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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qV7xbAVOY0

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Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

Not clicking that sorry

Antonymous
Apr 4, 2009

its a buddhist symbol all over asia, you see it on temples and religious stuff

Slim Jim Pickens
Jan 16, 2012
It's not usually oriented like that, or coloured like the nazi flag, but you gotta clickbait for the yt thumbnail ofc

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021
tilting the temple sideways so you get the correct orientation.

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

https://twitter.com/chenweihua/status/1689178870795177985?s=20

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

I always tell people this and get a chuckle out of it. Petraeus' wife, the lady he cheated on, was the Commandant of West Point's daughter while he was a cadet. The man has always been a striving psycho.

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Frosted Flake posted:

I always tell people this and get a chuckle out of it. Petraeus' wife, the lady he cheated on, was the Commandant of West Point's daughter while he was a cadet. The man has always been a striving psycho.

and while he was cheating on her, he was also cheating on the gal he was cheating on? apparently everyone at his command in afghanistan knew he was hosing the biographer?

yet, somehow, this is the guy who gets the thumbs up during vetting to be CIA director

Zodium
Jun 19, 2004

bedpan posted:

and while he was cheating on her, he was also cheating on the gal he was cheating on? apparently everyone at his command in afghanistan knew he was hosing the biographer?

yet, somehow, this is the guy who gets the thumbs up during vetting to be CIA director

jealous?

bedpan
Apr 23, 2008

Zodium posted:

jealous?

no, envious

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

bedpan posted:

and while he was cheating on her, he was also cheating on the gal he was cheating on? apparently everyone at his command in afghanistan knew he was hosing the biographer?

yet, somehow, this is the guy who gets the thumbs up during vetting to be CIA director

Keeping that many chainsaws in the air at once seems like a good job reference

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

He also had an XM8 prototype sent to him in Iraq so he could be the only guy in theatre with the Rifle of the Future.

This is him shooting it stateside during testing. He convinced the Pentagon brass that the 82nd AB was the only unit in the military up to the task of user trials of the new rifle lol.

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

fun thread on the history of KMT incomptence

https://twitter.com/nise_yoshimi/status/1572060098905935872
https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689149690036858880
https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689150390946979840

some highlights

https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689150255873548288
https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689154367344300032

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012

more xeet

https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689155836554489856
https://twitter.com/chow_global/status/1689156143380357120

FrancisFukyomama
Feb 4, 2019

General Betray Us

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Well hopefully the Bensheng Ren and Waisheng Ren don't hate each other enough that the Bensheng ren go burn the Waisheng Ren trade union building.

Danann
Aug 4, 2013

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1689355091902377986

shockingly the us had a hand in imran khan's overthrow

eSports Chaebol
Feb 22, 2005

Yeah, actually, gamers in the house forever,

Frosted Flake posted:

I always tell people this and get a chuckle out of it. Petraeus' wife, the lady he cheated on, was the Commandant of West Point's daughter while he was a cadet. The man has always been a striving psycho.

at West Point there is the equivalent of the boomer dad joke where he threatens the boy sleeping with his daughter, except in this case the dad can credibly get you killed or maimed and get away with it

Frosted Flake
Sep 13, 2011

Semper Shitpost Ubique

Danann posted:

https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1689355091902377986

shockingly the us had a hand in imran khan's overthrow

You really hope that liberals in these countries start to realize what colour revolutions look like, that NGOs aren't their friends and that things will get worse for them, but we always end up here.

Though I suppose this is more like Brazil in that the US went the route of using the judiciary.

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
I missed Imran Khan going to prison. They're going to Bhutto (pick either) the guy. Can't gently caress with the USA in pakistan

mila kunis
Jun 10, 2011
It's funny that the USA is universally despised in Pakistan but is basically an american satrapy that does what it's told. But Indians love America and India held its sovereignty for the most part, until Modi anyway. And even then they got away with not toeing the line on Russia

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

Frosted Flake posted:

He also had an XM8 prototype sent to him in Iraq so he could be the only guy in theatre with the Rifle of the Future.

This is him shooting it stateside during testing. He convinced the Pentagon brass that the 82nd AB was the only unit in the military up to the task of user trials of the new rifle lol.


Well if I was in his position I'd want the coolest newest guns immediately sent to me too
Though I don't know enough about guns so I'm assuming that one's some dysfunctional late era American MIC boondoggle

3
Aug 26, 2006

The Magic Number


College Slice

Punkin Spunkin posted:

Well if I was in his position I'd want the coolest newest guns immediately sent to me too
Though I don't know enough about guns so I'm assuming that one's some dysfunctional late era American MIC boondoggle

the xm8 was famous for two things: 1) being used in every speculative near-future sci-fi fiction (like crysis) as the US military's firearm of choice and 2) the handguard literally melting during testing because it was mostly made out of plastic

for some weird reason it didn't end up replacing the M16/M4 as the standard service rifle

3
Aug 26, 2006

The Magic Number


College Slice
that's a gross oversimplification of the actual problems that led to the xm8 not being adopted, but the actual reasons are a little more boring (like heckler and koch insisting on using their proprietary G36 magazines rather than the STANAG magazines that were meant to be standard across all NATO members' service rifles)

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy

Punkin Spunkin posted:

Well if I was in his position I'd want the coolest newest guns immediately sent to me too

yeah if you're the general the best gear should go up to you

you're the final boss of the military

stephenthinkpad
Jan 2, 2020
Well you definitely want to collect one of each not approved gun.

Shear Modulus
Jun 9, 2010



the gun looks like a low budget starship troopers prop

crepeface
Nov 5, 2004

r*p*f*c*

gradenko_2000 posted:

yeah if you're the general the best gear should go up to you

you're the final boss of the military

it's kinda like how the Chinese minister of health is the healthiest guy and the minister of transport can turn into a train

mawarannahr
May 21, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 17 hours!

crepeface posted:

it's kinda like how the Chinese minister of health is the healthiest guy

The Belgium Model

Slavvy
Dec 11, 2012

3 posted:

that's a gross oversimplification of the actual problems that led to the xm8 not being adopted, but the actual reasons are a little more boring (like heckler and koch insisting on using their proprietary G36 magazines rather than the STANAG magazines that were meant to be standard across all NATO members' service rifles)

Standard across all NATO members except Germany I guess?

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

mila kunis posted:

It's funny that the USA is universally despised in Pakistan but is basically an american satrapy that does what it's told. But Indians love America and India held its sovereignty for the most part, until Modi anyway. And even then they got away with not toeing the line on Russia

what the gently caress are you talking about? The entirety of the pakistani upper class probably have their plots staked out in the USA now that london is an all too expensive shithole. India is too big for the US to bully around despite modi's base being temporarily embarrassed gujarati-americans.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

gradenko_2000 posted:

yeah if you're the general the best gear should go up to you

you're the final boss of the military
:hmmyes:

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/Omari55555/status/1685989499740774401?t=4GJmUb-Z7m66-SIT6XwYjQ&s=19

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!

Shear Modulus posted:

the gun looks like a low budget starship troopers prop

The most unrealistic thing about Starship Troopers is how reliable their gear is. In a society like the one depicted the MIC grift should have reached truly staggering levels a long time ago.

Palladium
May 8, 2012

Very Good
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Orange Devil posted:

The most unrealistic thing about Starship Troopers is how reliable their gear is. In a society like the one depicted the MIC grift should have reached truly staggering levels a long time ago.

our troops cant have enough food and on-premises housing with $1T/year help i cant budget this

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.

Ok for like a good 5 seconds I genuinely thought this was a 'Garand Thumb' video lol.

Orange Devil
Oct 1, 2010

Wullie's reign cannae smother the flames o' equality!
I think Harry should invite the Taliban to the Invictus Games tbh.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
lol even the boomer moms recognize where the winds of change are going

https://twitter.com/postingwhilegay/status/1689519732318162945?s=46&t=kY7HKwmb1RBg9U186lxtbg

gradenko_2000
Oct 5, 2010

HELL SERPENT
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/promiseli0/status/1689353518291767296

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Cpt_Obvious
Jun 18, 2007

https://twitter.com/adam_tooze/status/1689560531424694272

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