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  • methinks the Boys doth protest too much

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  • I mean considering the possibility that Christianity crimped at least some of its practices from the cult of Dionysus, might accidentally be exactly correct

  • S.W.A.T.? More like...

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  • I dunno, I think there is a place for specially trained law enforcement in cases like mass shootings or hostage crises.

    Without a doubt though, these guys are deployed WAAAAAAAAY to often over WAAAAAAAAY to low a threshold of danger.

    Then again, much the same can be said of law enforcement in general, they should really have an isolated line from 911.

    It's way too often that these guys end up deployed where they really don't need to be, and it's just an established fact that cops interacting more than they need to causes increases in needless escalation of encounters between members of the public and the fired up and ready to shoot nutbags who think being dispatched means they gotta be ready for the goddamned hulk to come at them.

  • Venezuela’s Maduro just tightened his grip on power. What comes next?

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  • How the hell does a dictator tighten their grip on power?

    Is it the difference between maintaining appearances and dropping the façade? Because that's all it could ever seem like IMO.

  • Ukraine military intelligence claims role in deadly Wagner ambush in Mali

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  • "YOU THINK YOU FUCKERS ARE SAFE JUST BECAUSE YOU AIN'T ON OUR TURF RIGHT NOW? NAH, WE COMMIN' FOR YOU IN RUSSIA, WE COMMIN' FOR YOU IN SYRIA, WE COMIN' FOR Y'ALL'S RANCID ASSES IN GODDAMNED SUBSAHARAN AFRICA IF IT MEANS WE GET TO HUNT YOU FUCKERS DOWN!"

  • Poland suggests Hungary leave EU and join “union with Putin” after Orbán criticism

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  • Slovakia, as in the country he denies the legitimate existence of by denouncing trianon, that Slovakia, they're the ones defending him now?

  • Poland suggests Hungary leave EU and join “union with Putin” after Orbán criticism

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  • Slovakia, as in the country he denies the legitimate existence of by denouncing trianon, that Slovakia, they're the ones defending him now?

  • Poland suggests Hungary leave EU and join “union with Putin” after Orbán criticism

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  • Looks like that immunity shielding agreement just fell through, good on Poland for voting to stop protecting Orban from the consequences of his total bullshit.

  • Is this just how it’s gonna be till Election Day?

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  • Meanwhile I've actually donated and gotten zip,

    Someone probably gave them your phone number

  • Life's not fair [Field Explores]

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  • Googles

    Oh you poor thing, well I mean hey, the folks do be diggin' a clean face tho.

  • Life's not fair [Field Explores]

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  • I can't grow a full beard for shit and am thinking of looking into permanent removal

    My stache though is hilarious, if I grow it out without the beard I instantly look like I've aged myself 40 years. Something not helped by the fact that my chosen look is suspenders on a tucked in button down and alternating on khakis vs jeans.

    I look like microbrewery ned flanders.

  • Oh jeez

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  • I'd imagine all but the densest motherfuckers on the face of the earth would see that the force standing between them and summary execution at best is calling the retreat and realize the value of being alive somewhere else vs dying on the patch of dirt you happened to feel the most attached to at that moment.

  • Israeli Snipers Firing at 'Anyone Who Is Moving' in Khan Younis

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  • Ok at this point I feel like a significant chunk of these atrocities boil down to abject failure to instill discipline.

    This isn't how a well trained soldier behaves, this is how some yahoo who got handed a rifle in a catastrophic failure of vetting and pointed at a crowd and told someone bad is in there behaves.

    And I know for a fact that Israel's military has vetting standards even for conscripts, one of Netenyahu's cabinet members is noteworthy specifically because he was turned away from military service for being a stark raving mad lunatic who shouldn't be trusted with a loaded gun.

  • Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, leader of Mexico's notorious Sinaloa cartel, arrested in Texas, officials say

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  • You joke but I could honestly see that being a back pocket approval rating booster for her since draconian pursuit of prosecuting criminal activity is an easy lean in for her career experience.

  • Oh jeez

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  • Honestly what gets me about evac failures and abandonments is the Berlin Airlift.

    We had the logistics to mount a months long rescue operation that could get everyone fleeing out decades before these rushed withdrawals.

    Everyone in Saigon and Kabul could have been gotten out, fuck we could have mounted a rolling evac bringing collaborators behind lines and transporting them in a trickle so that the last folks out are in a relatively empty air schedule. Expanding and contracting sphere, keep everyone who's in it willingly behind the line so long as they willingly continue to move with it.

  • Oh jeez

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  • Because that's not "made the soldiers sad" it's "this entire thing was awful and a fucking crime."

    You're trying to insist that media that would agree that it was a bad thing is exploitation media because....it agrees with you?

    It honestly seems like you're just trying to argue because you don't like someone pointing out that the meme isn't fully accurate to what war media actually looks like historically and even today to some extent.

  • Oh jeez

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  • Vietnam movies were usually either about POW experiences or about the absolute pointlessness of it all, which doesn't really line up with "bombing your country and then making movies about how sad it made them"

    I have literally never seen a depiction of Vietnam that was positive or shy of direct condemnation of how terrible it all was.

    Seriously, even Forrest Gump's innocent portrayal of it still managed to underline in bold that it was all pointless, needless, and cruel beyond reason.

  • Oh jeez

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  • Ten get

  • Oh jeez

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  • I think the only country that's legit happened to was Iraq,

    Usually it's more about how traumatized the POWs captured by your country's soldiers were. Unbroken being the major cinematic example, and all the stories about Senator McCain refusing early release and being tortured for it and the guy who blinked reports of torture out in morse code while reading a hostage statement in Vietnam being the more "stuff of legends" examples.

    American Sniper is the only one I've seen where it's about how some soldier who didn't experience anything above the typical background humm of war felt about the whole thing.

    Probably because being a US military troop is the least dangerous it's ever been, so the major condition most troops will face isn't death or permanent injury, but instead PTSD from having faced combat or Survivor's guilt from having been suddenly shifted off the rare doomed mission or patrol that still claims casualties at the last second.

    Most enlisted troops are just career workers in camo with a REALLY rigorous on the job fitness program. There's a reason the US is everyone's intel and logistics repository, and it's because for every dollar spent on actually fighting, ten get spent on building up so much intelligence that the deck is as stacked as it can be before the cards even come out of the box to be dealt.

    Edit: get not grt

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