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shame on an IGA posted:no it was that they couldn't reach a consensus on how hard to spike the ball We can't rely on their incompetence forever. Unlike the Democrats, the Republicans actually seem capable of learning. As far as blowback, the far right has been making gains over the past decade. Probably enough that they're willing to take some risk to move the ball "forward" on some of their big ticket issues. Even if it backfires and the Dems take some/all of their losses back in the following election, it's not like they'll have the guts to actually UNDO any of the damage.
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Will that ramp up the "Ukraine will just use them to attack Russian homes" rhetoric?
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ISW has been commenting on Prigozhin's concentration of political power over the past couple of months. Apparently this happened: https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-november-6 quote:Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin confirmed on November 6 that the Wagner Group is creating training and management centers for local “people’s militias” in Kursk and Belgorod oblasts. Dude's totally gonna attempt a coup.
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psydude posted:ISW has been commenting on Prigozhin's concentration of political power over the past couple of months. Apparently this happened: "What if we had Blackwater do Sturmabteilung?"
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He's just gonna do the Himmler thing and build an army in addition to the army. Which could backfire if Putin decides to go for a negotiated peace some day, but since he doesn't seem inclined to do so so far...
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uncleTomOfFinland posted:"What if we had Blackwater do Sturmabteilung?" They would just skip a lot of steps and immediately become the SS. Except with personal loyalty to the other guy. The one with the actual SS tattoos. Fun times!
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aphid_licker posted:He's just gonna do the Himmler thing and build an army in addition to the army. Which could backfire if Putin decides to go for a negotiated peace some day, but since he doesn't seem inclined to do so so far... Wagner is already an army in addition to the army. Also, nothing Nazi or SS at all about an armed force named Wagner headed by a guy with SS tattoos.
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I dunno if this is really setting up a personally loyal cadre of troops so much as it is Wagner getting turned into another arm of Russian mobilization. My understanding is that Wagner had relatively high recruitment and training standards prior to the war, and since then the pressure of Russian military needs have driven them to start bottom-feeding (i.e. with the prison recruitment) and they weren't happy about it. It's possible that this deal with the people's militia is a way for them to get the cannon fodder Moscow is demanding without compromising the cohesion and standards of their surviving core troops, as well as offloading the work of mobilization from politically fraught and bureaucratically fragile government offices to more or less voluntary mercenary recruitment using corporate bureaucracy.
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psydude posted:ISW has been commenting on Prigozhin's concentration of political power over the past couple of months. Apparently this happened: I think there's no person more immediately loyal to Putin in Russia than Prigozhin. He's not going to start a coup against Putin. I also think that immediately after Putin kicks it (which is likely to happen in the next half a decade in one way or another) he will do anything and everything to be the next head honcho. This is a part of preparing for that.
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The guy who literally blesses SS-18 Satan got got.Flavahbeast posted:that's an incredible job title
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"DJ Slava, you have been conscripted for your ability to lay down sick beats. You will also be in charge of laying down hay to make stages."
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw That is the epitome of "mandatory fun."
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BIG HEADLINE posted:"DJ Slava, you have been conscripted for your ability to lay down sick beats. You will also be in charge of laying down hay to make stages." you will also lay down sick beatings until morale improves
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I notice that all implements of murder have been removed from all fun volunteers.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw plz censor this unfiltered footage of dedovschina
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Murgos posted:Wagner is already an army in addition to the army. Also, nothing Nazi or SS at all about an armed force named Wagner headed by a guy with SS tattoos. Yeah but afaik them adding helicopters and SAMs is relatively recent, so they're expanding their army-ness.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw Clint Black flew into Somalia and sat on a stool and played music for me and less than 10 others and chatted with us for an hour. Was pretty cool.
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Murgos posted:Clint Black flew into Somalia and sat on a stool and played music for me and less than 10 others and chatted with us for an hour. When the rest of my unit was ordered to put on our dress uniforms and attend a performance of Tops In Blue, the USAF's tragic variety show/singing group, I instead hid under my bed, because no Air Force punishment would be worse than watching that show. Whereas, for these Russians, every minute they're watching... whatever that was... is I suppose a minute that they're not stealing washing machines, committing war crimes, or getting turned into mulch, so I guess that's strong motivation to play along.
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https://theins.ru/en/news/256786 A good article about some recent Russian military disasters. Hundreds of marines were killed near Vuhledar and Ukraine received new shipments of SAM systems. Pavlivka is mauling the RUAF. article posted:On the evening of November 6, the Russian Pacific Fleets 155th Separate Guards Marine Brigade was revealed to be in critical condition. The soldiers stationed near Pavlivka (a village in the Marinka district of the Donetsk Region of Ukraine) in the Vuhledar area handed the governor of Russias Primorye a letter complaining about the command and asking him to send a commission to stop an ill-planned and unprepared attack on the Ukrainian armys positions.
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Arc Light posted:When the rest of my unit was ordered to put on our dress uniforms and attend a performance of Tops In Blue, the USAF's tragic variety show/singing group, I instead hid under my bed, because no Air Force punishment would be worse than watching that show. Well now I want to know more about this.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well now I want to know more about this. https://youtu.be/DsV4CBOGidg
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw Clap and respond when the singer challenges you with song or else.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Clap and respond when the singer challenges you with song or it's Siberia for you. Do you not think that Russian conscripts would prefer going to Siberia instead of getting shot at by Ukrainians.
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VictualSquid posted:Do you not think that Russian conscripts would prefer going to Siberia instead of getting shot at by Ukrainians. The Gulag is the lesser of the 2 evils.
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Arc Light posted:When the rest of my unit was ordered to put on our dress uniforms and attend a performance of Tops In Blue, the USAF's tragic variety show/singing group, I instead hid under my bed, because no Air Force punishment would be worse than watching that show.  In dress uniforms? What the absolute gently caress.I saw about 15 minutes of a TiB show downrange. The performers were talented, but, I just didn't give a single gently caress about their nonsense.
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Arc Light posted:When the rest of my unit was ordered to put on our dress uniforms and attend a performance of Tops In Blue, the USAF's tragic variety show/singing group, I instead hid under my bed, because no Air Force punishment would be worse than watching that show. CBJSprague24 posted:The Gulag is the lesser of the 2 evils.
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One of my friends had an Air Force wedding where anyone who is or was In could wear their dress uniforms and I felt for them because, as a civilian, I was around while the mess dress was donned and all I could think of was "All the nope I have". In other words: CBJSprague24 posted:The Gulag is the lesser of the 2 evils.
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In Bagram an all-hands went out for anyone from my state to show up to the HQ. Some Republican rear end in a top hat was doing a photo op and wanted R TRUPS to support him. It was heavily suggested by a large number of stars on multiple chests that I should not object so I did not.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Well now I want to know more about this. I don't want to poo poo up the Ukraine thread, so here's the short version: I was in tech school (USAF version of AIT/MOS School/A-School for the non-USAF in the thread) back in October 2008, and we were used as a rent-a-crowd for Tops In Blue. No rational person would willingly attend their concerts, so we were ordered to form up at 1700 in our service uniforms (Class B short sleeve) to fill up the auditorium. The guys who had been in the unit longer than me had already been through this before, and their description of Tops In Blue convinced me an NJP would be better than attending. So I hid under my bed while the MTLs went room to room looking for stragglers. Didn't get caught. All my buddies spent a few hours watching a terrible singing routine, while I played Ace Combat in my room. For those who've never heard of Tops In Blue, it was a team of Airmen who dressed up to cover the top hits of the last ~70 years. Mostly from before you were born. Yes, you, the person reading this, no matter how old you are. Get ready for the best tunes of the 1950s. All performers were drawn from operational active duty units, and not backfilled. So, when one of my coworkers spent a year on the road with Tops In Blue, the rest of us got to work harder to cover for their absence. It eventually died off shortly after its founder did of old age, when someone finally asked "How much taxpayer money are we spending on this, and why do we need to order junior enlisted to attend the shows?" Ready to be impressed? You be the judge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cAn8OaF0m0 Anyway, I'm inclined to think the Russians have the better uniformed musical options.
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Arc Light posted:I don't want to poo poo up the Ukraine thread, so here's the short version: I was in tech school (USAF version of AIT/MOS School/A-School for the non-USAF in the thread) back in October 2008, and we were used as a rent-a-crowd for Tops In Blue. No rational person would willingly attend their concerts, so we were ordered to form up at 1700 in our service uniforms (Class B short sleeve) to fill up the auditorium. I scrolled far enough to a random spot in the video which had a Barbershop quartet and immediately noped out.
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Arc Light posted:I don't want to poo poo up the Ukraine thread, so here's the short version: I was in tech school (USAF version of AIT/MOS School/A-School for the non-USAF in the thread) back in October 2008, and we were used as a rent-a-crowd for Tops In Blue. No rational person would willingly attend their concerts, so we were ordered to form up at 1700 in our service uniforms (Class B short sleeve) to fill up the auditorium. I watched about ten seconds and decided they should be deployed to Ukraine as psychological warfare.
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Arc Light posted:when someone finally asked "How much taxpayer money are we spending on this I believed you until you got to this part
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Sir John Falstaff posted:I believed you until you got to this part That someone was a congresswoman. lol forever at the idea the Air Force would ever cut back on its own fraud, waste, and abuse. https://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/pentagons-bands-battle-223435
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bird food bathtub posted:In Bagram an all-hands went out for anyone from my state to show up to the HQ. Some Republican rear end in a top hat was doing a photo op and wanted R TRUPS to support him. It was heavily suggested by a large number of stars on multiple chests that I should not object so I did not. This happened to me in Balad, but it was a mixed flight of politicians. I got nabbed up because I enlisted from Tennessee.
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CommieGIR posted:https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1589497021534072832?s=20&t=4TtCmoB23LOg-XEIyYgoAw gently caress off you fuckers you do not get to ruin kino like that that aside they're basically dadrock to the elder zoomers getting mobilized, so i suppose i can at least laugh at that aspect. nirvana's dadrock at this point, right? somehow, it's seemingly still less bad than Tops In Blue
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