Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "VICE News"
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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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