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Can't lose WW3 if you don't start it. bing bong
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Homeless Friend posted:Can't lose WW3 if you don't start it. bing bong looking at a loose coalition of anti-us allies: "is this hegemony?"
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Feb 2, 2024 07:05
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since iran uses american chips in their drones, therefore iran is a us proxy
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Feb 2, 2024 07:57
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Palladium posted:since iran uses american chips in their drones, therefore iran is a us proxy also they fly american planes does this count as a civil war
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Feb 2, 2024 08:36
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Palladium posted:since iran uses american chips in their drones, therefore iran is a us proxy Do you condemn America?!
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Feb 2, 2024 08:42
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:also they lose a battle and the military leadership takes responsibility and resigns. The fast churning through personnel at all levels (also exemplified by two of the main characters losing their love interests and seamlessly taken over the roles of their previous superiors) was supposed to represent a dystopian society where everyone is treated as disposable cogs in the societal machine. Basically showing that fascism is anti-human. The implied trajecture here is that Rico and whatever that girl is called are also likely to quickly die and be replaced. Or at best they can end up like the recruiter who proudly told them the mobile infantry is what made him the man he is today. And their psychic friend sporting the SS uniform might keep rising through the ranks, but one major fuckup and he too is out on his rear end. The reality ofcourse is all of that, except the people at the top are totally exempted and become loving arch-liches clinging to power and forming dynasties well beyond any reason. The service guarantees citizenship part was an absolutely load-bearing pillar of keeping that society going though. The fact that our real life dystopia doesn't deliver on that promise is one of those ~contradictions~ that is helping cause the collapse of the system. The US empire is groverhaus writ large. gradenko_2000 posted:Do you condemn America?! Yes, doh. Orange Devil has issued a correction as of 12:39 on Feb 2, 2024 |
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Feb 2, 2024 12:36
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Owlbear Camus posted:whenever I see poo poo like this I'm reminded that verhovens over the top fascist sci fi satire took for granted "service garuntees citizenship" would at least be honored lmao https://twitter.com/RANDCorporation/status/1725040251855335735 Pomeroy posted:"Lol" said the scorpion to the frog
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Feb 2, 2024 13:09
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Kill the weakest in each pack so the strong may feed. Meat's back on the menu boys.
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Feb 2, 2024 13:18
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DancingShade posted:Kill the weakest in each pack so the strong may feed. Meat's back on the menu boys. yep that's the current germany policy
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Feb 2, 2024 13:20
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Yeah a quarter of US military members being food insecure seems to bely the whole discussion about how many perks they get. Why take on a risky/stressful job that may leave you dead and/or maimed if you are potentially going hungry? It is just a terrible deal. Just think of the headlines if a quarter of Russian active duty personnel were going hungry?
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Feb 2, 2024 13:47
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Pomeroy posted:"Lol" said the scorpion to the frog
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Feb 2, 2024 16:50
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Ardennes posted:Yeah a quarter of US military members being food insecure seems to bely the whole discussion about how many perks they get. Why take on a risky/stressful job that may leave you dead and/or maimed if you are potentially going hungry? It is just a terrible deal. I think in general the US elite attitude toward these kinds of problems can be summed up like this: 1. It's cost effective to propagandize people to not think about the problem or simply not be aware of it until it's too late and they signed the papers. 2. Regardless of whether the propaganda is perfect or not, the material reality for people doing unapproved things getting worse and worse over time makes them more accepting of poo poo deals like military service where you dont get to eat every day, taking a vulture loan from uber to get a rattletrap car on their own credit, etc. 3. the problem only matters to me if the social function that i need to reify my own power in the rotting empire is threatened tldr sure the military is probably going to collapse into a heap of rotten wood and termites on contact with a real war that isnt just pushing buttons and youre going to start seeing poo poo like fragging again but no one who matters cares and theyre not going to care because it simply doesnt matter to them
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Feb 2, 2024 17:00
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I commented about that weeks ago and it's still a roflmao a full quarter of the active duty armed forces is food insecure and loving lmao all it takes is a few of them realizing that they have guns while they feel hungry
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Feb 2, 2024 17:01
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im no clausewitz but arent you supposed to feed your troops?
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Feb 2, 2024 17:10
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I commented about that weeks ago and it's still a roflmao I wonder how much of the surveillance state is pointed at their own troops, with military police showing up when people express too much discontent to their friends on Facebook messenger.
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Feb 2, 2024 17:17
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Votskomit posted:I wonder how much of the surveillance state is pointed at their own troops, with military police showing up when people express too much discontent to their friends on Facebook messenger. The surveillance state isn't all it's cracked up to be
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Feb 2, 2024 17:25
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Pomeroy posted:"Lol" said the scorpion to the frog
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Feb 2, 2024 17:26
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Votskomit posted:I wonder how much of the surveillance state is pointed at their own troops, with military police showing up when people express too much discontent to their friends on Facebook messenger. lol they don't give a poo poo with the mass shooters on their radar, why would they care about a crazy troop
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Feb 2, 2024 17:27
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Demon Of The Fall posted:lol they don't give a poo poo with the mass shooters on their radar, why would they care about a crazy troop they care enough about troops becoming mass shooters that troops have much, much, much more tightly circumscribed access to firearms than civilians
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Feb 2, 2024 17:33
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Votskomit posted:I wonder how much of the surveillance state is pointed at their own troops, with military police showing up when people express too much discontent to their friends on Facebook messenger. there's probably a bunch of 3rd rate surveillance state, since troops are their own legal jurisdiction. so you'll get like a US Army MP Fusion Center staffed with the nerdiest of MPs who monitor facebook pages for people bragging about drunk driving
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Feb 2, 2024 17:36
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Mandel Brotset posted:im no clausewitz but arent you supposed to feed your troops? they get a dining facility run by a contractor at odd hours on the other side of a city-sized base, or "basic allowance for sustenance" to spend at the grocery over their base pay that is very intermittently adjusted for inflation and doesn't take into account food deserts. i don't see the problem
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Feb 2, 2024 17:38
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Mandel Brotset posted:im no clausewitz but arent you supposed to feed your troops? "Our soldiers have the opportunity to have access to having food. Which is the same thing." - some neoliberal idiot
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Feb 2, 2024 17:41
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Ardennes posted:Yeah a quarter of US military members being food insecure seems to bely the whole discussion about how many perks they get. Why take on a risky/stressful job that may leave you dead and/or maimed if you are potentially going hungry? It is just a terrible deal. You can't even quit early without getting in trouble
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Feb 2, 2024 17:44
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Palladium posted:therefore iran is a us proxy Again
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Feb 2, 2024 17:59
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an army marches on its stomach but if the troops all drive cars they don't need to eat. not a problem!
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Feb 2, 2024 18:00
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Twitter saying the US has B1s in the air on their way to... somewhere undetermined in the middle east.
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Feb 2, 2024 18:06
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Seems like overkill to send B-1s to anywhere other than Iran so lol if we’re gonna bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran.
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Feb 2, 2024 18:28
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Thoguh posted:Seems like overkill to send B-1s to anywhere other than Iran so lol if we’re gonna bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran. we'd never send them somewhere with functional air defense could be intended to level beirut, could just be rebasing for all we know
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Feb 2, 2024 18:31
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Slavvy posted:Imo best western bullet hell flying game: raptor raptor was my first vidya and started my decent into madness, A++ game
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Feb 2, 2024 18:41
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TeenageArchipelago posted:You can't even quit early without getting in trouble There is something to say, at least you can drop your job at Panda Express and do something different. It isn’t surprising they are only taking in people from military families that don’t know anything different and just straight up people that are desperate.
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Feb 2, 2024 18:42
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I commented about that weeks ago and it's still a roflmao It's why all those liberals meming about how they're going to bomb Texas flat if Texas tries to secede is just them NAFOing themselves into another Ukraine Counterattack delusion. It only really takes some effort by someone who doesn't trip on the bar in the ground that is neoliberal political economics to get the garrison to defect because they no longer have to deal with hunger or moldy bases.
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Feb 2, 2024 19:20
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skooma512 posted:In that vein, Somalia. the whole reason that occurred was because they massacred their own allies. Aideed was on the verge of being fired and the Americans saved his rear end. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Monday_raid#:~:text=The%20Bloody%20Monday%20raid%20(Somali,in%20the%20Somali%20Civil%20War.
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dead gay comedy forums posted:I commented about that weeks ago and it's still a roflmao january 7th: the great troop food riots
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Feb 2, 2024 22:14
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their conclusion was that the troops are welfare queens that don't know how to save money
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Feb 2, 2024 22:52
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Wow they sound irresponsible maybe we shouldn't give them guns and send them to foreign countries to shoot dudes that Dick Cheney doesn't like
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What does the B1 do these days? It was supposed to be high altitude, high speeed, then soviet air defenses evolved mid project, so it was kept going as a low altitude, high speed bomber. it got terrain mapping radar, etc., so like, really low. now is it just a b-52 substitute against anyplace with poo poo air defense? it can, technically, carry more weaponry than the b-52.
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"we dont want a wider war. in fact we're not at war at all." [bombs the poo poo out of two other countries]
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:What does the B1 do these days? It was supposed to be high altitude, high speeed, then soviet air defenses evolved mid project, so it was kept going as a low altitude, high speed bomber. it got terrain mapping radar, etc., so like, really low. now is it just a b-52 substitute against anyplace with poo poo air defense? it can, technically, carry more weaponry than the b-52. I think it is A Deterrent
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:What does the B1 do these days? suck rear end/consume maintenance budget
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