JTarrou
19d ago
I was prepping for deployment when they rolled that "hearts and minds" shit out. We started referring to the Mozambique drill as the "Hearts and Minds" drill. Two in the heart, one in the mind.
JTarrou
19d ago
The vets we see in politics today are coming commonly from middle-ranking specops officers (there's apparently a direct pipeline from Navy officers to congress). Previously it tended to be high-ranking commanding officers (Eisenhower) or low-ranking ones from aristocratic families (Kennedy, Bush). I'm not sure what the actual numbers are, or the trends over time, but the type of vets who are becoming politicians are changing.
JTarrou
20d ago
Civilian discovers war involves killing and vets have dark senses of humor. And marines are gay.
News at 11.
JTarrou
21d ago
And you interpreted that to mean if an international entertainment company ever produced a show aimed at boys, then what I said was falsified?
You guys are slaying that straw.
JTarrou
21d ago
That's a lot of words for "I don't like the way poor people look and find them less sympathetic than cartoons".
Which is......a take.
JTarrou
22d ago
So, they only broke the norms a bit by removing Trump from the ballot and charging him with a hundred felonies?
Sure, I say only remove half of them from the ballot and charge the Democrats with eighty felonies each. Let's de-escalate this shit!
JTarrou
23d ago
It means they consistently believe this tactic will build them credibility to burn in the future on some more important issue. You're not even close to cynical enough for politics.
JTarrou
23d ago
Every organizations chooses the battle to burn their carefully built credibility in. The ACLU dropped free speech to chemically castrate gay kids. Weird flex, but ok.
One day FIRE will as well. I can only imagine how stupid the issue will be.
JTarrou
23d ago
Principles are easy until you've lost a few elections. Once you realize no one else has them, it becomes difficult to maintain an interest in such a filthy game without playing it.
JTarrou
23d ago
Pointless ideologically, potentially important demographically. Hard patriarchy is what gets birthrates up.
JTarrou
23d ago
Of course it is. And with competing nationalisms and versions of the religion. Point is, they all happen within Islam. When Europe was "Christendom", they had thousands of heretical sects, competing secular governments, nobles, clerics, etc. They still had some more powerful ideology serving as the tent under which all that was "united". Neither Islam nor globohomo is any different. We're all in globohomo, whether we like it or not in the same way Iran is part of Islam, even though they are hated heretics by the rest of Islam.
JTarrou
23d ago
There's only two international ones, Islam and globohomo. Everything else is politically captured religion, ethnic division and nationalisms.
JTarrou
23d ago
Unity of people will reinforce any vision that captures it. A deracinated, divided people are capable of following no vision but force.
This is a GPS unit in search of a vehicle. The car broke down a century ago. The UK is now a mirror on the vehicle that is the US empire.
JTarrou
23d ago
Disney was always for chicks, some people fell for a marketing ploy when they decided to chickify a couple boys IPs. This was always an act of aggression against those fanbases, and that's why it was done. Disney is a giant international slopCorp staffed by failed theater kids and orally fixated women. If you care deeply about Disney, you need to make your peace with that.
Or you could do what most boys do by the age of five and stop thinking about a globohomo company that makes princess cartoons. It's not the masculine flex you might think.
JTarrou
24d ago
Did I say skilled manufacturing labor? Or was that what you had an argument ready for, and you figured my post was as good a place as any?
JTarrou
25d ago
Yes, the problem is the US has no engineering schools. You must have gone to school here.
JTarrou
27d ago
I too am terrified that if we deport more Guatemalans not enough Indians will come here and do the jobs Americans just won't do (for less than minimum wage).
There's one major factory company left in mid-Michigan, but they hire their engineering and technical staff entirely from the subcontinent. Now, because I've seen the unemployment numbers and because this used to be a manufacturing hub, I don't think this is because there aren't enough locals to do the job. It just costs more when you can't ship them back after their visa is up. Every hotel in fifty miles smells like curry, but at least Dow doesn't hire Americans for jobs outside the warehouse.
It would be a real tragedy if those indians were so enraged by anti-black racism they see on the internet that they no longer wanted to come here. Why, companies might have to pay real wages and benefits, and not be able to hold a work visa over their recruits' heads, and that would be bad. Our economy cannot survive without a constant stream of immigrants, because we have laws that force employers to meet certain minimum criteria when hiring Americans, and that's bad.
JTarrou
28d ago
All professors contribute to and derive their living from participating in a fundamentally hostile institution, and the financial indenture of the student body and taxpayers which fund it.
A lot of plumbers and housewives and kindergarten teachers died in Dresden. They were all the enemy. Those who can't grasp this basic concept have no business in war.
JTarrou
28d ago
Not literally everyone in academia is your enemy.
I'll be the judge of who my enemies are. Literally every single person in that status hierarchy is my enemy. They belong to a heretical cult of a now-dead social religion and nothing short of full destruction will slow their war on science, reason and western civ. In the same manner that a hostile military must be broken before peace terms can be decided, so must academia be levelled before the social contract can be redrawn.
My advice is not to go down with such a leaky, corrupt and evil ship. Academia declared war on society. Society has started to notice. And people like me are just waiting for the right time to hole this bitch below the waterline, sling the grappling hooks and raise the Jolly Roger.
Lol, WW2 was nicer than afghanistan?
See, this is the sort of thing civilians believe that makes it necessary for vets to have their own entertainment. Bonkers.
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