I won't ask for anything on the FP, but if you see this, PM me and I'll tell you about the most interesting detainee I've interrogated.
I won't ask for anything on the FP, but if you see this, PM me and I'll tell you about the most interesting detainee I've interrogated.
We prosecuted the soldiers at Abu Ghraib ourselves.
I'm not sure anyone is saying the money should go from one bucket to the other. Just generally incensed that we, the taxpayers, are paying for these assholes to be TDY for no reason other than to play to the base of an authoritarian regime.
First three are more Baroque than Classical
#8 Is that a Ben & Jerry's font?
@@leroythesuede I thought you posted this at first.
Iran: No, when we helped Iraq push back against an Iranian invasion in the 80s.
Look, I'm not saying all of these were the dream you want them to be, where they were justified conflicts on equal footing. You said we hadn't won a war in 80 years as a criticism of U.S. military capability. My point is most of our direct military conflicts have been pretty decisive. Only when we fail at unified strategy and foreign policy do we lose.
You're correct. In some cases, like Kuwait, we went to war with another country (Iraq) to defend them. Kuwait definitely believes we won the Gulf War.
You, like many Americans, have confused military success with political success. Despite the fact we shouldn't have been there, we defeated the insurgency in Iraq; ISIS is more or less non-existent there and they are trending up in quality of life. We won nearly every actual military conflict in Afghanistan. The only thing that held us back was a lack of political will to create and stick to a plan.
You say we haven't won a war in 80 years; I guess no one told Korea, Panama, Grenada, Libya, Kosovo, Iraq (twice), Kuwait, Liberia, Haiti, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Honduras, Iran, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Taiwan, Lebanon, or the goddamn Soviet Union.
Fuck you and the 30 people who upvoted your ignorant ass. The military population may lean right, but it is definitely split, enough that it would be near impossible for a coup without a civil war.
Your statement about intelligent people not joining the armed forces is demonstrably wrong and ignorant. In my last unit we had more college grads than not, and I know many who have gone on after the service to get advanced degrees, write books, become scientists, and make beautiful art.
Do better.
Would you post a link to the artwork, if you're willing to share it?
This is the stupidest bad-faith take I've seen on Imgur in a long time. You are capable of googling Hezbollah. You don't have to be a supporter of Israel, the U.S., or the status quo to see Hezbollah is a terrorist organization. Touch some fucking grass.
@leroythesuede I'll never not think of al-Dhafra when I hear this song.
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No Fortunate Son?
We should oppose the Gaza genocide, but the idea that Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah present no threat is stupid at best and dangerously disinformative at worst.
Seems I was wrong. Fuck. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/06/climate/doge-energy-department-trump/index.html
I work there (at HQ in DC) and haven't seen nor heard of this yet. Not saying it's 100% untrue, but you'd think we'd have heard something.
DOE owns the stockpile until a weapon is transferred to the DOD. Source: me, I work there.
No, fuck this. I'm not surrendering America to fascist assholes. It may take a goddamn century, but we're fixing this shit.
#22 I ran into this problem once. Made an account and bullshitted the security question answers, thinking I'd never use them. Fast forward two years, trying to reset the password, I couldn't remember the answers so I tried calling their support line. The poor guy who answered had to lead me with hints to the answer I'd put down for all of them: "Your mom."
The amount of laughter in the other side by the support team was... substantial.
China hooked the HTR-PM up to the grid a year ago. And no, I'm disputing the "still very dangerous" part of your original comment.
This is so wrong it's laughable. I work in this field. Nuclear is as safe or safer than almost every renewable by watt. Gen IV reactors are able to burn waste products. We want nuclear because it's able to provide reliable baseloads as part of a varied clean energy grid. The only real problem left for nuclear power is the huge startup cost and timeline.
Fuck this bullshit. I'm not giving a bunch of fascists my country. Also, land doesn't vote; what about the millions of people who voted blue in states that went red? Just fuck them, right?
#4 Fuck this quitter talk. We fight to make the U.S. what we want it to be. Also, the Electoral College paints states red, but there were a lot of blue votes in all of them.
It doesn't have to be black and white. Find yourself a training course that emphasizes safety. Buy a safe to put it in. Do the things you'd want to make into laws if you could.
Fuck this. Don't comply in advance.
Fuck off, Russian.