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It's important to note that Ukraine is now only tangling with a largely irregular (but entrenched) force, and the little green men are not to be seen. Even when THEY were rolling around, it was with very outdated armored vehicles (BMP-2's and BTR-80's, same stuff the Ukrainians field), and none of their current fighting vehicles (BMD-4M's, T-80U's & T-90's, BTR-90's) they have. Given the current political dialogue, this means 2 things:
1. Due to their zealous assaults, ethnically Russian groups are actually being met with the violence they said they feared in the first place, that Putin used as an excuse to back his Crimean velvet glove invasion. Ironic, in a way. And a self fulfilling prophecy.
2. Ukraine still has to be cautious about how they deal with this insurgency. Putin may be pulling back support now that he at least has Crimea and is facing the looming reality of REAL political resistance, but if Ukrainian forces go batshit crazy or have one headliner scandal of counter-insurgency misconduct, they will give him an excuse to start a full-on invasion with his forces unmasked under a pretense of stopping a "fascist genocide", and he will take it.
Oh, hey they do love to be hypocritical about what constitutes a Fascist.
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"We are White, We are Christian, We are Russian, Thank God."
After all this time, they haven't changed. And to think after the 90's, the western world really did wish them good luck, good living, and peace. Apparently not in the nature of most Russians over the age of 30. Let's hope their future generations can do better, or that the middle aged psychopaths who resemble Tea Party Americans so much aren't really typical of the people. After enough interviews and quotes though, I'm doubting that. And they still think Nukes make them special, when most human beings just want them gone.
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Yes. Unless there is a 3rd party involved, the only interested party that has cluster munitions, or Frogfoot ground attack jets is the Russian Federation. The only comparable plane that could tightly pump that many AP rounds into a single T-72 from that angle, is the American A-10. Standard 20mm rounds out of a typical interceptor/fighter don't have that much penetrative or destructive force against a MBT, and are generally not used on ground targets (speed of the jet, purpose of the round). There aren't any A-10's nearby, and a gross yield bomb leaves a WIDE and DEEP crater and scorching, cluster munitions have less dramatic effect on the surrounding terrain, usually confined to their target type (Armor Piercing in this case), as was depicted in the footage. My guess is a KAB-500-L-KE precision laser guided munition, manufactured by Tactical Missile Systems, Russia.
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The answer should be relatively simple, if the commanders on both sides of the fence can keep their heads about them and keep the bullets in the magazines rather than the other side. Balkanize that shit, and this time, keep the ethnic Russians OUT of Western Ukraine. West wants to go EU, East wants to go Russian Federation vassal state. If it weren't for the treaty, the US should just say: Fuck it, deal with it, we're tired of trying to help anyone since all they do is spit in our face and embezzle our aid $$.
There's 3 factors in play here:
1. Ukraine boasts a LOT of fertile land. This isn't a small matter, especially if it means feeding Russians with it, and cutting their dependency on Western wheat. Look at the conflict in Kashmere between Pakistan and India over water as an example.
2. A chance for Putin to puff out his chest at Obama, the "Leader of the Free World", who also happens to be Black. To say this is a populist nod to endemic Russian racism who see their race, land, and religion as one would be an understatement. A chance to stick it to the western Black Man and America is just too good to pass up for Putin. You would almost think the GOP put him up to it after the Olympics, the timing couldn't be better for both.
3. Russia is on a roll this year to get their "bad guy" cred back, and Putin supporting Russians are eating it up. Hyperbole, and outright lying both on youtube and in the press are nothing new to a propaganda state and it's citizens (you will see many of them spewing bullshit in this very comment section), and completely accepted by what are some of the most blood thirsty people on the planet, and who make peace with the fact that they are. Putin really does typify the men of his country. He's not pushing them, he's a reflection of them. They haven't been able to make much of a go of Capitalism and Democracy over the last decades, so they are looking back to imperialism and conquest for those glory days to salve their national identity.
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I have a hard time thinking of Macron as the "good guy" for the French people. He's a corporate conservative at the end of the day. The only reason he seems like a decent politician to other countries is because he isn't Le Pen. From an American's perspective, that's like saying "Thank goodness we have President Paul Ryan. Can you imagine a Trump presidency?!?"
Macron is literally the French incarnation of Paul Ryan.
When you have an American doing a startup in France wearing a $3000 suit, surrounding by happy, healthy, and busy French employees working to keep him in $3000 suits, but he complains about "how hard it is", I just don't have it in me to feel bad for him or think that the French government should be doing "more" for him and not his employees.
Stick to your guns, French Labour Unions, and never let them turn you into our "Rich Guys First" culture across the pond. If you're "economically challenged", it sure doesn't look it. High unemployment is a relative thing when you have $37k median income and a 2.7 trillion GDP. I respect that you don't allow corporations to contribute to political campaigns and cap the campaign financing by individuals and parties, and I respect that modern France is a stable bedrock member of the EU.
I won't get into nationalist history...we all got skeletons in our country's closets
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7:48 Well, General Flynn, you did alot more than a tenth of what she was accused of. More like power of 10. You just might get locked up. Although I am damned curious what you thought you could offer as testimony had you been given the immunity deal you sought...
For those of you who haven't spent time around General Officers, you have to understand that they have lived their entire adult lives in an Officer bubble. The kind of bubble where you throw one time comrades under the bus to climb to full bird colonel and above, and you are given 20+ years of encouragement to be a "world" player with godlike power. They don't understand life for the normal enlisted guy, much less life for the average American or foreign national. I've spent my time in the orbit of fine colonels and light birds, a few well meaning but out of touch brigadiers and major generals, but never met a single Lieutenant General who wasn't packing a god complex that they clearly wore on their face. Especially a certain former commander of the XVIII Airborne Corps. His entourage and staff were visibly intoxicated with his sense of power and spent their time in "yes man" mode. Pete Chiarelli was a cool MJ when he was running the 1st Cav though. Came to every funeral service for every guy we ever lost, and actually told his staff to get lost so he could talk to troops and local iraqis at the ground level, without being told what he wanted to hear.
One sad fact related to me by a Corps level NCO is that senior sergeants major have to attent periodic weeks-long training now just to learn how to keep their Commanding General from committing sexual assault, harrassment, politically suicidal statements, or letting slip OPSEC info while bragging about themselves. That's pretty fucked up.
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I don't care to hear another word about the life or motivations of Paddock. Ever. He deserves not one iota of remembrance. What I do want to see is at least a few minutes each day about every person we lost in Vegas and in Puerto Rico. Who they were, their yearbook and childhood pictures, what they did both good and bad. I want to have a REAL FUCKING THOUGHT for victims, Media. No more lip service, no more victim-mandala pictures and-then-move-on bullshit.
Stop saying thoughts and prayers when you have no idea who to pray for when you have not one name in your thoughts. Jeremy Christian's name is forever known for the stabbing of three men who stood up to his Nazi ass on a train for two scared girls, but people have to google THEIR names. Ricky Best, dead. Taliesin Namkai-Meche, dead. Micah Fletcher, who survived. But all people will know is Christian's name.
Stop giving perpetrators their 5 minutes of fame, and start spending it on those we lost, Media.
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I could spend millions of dollars.
OR I could google the predicted fallout maps for my area, have a plan, and head to a non-targeted area with prevailing winds that push all the fallout away from livable land.
Assuming survival from a first strike, the sanctuary area for me is the Oregon Coast, not a bunker. And it's about a 30 minute drive with lots of rural highway routes to choose from through the mountains. Powerful constant winds push all the fallout the opposite direction, precipitation coming from the ocean, fish, timber, no major targets, almost entirely public land that won't have entitled, crazy, gun waving nuts "standing their ground".
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When Americans are the ones growing and shipping the opium, then I'll point the finger that way. Stick to the hard facts and stop trying to impress everyone with your conspiracy theories.
1. Afghans grow Poppies because it's 7 times as profitable as food. The US tried that trick already, and Afghans aren't known givers of fucks about what they do to others when they can line their pockets.
2. Iran, known to nab anyone the moment they get within a kilometer of their border, is somehow, inexplicably, being flooded with Heroine making it across the line that a gnat couldn't sneak across.
3. The US isn't known for "final solutions", such as sowing the fields of Afghanistan with salt. They simply aren't hard-core enough to take the harsh actions necessary to stop this, probably because they would be perversely condemned even more (if such a thing were possible) by everyone for it. If a country's major export were Chemical Weapons, would you still have the same reservations about destroying that economy? Is it really so far off?
4. Historically, Afghan poppies were shipped East to be refined and shipped out of the Golden Triangle. If it's going West instead these days, it's because of either a change in Chinese/Triad policies, or a spike in other markets.
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@RebornLegacy You really missed the point. They all started out as legal guns, that can be found anywhere. What starts out legal doesn't take much to move into Illegal. Sold, traded, stolen, uncontrolled and untraced. The number of legal gun sales is intertwined, and inseperable, with the number of illegal guns. But there's a difference: You slow the sale and lethality in new, legal guns and you exponentially reduce the dangers of illegal firearms making the rounds. Because as time ticks on, and illegal guns get confiscated, they become an endangered species compared to legal guns, which do not get confiscated, if you can stop them from breeding on the factory floor. And the more endangered a hot gun gets, the more it's black market value goes up, which means it will trade hands even less.
England already figured this math out in 1996 after a school massacre. You can sit there and deny that, and you will, and talk about knives and trucks, but they don't have our gun problems. The only massacre they had after that? By a legal gun owner. In 2010. 23 years, and only a single mass shooting that killed 12. And it happened because they let that guy have his guns LEGALLY. Here, in 'Murica, we could almost envy those kinds of rookie numbers.
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It was always accepted on both sides that for women, sex is a weapon. And I don't simply mean the act. ALL Aspects of sex. Social interaction and customs, fashion & standards of grooming and dress, workplace etiquette, privacy, financial expectations, friendship, notions of satisfaction during intercourse, fidelity, politics, fertility, parenthood, marriage & divorce, she-said-he-said, feminist victimhood privilege, blame & persecution, "fluid" consent, and the myth of female godhead.
But for women today every aspect of sex is no longer just a weapon. It's a WMD. And the other half of the population is being bombed.
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1. The oldest, most agreed upon tenet of justice isn't taking the high road, or turning the other cheek. It's simply that you get what you deserve. You reap what you sew. Some say justice is about harmony, but conflate that into forgiveness on some level, not because they consider the victims or the criminal, but because they only think of themselves in that position or that it equals a virtue, because, again, they are thinking of themselves and not the crime or the victims.
2. A living, breathing murderer is a continued threat. Escapes happen. Loopholes happen. While many statistics say a capital offender is less likely to commit that crime again, that does NOTHING to erase the fact that some do. And that's an incredible failing. There is an admitted cannibal murderer that VICE covered who is free, right now, living in Japan.
3. Examples matter. In a world of billions of people, there are always people who are inspired by people who got away with it. And will think they could too. The old aphorism that "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" just doesn't hold up. It's virtue signalling for selfish reasons, not dealing with a real world situation. What it should say is "An eye for an eye keeps people from poking other people's eyes out."
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The GOP plan to use Trump as a lightning rod is a shakespearian masterstroke. Everything they do from now until the mid terms is a win.
They let Trump run wild. They win.
They pretend to be the victim of the Alt Reich and aid in Trump's resignation, impeachment, or worse, and they look like responsible adults again in 2018, bringing in moderate voters. They win.
Then you get..what? President Pence? Or if he goes down with the ship,
President Ryan? Boy, you can positively feel establishment republicans salivating over THAT idea. They win.
They put the Y'all'Queda & Johnny Reb portion of their base back in their place, eliminating the threat to establishment republicans with Trump's ouster. The establishment GOP can live with being called RINO's, because it's not as if a Teapublican could survive the trauma of voting for a democrat, even if it was in their best interest. They win.
So pay attention to the fact that the NeoCons didn't create Trump by accident. That's pure dinner theater. He's simply performing his role as intended. Trump is just the obvious tumor, you have to attack the Republican cancer.
Remember: Just taking out Jabba the POTUS and the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is Mos Eisley Space Cabinet won't mean you struck a blow against the Empire, my fellow rebel scum.
Stay On Target. Stay On Target.
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+Sabine Legrand ISIS is the purest expression of Sunni Islam. Westerners still think of Islam as one big homogenous organization. That's like traveling back to the United States during the civil war era and not knowing the difference between North and South, only with both institutionalizing slavery. Sunni Islam is about a return to post 11th century Imperial Islam, who embodied the ultimate capitalist system of flesh trading and maritime raiding and ransom. The Shia are no less crazy, just less centralized and more hillbilly, rooted in Bedouin life more than an urban Caliphate. Whichever side of the divide, Islam is Nation, Race, Language, and Law. Slavery, genocide, and extortion is absolute and institutionalized, it's not parable, it's not open to bending of the rules. Sura of the Cow, the second longest section of the Q'uran, enshrines and makes all the oldest sins of man completely endorsed to ALL of Islam. It also makes clear that everyone, EVERYONE, has a dollar value attached to their life. Like I said, the ultimate expression of capitalism given a license to kidnap, rape, murder, and steal, so long as you do it in the Sharia rulebook. For all the attention people are paying to the acts, precious few of you are actually understanding this enemy by reading their own confessions in their book about what they do. Google the phrase That Which Your Right Hand Owns, and find out for yourself.
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SaltyBrains Ironically, I do have some well-maintained MOPP gear. Now if that doesn't make me sound like a crazy doomsday prepper, nothing will.
But I will never go full Bunker Troll and turn my life upside down like a crazy Militia nut. I just believe in having a decent emergency plan and bug out box in the garage, whether it's man made or natural disaster. Fieldcraft/Wood tools and hardware, heritage seeds, preserved foods, cold weather gear, water purifiers, shelter, lots of fire goodies, hygiene and surplus NBC decon stuff, basic medical supplies, solar kit & camp electronics, and a bike. Oh, and socks. LOTS of socks, lol :)
Edit: FYI, my local bugout area is Florence, Oregon. Wind patterns, fresh water, far from known target areas, available resources, Pacific fishing, agricultural resources, and livable space make it a place for a sizable population to get back on it's feet without going underground in a nuclear scenario. Pretty much anything from Coos Bay, OR down to Eureka, CA is a good place to evacuate to, and could sustain several million along that stretch of the coast.
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This is now a country where, if you fall of The Grid, you aren't getting back on. Every year that goes by, it's even more impossible to recover your life.
The minimum requirement checklist for not going homeless in America:
1. Already employed somehow, even if you're after another job
2. Good credit, no excuses
3. An "acceptable" social media presence
4. Already have a physical address that you've had for a while
5. Several thousand dollars saved just to RENT a shithole apartment
6. Have your own cell phone number
7. Have an email address and regular accessibility to online resources
8. Be good looking enough to be presentable to customers or management
9. Spotless legal record, or at least have found "Jesus"
10. More and more identifying documents. Simply having a pulse doesn't make you a "person" in this country anymore
11. Acceptable level of education
12. Not too much education, or too much student debt
13. Display no opinions
14. A car, clean drivers license, and insurance, even if you could just use other transport. Go ahead and show up on foot for an interview and see where that gets you
15. Don't be on probation, diversion, or recovery
16. Own the right clothes and display the right haircut
17. Don't ever look like you really need a paycheck or help. It's the surest way to ensure you will get neither
To picture the "grid", imagine a sheet of graph paper. Every square on it's edge is part of the Checklist, and is lifted up and supported by a stick under each Requirement category. Your life is a ball sitting in the middle. Every time you miss a requirement, a stick is knocked out, and that ball rolls closer to the edge. The ball doesn't bounce. If you lose sticks, the ball falls off the grid, and it doesn't come back. Because almost every one the items on the grid require money somehow, and when you have no money, those fail to sustain those squares, and you won't be getting an income to buy them back.
That's life in America in 2018.
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@GrammarPaladin You are:
A. Ignoring points I've made, then somehow perversely trying to make a similar point and throw it back in my direction as a matter of....disagreement? You actually proved my point, particularly when mentioning Gyaru girl fashion vs. how I addressed that Tanning is a recent phenomenon. This is not how logic works.
B. Making false claims. Please point out where I ever said or implied this is a matter of evolution. That was Kolboynik.
Therefore I can only conclude you're either incapable or unwilling to actually read what I wrote and are just making comments for the sake of making comments without a valid point
Edit: Actually, I take that back. You do have a point you are trying to make, albeit a false one. You are trying to claim that White people are trying to make the women of other cultures look white and conform to their standards. And my point is that the trends that made you (falsely) believe that, such as light toned skin, existed long before they ever met white people at all. Kind of like how many races each invented the Bow and Arrow, or Bread without ever having met. They are simply common themes that pop up throughout all corners of the species. Like women trying to make their skin appear smooth, pale, or what they deem to be otherwise unblemished as a matter of beauty as they compete for males of higher status. Or fancy clothes and dancing. Also a female specific, species wide phenomenon that pops up without any need for contact between disparate cultures. It is, simply, a Girl Thing.
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It's true, Fred. The compromise is where we need to be. But we've got 2 sides taking all the air in the room from the majority looking for a reasonable solution to high body count guns that embolden psychotics. Few people about to "snap" will look at their daddy's .30-06 and think "Boy, I'm gonna go out in a blaze of Glory with this puppy". But when Cabela's has a sale on a Ruger AR-15 clone and some D-60 Magpul drums, well, that's another level of enabling.
We got the die hard "Disneyland dwellers" no-gun rights at all crowd taking the air from the more reasonable majority Left, aka the Bongo Beating Hippies who think we shouldn't have a military at all, and we should all obey their tofu chewing philosophy about our gender and racial privilege.
And then we got the willing to kill if you give them an excuse "Bring on the Purge" 2A nuts who are blatantly sociopathic and know they shouldn't have been allowed to have guns in the first place. Alot of them are panicking about background checks because they would fail them. Wife beaters, misdemeanor assault crimes and restraining orders, and guys with a trail of threatening comments on the internet that would flag them if the law allowed it today. Unfortunately, they are very numerous, and are prime supporters of the NRA's "No such thing as Reasonable Gun Control" crowd.
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The "Majority" of the fighters in this video are current or ex-Mahdi Army schmucks; Muqtada Al-Sadr's flunkies who were largely ignored by the US media as the most prevalent threat and troublemakers, in order to push the Al-Qeada narrative for the world and US media. Half ass guerrillas and dumbshits, led by a fat dumbshit who ran to Iran once the Iraqi provisional government finally grew enough balls to issue a warrant for his arrest after he broke cease fire after cease fire.
Sadr City (NE Baghdad) was a ghetto that Saddam put most of the urban Shiite fundamentalists into, and proved so bad, he built a wall around the whole area, like Watts. He also knocked off Muqtada's old man, Al-Sadr Senior, martyring him. After Muqtada's temporary exile, they started signing up with with Iraqi Army, thusly infiltrating and taking it over, and displacing the very competent former Iraqi Republican Guard officers who used to run the Iraqi Army. Hence their totally ineffective showing against ISIL. They have always been half assed, cowardly, and opportunistic, with a penchant for mob shake down mentality. No amount of training and equipping by US forces would change that. The Al Malliki government only came to power and won the vote because of Al-Sadr's implicit support, and remained in his pocket up the exit of US forces and the new government. The Mahdi Army was estimated to be 50,000 strong, but were wildly awful fighters. Ask any Iraq vet who ever did a Thunder Run in the Sadr City section of Baghdad.
THAT is the narrative you never heard pushed in Western news, because it didn't tie into the hunt for the very rare Al Qeada cells, and showed that US intervention gave Al-Sadr the opportunity to make his move to consolidate the country under his, and by proxy, Iran's rule. He is the Ayatollah's right hand man in Iraq.
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I'm an Iraq veteran who gets my care at the Portland VA as well (We call it Pill Hill), and my primary care physician was nice enough to honestly tell me that she only needs to see me once a year, to get their funding, no matter what I say I need help with. They may have have odd pet projects for something afflicting you, to justify it's existence, but don't expect that any orthopedic disabilities will get anything other than physical therapy. You'll get a pill, and it will come in the mail. But for what it's worth, the Portland campus IS better than most, because they get doctors from Oregon Health Sciences University next door to actually work on vets sometimes.
If you want to get medical help with something through the VA, you have to send an in-system email through their byzantine "MyHealthEVet" system, and your primary "care team" will answer you there, but you never get a phone number to directly speak to the office of your primary care physician, who has to authorize any procedure or therapy. And you could end up waiting up to a year just for that. It took 3 years to get an X-Ray on my knee, and then my PCP promptly told me my knee was problematic because "Oh, you're just old", and that's about where it ended.
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GMO's = necessary scientific means to keep food production effective.
Organics = higher priced luxuries made to cater to health nuts who don't look up real facts.
The problem stems from the companies behind the science. Bad PR and bad faith corporate decisions have not only affected their market share, but the positive science being done with it. Transparency was needed, but wasn't granted, and distrust in our food has driven people back to wasteful, possibly dangerous stone age food choices.
The other problem is polarized politics, carrying on the us versus you mentality. Someone right leaning sees a 20 something in normal fashions sold today, cries 'HIPSTER!' (just read half of the comments below) and assume it's just a liberal on a soap box, and buys sugary filler and questionable milk just to make a statement about their politics, being equally as ignorant about what they're doing.
We need GMO's (and I will take my meat irradiated, tyvm), but unless Monsanto is clear about what they're doing, they will lose market share and the science contributions to humanity will suffer because only the politically moronic will drink their cool aid without asking what's in it first.
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It's not just the Government that wants illegal immigrants out. It's the bulk of the American people. Polls have shown it over, and over, and over again. They're OK with that attitude until you flat out call them racist. And not just White status-quo America, either. Sun Yun, a 2nd generation Korean American who owns 3 small businesses, and Cheyanne, a Native American acquaintance, and many others who aren't remotely white, want illegals gone for these 3 recurring reasons:
1. If you're here illegally, what other criminal activity have you committed, and still commit? I might want to give immigrants a shot, but you can't screen felons that you don't know are here because they snuck in, and Mexico isn't great about letting the US know who has a rap sheet in Mexico. They consider it getting rid of their trash. The policies of BOTH countries are horrifically broken, and both populations are paying the price, but the finger only gets pointed one way. Yes, that one-sided "America is always guilty for all the worlds woes" attitude is old with other ethnic groups as well, White America.
2. Most illegal immigrants aren't here to become Americans because they love the idea of America, or to mesh with other people of any color other than their own. They're here for American money, and have little cultural respect for the US in general. They're interested in having Mexico, but up north and economically successful. They aren't interested in learning english even after 15 years, or obeying many routine laws, and have very different cultural ideas about such things as age of consent. If it wasn't quite such a large percentage of illegals who fit that bill, they would not be met with such rancor from Americans. Immigrants themselves will have to manage the outlook and behavior of their fellow immigrants before that ever changes.
3. Latinos are second only to African Americans for the role of Sacred Racial Cow of this country, and are first when it comes to the public race debate that draws attention in the media. This does not sit well with most other groups who feel they have a horse in the race, but whom the camera isn't paying any attention to. Media attention = political power and benefits. While we mostly love the idea of the American melting pot, Diversity and racial ass kissing has destroyed color-blind Unity, and immigration has boiled over the tolerance levels of most Americans:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/1660/immigration.aspx
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Things I learned from this video:
1. Simon is pissed that American Personnel are present in Ukraine, and will be a dick at every opportunity to Americans, or try to nuance shit talk out of the Ukrainians at every turn about the Americans.
2. This is more about getting first hand knowledge from the Ukrainians about current Russian gear, tactics, and capabilities than training the Ukranians on anything, and Putin will know that and have to consider that. The US is contemplating a full spectrum war with Russia again, something they stopped focusing on decades ago
3. Republicans are cool with kicking off WWIII even if the US President isn't, and just like the Iraqis, no matter what support the US gives, Ukrainians will continue to claim they get none. The difference is, right now they really are.
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Don't let this report lead you to believe that the Shia (Shi'ites) & Hezbollah are less vicious, and should receive your moral support versus the Sunni & ISIS, who have the headlines now.
For those Americans with short attention spans in understanding the difference behind their millennia old war: There are two key sides in Islam, rooted in the history of what happened in Mohammed's family. It's similar to the Christian reformation, with Catholics and Protestants murdering each other over the years in prodigious numbers, but taken up a few notches. Sunni, who are rooted in the idea of established Caliphate nations (and are the reason the US has had a large navy since 1801, and Marines sing of the "Shores of Tripoli"), versus the Shia, who have tighter roots to Bedouin life. Neither is the less violent or crazy, both seek Sharia law by different interpretations, but the Sunni side are almost always more organized, and constitute the majority of the Muslim world population. Think of the Sunni as urban Texans, and Shia as West Virginia hillbillies. Now feed them PCP and you about have it.
When you discuss Islam, it really is important to phrase it in terms of Sunni Islam and Shi'ite Islam, and think of it accordingly, like Republicans vs. Democrats. Yeah, sure, there are other parties, but they don't mean much.
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+SelphieFairy It's very racist Selphie. It's applied to poor white people exclusively. There is a reason why racism is back on the rise with young white Americans again, after a long period of it being whitled down by education, and a collective "whitey guild" campaign since the 80's....that's because it's acceptable, empowering to minorities, and even profitable, to walk around saying "Whites are Racist". It sells books, it pays stand up comics, and it gets lawsuits with large cash awards.
Those white kids are growing up from grade school being told how evil and racist they inherently are, and that if they don't accept that and capitulate, then they are also racists. That comes with legal, employment, and social consequences that are a double standard. I'm native Hawaiian, and I can tell you, it's not only accepted to do so, but encouraged to say "Haole". But I can't ignore the double standard being beat down the throats of young American kids that because of their skin color, they are inherently bad if they don't fork over legal & political power, that if white girls don't date black guys they must be racist, that they can study hard all they want, but many jobs are held for people who are NOT them. Same story, different races.
That's a remarkably stupid thing to do to the majority population, and there was always bound to be backlash that wipes out the social strides made for fairness. The 80's program was to be color blind, aka Equal Rights. The 2000's dream is to constantly fawn over anything that ISN'T white related, aka Diversity, or Diverting from Caucasians. I much preferred the "Unity in Color Blindness" message to the "Everyone is special, except all of you" message Diversity has come to symbolize.
Old white people who used to march for civil rights in the 60's have become the miserable bastard tea party largely because for all they fought for equality, what they got was spit in their eye. I don't have to like it, but I can understand why they soured and became haters.
Everyone likes their own brand, so "taking a stand" for your race isn't brave. It's self interest. I hear it all the time among people I resemble, if not identify with anymore. Equality is a pendulum, and it's swung from the far right, and has passed over the center to the near left, and is continuing on. Justice was in the middle. A combination of minority empowerment frenzy and institutionalized caucasian guilt education keeps pushing it further out. There's new master races, they're just different from the one last century.
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The Lithuanians definitely seem to have their military shit together compared to the hot mess that was the Ukrainian regular army, in terms of outlook, leadership, planning and the realities of civil affairs. I'm sure the advanced warning of Ukraine getting hit first helped galvanize them, to be sure, but they're showing real organization and competence.
Underequipped to be sure, but they've got their heads in the right place to defend their nation. They need comprehensive combined arms artillery, ADA, long term logistical caches hidden around the country, fixed and rotor wing air support integrated to support their very professional but small infantry force. So I wish them Good Luck, and hopefully, peace.
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Be honest. It's Brazil.
It's not like we expect to see Latin America pop up in political news with anything less than Crazy, Narcos, Military Juntas, and shouts of Revolucion! Revolucion!
These are not calm, dispassionate people who disapprove of gunfire as politics. But then again, neither is about 2/3rds of the cultures spread throughout Humanity. You could have changed the language from Portuguese to anything else, swapped the flag, and noone would have been able to see any difference between Brazil and Columbia, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, or Honduras, or even the Philippines
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For a real, REAL brief period with Lincoln, and from FDR all the way up to Nixon. Carter, for all that he was vanilla flavored and forgettable, was not a fucking asshole either. But the Republic that was Of the People, By the People, and For the People, has been in a tailspin since Nixon. That was truly the end of greatness. And even during the best years were still marred with portions of this country carrying on shit like Jim Crow, The Dropping of the Bombs (necessary, but still a point of shame), Japanese American Internment camps. But there has never been a utopia in the history of nations, either here or abroad. What determines your greatness is whether or not you're TRYING to make one. And right now we are not.
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I was part of rescue efforts after Katrina and Rita. While we were largely engaged with search efforts, keeping food and drinking water moving, sandbagging, and body recovery, there was another player making moves in New Orleans as soon as the storm passed: Insurance and Property Companies. After the 4th week we were there, titanic sized water pumps started showing up in throwing water out in neighborhoods that had long been abandoned and cleared.
After doing security checks to figure out who these people and their equipment were, we found out they were being deployed by Property Investment groups. They were mostly working on expensive water front neighborhoods, and they were there to salvage properties that were not sufficiently insured from the hurricane, and that they were there to buy up cheap from desperate owners who's homes were destroyed. A guy named Marcus Miller, the lead tech of one of the pump teams we checked out, didn't even bother to lie about it.
Texas may not see this much, since their property values are so much cheaper than the waterfront properties of New Orleans.
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Key categories of military purpose rifles/weapons excluding cannons and dedicated GP machine guns:
1. Assault rifle. Tailored for the Offense, meant to provide high volume, rapidly employed fires while on the move towards and inside of objectives. Characterized by lighter weight, higher capacity, mid range kill power. M4/M16/AK-47/M1 Garand (for it's time). You would not be wrong to put the civilian term "carbine" in here.
2. Battle rifle. Tailored for the Defense, meant to provide accurate, hard hitting long distance fires from stable positions. Higher weight, lower capacity, longer range, higher caliber. M14/FN-FAL/SMLE
3. Precision rifle. Most commonly adapted from civilian hunting platforms for prosecuting single high-payoff personnel targets. High caliber single shot lethality, deliberately restricted from volume fire or rapid maneuver, used from increased standoff compared the Battle Rifle by specialists either organic to the unit or operating alone. Remington 700 (M24/M40)/M25 (repurposed M14)
4. Anti-Materiel Rifle. By purpose meant to engage equipment and vehicles, personnel at ranges beyond standard precision and battle rifles, and for the destruction of explosive devices. Extreme range, multi-payload family Macro caliber rounds, extremely high weight and extremely low mobility. You wouldn't use this to shoot up a nightclub, but for assaulting an individual who was well protected at long range. M107A1 .50/NTW-20 20mm.
5. SMG. Submachine gun. Pistol redesigned to handle immedate, very close range high volume fire for assault in enclosed areas, defense when a rifle isn't feasible (pilots), and in civil actions such as policing and urban pacification, and silenced black operations. Small (pistol grade) ammunition, ultra low weight, concealability and suppression, high capacity, low accuracy, low penetration. Semi automatic versions in the civilian marketplace are labeled as "PDW's", personal defense weapons.
So? What is an assault rifle? It's a rifle suitable for fast Warfare purposes, where you go to the people you kill quickly, with enough power to kill alot of them in a short period of time. Big, small, short, long. Doesn't matter. You can move fast with it to your targets, it's high capacity with a rapid fire rate at average rifle distances and below with reasonable expectation of lethal hits bullet-for-bullet. It's for ASSAULTING, not defending.
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I spent a year being educated into the LDS faith because I was engaged to a Mormon, her parents were moderate Mormons, and her grandparents were very wealthy orthodox Mormoms. So the pressure started for me to assimiliate. And I gave it a shot. Coming from an old school Catholic family, it didn't seem particularly daunting.
And I loved the local Bishop, he was an oddball for Mormon orthodoxy. He was an Army chaplain (I was in the Army) and liked to curse from time to time me when the hat came off. A closet Jack Mormon. But as I spent a year of mornings in seminary classes with the counselors, I came to understand that they operate like the Scientologists. They slowly, perniciously disclose their beliefs, and after a while I started to understand all the dark points of view they held. No, not the polygamy that everyone associates with them. It's racism and what all those "missions" are all about. They aren't trying to save anyone, they had a core belief that you can't go to hell until you have been offered the opportunity to convert. If you don't convert, THEN you can go to hell. And I was going to be expected to go on a mission in order to get married in Temple. They are sending missionaries abroad in order to condemn people (particularly blacks in African countries) to hell.
This blew my fucking mind when it finally dawned on me. My fiance's little sister was watching a seminary childrens program that had puppets like Sesame Street, but then a homeless Black puppet was on the screen approaching a child. That was Satan, according to her mother. Because Satan is black and black people are the cursed descendants of Cain. There is an active eugenics thing going on in that church, a white Eugenic program where they bring acceptable people and families to Salt Lake by using that tithe money to buy them houses. In church, Mexican converts were present, but they sat in the back and they only were there because they were migrant farm workers working on my fiance's Grandparents farm. They HAD to go to their church. The richest families that had the most to tithe sat in the front.
It was fucking crazy once you realize what you're looking at. But they're smart enough to keep themselves mysterious. Today I simply identify as comfortably agnostic, now that I've seen what a tribalist church does when it influences a government.
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I lived on Kodiak with my step dad when I was young. Guy owned 2 commercial fishing rigs. I didn't know it at the time, and you wouldn't have known it to look at him, but he was filthy rich. The money he paid to the state to permit those 2 boats and crews each year was a fortune in and of itself, not to mention what was invested into those boats, nets, and paying crew.
So when I see our captain here, I see not just Morgan in his waders, I see it's about local millionaires taking on oil company billionaires.
In that contest, I still side with Morgan, simply as a matter of corporate creep, but guys like him will overfish if it makes him more money as well.
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That 2020 cyberpunk future arrived right on schedule.
Cyberlimbs, thoughts sent brain to brain by wire across continents, flying cars at CES, sex robots, corporations controlling government, privatized space companies, power suits, drones everywhere, self driving electric cars, environmental catastrophes, techware fashion, a rising China and growing urban density, VR & internet warfare.
It may not look like we predicted, but the essentials are all there.
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Simply put, too many on the right would absolutely lose their fucking marbles over there being not just a First Hubby, but a gay First Hubby. A significant portion of that 24% of America that is devoutly Republican are evangelical fundamentalist bigots. They have clergy who have taught them, and their kids, that it's Satan incarnate. It's a more bitter pill for them to swallow than even having a straight, evangelical Black president. They lost their fucking minds for a decade over that, and still haven't recovered.
And Pete is a brilliant scholar, leader, veteran, and proven civil servant. Won't make any difference. They would rather have a straight, white philandering con man who took the chicken out of their pot every time.
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