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The 24/7 fresh content mill of the internet has really generated a perpetual motion bad take machine. You've got to write SOMETHING and if it's a FRESH TAKE even better. Stand by for my latest from Vox entitled: "Is Santa Claus More Relevant than Ever in Light of the Ongoing Ukraine conflict?"
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Phil Gramm pound for pound is one of the most calamitous Americans in modern history. Glad to see that evil lich still hanging on
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May 22, 2023 23:13
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Zeroisanumber posted:Gotta remember that the West hasn't lost a military fight since Vietnam What? Is this you trying to show how stupid you are so you can get a job at the NYT?
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May 22, 2023 23:16
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Sorry but irony, sarcasm and jokes are not fit to print.
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May 23, 2023 00:02
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Doc Hawkins posted:Ukraine's been charging their super meter and is waiting for the right whiff to punish Evo Moment 37 but its with all of their beloved German panzers
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May 23, 2023 00:06
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Doc Hawkins posted:e: i forgot those guys also had chris hemsworth, that's overkill This scene is so funny. The only tension comes from the "good guys" side temporarily losing the ability to rain destruction from the skies without recourse.
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May 23, 2023 01:15
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Weka posted:What? Is this you trying to show how stupid you are so you can get a job at the NYT? Slow your roll. I'm talking about conventional warfare.
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May 23, 2023 01:41
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Ytlaya posted:This scene is so funny. The only tension comes from the "good guys" side temporarily losing the ability to rain destruction from the skies without recourse. Watch Gladiator
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May 23, 2023 01:52
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https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1660409280636280835
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May 23, 2023 03:51
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Ytlaya posted:This scene is so funny. The only tension comes from the "good guys" side temporarily losing the ability to rain destruction from the skies without recourse. its also incomprehensible in terms of geography. i like the part when they are going down the hill on horseback and then suddenly they are shooting from cover
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May 23, 2023 04:36
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paul_soccer12 posted:Lutrell is the one who claimed the rest of his squad was defeated in an epic firefight where they must have bravely smoked at least 50 hajjis before getting overwhelmed Also he thought there was like 100 Talibs but turns out there was maybe 12?
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May 23, 2023 13:20
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Orange Devil posted:Also he thought there was like 100 Talibs but turns out there was maybe 12? Having access to Vietnamese records has created a lot of surprises like this.
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May 23, 2023 13:32
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live by the sword, die by the sword
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May 23, 2023 13:33
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Frosted Flake posted:Having access to Vietnamese records has created a lot of surprises like this. It's just very funny that it was a near equal numbers fight and the elite spec ops high speed low drag unit got absolutely owned by some goat farmers with 50 year old kit.
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May 23, 2023 14:00
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If you're out by yourself on some unfamiliar hillside and a bunch of dudes who know the area get the jump on you, you're probably going to die whether you're a raw conscript or the most super, bad-rear end operator in the world. It's not like their elite status gave them the ability to magically levitate themselves away to safety.
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May 23, 2023 14:16
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There really isn't another good thread for this but lol at the money people were given after they leave the wikipedia organization, and alos where they go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-05-22/News_and_notes quote:The Wikimedia Foundation released its Form 990 tax return for 2021 on 9 May 2023. This shows that outgoing CEO Katherine Maher was paid a severance package of US$623,286 in 2021 – slightly more than one-and-a-half times her base compensation in her last full year at the Wikimedia Foundation. So Maher – who left Wikimedia at the end of April 2021 to join the Atlantic Council and currently serves on the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board – earned a total of US$798,632 in the 2021 calendar year.
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May 23, 2023 14:23
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Zeroisanumber posted:Slow your roll. I'm talking about conventional warfare. youre right, the us has not lost one napoleonic field battle since vietnam
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May 23, 2023 14:24
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Frosted Flake posted:Having access to Vietnamese records has created a lot of surprises like this. I was under the impression that the Vietnamese records are still sealed, can you tell me more about this?
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May 23, 2023 14:29
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Orange Devil posted:It's just very funny that it was a near equal numbers fight and the elite spec ops high speed low drag unit got absolutely owned by some goat farmers with 50 year old kit. There's a somewhat infamous story about some off-duty army rangers getting into a huge gunfight with a gang of crips, something like 30+ people involved, and not hitting anyone. Of course anything you try to watch or read about it is hilariously pro-ranger and usually racist, so that fact gets downplayed entirely because uhh rumors that some actually did get shot and die.
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May 23, 2023 15:47
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:I was under the impression that the Vietnamese records are still sealed, can you tell me more about this? soldiers on the ground always overcounted how many enemies were attacking them and a lot of US KD ratios were based off those inflated first contact reports. Like a platoon will say that they are under attack by a battalion sized unit at the least, air support will arrive after 15 minutes by which time the vietnamese had already broken contact. All those bombs and artillery would be dropped on an empty patch and because there were no bodies found the consensus was that everyone had been killed and the dang vietcong had hidden the bodies. As an aside, a Green Beret trained Unit did try to take the Siachen Glacier from Commonwealth trained line infantry and got mauled really badly.
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May 23, 2023 15:55
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https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1660963866438762496 The second in a series of articles from Graeme Wood for the Atlantic, strenuously underlining the premise of the first, "Clarence Thomas’s billionaire friend is no Nazi".
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May 23, 2023 16:14
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Rubellavator posted:There's a somewhat infamous story about some off-duty army rangers getting into a huge gunfight with a gang of crips, something like 30+ people involved, and not hitting anyone. Of course anything you try to watch or read about it is hilariously pro-ranger and usually racist, so that fact gets downplayed entirely because uhh rumors that some actually did get shot and die. Hilltop Shootout in Tacoma. Two groups of morons bumbing chests until it exploded into hundreds of bullets flying through a neighborhood. Some thought that people might've gotten winged or shot and retreated, but no one is thought to have died. Rangers love jacking themselves off over it, but it was essentially a gang fight that got way out of control.
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May 23, 2023 16:15
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DynamicSloth posted:https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1660963866438762496 well he has financial control over a supreme court justice and his family but since he's only nazi adjacent its fine
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May 23, 2023 16:17
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Pistol_Pete posted:If you're out by yourself on some unfamiliar hillside and a bunch of dudes who know the area get the jump on you, you're probably going to die whether you're a raw conscript or the most super, bad-rear end operator in the world. It's not like their elite status gave them the ability to magically levitate themselves away to safety. a super bad rear end operator simply wouldn’t let someone else get the jump
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May 23, 2023 16:19
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DynamicSloth posted:https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1660963866438762496 Must've laid down some long green to a big PR firm so that the Atlantic would put out some puff pieces and whitewash his fascism and the fact that he bribed the hell out of a SCOTUS judge.
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May 23, 2023 16:24
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yakubin at it again https://twitter.com/jacobin/status/1661043057792516097
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gradenko_2000 posted:yakubin at it again 
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Vomik posted:a super bad rear end operator simply wouldn’t let someone else get the jump I like super bad rear end operators who don't die.
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May 23, 2023 18:24
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Why are they called "operators"? Sounds dumb as hell.
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May 23, 2023 18:25
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it’s shorter than “people who do stuff or at least try to”
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cat botherer posted:Why are they called "operators"? Sounds dumb as hell. Soldiers can do war crimes, operators are expected to.
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gradenko_2000 posted:yakubin at it again The reacts are nothing butt people bodying them.
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jack-off bin
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yellowcar posted:jack-off bin
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AnimeIsTrash posted:There really isn't another good thread for this but lol at the money people were given after they leave the wikipedia organization, and alos where they go. jimbo wales is a big anti corbyn guy
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May 23, 2023 20:59
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babypolis posted:its also incomprehensible in terms of geography. i like the part when they are going down the hill on horseback and then suddenly they are shooting from cover That's just what Afghanistan is like. As a country in the domain of Chaos, its state is in constant flux. Everyone within its borders is perpetually both dead and alive. In fact, the concept of "the borders of Afghanistan" is itself a paradox. How can borders exist in a country where space itself is inconsistent?
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May 23, 2023 21:03
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https://twitter.com/atomly/status/1661090508847071233?s=20 lmao
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exmarx posted:jimbo wales is a big anti corbyn guy He's an unironic centrist, I remember a twitter exchange he was a part of a long time ago where he talked about how communism and fascism were both bad. e: found it, lmao https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1175904345126330368?lang=en
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Communist_Party_of_Wikipedia
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Zeroisanumber posted:The reacts are nothing butt people bodying them. The article is very funny. Its thesis is basically "actually some of the landlords worked hard to achieve their position of rent-seeking, and China was wrong to apply such a simplistic class understanding to their situation." It's basically the landlord equivalent of people who are like "getting rid of the health insurance industry would be unfair for the people who trained to be actuaries." Like yeah, maybe it sucks if you busted your rear end to become someone who profits from that status quo, but what alternative is there? You either forcibly take the landlord's stuff or allow them to continue rent-seeking. The "nice" option this guy appears to prefer doesn't exist.
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