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SixteenShells posted:a scorpion riding a scorpion's back
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Ya know, an infinite regression of scorpions on the backs of scorpions is a decent model of the current Western world economy.
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# ? Feb 10, 2024 05:28 |
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"But now we shall both surely perish!". said Germany. "lol" said the US, "lmao".
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SixteenShells posted:a scorpion riding a scorpion's back
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nod propaganda smdh
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SixteenShells posted:a scorpion riding a scorpion's back
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https://mg.co.za/politics/2024-02-1...vated-icj-case/mail and guardian posted:BREAKING: US congress receives bill to review SA relations following ‘politically motivated’ ICJ case USA continues to sabotage relations with countries. Incredible. Votskomit has issued a correction as of 16:47 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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one nation under aipac
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 18:33 |
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just lmao @ the complete inability of the us ruling classes to conduct even the most basic-rear end diplomacy
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 18:40 |
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Cerebral Bore posted:just lmao @ the complete inability of the us ruling classes to conduct even the most basic-rear end diplomacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp--AlWBrU
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Cerebral Bore posted:just lmao @ the complete inability of the us ruling classes to conduct even the most basic-rear end diplomacy it's astounding just how easy china's diplomats have it align with china and give them resources, they’ll build infrastructure for you and presumably run some interference with the cia, don't align with china and they'll just sit back and not help align with the us and give them resources and the cia will refrain from couping you unless they think one of your subordinates will be more subservient - except if they feel like it, or if you say anything about your people mattering more than quarterly profits
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 18:53 |
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typical Stokie
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https://mwi.westpoint.edu/ending-the-churn-to-solve-the-recruiting-crisis-the-army-should-be-asking-very-different-questions/quote:A Divisional System Will Increase Commitment to Long-Term Service There really does seem to be basically zero appetite for addressing any material concerns like starvation or moldy bases or that those may be a big impact on recruitment despite the acknowledgement earlier that the army relies on poor people for recruits.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:02 |
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Didn't read past their rationale for increased suicide in the army was because the soldiers didn't felt camaraderie with their fellow soldiers. Not even a word about, you know, the whole exploding and killing people and dying.
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Danann posted:https://mwi.westpoint.edu/ending-the-churn-to-solve-the-recruiting-crisis-the-army-should-be-asking-very-different-questions/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aSlVj3Ob3w
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:33 |
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Lol grasping at sociology 101 with Weber and Durkheim and conspicuously not even mentioning the forbidden third classic Systematic sidelining underfunding and delegitimizing social science for decades only to be left with baby level analysis when faced with real and urgent social problems. Many such cases!
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 20:43 |
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i feel like they could just fire mckinsey consultants, give every soldier a raise to 80-100k after 5 years and a 50-60% pension after 20 and not have so many recruit problems but im not an expert in motivation so sure why not try something dumb instead
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 21:27 |
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Complications posted:it's astounding just how easy china's diplomats have it This. Look at Haiti/Cuba. Mali and West Africa. Likewise, Erdogan's coup. And this https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...lly/ar-BB1i770M The US controlled Turkey's military then the coup occurred, and still controls Pakistan's and Egypt's. I'm sure this is a combined effort of the west/Arabian (UAE/Saudi) dictators to buy elites to shake votes down as well to control Pakistan. As someone who's familiar with Eurasian history this bears a strong resemblance to those Eurasian invasions, you might think that's a gigantic leap in logic, I sure don't. There's a lot more people there and they are probably going to charge us like a bull in the next decades. HouseofSuren has issued a correction as of 22:04 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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happy Chinese new years! Chinese IED game strong now that fireworks bane has been temporarily lifted. https://x.com/olalatech1/status/1756301223672545609?s=20
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GlassEye-Boy posted:happy Chinese new years! Chinese IED game strong now that fireworks bane has been temporarily lifted. well I guess if someone has to exploit africa and plunder all its mineral wealth it's better that those minerals go towards making fireworks that make people happy than going towards bombs that genocide innocents
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:12 |
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an Up or Out personnel policy really is loving crazy for an officer corps, especially one that's having a hard time meeting its recruiting numbers
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:30 |
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British Aircraft Carriers are both broken downquote:A Royal Navy aircraft carrier has failed to set sail for a Nato exercise, a week after its sister ship pulled out because of a mechanical fault. HMS Prince of Wales was due to replace HMS Queen Elizabeth in Exercise Steadfast Defender - the largest Nato exercise since the Cold War. One of the destroyers we sent to Yemen broke down too.
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all they got to do is make Army nicer to be in like Buster Bluth’s tour of duty
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:35 |
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tatankatonk posted:an Up or Out personnel policy really is loving crazy for an officer corps, especially one that's having a hard time meeting its recruiting numbers Luv 2 relocate my family every 3 years for bullshit peacetime assignments or get fired <3
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 22:41 |
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Danann posted:https://mwi.westpoint.edu/ending-the-churn-to-solve-the-recruiting-crisis-the-army-should-be-asking-very-different-questions/ What acknowledgement? From their own reporting I've seen the top and bottom income quintiles are underrepresented in the military.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 23:12 |
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RubberJohnny posted:British Aircraft Carriers are both broken down Lmao when some Chinese businessman turns those two failures into a casino or floating restaurant.
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 23:26 |
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The US military is culturally separated from the common citizenry to a degree it hasn't ever really been before, to the point that it is 100% normal in much of the US to not even personally know anyone in the military Part of that - I don't know if it's a cause or a symptom or both, but it's definitely related somehow - is that military service in the US is increasingly a hereditary thing. If you join the military it means that you almost certainly have a close relative who is either already in the military or was in the military in the recent past. There was a study done back in I think 2013, 2014? in which new recruits were surveyed, and over 75% of all new recruits across all branches of service had a close relative in the military, topping out at almost 90% of new recruits to the Air Force - what's more, for all branches except the Marines, the majority of new recruits had a close relative in the specific branch they enlisted in. For a solid third of new recruits it was specifically a parent. That's not to say that no one joins the military for economic reasons, to escape poverty or a bad home situation, but it's definitely exaggerated. If you join the military in the US it's mostly because you're from a 'military family' and have been taught from a young age that you are going to join the military. For my part, my grandfather reflexively jumps for cover at unexpected loud noises, and once confided in me that he's terrified of death because he's afraid there might be an afterlife in which he's called on to justify the things he did, so I never even considered it, but lots of kids clearly do. it made aircraft mechanic school super weird because the instructors and the students were both mostly either military or ex-military, and every one of them I talked to had a parent, grandparent, or uncle who had served previously. they also all wanted to work for defense contractors making weapons or maintaining military aircraft, and fantasized about how awesome the future wonder weapons would be, meanwhile I'm over here like 'I want to work in general aviation because I like old airplanes ' Mister Bates has issued a correction as of 23:52 on Feb 11, 2024 |
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tfw you accidentally create your own janissary class
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# ? Feb 11, 2024 23:53 |
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its because were descending into a weimar republic hyperinflation state dominated by freikorps esque paramilitaries and conflict between competing lib-to-hitler ideology that unifies to crush outside opposition before collapsing into a fully fascist dictatorship having tantrums and delusionally lashing out at lost empire op
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I do think it is very funny that the Marine enlistees still mostly had close relatives in the military, but in other branches of service engaging in youthful rebellion against your Army dad by saying 'well gently caress you, I'm joining the Marines!'
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How it started: HMS Prince of Wales replaces HMS Queen Elizabeth on Nato mission https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68192756 How it’s going: HMS Prince of Wales fails to depart for Nato exercises https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-68268560 This all very funny.
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Real hurthling! posted:i feel like they could just fire mckinsey consultants, give every soldier a raise to 80-100k after 5 years and a 50-60% pension after 20 and not have so many recruit problems but im not an expert in motivation so sure why not try something dumb instead you dont hire management consultants like mckinsey because you want them to find the answer for you, you hire them because you want them to "find" the answer you already know you want to hear. the rot starts at the top.
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# ? Feb 12, 2024 00:32 |
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Weka posted:What acknowledgement? From their own reporting I've seen the top and bottom income quintiles are underrepresented in the military. quote:The 1940s Roots of the 2020s Recruiting Crisis The article's own argument was that the military benefited from being relatively better than even flipping burgers and from offering employment for people who had nothing else better. It even identifies the economy improving as being the main factor driving recruitment down.
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RubberJohnny posted:British Aircraft Carriers are both broken down Fine British workmanship. I wonder if the royal navy breaking and crashing into things so much recently is the military equivalent of lying flat, or if that's just the state they have arrived at.
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tatankatonk posted:an Up or Out personnel policy really is loving crazy for an officer corps, especially one that's having a hard time meeting its recruiting numbers wait Up or Out is applied in the loving military????? Lmfao
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DancingShade posted:Fine British workmanship. i think the whole thing was really a make work program to keep the docks going, but not only has the design and construction been a complete embarrassment, the uk is in the process of closing its last few steel plants so it’s not like we can build any more boats if we wanted to
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Mister Bates posted:I do think it is very funny that the Artillery enlistees still mostly had close relatives in the military, but in other arms of service Many such cases.
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mila kunis posted:wait Up or Out is applied in the loving military????? Lmfao it's called social darwinism it's the bedrock of our democracy, google it
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Weka posted:What acknowledgement? From their own reporting I've seen the top and bottom income quintiles are underrepresented in the military. The acknowledgment is that the churn of new soldiers may not be the optimum strategy for maintaining readiness. This article links back to the war college one made a few months ago, about how the army needs to transition back into division level structures. The articles with military families struggling usually had the same common reason for it, the soldier had to move and got hosed up by the double whammy of the spouse losing their job and the rent market being insane. If they drop the centralized HR and move to a division level managed system again then soldiers will move less and for shorter distances. Soldiers can more realistically use their housing allowance to pay for a mortgage instead of endless rent, their spouse wont lose their job, their kids wont need to uproot into a new school. I'd probably go a step further on top of the up or out system being removed. Bring back the specialist ranks for non combat positions and make promotions like warrant officers, where you can promote despite not being "in grade" on the MTOE at least to a point (Probably up to spec6). Then make transitioning to WO easier for those soldiers that show a commitment to stick around and continue to improve on the technical aspect of their job. Theres studies that say that zoomers are willing to take up a job that pays less if its more interesting or less bullshit. Being in the military IS more interesting than flipping burgers and other menial jobs like working at an amazon warehouse. But the amount of bullshit you have to endure from the life just isn't worth it for most people. Decreasing the amount of bullshit is a way to retain them.
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ughhhh posted:Lmao when some Chinese businessman turns those two failures into a casino or floating restaurant. The 4D chess move will be to trick China into buying them believing they can pull off a Varyag/Liaoning conversion, hamstringing the Chinese navy for a generation
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