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Top: Pete Hegseth — suit snug, hair oiled, buzz on — signing a missile on Arsenal of Freedom tour. The sign is half cut off, though, so it reads The ARSE of FRE Bottom: the surface of the missile, which reads “Maybe it's the beer talking, Marge, but you've got a butt that won't quit. They've got these big, chewy pretzels here... meddanrtargym... five dollars?! Get outta here!”

What if we just did Provisional Authority Order Number 2 but somehow worse

Are we really negotiating with someone if they're who we put in charge? Should we call them shah or what?

What should we do after we kill all the leadership is surely one of those known knowns, right? It's not exactly an unknown unknown, James!

I mean, it's not like we can stop bombing things so soon after we started, even if that means dropping missiles on individual aircraft that cost more than the plane they're blowing up.

Now that I'm the age where my peer group are the people out there doing things like getting into politics, I feel pretty obligated to say something about which ones of my peers get into politics, because so far it hasn't been great.

The irony that Ferdinand was generally in favor of a more liberal policy regarding minority grounds in the AH Empire. He might've been the best friend the Slavs had...but political tone deafness got him a bullet in the neck.

Why would Barbara Tuchman title her book the Guns of August when Franz Ferdinand was killed in June?

Democrats had a working class hero with a well-vetted political and personal track record and they let the GOP & media nuke him over how the National Guard does temporary promotions.

Remember, you don't want to be called cool or friend of the working class by these people. Their definition of the working class is not what you think it is, and if you can't tell the difference you have no business of being city council member for a town without so much as a stoplight.

Oh look, senate candidate and adult son of Maine continues to prove he is so desperate to be told he's a cool guy and friend of the working class that he will smile and just feel chuffed to bits that nazis seem to want to hang out with him a lot. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but broadly speaking the forces in the area have an even shorter timeframe before their supplies of air defense munitions begin to lose badly to drone/short range ballistic missiles.

We'll be so greeted as liberators we don't even have to send troops!

It's a shame rugby is so poorly known in the US because some dudes just look like they'd rather not wear helmets or pads to tackle dudes.

I didn't think it was possible to find someone with a more plastic cowboy hat than Taylor Swift, but someone cleared that bar with room to spare.

I don’t even really think this is fair. Iraq was heavily debated publicly, and there was a plan. It was a stupid and delusional plan based on unrealistic assumptions, but it was known publicly and voted on by Congress.

There was no public debate or Congressional authorization in this instance.

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17 Dimension chess is too complicated to think more than one move ahead.

Unfortunately there is no one in the Iranian government to give Trump a Nobel prize to make this... well, not stop, but certainly distract him with a shiny object for awhile.

It is much easier to talk about military ethics now that I'm already collecting a pension and disability. I do not envy service members today and it's why I'm cautious to casually talk about refusing orders because there's fucking nothing casual about it. You're not getting an I am Spartacus moment.

That photo of the one dude not saluting Hitler is iconic because it's *one dude,* and if it's the dude his daughter claimed was the guy, his beef with the party was personal rather than some broad ethical stand. Let's not assume there's a deeply moral bent to the masses large & small.

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Pretty cool that all the claims about corruption and insider trading for ages was politicians taking advantage of a rising tide but now it's leveraging intelligence in zero sum gambling markets to the sound of crickets.

This is hardly the primary issue, but I guess Khamenei isn't going to respond to my Twitter DMs asking if he liked anime.

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But the idea that you'll say you won't follow an order and the whole works comes to a halt is, frankly, foolish. The Army goes rolling along. Individual Soldiers must reconcile their actions on their own terms, acknowledging the institution that will incarcerate them will execute those orders.