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mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

Relevant Tangent posted:

unless of course you were jewish in which case you were murdered on the spot

EPSTINE

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taqueso
Mar 8, 2004


:911:
:wookie: :thermidor: :wookie:
:dehumanize:

:pirate::hf::tinfoil:

article posted:

the craziest drugs
joose??

Riot Bimbo
Dec 28, 2006


eyeballing joose should be a rite of passge

Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

The whole idea of a truth serum drug was that you wouldn't need to do any of that other poo poo. You could slip someone the drug, get everything you needed, and more importantly you 100% knew everyone they told you was the truth. No more elaborate stories to make the torture stop and it turns out none of it was true.

If you are torturing people and giving them drugs to get confessions then you don't have a truth serum, you're just torturing people and using drugs in the torture.

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



https://twitter.com/GhostStoriesEnd/status/1612563072882823177

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

who could have predicted that jsoc is all drug addicted pedophiles

sonatinas
Apr 15, 2003

Seattle Karate Vs. L.A. Karate

quote:

"This is what happens when there is no war, no direction, and an 18-month red cycle with no mission," a Special Forces soldier said. "So dudes are loving around with young kids and the craziest drugs. All these lives ruined because people are just bored."

this is the worst boys will be boys quote

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




its why legionnaires were forced to build roads

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



Real hurthling! posted:

its why legionnaires were forced to build roads

One of Napoleon's had his men build a pyramid out dirt in the Netherlands just to keep them busy

mdemone
Mar 14, 2001

The Puppet Master posted:

One of Napoleon's had his men build a pyramid out dirt in the Netherlands just to keep them busy



wait is that real? fuckin awesome, well done those guys

Brain Curry
Feb 15, 2007

People think that I'm lazy
People think that I'm this fool because
I give a fuck about the government
I didn't graduate from high school




if Matt says it’s good I’m hyped

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




mdemone posted:

wait is that real? fuckin awesome, well done those guys

the great pyramid of austerlitz

it is 102m shorter than the current state ruin of the giza pyramid

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Soldiers, being the absolute scum of the earth, need to be kept occupied otherwise they'll do crimes and make life miserable for the civilian population of wherever they happen to be stationed, even if its their own soil.

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Uh, do American door kickers not get paid well or something? I have friends on the whole range from JTAC to assaulters, and even at the bottom rung of training and prestige they're making like $100k + as Corporals. Why would someone be moonlighting as a bouncer?

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Frosted Flake posted:

Uh, do American door kickers not get paid well or something? I have friends on the whole range from JTAC to assaulters, and even at the bottom rung of training and prestige they're making like $100k + as Corporals. Why would someone be moonlighting as a bouncer?

To sell drugs out the back

Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 05:41 on Jan 10, 2023

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Shear Modulus posted:

To sell drugs

lol I already told the story ITT that a relative had to spend a decade of their career in remote weather stations for their part in busting a drug ring in the US Army once eh? Plus ca change.

Relevant Tangent
Nov 18, 2016

Tangentially Relevant

Frosted Flake posted:

Uh, do American door kickers not get paid well or something? I have friends on the whole range from JTAC to assaulters, and even at the bottom rung of training and prestige they're making like $100k + as Corporals. Why would someone be moonlighting as a bouncer?

so they can hurt people, the money is incidental for most of these sociopaths

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



That too, it says in the same paragraph that these guys who the military invested zillions of dollars into turning them into psychopathic killing machines are told to sit around doing nothing then they'll want to find an outlet to do the thing they've been programmed to do

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Turns out training a bunch of people to inflict untold misery on occupied populations, terrorise their enemies and traffic drugs/people to earn the black money to pay for all of it has consequences when they rotate back home.

e:f;b

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Just applying this to my own life for a moment, because they also spent a fortune on me, this is probably why I just play complex boardgames and read large books in my spare time eh? lol

Yeah I don't know, I know some good guys who are in that world, but there's a certain type of self-promoting rear end in a top hat I don't get along with one bit. I know they select for personality but I wonder if they select for kinds of personalties, because there seems to be a mix.

Endman
May 18, 2010

That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even anime may die


Frosted Flake posted:

Just applying this to my own life for a moment, because they also spent a fortune on me, this is probably why I just play complex boardgames and read large books in my spare time eh? lol

Yeah I don't know, I know some good guys who are in that world, but there's a certain type of self-promoting rear end in a top hat I don't get along with one bit. I know they select for personality but I wonder if they select for kinds of personalties, because there seems to be a mix.

Have you considered assembling and painting tiny metal cannons?

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Endman posted:

Have you considered assembling and painting tiny metal cannons?

No comment.

To clarify, anecdotal, American guys seem different and I don't like them at all. Way more aggressive and showy, even in relaxed social situations. Didn't like them one bit at the Warrior Games, or any of the other Dog and Pony Shows, and that's when people are on their best behaviour. I see them occasionally at the 48 hour Spartan Race or whatever and yeah.. Multicam everything. It doesn't make much sense though, right? The job is the same, so why are CJIRU nerds who can do a lot of pushups while the Yanks are psycho killers?

JTF-2 was busted for a prostitution ring on KAF though.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

sonatinas posted:

this is the worst boys will be boys quote

The implication to me is that they would be doing all those things to foreign populations.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



Frosted Flake posted:

No comment.

To clarify, anecdotal, American guys seem different and I don't like them at all. Way more aggressive and showy, even in relaxed social situations. Didn't like them one bit at the Warrior Games, or any of the other Dog and Pony Shows, and that's when people are on their best behaviour. I see them occasionally at the 48 hour Spartan Race or whatever and yeah.. Multicam everything. It doesn't make much sense though, right? The job is the same, so why are CJIRU nerds who can do a lot of pushups while the Yanks are psycho killers?

JTF-2 was busted for a prostitution ring on KAF though.

Well JSOC needs somebody who can be trusted to do all the war crimes and then not talk about it

Shear Modulus has issued a correction as of 06:09 on Jan 10, 2023

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
The pay difference between big boy operators in the us and other militaries shows that other militaries realize having their elite killers moonlight for Mexican cartels results in many more problems

A Bakers Cousin
Dec 18, 2003

by vyelkin
There was probably also a reason all the old timers, pre war on terror types, talk about the military as like 10 months a year of every year was spent camping in the woods away from everyone.

Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/jkultra23/status/1612696076691345409

https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7022067712503352581

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
I've started reading Oswaldo Zavala's "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture", and I daresay it's an instant classic in the canon of Alfred McCoy and Doug Valentine.







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Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.
OT but do the forums have a cult chat thread? I started watching this Disney+ documentary about Teal Swan, who is some kind of woo woo self help influencer but also (in my uninformed opinion) a dangerously manipulative narcissist with thousands of followers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb11xqXKQs

Here's examples of her wisdom:

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1610005382230835203

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612133530326138904

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612843206890201091

I'd never heard of her before yesterday and I'm looking for the right place to enjoy tearing her apart with like minded nerds.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Endman posted:

Turns out training a bunch of people to inflict untold misery on occupied populations, terrorise their enemies and traffic drugs/people to earn the black money to pay for all of it has consequences when they rotate back home.

e:f;b

https://twitter.com/RobertSkvarla/status/1612584949974016000

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



lol

https://twitter.com/JackMurphyRGR/status/1612567771786760212

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Another Bill posted:

OT but do the forums have a cult chat thread? I started watching this Disney+ documentary about Teal Swan, who is some kind of woo woo self help influencer but also (in my uninformed opinion) a dangerously manipulative narcissist with thousands of followers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb11xqXKQs

Here's examples of her wisdom:

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1610005382230835203

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612133530326138904

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612843206890201091

I'd never heard of her before yesterday and I'm looking for the right place to enjoy tearing her apart with like minded nerds.

Unless you want to talk about how narcissism and cult leadership works, or else list particular abusive instantiations, there's really nothing else here.

No eye raising funding, clients, or connections. No spooky stuff near. Not even a whiff of Esalen, and we're talking Woo! Run of the mill cult leader.

Perry Mason Jar
Feb 24, 2006

"Della? Take a lid"

Hated cracking up at this but it is really funny

Centrist Committee
Aug 6, 2019

Another Bill posted:

I'd never heard of her before yesterday and I'm looking for the right place to enjoy tearing her apart with like minded nerds.

maybe the reactionary movements thread?

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Unless you want to talk about how narcissism and cult leadership works, or else list particular abusive instantiations, there's really nothing else here.

No eye raising funding, clients, or connections. No spooky stuff near. Not even a whiff of Esalen, and we're talking Woo! Run of the mill cult leader.

i lived with an esalengoer a few years back, he was a yoga teacher, chocolatier, and drummer. he was really narcissistic and stupid too, and unhappy to boot. however I’ve never seen anyone pull so many women in all my years, and he was constantly getting into new poo poo with the purpose of meeting women. In conclusion some people just wanna pull.

Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

Another Bill posted:

OT but do the forums have a cult chat thread? I started watching this Disney+ documentary about Teal Swan, who is some kind of woo woo self help influencer but also (in my uninformed opinion) a dangerously manipulative narcissist with thousands of followers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWb11xqXKQs

Here's examples of her wisdom:

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1610005382230835203

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612133530326138904

https://twitter.com/_tealswan/status/1612843206890201091

I'd never heard of her before yesterday and I'm looking for the right place to enjoy tearing her apart with like minded nerds.

Those tweets are correct.

Another Bill
Sep 27, 2018

I stumbled ass-backwards into a comfortable, easy life for reasons beyond my comprehension and now I think I'm better than you for it.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Unless you want to talk about how narcissism and cult leadership works, or else list particular abusive instantiations, there's really nothing else here.

No eye raising funding, clients, or connections. No spooky stuff near. Not even a whiff of Esalen, and we're talking Woo! Run of the mill cult leader.

There's stuff there, I just don't know about it yet. All the vibes are strong.

Anyways, I thought there used to be a cults thread and I just couldn't find it. Nevermind.

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019

Another Bill posted:

There's stuff there, I just don't know about it yet. All the vibes are strong.

Anyways, I thought there used to be a cults thread and I just couldn't find it. Nevermind.

there was, started by Prester Jane who ain’t here anymore. i think it’s gassed.

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Atrocious Joe
Sep 2, 2011

If Disney is taking down a cult leader it's because they want less competition.

Disney is a corporate New Religious Movement with its own customs, practices, and holy sites.

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