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mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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That cop who shot the hell out of an unarmed man's backside and killed him has plead to federal charges.

It was a classic case of suspect was going for my taser until video to the contrary came out.

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I filled out an accident report for an off duty slip on wet grass that jacked someone's knee up. It got kicked back because I didn't fill in a corrective action to prevent such future incidents.

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Also same thing happened when a private smashed his thumb in a bog standard door.

Mr Safety Office I'm not having a class on door utilization safety.

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Jul 11, 2004

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That is a really cute bear.

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In that case it's maybe time to accept that Russian leadership seminars are highly effective.

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Jul 11, 2004

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MazelTovCocktail posted:

Didn't most people here want Comey fired?

Barring finding some truly heinous stuff, I never supported the idea of Comey being fired, regardless of who would have won. Resigning after relooking at the situation and realizing that the way the FBI ends investigations is generally not to hold a giant press conference where you talk poo poo for (not literally) hours, then say "oh, but no charges IMO" would have made sense. Also for sending that dumbass letter before they'd even reviewed the "new" Emails.

But this is, at best, the admin thinking that if he went rogue once, he might go rogue twice, so more appointments for us, death to all incumbent appointees. At worst, something else :tinfoil:

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Local cop who committed civil rights abuses fleeing FBI in riveting LA car chase!

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M_Gargantua posted:

Teen Vogue, MTV, National Parks Service, and Chuck Tingle... voices of the resistance, etc

Hillary voice: oooh me too!

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Jul 11, 2004

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facialimpediment posted:

There's a reason why you've heard almost no members of Congress defend the AHCA other than the few exceptions that say "obumbo bad obumbocare bad too".

We have to pass it now so we can fix it later.

Here you go, Senate!

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Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/NiallStanage/status/862446272753664000

All makes sense now, right?

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Jul 11, 2004

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facialimpediment posted:

Here's explanation four to the Comey firing: I was gonna do it no matter what

https://twitter.com/NBCNightlyNews/status/862713274676072448

Hmmm

https://twitter.com/CarrieNBCNews/status/862713916454993920

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Jul 11, 2004

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If Pence, Ryan, and Trump somehow got taken down, then Mattis publicly murdered his way to the presidency, he just might have bipartisan support for looking the other way.

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Spicy, when you get fired, sir based on reserves employment protections just for hilarity tia.

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but

the spice must flow?

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

How can a third of your country have 0 opinion on something like that?

Because "who did what?"

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Godholio posted:

Ah yes, the Nazis...among Russia's best friends.

I hope Richard Spencer leads an attack on Russia's western borders this summer.

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Dead Reckoning posted:

That said, having spent time around a few people who think the right to choose your own pronouns and change them at will is Literally The Most Important Political Issue of the Decade, I can see why other people start to lean towards "anything that upsets these people is funny and good."

On the other hand, people who are like "what, now I gotta use the pronoun you asked for UGH MY LIFE IS SO HARD NOW" are pretty fuckin' dumb.

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I cannot help but read that in Beyoncé voice.

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/864452996129853444

But Comey is already fired though

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DoktorLoken posted:

Simply disclosing the information period risks doing the latter. Plus it wasn't his information to release according to the news.

on the other hand

https://twitter.com/markknoller/status/864456824514326528

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Jul 11, 2004

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Let's see what's trending on rightwing twitter and paranoia land, oh, it's a Hillary murder plot against Seth Rich. Welp, better see what his family has to say about--

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/status/864467820771520512

Nope, nothing to see here regarding POTUS, check out this made up murder bullshit lock her up lock her up

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Jul 11, 2004

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https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/864470329657262082

Nice.

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That's not surprising frankly. No poo poo intel folk wouldn't necessarily tell him where it came from. And not just because he's an outsider compared to predecessors.

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Jul 11, 2004

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The National Review is also tired of fake news claims against reality

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/447693/fake-news-media-voters-shared-reality-must-be-acknowledged

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Jul 11, 2004

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TJ_Qmb8Z0



I assume the sea was just outside those doors

mlmp08
Jul 11, 2004

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Quick, someone find an example of a literal witch hunt of an American politician. You know there was one!

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Jul 11, 2004

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Looks more like a coffee cup.

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https://twitter.com/pftompkins/status/865211014492569600

Fuckin Hannity's brokebrains are getting worse.

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Jul 11, 2004

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Godholio posted:

That's what keeps bombs off our guys.

To expand on this, aside from kill:death dickwaving, a fighter that can routinely find, intercept, and kill poo poo is very valuable compared to a plane that just roams around and wins fights it happens into. F-15s are pretty good at keeping enemy air off US troops.

OTOH, remember that time they shot down a couple of choppers while competing with Viper squadrons to get the highest kill counts?

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Godholio posted:

You mean the Blackhawks that weren't squawking properly? Or crazy poo poo like the F-15E that dumped an LGB on a goddamned hovering helo?

Yeah the ones the F-15s swore they had VID on as Hinds. In an environment of competition with Viper pilots to get the most kills.

For those who don't know, Blackhawks don't look like Hinds. Or maybe Hips? Regardless.

E: Actually, I'm kind of peeved. Didn't change anything != fielding literally every helo with Mode 4 and determining that it required a GO waiver to fly without Mode 4 in combat zones is a pretty big change. It just took literally a decade or more (more like 2+ decades) to field all the upgrades.

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https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/865902296743505920

enuf is enuf

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Sure, but bottom line is that the pilots made a supposed VID. Sucks for the AWACS community, but IMO, if pilots want to keep their special "shooter" status, they should've owned those 2 loving missiles they plowed into the blackhawks.

But you shoot down one little RAF jet without its IFF, diving at your radar....

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Nostalgia4Butts posted:

dont forget hospital waiting rooms, gyms, and DFACs

Anecdotally, I'm starting to see a lot more such TVs with either CNN or MSNBC on. Or waiting areas with multiple TVs have a mix of Fox and CNN/MSNBC. Or they just say "gently caress it" and put on ESPN.

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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:

That's the thing that gets me. Mode 4 shouldn't have even been a factor since those dudes "visually identified" the aircraft. It is impossible to confuse two Blackhawks for two Mi-17s.

It's even worse, they confused them for 2 Mi-24s.

http://www.gao.gov/assets/160/156037.pdf

quote:

On April 14, 1994, two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters and their crew
assigned to the Military Coordination Center were transporting U.S.,
United Kingdom, French, and Turkish military officers; Kurdish
representatives; and a U.S. political advisor in the TAOR. The Black Hawks
had departed Zakhu enroute to Irbil, Iraq. (See fig. 1.1.) At the same time,
two F-15s were sanitizing the area that the Black Hawks were in; and the
AWACS was over Turkey providing airborne threat warning and control. The
AWACS was aware that the Army Black Hawk helicopters had departed
Zakhu and were proceeding east into the TAOR. However, the F-15 pilots
were unaware that Black Hawk helicopters were already in the area and
were not advised of the presence of friendly aircraft. The fighters twice
informed the AWACS that they had unknown radar contacts in the TAOR, and
the AWACS had access to electronic information regarding the presence of
friendly aircraft in the vicinity of the F-15s’ reported radar contacts.

Throughout the incident, the helicopters were unable to hear the radio
transmissions between the F-15 pilots and the AWACS because they were on
a different radio frequency.
According to the Aircraft Accident Investigation Board President’s
opinion, when the F-15 pilots were unable to get positive/consistent
electronic responses, they performed a visual intercept with each making
a single identification pass over the Black Hawks to identify the
“unknown” aircraft. However, the Board President concluded that the
identification passes were carried out at speeds, altitudes, and distances at
which it was unlikely that the pilots would have been able to detect the
Black Hawks’ markings. The pilots said that they did not recognize the
differences between the U.S. Black Hawk helicopters with wing-mounted
fuel tanks and Hind helicopters with wing-mounted weapons.
The Board
President determined that the pilot in the lead F-15 aircraft had
misidentified the U.S. Black Hawks as Iraqi Hind helicopters and the
wingman did not confirm, when asked by the lead pilot, that he had been
unable to make a positive identification. The flight lead fired a single
missile and shot down the trailing Black Hawk helicopter. At the lead
pilot’s direction, the F-15 wingman fired a single missile and shot down the
lead helicopter. All 26 individuals aboard the two helicopters were killed
in the fratricide.

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Looking forward to WEFT chat.

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Jul 11, 2004

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My Radar app is kinda fun. Chugs when poo poo gets real though and is a battery hog.

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What is happening

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Casimir Radon posted:

I hope the Sauds stone Melanis to death.

Can we not?

https://twitter.com/GlennThrush/status/866005085578551297

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Godholio posted:

Weird, I see a dude doing exactly the opposite of what he's being told, then reaching into a vehicle.

What video are you watching?

Shooting shouldn't be a compliance measure.

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The "why do you make me hit you?" defense.

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