In sum, if you’re concerned about the Pentagon’s autocratic drift, as I am, do not give *the vitality of physical fitness* to the fascists. It’s foundational.

You layer in logistics, gunnery, recon, comms, medical, etc afterwards.

The solid base of this pillar cannot be waved away responsibly.

Why would you be worried about people knowing your health care plan?

The flying phallus with wings, legs, a crown and bell around its neck exists as a badge and as an illustration in the Decretals of Gregory IX of 1392. Bibliothèque Nationale de France Bibliothèque Nationale de France / kunera.nl

A vulva figure dressed as a pilgrim with rosary in one hand and pilgrim's staff in the other. kunera.nl

Procession of three phallic figures carrying a crowned vulva on a litter. Bruges,

Fig. 253. Penis and Vagina on Pilgrimage, pewter. (Photo: after Heilig en Profaan 2, inv. 1762) PER OCHU Fig. 254. Penis and Vagina Badge, pewter (Photo: after Heilig en Profaan 2, inv. 1766)

Medieval pilgrim badges were early mass-produced consumer souvenirs - and many were essentially naughty shitposts turned tangible:

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Which is actually probably better than what they're doing...

2 hops is lazy as hell for association purposes, I can’t imagine 3

and you thought signature strikes were bad

this comports in no way with distinction, any lawyer who says otherwise should be disbarred, and Dems need to make it clear that any servicemembers acting in violation of IHL (which is not in fact waivable by OLC) will face consequences

Please correct me if wrong as it's been a little while since I've used an analyst notebook but 3 hops in this case could literally be a gang member -> family member of gang member -> friend of said family member -> daughter of said friend?

Several lawmakers said Thursday that the Pentagon relayed that it did not need to know the identities of those being targeted in the attacks, or if those killed had been trafficking drugs. “What they told us is they have to show a connection to a designated terrorist organization or their affiliate, and as long as they can show that connection, they believe they are authorized to strike,” Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-California) said in an interview. But such connections could be as much as “three hops away” from a known drug trafficker, Jacobs told reporters after the briefing.

Off the top of my head, in terms of degrees of separation I managed to get from myself to *Jimi Hendrix* in "three hops," this is a WILD assertion to make

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Homey literally said "touch mass"

Holy shit, it's a joke man!

Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.

We go live to the coast of Venezuela…

The author of the piece screen-shotted below is a U.S. army officer.

I would contend that an officer planning for a 'post-liberal' military has betrayed their oath to "support and defend the Constitution," perjuring themselves before God and men and is as a result, unfit to serve.

When we were deployed, some Afghans risked their lives to help us. Now Trump wants to send them out to be killed by the Taliban.

It’s a disgrace, a betrayal, and a decision that endangers future US troops.

One reason you don't vote for someone with a Nazi tattoo is so you can confront the Nazis that are taking over the Right.

lol did WOTR seriously publish an article about how the US military officer corps should function in Vermeule's integralist hellscape

Can we call them racist yet?

you can dress it up all kinds of ways but the argument basically boils down to this guy putting his commitment to being a soldier over his commitment to the values of the constitution

it's a fundamentally morally vacuous position

Well, thank fucking God this isn't an issue anyone cares about now that Biden isn't president.

A thought I never expected to have: House of Windsor currently beating the US government on transparency and accountability.

Here's an example of how Trump's corruption factory works.

1. Coinbase put $46M into elections to help Trump allies.
2. Sends him a huge check for his inauguration.
3. Trump drops SEC lawsuit against Coinbase.
4. Trump demands big donation from Coinbase for ballroom.

Done.

with all due respect, eat dirt

Kristi Noem is flat-out lying when she claims no U.S. citizen has been arrested in her violent crackdown. Do a web search on “immigration citizen arrested” and you’ll see. Here’s one of the many documented reports we found.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

will kim is still in ICE detention

“‘Post-liberal‘ is not a synonym for authoritarianism“, as if it’s a purely a thought experiment and it’s forbidden to mention anything Trump’s actually doing.

He's a US Army Officer!!!

Also they put this at the end of every article
"**Please note, as a matter of house style War on the Rocks will not use a different name for the U.S. Department of Defense until and unless the name is changed by statute by the U.S. Congress."

Strategy or Spectacle in South America? Through the green haze of a drone’s camera, a fiberglass skiff skims across black water before erupting in fire. The Trump administration portrays the

I think they're cynically playing both sides because I also just saw this article and it was quite critical.
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