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Comrade Blyatlov posted:That'll have to go on the list if and when I ever make it back to the states. New Orleans is a great place to visit, the food alone is incredible.
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Apr 9, 2021 23:26
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:That'll have to go on the list if and when I ever make it back to the states. It's an excellent museum. You won't regret spending time there.
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Apr 9, 2021 23:46
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New Orleans is an awesome place to visit with incredible food, culture and things to see (esp the WWII museum as others have mentioned) but spend as little time on Bourbon Street as possible, especially on a Friday or Saturday night. It’s overrated and sloppy as gently caress. Edit: goddamn now I want a coffee and a beignets from Cafe du Monde for breakfast and a shrimp po’boy for dinner pantslesswithwolves fucked around with this message at 23:55 on Apr 9, 2021 |
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Apr 9, 2021 23:51
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RIP Dmx and the funniest line in all of rap history I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse I got blood on my dick, cos I hosed a corpse
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Apr 9, 2021 23:53
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https://twitter.com/mannyfidel/status/1380644011103358977 Thinking wistfully and longingly about what might have been
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Apr 10, 2021 00:20
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lmao at zimmerman jaw jacking after getting his rear end kicked so bad by a teenager he had to shoot him. These people have like no self awareness
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Apr 10, 2021 00:26
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hobbesmaster posted:That reminds me of the time my dad told me a story about being at some place with his father circa 1960ish and a marine wwii vet telling my grandfather, in USAF uniform, that he wasn’t a “real” veteran and then doubled down after my grandfather said he was a glider pilot in Europe. lol what Was this guy imagining pleasure gliders or what? Combat gliders are one of the most metal things there is.
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Apr 10, 2021 00:34
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I wouldn't be surprised if they had higher attrition than the marines as a whole either
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Apr 10, 2021 00:35
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Platystemon posted:lol what Probably just someone that had to be right no matter what. The more things change... Edit: maybe the guy somehow knew grandpa got a Purple Heart for breaking his toe walking to whatever a lav in a DC-3 was. It was in a combat zone. hobbesmaster fucked around with this message at 00:42 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 00:38
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This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. https://twitter.com/ap/status/1380661326029189123?s=21 I guess some people have to finally choose between backing the blue or the troops.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:05
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. Black always weighs more than blue or green.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:16
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. It'll be the blue. They haven't given a gently caress about the troops for decades if ever
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Apr 10, 2021 01:17
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. Speechless. (Although I had a flashback to a montage of an alternate history where I finished growing up in Windsor, so that was super fun) SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 01:33 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 01:18
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Did his command figure out if he completed his annual anti-harassment and no fear training yet?
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Apr 10, 2021 01:34
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pmchem posted:Did his command figure out if he completed his annual anti-harassment and no fear training yet? This comment made me think of the joke someone posted (probably accurate) of a fictional Command Master Chief visiting a suicide attempt sailor in hospital and asking if he completed his suicide awareness training and I got a good laugh to myself
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Apr 10, 2021 01:37
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. They’ve never given a gently caress about the troops and even if they kept the pretense they’d find a reason to declare the guy a phony soldier. You’re really damned if you do and damned if you don’t with the “pull over in a safe area” thing. Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 01:41 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 01:39
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Fallom posted:They’ve never given a gently caress about the troops and even if they kept the pretense they’d find a reason to declare the guy a phony soldier. They already did- he's black. All ARE TROOPS are god fearing, white Christian Males.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:40
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Nick Soapdish posted:This comment made me think of the joke someone posted (probably accurate) of a fictional Command Master Chief visiting a suicide attempt sailor in hospital and asking if he completed his suicide awareness training and I got a good laugh to myself McNally posted:The master chief walked awkwardly into the hospital room, the combination hat in his hands slowly being turned in circles as he unconsciously showed his nervousness. When he realized what he was doing, he set it on the chair by the door and stepped over to the young petty officer's bed. He took a glance at the notecard in his hand and tried to speak, but his voice caught. He took a breath, cleared his throat, and tried again.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:43
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Nick Soapdish posted:This comment made me think of the joke someone posted (probably accurate) of a fictional Command Master Chief visiting a suicide attempt sailor in hospital and asking if he completed his suicide awareness training and I got a good laugh to myself When I was in company command I had a soldier commit suicide. He had a toxic relationship with his spouse and ended up catching her unapologetically with another man. In the lovely process that came afterwards I definitely got asked about suicide prevention training by a retired CSM. The psych that was present luckily ripped him a part before it fully processed in my head what was asked.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:54
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. "What are you, a Specialist? Corporal?" Yeah, that's not some loving racial profiling right there.
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Apr 10, 2021 01:54
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Surprised he didn’t just straight up ask the loan APR on the Tahoe
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Apr 10, 2021 02:14
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hobbesmaster posted:Probably just someone that had to be right no matter what. The more things change... Oh yeah the guys who landed gliders on Sicily, during D-Day, or Market Garden had it rough. The British lost 200 guys to crashed gliders during Sicily due to awful conditions.
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Apr 10, 2021 04:54
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pantslesswithwolves posted:New Orleans is an awesome place to visit with incredible food, culture and things to see (esp the WWII museum as others have mentioned) but spend as little time on Bourbon Street as possible, especially on a Friday or Saturday night. It’s overrated and sloppy as gently caress. I stayed in a Residence Inn a few blocks from Canal St. the last time I was there which was built in/around a converted warehouse and holy poo poo, did it alone make me want to go back to Nawlins.
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Apr 10, 2021 05:19
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Stellar Curiosity posted:So this is blowing up: (Carl Bildt, former PM, and former minister for foreign affairs of Sweden) The gently caress was Denmark even supposed to do lmao, the Germans came in dressed as tourists and played a bunch of Little Green Man games
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Apr 10, 2021 05:32
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Kesper North posted:The gently caress was Denmark even supposed to do lmao, the Germans came in dressed as tourists and played a bunch of Little Green Man games That moron is also just completely ignoring the fact that Sweden was playing neutrality games by claiming to be neutral but gladly providing Nazi troops passage across Sweden, and also engaging in lucrative trade deals with the Nazis. You really don't need to invade when you have a country that is rolling over to make you happy. I believe it was explained as "At the beginning of the war, Sweden was neutral towards the Axis, at the end of the war Sweden was neutral towards the Allies."
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Apr 10, 2021 05:35
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ASAPI posted:This is insane. I can’t begin to imagine what this guy is going through right now. I don't really know what to think of this clip because alot of the context is lost in the editing. What the clip maybe doesn't show is the LT had been stopped long enough for backup to arrive, so maybe he was refusing lawful orders for a while at that point? Declining to provide license and registration, that sort of thing? Before i get dogpiled, all im saying is clickbait like this is edited for maximum outrage / algorithmic distribution. Right Wing Media does this poo poo all the time. Maybe I'm wrong but I would reserve judgement until seeing the entire footage. Edit- since this is part of a lawsuit, this particular clip may have been released by the LT's lawyers to put pressure on the city to settle out of court, or poison potential jurors. Sacrist65 fucked around with this message at 13:26 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 13:19
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Sacrist65 posted:I don't really know what to think of this clip because alot of the context is lost in the editing. Christ it's a couple pigs deciding they didn't like the look of a black military officer and deciding to show him whose boss because that's all their little pig brains can think about. Ain't a lot of more context needed. They won't get in trouble because it's Virginia.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:26
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orange juche posted:Christ it's a couple white pigs deciding they didn't like the look of a black military officer and deciding to show him whose boss because that's all their little pig brains can think about. Ain't a lot of more context needed. Yea, I'm getting a bad case of Poe's law on this one.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:29
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The "lightning" is a poo poo reference to getting tased. Likely not a reach back to 1999's The Green Mile, staring Tom Hanks and Micheal Clark Duncan. Feel like you don't see that movie much on TV anymore.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:31
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Sacrist65 posted:Yea, I'm getting a bad case of Poe's law on this one. Are you saying you can't tell whether I'm being satirical or serious? Lemme clear it up for you, it was a bad stop, the cops acted improperly, and if the person they stopped was white the cops would have been drooling over the LTs boots. Yeah the ride the lightning reference was probably to getting tased but it's kinda a little off because both officers have their 9mm handguns drawn, not tasers. I have no loving idea why they have their handguns drawn(it's because he's black and thus, scary/dangerous), there's no loving reason to have their weapons drawn at all, even if the subject is passively noncompliant you don't escalate to brandishing your loving sidearm at them. orange juche fucked around with this message at 13:36 on Apr 10, 2021 |
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Apr 10, 2021 13:32
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orange juche posted:Are you saying you can't tell whether I'm being satirical or serious? Lemme clear it up for you, it was a bad stop, the cops acted improperly, and if the person they stopped was white the cops would have been drooling over the LTs boots. How do you know that?
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Apr 10, 2021 13:35
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Sacrist65 posted:How do you know that? All cops are bastards. Any cops who don't directly act like this provide cover for cops who do.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:37
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Sacrist65 posted:I don't really know what to think of this clip because alot of the context is lost in the editing. If you read the article, the officer began the stop on the freeway. It was a few miles to pull over to the gas station. He radioed that the car was eluding him and backup arrived before the stop. There is no justification whatsoever for the officers’ actions.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:39
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Also since it's the army they won't stick up for the soldier and his command will find some way to blame him for it, and kill his career lol.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:43
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Sacrist65 posted:Bootlicking If someone pulls a gun on you, assume they’re going to use it. Its basic firearm safety 101 taught in every firearm course imaginable, including what cops learn in “training.” Don’t point a firearm at anything you don’t intend to destroy. With that in mind, you can 100% assume intent because that’s what they’ve been “trained” to do. Now answer this: what was the driver doing to deserve deadly force?
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Apr 10, 2021 13:44
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boop the snoot posted:If someone pulls a gun on you, assume they’re going to use it. Its basic firearm safety 101 taught in every firearm course imaginable, including what cops learn in “training.” Don’t point a firearm at anything you don’t intend to destroy. Literally driving while black.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:46
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Sacrist65 posted:What the clip maybe doesn't show is the LT had been stopped long enough for backup to arrive, so maybe he was refusing lawful orders for a while at that point? Declining to provide license and registration, that sort of thing? Let's assume this scenario you pulled directly out of your rear end is accurate. How does that in any way justify the cops' behavior?
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Apr 10, 2021 13:49
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The remote-release gun from the Watchmen tv show is unironically a good idea. Cops kill more people than people kill cops.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:53
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 So I've started to see this image pop up on my Facebook with the attached message... "Don't worry sir, we'll look after your wife." This of course refers to Prince Phillip, whom the BBC is reminding me every 5 minutes died yesterday. I hate this fawning obsequiousness and also note that the image is surely an American soldier, not British.
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Apr 10, 2021 13:56
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I’ve been in firefights and kept my wits about me. I did not keep my wits about me when I got robbed and someone put a gun in my face. Expecting people to act a certain way when they are staring down the barrel of death, to me, is just manipulating the situation to make deadly force justifiable.
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