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atomheartbevo

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  1. That's because he's a fucking child with a transactional mentality where everything has a price. Hell, if Ukraine invited him in to invest in some super secret mineral deposits, he'd be shouting about how Europe won't let Ukraine into NATO and it's time they were allowed into NATO. Also, shaming the victims in all of this is completely on brand for him.
  2. Austin. I feel like, at least with Cubs and say kinder-3rd, we have been getting into the kids who weren’t affected by COVID shutdowns and reopenings - a lot of units lost kids who wound up doing other activities, as probably mentioned earlier in this thread. Adding girls helped a lot.
  3. Want to send that to some of my “we are a Christian nation” relatives and talk about how great it was that Elon cut those kids off with Trump’s authority and that maybe said relatives would stop calling us a Christian nation.
  4. How is everybody else doing in terms of pack/troops? We seem to be getting more interest this year in both our pack and troop. Feels like we are back to pre-COVID numbers or better. It seems like this years 6th graders were potentially hit the hardest from what we’ve heard from other units.
  5. Setting the Kremlin on fire would do wonders for Russian morale. I would be watching Julia Davis’s social media like a hawk foe the official Russian talking heads response.
  6. Was reading DCC and started on NPCs, but my kid is reading Pratchett (Discworld)and asked me about The Long Earth. I realized I had not finished the first book. I thought I idid, but checked the date and realized it came out close to when of my kids was about to be born so I must have put it aside. Now I.m going to do the whole series. First book is great.
  7. Damn, the man understood the Russians.
  8. Yeah, way too young.
  9. There's a saying I came up with 2 years ago - you can't unfuck your daughter's cute 39 year-old 2nd grade teacher, and you can't uninvade Ukraine. The difference is that one act was witnessed by 3 employees of the San Antonio Zoo, the other was witnessed by the free world and most Russians. Of course, historically speaking, invading Ukraine has caused problems for dictators in the long run.
  10. It’s gotta be a combination of things. Don’t forget that a lot of the Russian men and their families who opposed being conscripted and who had the means fled Russia, and those are the ones who would have been in the streets fighting a draft. Many of the ones left behind are either okay with it, are poor as shit, or were dumb enough and didn’t think it would happen to them. I’d say these things: Conscription of the Moscow/St. Petersburg group in large enough numbers More infrastructure hit, to the point it seriously impacts all Russians. Oil and gas and electrical. Moscow has to be hit as hard as Kyiv. Put some drones into the Kremlin. That’s a start as far as I’m concerned. Ukraine is slowly accomplishing #2. Right now, your typical Russian doesn’t feel too affected by the war. The Kremlin on fire, rolling blackouts, etc. would put Putin’s public image of being in control to the test.
  11. Rained with sunny skies and now downpour, Central Austin. Crazy winds.
  12. Some fucking internet pussy: I saw youths driving ATVs and doing wheelies, crime is out of control! Rural MAGA:
  13. If Abbott is permanently going to keep deploying the NG down to the border as much as he can to get Trump’ attention, it won’t be absolutely horrible like you would imagine, but it will be full of people who are not there…because they want to be or see it as beneficial. I have a feeling it will skew heavily towards folks who are trying to hit a certain number of years or those on break from active duty meaning they finished their enlistment contract, but want to maintain a connection while they get a degree, etc. and then go back to active duty later on. Like I said, people who want to do border patrol will join the real deal and make more money and build a career, and not be left hanging/dealing with having a home in say Dallas or Lubbock, and dealing with civilian jobs under the sporadic nature of these deployments. College students? That number will drop quite a bit, because the chances for your education being fucked up are too great. People have already bitched about losing credits or putting school on hold. Those with decent jobs? Why stay a part of Abbott’s failed attempt to seek attention? It won’t be the dregs of society or anything, but it will be people who are punching the military version of the time clock. Institutional knowledge will be lost.
  14. The books can sometime be a beating.
  15. You are absolutely correct and I apologize, I should not lump Tyler in with Midland, because while the racists in Tyler fought for it, much like the Confederacy, they were a lost cause.
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