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Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Laranzu posted:

I'm protected by virtue of being in close proximity to a city center they consider an impenetrable fortress of murdering raping Urban ferals.

Not even the most brave of sandals with socks wearing heartland tourist would dare to trespass into this hellscape of ungodliness

You must not heard of urban safaris where a bunch of good ol’ boys will load up their SUV with a bunch of armed chuckleheads and drive around to gawk at poor minorities.

I assume this is still a thing, it was the sort of thing arfcom dorks would post threads about years back.

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Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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I should've posted this last night because of the spooky thought of Pelosi's Radical Socialist Agenda

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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https://twitter.com/CassCarolyne/status/1058079795962146817

lol


Israel-grade military cowardice

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

Trump reneged on the shooting rock throwers and will now arrest them (in Mexico?), and the pentagon just banned troops from working in a law enforcement capacity so who knows what he's talking about

Which is wild since the units being mobilized are 50% MPs, 25% logistics and 25% combat camera

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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If Cruz loses I’ll start saying Goodfellow AFB is only tied for worst base I’ve been stationed on instead of worst with a bullet.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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For perspective I also spent 2.5 years in 29 palms and still think Goodfellow was worse.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Countdown until Democrats switch from talking about how the Senate is anti-democratic and should be abolished to praising the Senate as the bastion of American ideals as soon as it goes blue.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

at which point the gop will retake the house and begin the cycle anew. congressional leadership continue to live in a money-fueled bubble

They'd have to lose it first.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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https://twitter.com/clintsmithiii/status/1060259028402692096?s=21

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Well for background context into the command environment over there https://theintercept.com/2017/01/10/the-crimes-of-seal-team-6/

https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/10/23/second-seal-arrested-in-war-crimes-probe/

quote:

Leaked to Navy Times, Gallaghers charge sheets allege that on May 3, 2017, he stabbed a wounded Islamic State fighter in the body and neck until he died.

After the alleged slaying, prosecutors say that Gallagher posed for a photograph next to the body, operated an aerial drone over it and opted to complete his reenlistment ceremony next to a human casualty," misconduct which brought discredit upon the armed forces.

Gallagher, 39, also faces a pair of aggravated assault charges tied to allegedly separate incidents near Mosul.

On June 18, 2017, he allegedly shot a noncombatant male person and sometime during the next month gunned down a noncombatant female person, according to the charge sheets.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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BadOptics posted:

The SEALs have probably killed more Americans than terrorists over the last 10 years.

My favorite is the dude who killed an American woman with a grenade while trying to rescue her.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Hot Karl Marx posted:

??? Did it come off and arm itself while trying to rescuse her or did he gently caress up a throw or something?

I remembered wrong and it was a British woman. From the Intercept article I linked

quote:

During a late-night raid at a northern Kunar compound, Silver Squadron operators killed several captors but accidentally killed Norgrove when an inexperienced SEAL threw a fragment grenade at one of the captors.

The operations team leader believed that a suicide vest had been detonated by one of the captors, and two Silver Squadron operators initially withheld the fact that a grenade had been thrown. Consequently, the SEALs initially reported to JSOC senior leaders that Norgrove had been killed by her captors.

Later, a JSOC officer watching drone footage of the operation noticed one of the SEALs throw an object that landed and exploded near where Norgroves body was found. One of the two SEALs who knew about the grenade eventually told his team leader, who then failed to inform his commanders until he was confronted the next day.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Bored As gently caress posted:

That's loving horrible. Seconding the guess that it was yet another incel piece of poo poo. How long until the FBI looks into these incel message boards as much as they look into radical Islamic extremist forums?


Also, "Rained bullets"? The event is horrible enough without hyperbole and exaggeration. The sentence wouldn't be accurate even if he had a semi auto AR-15, but the dude had a pistol, from all accounts.

That would be way too close to acknowledging white people can be terrorists too

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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So how does this acting AG dude feel about pot

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Oh cool it's copycat season

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1061168803218948096?s=21

Words cannot describe the visceral hatred I have for this piece of poo poo.

One of my past tattoo artists lost his adorable dog to the current fire

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Amazon could solve these housing and transport problems by just making all employees reside in company dormitories for a reasonable fee.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Coyotes will just walk right through concertina like it's not even there, too. Something about their hair I guess.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Bernard McFacknutah posted:

Yep, I still want out, but we can't seem to loving manage it.

But... why

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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“Are we doing anything real or just posing for publicity” seems like a reasonable question

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Loden Taylor posted:

Oh hey, I remember Shim talking about this during one of his "gently caress SEALs" rants.

Or it was a completely different SEAL re-enlistment ceremony while on an objective surrounded by dead bodies. I assume there have been a bunch of them.

Shim’s rants about SEAL war crimes predate this by a few years. SEALs are scum and Team Six is a frat house of war criminals.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Casimir Radon posted:

Shim ranted about stuff that the media didn't start talking about for at least a couple of years.

This specific event happened in 2017 but you do make a good point.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Force de Fappe posted:

Shim talked about a tomahawk, so unless that was one hosed up retarded hunting knife chances are it was a different one :discourse: :3:

Like I said Shim’s rants predate this 2017 incident by years.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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People keep saying Pelosi's an effective speaker, but like, what did she even get done? The most charitable answer is Obamacare but by the time it passed it was just a vigorous handjob for insurance companies rather than an effective healthcare bill.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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mlmp08 posted:

This is the concern trolling of someone who doesn't know anything, actively avoids looking it up, and unless someone does their homework for them, they'll just assume that Pelosi didn't get poo poo done.

No for real I'd love to hear that Pelosi actually got stuff done other than worthless centrist Dem garbage

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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I agree with the idea of the Senate ensuring that every state has a say and urban centers don’t dominate the rest of the country through sheer weight of numbers, but the execution certainly leaves a lot to be desired.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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The national Democrats suck rear end at preparing anybody for leadership other than centrist trash. Just because I say Pelosi needs to be replaced doesn't mean I don't realize and acknowledge all of the steps that need to happen between now and that goal. It's like arguing against abolishing ICE by saying you can't just fire an entire agency and then not have anybody else pick up the slack. Like duh there's a lot of steps between here and there,

The simple fact that there aren't any obvious contenders is a pretty huge failure of its own. What if something happens to Pelosi, are they just going to shrug and let one of the Blue Dog challengers take the lead at that point because at least they have ~leadership experience~?

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Fallom posted:

Don't forget gay conversion camps

And legal weed

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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AlexanderCA posted:

I get that, my point was that social democracy =! socialism. By equating the 2 you're basically conceding the point to the conservatives. People here who support our welfare state (including me) as a rule, don't actually consider themselves to be socialists. Even the actual serious left "socialist party" has explicitly removed socialism from their party program decades ago so they became electorally viable and considered renaming into the social party.

Now, none of this really matters, because it's just words. But I think it's nice to keep in mind that the people in those western countries the American left describes as examples of socialism done right, have a different conception of what that means and generally don't consider themselves to be socialist at all.

Anyway, this all started with a throwaway shitpost by me basically complaining about "people abroad having differing definitions of words and mine are right goddamnit", so it doesn't really matter.

tl;dr If you're in Europe people are going to look at you bemusedly if you describe their system as socialist.

What do you even think Socialism is, then? Because you've just gone down a list of different socialist things and said they're not socialist because you support them and you're not socialist.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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AlexanderCA posted:

Uh, communal/state ownership of (most) capital? Thats the fundamental bit. That ranges from worker owned cooperatives competing in a market to a soviet style command economy.

What’s the difference between that and communism?

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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Hell I was once involved in giving somebody in my platoon a concussion during two-hand touch football. We were pushing each other at the line, they tripped, fell backwards, I fell over them, and their head bounced off the ground then off a shin of somebody running past and back to the ground.

Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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You also have to maintain forward pressure with your other hand and you can’t just squeeze and hold, there’s a reset you have to ride. It doesn’t fall under the legal definition unless you squint so hard you can’t see the words anymore.

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Internet Wizard
Aug 9, 2009

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It would be better if the legislature would actually pass small changes/updates to laws on a decent timetable instead of trying to force through gigantic doorstoppers that are mostly pork but here we are. We're left with enforcement agencies making up whatever they want and claiming that was the intent of a 100 year old law and just running with it. One day you're a law-abiding citizen and the next you're a felon and don't even know it, and the laws never even changed, an agency just decided to mail somebody a letter redefining something completely.

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