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Shoulda just gone to the AMC with a pocket flask.

They're saying she's a casualty of the War on Terror and specifically the Afghanistan War, even though it ended before she graduated high school.

Because the guy who shot her was trained up to be a commando by the US government, and probably went nuts because of what he saw and did.

One was Air National Guard, the other was Army National Guard. Sarah Beckstrom was in the 863rd Military Police CO, under the 111th Engineer Brigade.

These young troops have never seen war and likely never will. But we still as them to go to faraway places and endure the heat and cold. We ask them to work jobs with a 24/7 shift schedule. We ask them to miss holidays and birthdays. And we subject them to the risks inherent in military operations.

I'm a Reservist but I've worked with a lot of Guard Military Police over the years. Units from TX, MO, LA, CT, AL, NC, SC, and yes West Virginia.

Lots of dedicated young people, who signed up to serve their communities and pay for college and so forth.

This is terribly sad. She was from the tiny town of Webster Springs in West Virginia. She drilled out of the 863rd MP Company, two counties away in Fayette County.

I did Virginia to California a few times in college. 4 days, no CD player, no podcasts. Just AM and FM radio.

Very zen experience, but I wouldn't do it these days.

Based on the timeline his service would've stretched from Obama to Trump 1 to Biden.

It's too early to say he was radicalized. We don't know if there was any ideology behind the attack.

But the truth matters more than talking points.

And if the truth was that, there was no detectable reason to not give the shooter asylum and a visa, then that's what we should say.

He's in North Carolina running for office there.

The shooter chose to do this. They have moral agency.

Stop excusing the shooter, they are at fault here.

Hot take but I think the shooter deserves most of the responsibility for this.

They have vests with plates available. But that won't cover an entire body.

So basically every post Maggie makes on Twitter is ratioed by chuds, which is dispiriting. Fortunately this has no impact on the real world.

They did the same thing to Abigail Spanberger and she still won huge.

Trick question, Despotic President Me would have unknowably shifted perspectives from Regular Me.

I dunno this makes sense to me.

Voters should get the policies they voted for. If they wanted the ACA protected, they could've voted Dem.

You know we'll be in crazy times if they increase the State Defense Force budget above $200,000.

Ah geeze you can still see Nancy Mace's book in there. 😬

My quick take on a 9-2 Dem map.

From what I can tell, O'Neall is a YIMBY who wants to build dense housing in the downtown.

So, that's really great, even more than the partisan angle.

Chem was the biggest joke branch 15 years ago. It still has that reputation today.

Hopefully we never need it, of course.

I mean the fundamental reasons to observe Zapad 25 are 30 years old. We want to build trust and be certain this is actually an exercise and not an invasion.

Plus this thing has been planned for months and months.

That's a Vienna Document visit. It's due to OSCE.

I wish it were that cool, but it was what it appeared to be.

Memphis is already a blue district. The median voter in the rest of the state is scared of Memphis and welcomes this.

You can say that, but I'll say "I was right there in the center of various historic events, as an active participant, here are the pictures and the medals and stuff."

Yeah Germany is a federal republic with states. In Britain it's a unitary state for the 80% of the population that lacks a devolved parliament.

Am I correct in thinking that The Crown exposed Americans to more of British history from 1945 to 1995 than any other piece of mass media?

Seems a great accomplishment, even if people don't love the fixation on the royals.