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  • Leaked letter from Oregon Nation Guard Leader indicates that the Portland deployment is unpopular among Nation Guard members

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  • Yeah no shit

    Is this surprising to anyone really? Most people in the military, even active duty, are fairly "apolitical." Yeah they lean slightly right all the way to far right wing, just like 99% of Americans. But they aren't like thinking they're all warriors for God or something.

    It's mostly underperforming young people who are in good physical health and either couldn't find a job in the private sector or couldn't be fucked to find one. Sign up for the military, try to position yourself in a cushy position, and do nothing while getting a paycheck.

    The NG guys absolutely 100% are far less "gung ho" than the active who are already far from gung ho. NG being activated means they gotta do stuff. They didn't sign up to do stuff! Not in the NG! They signed up to like go stack some sandbags after a bad flood. Other than that they go to trainings, get the pay, get the benefits, that's all they want. Not to be activated and abused for the political ends of some dipshit narcissist. That means they gotta be in conflict with people. They gotta wear a uniform. They gotta travel to Portland. That's all way too much work just so Fatass in Chief can jerk off to the handsome troops.

  • Largest mass resignation in US history as 100,000 federal workers quit

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  • I always imagine how hard Xi is laughing every day when he gets a quick update on the crumbling US empire

    "Shut down? Again?"

    This shit happens every year and the "liberal" party just sits on their thumbs spinning in circles whistling to themselves. The republicans have explicitly said a billion times for decades that they want to shut everything down. You can only beat them by making that impossible aka pass indefinite spending bills and whatever else. Fucking morons and controlled opposition

  • Taiwan pressured to move 50% of chip production to US or lose protection

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  • "Ok. I'll go hang out with the people not threatening me."

    I don't think these idiots understand the US needs Taiwan. Not really the other way around. I think they've been huffing too many of their own farts.

  • This is utterly ridiculous, bordering on the utterly childish, but how are people still arguing on whether what's happening in Gaza is a genocide?

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  • Many people have made this argument before, so I'm not going to shittily try to re-articulate it. But basically the entire concept of what legally constitutes a genocide is one of those "good ideas" that was immediately co-opted by western powers to weaponize forever. I guess the most boiled down conclusion is "The problem isn't that they won't say a specific word. The problem is they deny everything which makes that word apply in the first place."

    I guess that's where I fall on it and have for probably over a year. I don't really care if Bernie Sanders says "it's a genocide." What I care about much more is Sanders saying "Israel has a right to defend itself" and then never expanding on wtf that means. Israel has zero right morally or legally to do anything to Gaza or even be inside Gaza. The same applies to the West Bank. So what exactly does he mean with that phrase? Clearly he means it's "ok" to bomb children and civilians in Gaza as long as Israel says it's meant to kill Hamas militants. Well, not even militants. They just say "Hamas" broadly which includes medical professionals and everyone else. He will say that's them defending themselves. He just thinks they defended themselves... too much? There's no real logic there. Just a phrase that requires repeating even though it's for no one at this point. Zionists are done with your ass for even lightly criticizing their campaign of death. It doesn't matter if you offer them conditional cover for the atrocities. They require full acceptance or you're their enemy.

    Although I hate making these statements, I will say quickly this is obviously not some sort of argument for genocide as a legal concept being thrown away. I'm just gesturing at part of the problem without offering much of a solution beyond I suppose "they should stop the political bullshit spin-jobs and just say the truth." I think it might be beneficial for Medhi, etc. to ask "is it a genocide?" one time. Then whether they say yes or no, keep probing. "At what point was it a genocide?" "Did Israel have any legal or moral right to do a single attack in Gaza?" "Is starving an entire population ever acceptable?" "Was the siege on Gaza for decades not an act of aggression on the entire population living there?"

    I don't think someone calling it a genocide is enough I guess. I've seen many liberals cave and start calling it that. Yet they still remain very clear apologists for Israel and Zionism. They still hand wring and condemn Hamas. It's victim blaming to a crazy-ass magnitude that I've never really seen before.

    I think they're really struggling to find that magical "out" for western imperialism broadly. Some way to condemn the evil Muslims but also say "well, this went too far." The more honest ones know there is no way to condemn Israel but also uphold US/western imperialism. They don't even attempt it. The others are stuck defending a genocide. They "condemn" it and then immediately explain why it has to happen. Which wraps back around into the obvious fact that if they're defending a genocide even a little bit then that indicates they don't believe one is happening or they think don't actually think genocide is unacceptable across the board. This is the contradiction liberals have had ripping their brains apart for years now. There's only two logical conclusions when they finally settle and I don't place much faith in them landing on condemning Israel without reservation and advocating for the dissolution of Israel.

  • US revokes diplomatic visa of Colombian President Gustavo Petro after he joined a pro-Palestine protest with Roger Waters; Petro returns to Colombia and posts update

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  • "Kill fascists"

    "No, stop! We love fascists!"

    Honestly glad dogs like Little Marco continue to just openly be pro-fascist at every chance. It makes it a fuck of a lot easier to say "those guys are fascists. See they keep saying it." Despite their attempts to "make fascism cool" or whatever I don't think it's really worked at all. Most people understand you don't want to be a fascist, Nazi, etc. They might not know why or what it means but they know it's bad. Openly running to the defense of fascists, openly saying your government is anti-anti-fascist (pro-fascist or just fascist), not sure that's gonna work out for you, big dawgs. The crypto angle was much more effective. But something something enemies, mistakes, not interrupting.

  • Tony Blair in talks to lead US-backed 'supreme authority' for Gaza: Report

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  • Next to his best buddies

    Hell has already claimed a few of them. Rumsfeld, Powell. But the top dogs are still around. Necks totally intact to my knowledge.

  • Tony Blair in talks to lead US-backed 'supreme authority' for Gaza: Report

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  • Someone

    Please

    Be a Luigi

  • what the hell bro 😭

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  • Someone should make Montgomery, Alabama: Insurgency.

    You play a Chinese soldier on a mission to liberate Montgomery from the festering infection of hogs

  • Without a stated reason - Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even they don't know the reason for the meeting.

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  • Had to be General Harold Greene. He got killed by an Afghan National Army guy working in cooperation with the US in Afghanistan. Not sure if this "counts" because he was an ally but not an American soldier. Also he was shot not literally fragged (like with a grenade).

    The highest rank I saw killed directly by actual fragging was a major and a captain in one event. That was an American soldier killing other Americans in Vietnam. I assume it's incredibly rare for anyone over the rank of major to be literally fragged because they won't be staying out "in the field" with the regular soldiers the way a lieutenant or captain would be. A major would also not be near regular soldiers for the most part, not in a war scenario, so that must've been quite the opportunity that person took to nail a major and captain at once.

    Here's the funniest story of "purposeful friendly fire" I could find. Heinrich von Breymann he was a lieutenant colonel serving under a British officer when they were fighting to put down the American revolution (Battle of Saratoga).

    From the Wikipedia article: "On 7 October 1777, Breymann's unit was driven behind a redoubt by American troops; he grew frustrated with his own men and began attacking four soldiers with his sabre before Breymann was shot and killed by one of them."

    Lol.

  • Without a stated reason - Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even they don't know the reason for the meeting.

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  • Pretty sure it was confirmed (I don't remember the details and am lazy) that like as the capitol was being actively taken over (which is regarded as funny because it is. But in that moment it surely wasn't for the 535 legislators and their staff) Pelosi, Pence, whoever else were on the line with the nearby National guard leadership like "Hey, we need police backup" basically. Some form of emergency police to stop the riot. They were trying to get Trump do authorize it too I believe but he just sat there like "hmm. Nope. There's nothing going on, folks." It was hours before he finally told the people to stop and go home. It seems fairly clear he was deliberately waiting to see an outcome. The incredibly cucked thing is how he wasn't immediately arrested for what he obviously did (instigated a coup attempt- even if it was farcical). What a joke-ass nation. When someone attempts and fails a coup you don't put them in prison (Lula! Wtf?! Firing squad now!). You definitely don't just "let them get away with it." Zero self preservation. Full idiocy.

  • Without a stated reason - Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Even they don't know the reason for the meeting.

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  • Yeah causing a nuclear exchange... that seems smart.

    Because what would happen is China would immediately destroy every single US navy ship in and around Chinese waters. They'd immediately take down every single USAF jet/bomber.

    Then the US would stomp its feet and shit diapers while Beijing tries to get a world summit together to figure out wtf the US just tried to do. It would have to end there with a huge defeat for the US attempted invasion or it would just inevitably go on until the US lost all fighting capability and starts considering the suicide nuclear option.

  • YouTube to restore accounts banned over Covid and Biden election posts

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  • Oh cool

    So when will they stop deleting anything with the words Israel, Gaza, genocide, etc.

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  • I think it's worse... these specific people will never learn. Maybe their kids, grandkids, etc. These people will just blame immigrants harder. Or some other group. She was literally repeating one of the most easily disproven lies regarding how social security works and the lie it can run out of funding if it's properly maintained. As far as Medicaid goes, that's also fine as long as it's funded correctly. Even if both programs weren't funded correctly.... the US can literally just print money. It doesn't fucking matter. They already do it all the time. It's probably best to correct taxes from the wealthy and then "burn" that revenue to prevent inflation and all that. But yeah. This person is totally incapable of learning. Even as they're starving on the street their last thoughts would be "goddamn why are there so many homeless?! I bet they're all immigrants or gay!" As they lie on the street... also homeless...

  • All Your Favorite Sellouts Will Be At The Riyadh Comedy Festival [More inside]

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  • Do the royals attend these things? Who is this even for? Just to release public statements that whoever did a show there?

  • All Your Favorite Sellouts Will Be At The Riyadh Comedy Festival [More inside]

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  • "Stavvy's World" it's him and his lifelong friend as his producer. He brings on other comedians mostly and other people sometimes

    Friedland has "The Adam Friedland Show" but he's been doing more serious less strictly comedy work on there since it got sort of soft rebooted

    Nick Mullen is reportedly wandering the streets of Los Angeles with a beard down to his knees and smiling nonstop because he's been "retired" from podcasting for going on a year now

  • All Your Favorite Sellouts Will Be At The Riyadh Comedy Festival [More inside]

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  • Ah so they are enforcing censorship. At least according to Tim Dillion (dubious source). That was my first thought. What if someone makes a joke about public beheadings, the Saudi royals, 9/11, something like that. Not even touching religious stuff which from a more practical standpoint I could understand a nation being upset over. But if you stick strictly to politics and really dig into the royals about being the dogs of American empire, murderers, a family of thieves, on and on. I wonder what they do? I wonder if anyone will try it? 🤔

  • Ken Klippenstein reports ICE-shooters friends saw him as apolitical 4channer. Killed two migrants but FBI released bullet clip with 'ANTI-ICE' written on it. FBI is going crazy with absurd narratives!

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  • Some right winger realized that Luigi had a great idea. Now they're copying it. This actually convinces me that the Kirk shooting was more than it seemed. Not the right suspect, engravings are fake, texts are faked, something like that. Kash and Bongodongo are clowns and professional liars working for the biggest clown and liar. Nothing they say or report is believable. I was giving them a tiny shred of benefit of the doubt that they wouldn't just be wholesale fabricating stuff. This ICE thing plus weirdness with Kirk (on top of them lying about Epstein and a billion other things in the admin outside of FBI) is just at this point "They're all lying. All evidence is fake if it benefits their narrative." level stuff. The boy has cried "leftist!" in a country of zero leftists a bit too many times.

    On a side note, all the denialism about the alleged Kirk guy not being a right winger from libs and some self described leftists is annoying. Any of those "meme kids" are just 4channers. Right wing. Whether or not they consumed 4chan through discord, Reddit, twitter, it's still 4chan. It's still far right wing "memes" and that can't be separated from it no matter how much people claim it's just normal now. Ok, then it's normal for teens to be far right wing essentially neo Nazis "as a meme." Does that change their worldview? The same people posting pepe memes then going on a shooting spree would've absolutely been the guys lining up civilians in Lithuania or somewhere and shooting them into pre-dug graves. Those SS soldiers and collaborators are their spiritual ancestors if not literal. The same guy who believed he was serving Germany and his race or whatever by shooting babies would absolutely be a 4chan "meme kid" if he were born in like 2000 instead of 1900.

  • YASD #11

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  • Yeah for real. It's not unbelievable, based on internal accounts of the Bush II admin, that he called his dad like "Did I make ya proud, Daddy? I let them friends of our friends do that thing you always talked about."

    Poppy's probably facepalming like "Why? Why is my older son such a dumbass? Why couldn't Jeb be the one? Because I named him Jeb... the worst mistake of my life."

  • It's inspiring that people can still find love in this trying time

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  • At the rate these guys are going everyone with a grindr account might be declared a terrorist before end of year

  • It's inspiring that people can still find love in this trying time

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  • Imagine attending the funeral of a guy who wanted to murder you. Imagine fucking and sucking after attending the funeral of the guy who wanted to murder you surrounded by tons of people who want to murder you.

    I know like "gay, white, conservative" guys aren't on the top of the murder list. But they're definitely on the list for the fascist types. Trans people, brown/black immigrants, Muslims generally... then LGB are pretty much next. The lack of even a desire for self preservation is pretty crazy. I know it's long been a trope how many conservative men are secretly gay. It's still wild.