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I can't stop staring at the neck flaps
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Aug 21, 2017 20:26
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Thanks Florida for letting me see clouds on this unique event.
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Aug 21, 2017 20:27
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Office Pig posted:There are so many stories of all these MAGA chuds just staring right into the sun that this is bound to happen. "I found Hillary's e-mails"
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suboptimal posted:
Even if you're outside the totality, sun through leaves is pretty cool. 
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Aug 21, 2017 20:42
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Dead Reckoning posted:No one who rolls around with Molon Labe gear cares about the historical reality. People who love the idea of Spartan warriors love the image from Gates of Fire, or more likely from 300 the movie/comic book. Or they love the pithy defiance and heroic last stand that people have been romanticising since Simonides of Ceos. If I airbrush a charging knight upon his faithful destrier on the side of my van, I don't actually give a poo poo about the oppressive nature of the feudal system or the homoerotic undertones of the knight/squire relationship. You're a self-aggrandizing killjoy who is smugly trying to "gotcha" people you look down on solely in service of your own dreary sense of superiority. gently caress you
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Aug 21, 2017 20:48
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I think we know who in GiP buys molon labe poo poo
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Aug 21, 2017 20:49
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Nah, I've been all in on "21st Century Samurai Bushido Warrior" poo poo ever since I saw Ghost Dog.
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Aug 21, 2017 20:54
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 loving raining in Minnesota. When did we swap weather with Seattle?Casimir Radon posted:The Pioneer Press put out an article about the Confederate flag the 1st Minnesota captured at Gettysburg. Virginia has asked for it back many times and we've told them to get hosed every time. Lots of whining in the comments section about how the Civil War wasn't about slavery. http://www.twincities.com/2017/08/20/minnesota-has-a-confederate-symbol-and-it-is-going-to-keep-it/ I love how they're been asking for it back for the last 160 years, and we just keep telling them 'lol no'. Apparently it's still bloodstained. 
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BigDave posted:http://www.twincities.com/2017/08/20/minnesota-has-a-confederate-symbol-and-it-is-going-to-keep-it/ "In 2000, when Virginia legislators requested the Southern Cross flag once again, Gov. Jesse Ventura said: 'Why? We won. … We took it. That makes it our heritage.'"  This is like military history 101: you get to keep the flags and guidons you capture in battle.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:05
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okay Minnesotans telling Virginia to get gently caress for 150 years is pretty funny
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Aug 21, 2017 21:08
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Some rando soldier loots a relic or antiquity or valuable item or cultural item for his own personal gain or collection? Probably return it. A unit captures a guidon or flag or other such item, turns it in to the government, and the government displays it? gently caress you, we won.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:10
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mlmp08 posted:Some rando soldier loots a relic or antiquity or valuable item or cultural item for his own personal gain or collection? Probably return it. Same logic as police imprisoning someone vs a private citizen doing it.
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mlmp08 posted:Some rando soldier loots a relic or antiquity or valuable item or cultural item for his own personal gain or collection? Probably return it. Stealing other units' poo poo is military tradition even in 2017
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Aug 21, 2017 21:16
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mlmp08 posted:Some rando soldier loots a relic or antiquity or valuable item or cultural item for his own personal gain or collection? Probably return it. woe to the vanquished
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Aug 21, 2017 21:17
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Minnesota should just send a letter that says "molon labe"
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Aug 21, 2017 21:18
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Dead Reckoning posted:This is like military history 101: you get to keep the flags and guidons you capture in battle.  My old unit would seem to agree!
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Aug 21, 2017 21:23
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Heritage, not hate.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:25
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Merton Blask posted:
Now I want a military museum that only holds captured enemy flags & trophies.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:29
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BigDave posted:Now I want a military museum that only holds captured enemy flags & trophies. It's called the American South.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:32
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I'm sure the Brits or the French have one. The Germans keep Napoleon's hat in the Deutsches Historisches.
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BigDave posted:Now I want a military museum that only holds captured enemy flags & trophies.  The coast guard sends its regards.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:41
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Dead Reckoning posted:I'm sure the Brits or the French have one. The Germans keep Napoleon's hat in the Deutsches Historisches. The National Army Museum in the UK has a really stunning collection, including a massive diorama showing how troops were positioned at the beginning of the Battle of Waterloo
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Aug 21, 2017 21:46
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The 1st Minnesota made one of the most insane infantry assaults in history, delaying Confederate forces at Gettysburg and captured that flag while taking something like 80% casualties. They followed it up the next day by helping repulse Pickett's Charge. No way they give that flag back.
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ElMaligno posted:
The navy is right there with you, chum.  Edit: nm i'm a moron thought the constitution was a captured vessel.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:53
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The coasties have a literal Nazi warship as a war trophy.
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Aug 21, 2017 21:53
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There's a couple US held Japanese and German World War 2 era prizes at the bottom of Bikini
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Aug 21, 2017 21:56
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we swiped some taliban flag during a firefight and it hung up in our TOC until we left afghanistan. not sure what happened to it after that though. probably still in a connex out back waiting to get inventoried.
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Would kill to see that ship grapple some suspected drug runner and inspect it by swinging over from the rigging.
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1337JiveTurkey posted:Would kill to see that ship grapple some suspected drug runner and inspect it by swinging over from the rigging. I don't think that would work out with modern cigarette boats
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Aug 21, 2017 22:06
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https://twitter.com/SteveKingIA/status/899722814227349504 uh...okay
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tastefully arranged labia posted:I don't think that would work out with modern cigarette boats Cruise missile grappling hooks then to get them over the horizon.
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Aug 21, 2017 22:09
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I'd rather watch them try to outrun the new railgun.
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Aug 21, 2017 22:11
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Harambe memes - don't call it a come back
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Aug 21, 2017 22:14
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ENTIRE CA CENTRAL COAST OVERCAST. THANKS DARPA
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maffew buildings posted:ENTIRE CA CENTRAL COAST OVERCAST. THANKS DARPA It wasn't that bad in Venice beach All the snapchat techbros were out and the homeless/locals were giving them poo poo Venice is weird
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ElMaligno posted:The coast guard sends its regards.
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Dead Reckoning posted:No one who rolls around with Molon Labe gear cares about the historical reality. People who love the idea of Spartan warriors love the image from Gates of Fire, or more likely from 300 the movie/comic book. Or they love the pithy defiance and heroic last stand that people have been romanticising since Simonides of Ceos. If I airbrush a charging knight upon his faithful destrier on the side of my van, I don't actually give a poo poo about the oppressive nature of the feudal system or the homoerotic undertones of the knight/squire relationship. You're a self-aggrandizing killjoy who is smugly trying to "gotcha" people you look down on solely in service of your own dreary sense of superiority. What the fuuuuck Gates of Fire is awesome and a big part of the story is how lovely they are to the Helots.  It's me I fuckin love gates of fire.e]lmao you just know Trump totally thinks he's maintaining his tough-guy image by staring at the eclipse
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Dead Reckoning posted:These days, wouldn't the CG prize capture display just be a big warehouse full of cocaine and Panamanian/Mongolian/Liberian flags? The DEA has a few things like that in their museum archive, I'll have to see if I can find my pictures later.
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