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Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

BANDAIDS DON'T FIX BULLET HOLES

The OAF Nation Instagram has been dunking on Trump pretty much from the start because of his idiot foreign relations moves and constantly getting SOF people killed, and people are STILL getting buttmad in the comments.

Like who thinks it’s a good idea to go defend Turkey’s latest genocide in a community full of people who actually fought with the Kurds?

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

trump is tying pence to the traintracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-9AnpTJT88

colachute
Mar 15, 2015


:thunk:

bird food bathtub
Aug 9, 2003

College Slice

Narcissist's prayer. Trump will personally drive the bus he throws anyone and everyone under to avoid having a sad if he ever thought something was his fault.

Arcella
Dec 16, 2013

Shiny and Chrome
Someone should ask Trump/Cornyn how they feel about allowing/aiding a genocide to see them sputter. (If Trump knows what "genocide" means)

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



CommieGIR posted:

:smith: Guess I'm a fake vet or something then, 2009 joined.

faker than me, I joined in 2007 :smuggo:

and then didn't deploy to a warzone until two months ago :downs:

edit: Speaking of which, I'm in Erbil currently. And hooooly gently caress, just about everyone I've spoken to about the situation in Syria is depressed over the situation. Generally the SF guys I've worked with and spoken to in the past were chipper, upbeat fellas, but now man the depression is palpable. That goes double for the Kurds I've talked with as well. They're terrified that we're pulling out of here next :(

Thump! fucked around with this message at 16:59 on Oct 24, 2019

M_Gargantua
Oct 16, 2006

STOMP'N ON INTO THE POWERLINES

Exciting Lemon

I don't know what it is but the way Maddow presents anything just grates on me.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

M_Gargantua posted:

I don't know what it is but the way Maddow presents anything just grates on me.

her first 20 minutes of an episode can be a fun history adventure, but I've never really been a fan of her interviews. shes pretty knowledgable on military stuff though since she grew up as a military brat iirc

Proud Christian Mom
Dec 20, 2006
READING COMPREHENSION IS HARD
The GOP is caught between getting run over by Trump or the base

Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.
Also trump’s VA whistleblower protection program has been used exclusively to retaliate against complainants.

Suicide Watch
Sep 8, 2009
I still can't understand how so many seemingly ordinary people have bought into chud mentality–poo poo like Q, pizzagate, kek, and Pepe originate from the niche and nether regions of the internet...do the chuds really have this much time to discover and gain deep knowledge of it? I mean it seems like they don't work or have other obligations and spend all their time online?

If they put a fraction of that time spent browsing and researching stuff on the deep state toward healthcare or economic policy...oh well you can't really change people's values

Thwomp
Apr 10, 2003

BA-DUHHH

Grimey Drawer
You know those two Guliani people arrested just before leaving for Vienna?


https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1187377040368046083?s=21

The next day they planned to air a live interview with Hannity on Fox News with the ultra corrupt fired Ukrainian prosecutor.

The whole “frame the Bidens” plot was going to be set in motion the very next day.

That’s some timing on the arrests. Imagine if they didn’t catch them at the airport. We’d be living in a media landscape likely dominated by trying to disprove a false story rather than looking into how far in Guliani was with the Ukrainian oligarchic posse.

ElMaligno
Dec 31, 2004

Be Gay!
Do Crime!

M_Gargantua posted:

I don't know what it is but the way Maddow presents anything just grates on me.

Chapotrap house people described the whole impeachement obsession thing on the neoliberal circuit as a liberal version of Q. Only its based in actual things but its just as toxic on your mind.

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


I can't decide whether Tucker or Hannity getting fired first would provide the most good to the world. Tucker's message is probably more dangerous, but Hannity has Donnie's hand fully up his rear end.

Erghh
Sep 24, 2007

"Let him speak!"

Suicide Watch posted:

I still can't understand how so many seemingly ordinary people have bought into chud mentality–poo poo like Q, pizzagate, kek, and Pepe originate from the niche and nether regions of the internet...do the chuds really have this much time to discover and gain deep knowledge of it? I mean it seems like they don't work or have other obligations and spend all their time online?

If they put a fraction of that time spent browsing and researching stuff on the deep state toward healthcare or economic policy...oh well you can't really change people's values

In another thread this video cropped up that I thought was pretty insightful. Long but at least the first 5-10 minutes or so were a good summing up.

"The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g

Hekk
Oct 12, 2012

'smeper fi

Lots of fake vets ITT. Us real American heroes joined before 9/11 due to a crumbling economy and a lack of upward socioeconomic mobility. We just got to pretend we were patriotic once the planes hit the towers.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Arcella posted:

Someone should ask Trump/Cornyn how they feel about allowing/aiding a genocide to see them sputter. (If Trump knows what "genocide" means)

He doesn't care because they're not him

Bored As Fuck
Jan 1, 2006
Fun Shoe

Internet Wizard posted:

The OAF Nation Instagram has been dunking on Trump pretty much from the start because of his idiot foreign relations moves and constantly getting SOF people killed, and people are STILL getting buttmad in the comments.

Like who thinks it’s a good idea to go defend Turkey’s latest genocide in a community full of people who actually fought with the Kurds?

Yeah those types post some cringeworthy poo poo (Black Rifle Coffee Company, anyone?) but from what I've read, a lot of the SOF community is turning hard on Trump.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Lots of fake vets ITT. Us real American heroes joined before 9/11 due to a crumbling economy and a lack of upward socioeconomic mobility. We just got to pretend we were patriotic once the planes hit the towers.

:hangs head in shame:

i joined 3 weeks after i turned 18

Tryzzub
Jan 1, 2007

Mudslide Experiment

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

:hangs head in shame:

i joined 3 weeks after i turned 18

2 days after for this guy

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Bored As gently caress posted:

Yeah those types post some cringeworthy poo poo (Black Rifle Coffee Company, anyone?) but from what I've read, a lot of the SOF community is turning hard on Trump.

Still crap for falling for any of Bonespurs lies in the first place.

ElMaligno
Dec 31, 2004

Be Gay!
Do Crime!

Nostalgia4Butts posted:

:hangs head in shame:

i joined 3 weeks after i turned 18

I joined 405 weeks after i turned 18

Crab Dad
Dec 28, 2002

behold i have tempered and refined thee, but not as silver; as CRAB


Lol 19 years after turning 18.

Dwanyelle
Jan 13, 2008

ISRAEL DOESN'T HAVE CIVILIANS THEY'RE ALL VALID TARGETS
I'm a huge dickbag ignore me

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's not why you're a fake vet. You're a fake vet because you're not a white republican

This is true!!!!

I've been told I'm a fake vet more than once cause I don't fit the conservative ideal of what a veteran looks like.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

Tryzzub posted:

2 days after for this guy

o7

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



Joined a month after my 17th birthday :smugbert:

Casimir Radon
Aug 2, 2008


Dwanyelle posted:

This is true!!!!

I've been told I'm a fake vet more than once cause I don't fit the conservative ideal of what a veteran looks like.
How dare you walk around outside not looking like a douche!

Joined shortly after I turned 19. Recruiters were moving pretty slow when I started the process so it took months. Then she told me to hold off swearing in for a few weeks because bonuses were about to be adjusted and she thought mine might go up $5K. It did.

Casimir Radon fucked around with this message at 18:08 on Oct 24, 2019

Crakkerjakk
Mar 14, 2016


Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Lots of fake vets ITT. Us real American heroes joined before 9/11 due to a crumbling economy and a lack of upward socioeconomic mobility. We just got to pretend we were patriotic once the planes hit the towers.

I just didn't know what to do with my life and didn't feel ready for college. And felt like I owed my country something.

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

Nostalgia4Ass posted:

Lots of fake vets ITT. Us real American heroes joined before 9/11 due to a crumbling economy and a lack of upward socioeconomic mobility. We just got to pretend we were patriotic once the planes hit the towers.

I enlisted in Aug 2001.








Yeah.
Yeah.

Then in another branch in 07. I'm the dumbest guy in the world.

Best Friends
Nov 4, 2011

Casimir Radon posted:

How dare you walk around outside not looking like a douche!

Joined shortly after I turned 19. Recruiters were moving pretty slow when I started the process so it took months. Then she told me to hold off swearing in for a few weeks because bonuses were about to be adjusted and she thought mine might go up $5K. It did.

That actually nice recruiter? Fake vet

Nystral
Feb 6, 2002

Every man likes a pretty girl with him at a skeleton dance.
I am the fakest of vets. I never joined and ducked the poor recruiter when he came by my house.

20 years on I don’t regret a drat thing.

Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

during out ftx in march of 03 our drill seargents marched out en masse, shouted "Guess where you motherfuckers are going?!?"



then they threw teargas at us and we stayed in mopp 4 for 6 hours to ponder our future

SimonCat
Aug 12, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
College Slice

Thump! posted:

faker than me, I joined in 2007 :smuggo:

and then didn't deploy to a warzone until two months ago :downs:

edit: Speaking of which, I'm in Erbil currently. And hooooly gently caress, just about everyone I've spoken to about the situation in Syria is depressed over the situation. Generally the SF guys I've worked with and spoken to in the past were chipper, upbeat fellas, but now man the depression is palpable. That goes double for the Kurds I've talked with as well. They're terrified that we're pulling out of here next :(

Hey! I helped put up the tents/build the Medevac ops there in 14/15. It was a great place to, the Kurds provided us with Christmas supper. I'm pretty much beyond pissed at what Trump has done, the Kurds were great folks to be around.

BigDave
Jul 14, 2009

Taste the High Country

Nystral posted:

I am the fakest of vets. I never joined and ducked the poor recruiter when he came by my house.

20 years on I don’t regret a drat thing.

Good sir I AM the fakest of vets, for I could have joined in '07 during the surge when they were taking anything with a pulse, and I still didn't sign up!

No no, don't thank me, all I didn't do was anyone else wouldn't have done.

Now give me a complementary Applebee's riblet basket and thank me for my non-service!

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!
I failed the piss test. I probably would have died if I joined and deployed to Afghanistan though cause that was my plan as a depressed teenager trying to find purpose in life

Thump!
Nov 25, 2007

Look, fat, here's the fact, Kulak!



SimonCat posted:

Hey! I helped put up the tents/build the Medevac ops there in 14/15. It was a great place to, the Kurds provided us with Christmas supper. I'm pretty much beyond pissed at what Trump has done, the Kurds were great folks to be around.



It's fantastic here, even if I'm only in transit for a few days here. The Kurds here are some of the nicest drat people I've met in my time in. It's surreal seeing the skyline lit up at night.

bird cooch
Jan 19, 2007

SimonCat posted:

Hey! I helped put up the tents/build the Medevac ops there in 14/15. It was a great place to, the Kurds provided us with Christmas supper. I'm pretty much beyond pissed at what Trump has done, the Kurds were great folks to be around.



Man. Heart breaking.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


Slim Pickens posted:

Funker530 made fun of Trump on Facebook, check out the glorious comments. Love it when chuds get their little safe spaces violated.

https://www.facebook.com/FUNKER530/photos/a.566899443361696/2693650940686525/?type=3&theater

quote:

The PKK is an openly communist organization that commits acts of terrorism in other countries. Why do you support communist terrorist groups? I thought you were a "patriot". Odd form of patriotism

I hate all of these people jfc.

colachute
Mar 15, 2015

this page has taught me that idiots come in all ages

i was 21 when i joined

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That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


I passed on an OCS slot for the USMC in the spring of 2000 and went to graduate school instead. For a year or so after 9/11 I felt really conflicted about if I should drop out and go to OCS instead. I always felt a little bit bad about it but by 2008 or so I was really glad I decided not to go that route. Most of my best friends from college signed up in 2000 and every one of them told me to stay out and that it wasn't worth it by 2002 which was the last time I really thought about going in.

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