for the bajillionth time it is entirely possible to say "yes this was bad and dumb and pointless and effectively killing people for content is evil" and also acknowledge it was not in any way shape or form a LOAC violation
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for the bajillionth time it is entirely possible to say "yes this was bad and dumb and pointless and effectively killing people for content is evil" and also acknowledge it was not in any way shape or form a LOAC violation
slighty higher res version:
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Lack of objective permanence but for remembering that people can like you.
When the Overseas Service Ribbon is too spicy
Come on, I slow-pitched the phrase "seed money" over the plate in reference to a Clausewitz-themed onlyfans used to fund a left-liberal FP think tank and nobody swung at it? Talk about Bluesky not having the juice.
Seems like he's tap dancing around the "Are you triggered by how ironically edgy I am?" vs "I just believe bad things unironically now" line. But here's the thing: doing either one just makes you a massive twat.
Need someone with abs to make an OnlyWitz account to raise the seed money.
"Say the word"
The words are "Settle down, Beavis."
Foreign policy doesn't win American elections, but it will absolutely help you lose them if you step on your dick hard enough.
Especially when it affects other things like "gas price go up."
That dumb bastard me 30 seconds ago didn't melt nearly enough butter for these rolls.
"It's not my job to figure out the trauma plate of many colors, your have a budget for titanium and a budget for sequins, Kurt!"
If you sickos ever make me rich somehow I'm going to wear my style-less middle aged guy clothes and my gender nonspecific goon army can wear any historic Dolly Parton at the Grammys look they want, 1970-present.
It's on me for burying the lede, which is my very charitable napkin math estimate is nearly 3x the size of the entire active duty US Army right now.
I said "LOWEST OF LOWBALL ESTIMATES"
I mean
Let's compromise and ban people without college degrees but ALSO Ivy Leaguers.
I described Fort Huachuca as " frosted in crystalized scorpion piss" and Hood was, like, clearly worse.
"Calling 2000 vintage Killeen a dump feels like an insult to the profession of waste management"
Context: I never went to Polk, but had this to say about Hood's surroundings:
Time to debate something really serious for a change:
Which is worse, Hood or Polk?
Now, I spent most of my time at the Combined Arms and Services Staff School wasted on Jose Cuervo, but I think the technical planning term for that is "not just fucked, but FUCKED fucked, lmao."
Fun benchmark, NATO IFOR had 54,000 troops on the ground in 1995-1996 Bosnia to do peacekeeping for a population <5% that of Iran's today, covering 1/12th the land area, in a far less hostile environment than Iran's would be.
So the lowest of lowball estimates is like 1,200,000 ish?
Hi, oil expert here! this is not funny, the benchmark cost of US light, sweet crude oil only does this when it's in extreme distress.
And on the flipside look at Hegseth, he's up to his tits in high-class parchment and is a *complete fucking moron.*
I'm not making any serious forensic poaster claims but it's somehow both humanly moronic AND weirdly robotic and repetitive. I've never read anything quite like it.
Watch it be something like "Intensely stupid person gives a bad prompt to an old chatbot build." Like half human moron, half AI slop.
Memorialized by the 2020 build of ChatGPT.
"Release Immediate Release DOW Identifies An Army Believed to Be Casualty"
Your KIA announcement, generated by ChatGPT
π΅ Hands all over the eastern border
You know what, I think we're falling from composure
Hands all over the eastern border
Ruffling feathers, turning eagles into vultures
Yeah, into vultures π΅
And not for a conflict that *starts* at 1970s Vietnam approval polling, I suspect.