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U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for “Armageddon,” Return of Jesus Advocacy group reports commanders giving similar messages at more than 30 installations in every branch of the military

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war.

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints.

One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

who told them this was a good talking point

Lmao mine took that long and I got 65% completion. I'm just not very good 😂

I think I was over 10 hours lol

I have been playing the Metroid games lately - I'd never played one before!

I beat Super Metroid (I rarely beat games) and now I'm deep into Metroid Fusion. It's been really good.

This is the entire plan

Joe Biden had a theory: by getting elected returning to normal, and boxing MAGA out of power, we could *make* the Trump phenomenon into a fluke.

Obviously it didn't work. And I think Biden and his allies did not acknowledge how high risk that approach was - they viewed it as safe, but it wasn't.

Love our president to sacrifice military and state department lives in service of... what?

my memory may be failing me but when biden or even GWB had approval near or below 40 the mainstream political press treated this as a kind of master-fact or organizing theme that structured all subsequent coverage. today however it seems as if “trump is unpopular” is treated an incidental/secondary

We won't hear about this even a tenth as much as Benghazi.

What's the feedback loop here?

It's been pretty depressing watching this website desperately fighting not to see voters for who they are

I guess I'm so working class I don't even know what the fuck you're talking about

iraq was a presidential lie. this was a presidential whim.

"the Democrats" is a shibboleth for wreckers

This is the entire plan

So, so instructive to compare media response to Afghanistan withdrawal -- months of hysterical garment-rending & catastrophizing, relentless criticism of the admin -- with the response to an unprovoked, unmotivated, illegal war of aggression, ie, "some critics say maybe Trump should have reasons."

trump saw bush's popularity spike in the early 2000s and thought "ah, so war in the middle east makes you popular," and he has clung to this idea through thick and thin for over twenty years, until he reached a moment where he was president and needed to be more popular

Love our president to sacrifice military and state department lives in service of... what?

Opeds are different from hard news tbf.

I'm not sure the model works anymore, but it is what it is

Maybe, maybe not. Someone on here pointed out that people who are just generally dissatisfied with their lives in ways that they can't quite explain say "the economy is bad" because it sounds like a concrete way of describing their dissatisfaction in concrete terms.

I dunno, it felt like publishers were really excited too and they don't really engage in that

ngl I'm surprised how few liberals were joker-fied by the public response to the Biden pull out from Afghanistan

NY Dems are uniquely bad. Which may be part of why Brooklynitea sound so deranged about the party - they've never experienced what Dem electeds are like in Virginia or Minnesota, or even New Jersey.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

US military says three of its service members killed in Iran operation Three U.S. service members have been killed in action as part of U.S. military operations against Iran, the U.S. Central Command said in a statement on Sunday.

US military says three of its service members killed in Iran operation reut.rs/4u1rtDL

I guess what I'm saying is that if you think the US is the Great Satan and both parties are warmongering imperialists and the concept of law is a web of lies spun by the wealthy and powerful to entrap the proletariat, then why exactly are we arguing about the wording of Democratic press releases?