The leaders of our armed forces are fighting an illegal war and have broken their oath to the constitution.
They have engaged in a war that cannot be won. It was all started by a criminal president. Now our very survival is threatened. Our sons and daughters will die. Our future in a madmans hands.
someone at the pentagon frantically typing “Claude, open the strait of Hormuz for me, quickest possible strategy, make no mistakes.”
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
Chris Murphy: "I think it's likely the United States that carried out this attack on this school. I think it's unforgivable under any circumstances, but the fact this was one of our first targeting decisions speaks to the incompetence of our leadership at the Dept of Defense."
Counterpoint: Limiting how US troops can be used illegally in unconstitutional wars of the president’s own choosing *IS* supporting “the troops.”
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
The meme with a guy and two girls. The guy is labeled 1:59 AM. His girlfriend islabeled 2 AM. The cute girl coming the other way is labeled 3AM.
The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.
They kicked out all the trans folks so our cyber defense capacity is basically nil.
It's like map reading. Some folks come in knowing, some folks learn in training, and some never learn at all.
For the longest time I thought that, if anything, the army spent too much training time on values, because who doesn't inherently understand things like honor, respect, integrity etc. Guys like this are a minority of vets but its clear that some people never understood our professed values at all
The first rule of fight club is thou shalt have no other fights before club
And on the flipside look at Hegseth, he's up to his tits in high-class parchment and is a *complete fucking moron.*
Clicking a twitter link feels the same as that scene from BG3 with the spider corpse.
I ain't touching that, have fun tho.
This is honestly one of the most anti-Jewish things I’ve ever seen from the United States government.
Can’t overemphasize this. They spent decades saying the US was thirsty for Iranian blood and would conspire with Israel to destroy them, and used that to justify their oppression and militarism. And guess what!
Worse than the worst War on Terror drone strikes. By innocents killed, worse than multiple of the worst drone strike errors combined.
My current enemies are not in Iran, they’re in the Epstein Files.
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes:
Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
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We taking bets on the distribution of branches among these reports?
I’ll bet it’s:
1) USAF
2) USA
3) USN
4) USMC
for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc
Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level.
You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext*
www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...
How come “How are you going to pay for it?” is never asked about endless war?
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
this is also true for 90% of the military's understanding of military affairs tbh
There is a strange familiarity with death and violence that military personnel deal with on a daily basis which grants a sort of knowledge that most other professions do not gain. The most elemental thing that a Soldier knows, or is prepared to know, is that the spectre of Death is always nearby. Military culture works to turn every visit from Death into a celebration of the Warrior Spirit. The raw grief is tempered, if not completely drowned out, by a wash of heroic sentiment and patriotic feeling. No matter how gruesome the details, or how unrecognizable the contents of that flag-draped coffin, ceremony turns the details of Death into something beautiful and fine. But Death still takes its toll on you. Physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, spiritually... I'm exhausted. Who am I kidding? I was already exhausted.
My friends are dying. They are wanting to die. Trying to die. Because the world wants us to die. Because the world thinks we aren't worth the effort to save. Just take as much as they can, and throw us aside when they're done. I can't even count how many people have told me that they wouldn't even care if they never woke up. There's no celebration of heroism to be had here. No warrior spirit. Just quiet desperation. Just an endless, drudging sense of sheer hopelessness. I want to say to them, "the world is better with you in it. There is so much that is dark and bad here, you are one of the bright spots. Please, please don't die." And if I'm to be completely honest, "Please, don't leave me here alone. I can't lose you too." People keep asking if I'm considering my own death. They don't get it. They're completely missing the point. Death took my friends from me. Why would I give it more? But that spectre is right there, right behind me, just out of view. Whispering in my ear the most horrible thing I can imagine-- "I'm taking you last.”
As more of us start coming back in flag-draped coffins again, I'm thinking about something I wrote some years ago.
I'm so tired of all this death.
Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.
Every Day is Ethics Day. Especially when its hard.
If two guys went up to a kid, one guy shot the kid, then the other guy went "woah woah woah dude, you didn't fill out the form for child murder, you gotta do the proper paperwork to murder kids bro, there is a process here," you would reasonably conclude that two guys had murdered that kid.
