Continue to love that this dude seems to lose in court constantly, yet still goes around with "Undefeated" in his name.

It's like a shitty 2020's reboot of Sammo Hung's old cop show Martial Law.

I was gonna say "I get it, their quesadilla burger is pretty good."

Then I remembered that was actually an Applebee's thing, so I can just continue the same Chili's boycott I've had going for like 20 years.

It's really fucking weird how utterly determined these guys seem to be to transform the US military into some 2nd rate dictator's palace force, crowing about lethality and warfighting the whole way.

Huh. In that case, that was a weirdly pissy response from the Raiders.

Don't they usually just say it's a failed physical if it's a failed physical? This seems weird.

Maybe there's some disagreement between the orgs about his health status?

We're incapable of rowing in the same direction most of the time. Like, the last Democratic admin passing the IRA was genuinely a triumph, and the reaction from politically engaged Democrats was utterly tepid outside of, like, energy policy wonks.

They always have some bullshit reason why Democrats winning a trifecta in 2020 doesn't count as evidence against their belief that Trump always wins and Dems always lose.

Yeah, I was gonna say, my UU church was the most organized thing I've ever been part of.

The fuck does she think people in Minneapolis would do to that female fighter pilot?

In what universe would anyone be shocked if Texas goes red?

Portions for RINOs

Drop a gif you can hear

Did Riki Rachtman turn into a weirdo, too? Or does he maybe not count since I think he was already famous from Headbanger's Ball?

I would agree if it was protecting aestheticians somehow, but doctors, lawyers, therapists, etc? I think that's a very reasonable limit on speech, and probably an important step in protecting people from themselves when it comes to AI.

A 7 digit ICQ UIN? Fuckin newb.

Now I'm actually imagining her showing up to MAGA conventions dressed up as a BORTAC officer, signing autographs and taking pictures with people.

Cosplay is very popular on Instagram.

This is advanced Rednecking.

Mullin.

He also inherits the affair with Lewandowski.

Holy crap, I had no idea that was there. It was just down the street from my favorite Indian restaurant!

Looks like it closed, thankfully.

We just won't. I think we've learned from Ukraine that our magazine depth is pretty laughable when compared to what would be needed in a shootout with a near-peer competitor, even accounting for having really precise weapons we don't need to fire so many of.

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The whole WikiLeaks/Collateral Murder episode really brought this to a head for me, because so many people getting worked up about it could've engaged in the national security debate around airstrikes and civilian casualties that had been going on for years, but they just....didn't.

...but there was so much less political cover for the people arguing (correctly) that avoiding civilian casualties reduces our own casualties, and just makes the entire job easier.

And that's because so many people on the left haven't updated their view of the military since Vietnam.

This is why I was driven so nuts by a lot of the discourse during the GWOT. There was a ton of political cover from the right for people who wanted to throw the ROE out and run up those civilian casualty numbers to show what tough-minded warriors we are....

I did not realize this was Tyronn Lue's burner account.

Eww eww eww eww eww eww eww.

He has a very "you're telling everyone on the internet about my farts again, aren't you?!" expression on his face.

I think the primary criteria is if the political context of the conflict is such that the side we favor is the one being transgressed against vs if we would be doing the transgressing.

Ukraine 2022 and Afghanistan 2001 were obvious Yes's. Iraq 2003 and Iran 2026 I think are obvious No's.