Nazi salutes: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/ None of this matters, except that it'll be much more normalized over the next several years. Is 'kek' really an alt-right thing? Because I see tons of people use it. I thought it was just some new "lol" for idiots.
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boner confessor posted:so is assembling the world's largest transformers collection but that's not any more useful for society than shooting at third world farmers who can't shoot back Are you being purposely obtuse?
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:hello, the wall is gonna be golden and is gonna be engraved with the words "TRUMP", these mexican terrorists are gonna flee when they see it Don't forget room for the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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Somewhere the specters of Thompson and Murrow are pouring themselves a drink. Important thing to learn, I suppose. It's only ever off the record if they want to keep you around as a source.
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I truly expect that media tape to sound like the ravings of a loving madman. There is absolute no way Whiny Baby Trump kept it together at all in the presence of his most despised enemies (journalism and the truth). I'm guessing lots of "I WILL loving BURY YOU IF YOU CROSS ME" and other fun conversation topics. I don't think it'll move the needle of opinion in America in all, but it's going to make the growing Trump resistance stronger in their convictions, cause its gonna be scary.
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the black husserl posted:I truly expect that media tape to sound like the ravings of a loving madman. There is absolute no way Whiny Baby Trump kept it together at all in the presence of his most despised enemies (journalism and the truth). I'm guessing lots of "I WILL loving BURY YOU IF YOU CROSS ME" and other fun conversation topics. Still not going to get my hopes up.
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the black husserl posted:I don't think it'll move the needle of opinion in America in all, but it's going to make the growing Trump resistance stronger in their convictions, cause its gonna be scary. There's a strong anti-media current in both the left and the right at the moment. I'm finding it a little scary. I doubt either the far left or far right care that Trump made some "media elite" cry.
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Evil Fluffy posted:Is 'kek' really an alt-right thing? Because I see tons of people use it. I thought it was just some new "lol" for idiots. kek is how koreans would say lol in starcraft like 20 years ago so it's neither new nor white
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Evil Fluffy posted:Is 'kek' really an alt-right thing? Because I see tons of people use it. I thought it was just some new "lol" for idiots. It's years and years old, it's something to do with how it's the Korean equivalent to "hahaha", or something like that and was often seen in text chat in some online game (Starcraft?) and then became a meme and then taken over by the alt-right.
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Vieled threat from Conway quote:KellyAnn Conways: By the way, it's an off-the-record meeting so whoever said that and mischaracterized it should think twice." TheScott2K posted:My body is ready. Unless it is an actual, unequivocal death threat it won't matter.
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BarbarianElephant posted:There's a strong anti-media current in both the left and the right at the moment. I'm finding it a little scary. I doubt either the far left or far right care that Trump made some "media elite" cry. Yeah that's the main concern. Although I suppose you could push the angle that it just fits in with how he's emotionally incapable of acting properly. Xae posted:Vieled threat from Conway Yep afraid so. Or "I'll tell you what you get to say" or something similar.
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Tight Booty Shorts posted:That would have been a good burn but the fact is you don't know anything about marine deployments or MEUs. The Marines had a number of pretty well documented problems with (euphemistically) "loose" ROEs in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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the black husserl posted:The absolute best part of that Atlantic article is that it links to a Peter Brimelow (noxious white supremacist goober) article where he describes how antifa totally pushed the NPI's poo poo in. Strange, I haven't heard this reported by the media at all.... Here comrade, have a video: https://itsgoingdown.org/national-policy-institute-nazis-besieged-ronald-reagan-building-anti-fascists/
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citybeatnik posted:Somewhere the specters of Thompson and Murrow are pouring themselves a drink. i was thinking about this while driving trump's biggest card is denying them white house coverage, right? if all of the white house coverage is going to be delicately procured bullshit anyways wouldn't it be in the ~free market~ sense of the press to be The One That Stood Up To Trump?
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Noctone posted:i mean, the media isn't exactly a paragon of virtue right now, whole lot of people would love to hear trump tear them a new rear end in a top hat Piss off his base? The base that's been harassing, assaulting them this whole election cycle? Yeah. It's just setting the stage for a four year war between Trump and literally all non-Breitbart media. He's already on the brink of cutting off the press from his administration in an unprecedented manner. They know he's going to do this; they have little to lose. The press have been abused and the idea that they might actually stand up to him is too little, too late, but it's not bad. We need them to get their poo poo together to help pull us all through four years of this.
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speng31b posted:Piss off his base? The base that's been harassing, assaulting them this whole election cycle? Yeah. It's just setting the stage for a four year war between Trump and literally all non-Breitrbart media. He's already on the brink of cutting off the press from his administration in an unprecedented manner. The press have been abused and the idea that they might actually stand up to him is too little, too late, but it's not bad. We need them to get their poo poo together to help pull us all through four years of this. the problem is that journalistic ethics and impartiality is something they fetishize almost as much as middle america fetishizes well paying factory jobs, in both cases causing parties to act against their interests
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