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SideEffectShit posted:there are no pictures on the internet of joe biden being portrayed as old and/or senile Yeah thats what news clips of his speeches are for
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Feb 26, 2023 06:22
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SideEffectShit posted:the dude has 200 billion dollars worth of modern American military equipment and has yet to produce any results dudes made some other dudes $200 billion
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Feb 26, 2023 06:37
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even in this economy that’s real money
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Feb 26, 2023 06:38
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he’s also made mint for the us lng industry
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Feb 26, 2023 06:38
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6 officers were fired from a north dakota nuclear base for undisclosed reasons
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Feb 28, 2023 05:04
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Real hurthling! posted:6 officers were fired from a north dakota nuclear base for undisclosed reasons was it the balloon
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Feb 28, 2023 05:06
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i bet it was really stupid like tried to uber eats some taco bell to a restricted area and gave the delivery dude clearance because they were too lazy to meet him at the security gate or something
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Feb 28, 2023 05:10
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they were loving the missile but not how they were taught to
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Feb 28, 2023 05:12
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Real hurthling! posted:they were loving the missile but not how they were taught to
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Feb 28, 2023 05:14
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Centrist Committee posted:he’s also made mint for the us lng industry Centrist Committee posted:dudes made some other dudes $200 billion Centrist Committee posted:even in this economy that’s real money cha ching
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Feb 28, 2023 05:38
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Real hurthling! posted:6 officers were fired from a north dakota nuclear base for undisclosed reasons US ICBM bases are notorious for lack of discipline and substance abuse amongst the enlisted
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Feb 28, 2023 07:18
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Filthy Hans posted:US ICBM bases are notorious for lack of discipline and substance abuse amongst the enlisted i call bullshit on this. no way the officers aren't just as bad
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Feb 28, 2023 08:46
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Real hurthling! posted:they were loving the missile but not how they were taught to a short-lived performance by the minutemen
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Feb 28, 2023 09:30
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Cerebral Bore posted:i call bullshit on this. no way the officers aren't just as bad they're bad in a different, much lamer way than drug abuse and loving off the air force in general and especially strategic air command is absolutely infested with hardline apocalyptic evangelical officers
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Feb 28, 2023 09:36
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https://twitter.com/SpiritofLenin/status/1629953832330444800?t=N7f28Ub_mpO8kV94Y0OGGQ&s=19 check out the quote tweets on this
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Cerebral Bore posted:i call bullshit on this. no way the officers aren't just as bad there was that one base where half the officers were cheating on their missile qualification tests https://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/01/30/af-cheating-scandal-grows-to-92-missile-officers.html
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Feb 28, 2023 23:18
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Griz posted:there was that one base where half the officers were cheating on their missile qualification tests good
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Feb 28, 2023 23:20
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Not So Fast posted:https://twitter.com/SpiritofLenin/status/1629953832330444800?t=N7f28Ub_mpO8kV94Y0OGGQ&s=19
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Feb 28, 2023 23:20
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:thanks for the heads up on that, really great https://twitter.com/LivFaustDieJung/status/1630665892626415621?t=LKDdYxLXKxxo2imxPHvhwQ&s=19
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Feb 28, 2023 23:41
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whore and war are famed homophones
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Hwhars, he's a 19yh century aristocrat
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Whorecrimes
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just driving down the highway screaming tweet replies into my dashboard
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:just driving down the highway screaming tweet replies into my dashboard apropos of nothing but your username is super good
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gradenko_2000 posted:apropos of nothing but your username is super good took me along time you realize you were actually using the phrase and it wasn't something about the poster
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If China Wounds A U.S. Carrier, The Navy Is Ill-Equipped To Come To The Rescue Of course it assumes the carrier will survive
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It’s been said before but I don’t see the US population not becoming unhinged at just the KIA/WIA/MIA from a lost carrier.
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Frosted Flake posted:It’s been said before but I don’t see the US population not becoming unhinged at just the KIA/WIA/MIA from a lost carrier. I think this is probably true but I have a potential counter argument: 9/11 hit hard because everyone takes flights, most Americans know someone who works in an office, and 100% of people who matter in the power structure work in a high rise no one who matters knows anyone who has ever served on a carrier I was thinking just this morning about how even after 20 straight years of war, there is no awareness in media or marketing of how the us army uniform collar is supposed to be worn. I think American society might have finally achieved the dream of military members so removed from society that they’re disposable. all that said I think the prestige impact of a carrier sinking, regardless of casualties, would make the elite insane. in the inscrutable west, maintaining “face” is paramount
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KomradeX posted:If China Wounds A U.S. Carrier, The Navy Is Ill-Equipped To Come To The Rescue quote:The trauma of leaving a foundering ship’s crew to their own devices—in a larger-scale repeat of the horrible World War II USS Indianapolis (CA-35) disaster—or, worse, watching helplessly as thousands of U.S. sailors are “rescued” by an opposing force, would be tough for the American public to bear. The political consequences would be immediate and massive. If I were a sailor I probably wouldn't like to hear that the government and public consider being captured by the enemy to be more embarrassing than being left to be eaten by sharks Remember how the USA constantly cited the Japanese refusal to be captured as proof they were subhuman barbarians
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Best Friends posted:no one who matters knows anyone who has ever served on a carrier I think you’ll find that all red blooded Americans know Maverick and Iceman. which is (not) a joke response to this. I’m pretty sure FF is right and we would lose our collective poo poo in an recently unprecedented way. the loss of a carrier would be a near Pearl Harbor type shock to most Americans.
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I hate those mandarin collars and I hate that we've copied them. Up under plates down in garrison, right? I just wonder if a US carrier being sunk, even during a declared war, will be compared to Pearl Harbour and considered "out of bounds" or an "escalation" somehow. It does make you wonder what might have happened if the Iraqis ever used their Exocets. Bar Ran Dun posted:I think you’ll find that all red blooded Americans know Maverick and Iceman. lol I hadn't seen you already brought up Pearl Harbour. Yeah, that would be my thinking.
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Frosted Flake posted:lol I hadn't seen you already brought up Pearl Harbour. Yeah, that would be my thinking. the collective story that Americans participate in is hugely shaped by pearl harbor. honestly not thinking we’d lose our poo poo almost deserves just: Have you ever actually met any Americans? as a response.
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Best Friends posted:I think this is probably true but I have a potential counter argument: They'll be emotionally impacted because the TV will tell them that they're supposed to be shocked and mournful and enraged. They tried in Jan 2020 when Trohsp killed Soleimani and CNN and the rest were appalled by the Iranian shooting missiles at a American military target directly across their own border, as if they should have been pleased with the US assassinating one of its officials and sending OUR TROOPS milk and cookies for a job well done. The nerve of retaliating against an act of war
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Bar Ran Dun posted:the collective story that Americans participate in is hugely shaped by pearl harbor. honestly not thinking we’d lose our poo poo almost deserves just: Have you ever actually met any Americans? as a response. 9/11 resulted in america lashing out at just everyone because the perpetrators had no national flag. a country sinking a carrier would be the end, because that child-like thrashing would have a focus
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Bar Ran Dun posted:the collective story that Americans participate in is hugely shaped by pearl harbor. honestly not thinking we’d lose our poo poo almost deserves just: Have you ever actually met any Americans? as a response. what are they going to do about it, drive their f350 lariats across the pacific?
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Centrist Committee posted:what are they going to do about it, drive their f350 lariats across the pacific? no they're going to strap Chinese Americans to their F350's trailer hitch and drag them down the interstate
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Filthy Hans posted:no they're going to strap Chinese Americans to their F350's trailer hitch and drag them down the interstate too real
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:an aircraft carrier sinking would get me thinking about becoming a hermit, because this country would lose its loving mind I think this came up in some lecture I attended on the Victorian Royal Navy and cruisers, which were like 15% of the entire state expenditure: the point of warships is to risk and lose them, it's why countries take on the enormous cost of having them accomplish absolutely nothing in peacetime. The Royal Navy paid for all of these ships to bob at anchor in the middle of nowhere, cruise around the world's oceans, to be replaced every 10 years as they wore out and became obsolete. They even set up an incomprehensibly expensive network of coaling and telegraph stations around the world. For example:  HMS Monmouth, which cost £94 270 000 in today's money  and HMS Good Hope, which cost £95 345 000 They spent the decade before the Great War on distant stations, just hanging out, inspecting dhows and junks, essentially.  That's hardly worth £200M is it? No. The cost would be justified in wartime, that's the only way for it to make sense.  Well, when the war started, they did their job. They went into action against a German fleet, and were consequently sunk in about 2 hours. Which isn't to belittle them or the men who died with them, this is what ships are for, really. They intercepted German ships that threatened lines of communication, which is why they were way out there anyway, why there were distant coaling stations and everything else. They fought a sharp battle, which is what the tens of thousands of pounds spend on naval guns and ammunition was supposed to be for, took some hits, which justified the tens of thousands spent on steel armour. It's just, this is how war works, and the cost you have to pay. You lose ships, you lose men.  But it caused these sort of insane reaction among the British press and public. They were practically howling for blood. So that, the next time the Royal Navy ran into that German squadron, it seems like they didn't allow the disabled German ships to surrender. That became institutionalized as the belief that it was impossible to capture modern steel warships, or for them to strike their colours and surrender. The same thing happened a generation later. After Bismarck sunk HMS Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy, the public again went through this sort of convulsion, and when Bismarck was encountered in a second engagement it was pounded far beyond the point where it could retaliate, for hours. It was obliterated at close range, and the crew had no opportunity to surrender, relatively few prisoners were picked up. It seems to me that the reaction to losing an aircraft carrier would have a similar effect. I can't point to why exactly, which of these elements combine to create that result, I just feel like the reaction would be something similar. Frosted Flake has issued a correction as of 01:11 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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