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  1. This is a pudding brain take on Ukraine and what happened and you should sit some of these convos out.
  2. He is a life-long dweeb who got a taste of popularity from the algorithm and got into a positive feedback loop by being edgy on the internet. Adult version of eating ever-grosser bugs on the playground for attention. Many such cases, SAD!
  3. “Get rid of all exquisite capabilities for missiles and one-way drones” bros are oddly quiet these days. Turns out you can have both and it works really well.
  4. Khameni is holed up in a bunker posting AI slop while Israel freely explodes everything in his country. Truly wild times.
  5. And then when you get them added on Insta, BAM! Unrelenting dick pics.
  6. Good night, sweet F-14 prince! The reason the rest of the Middle East is silent or complicit is simple. Iran has long been a destabilizing, revisionist entity trying to achieve regional hegemony by undermining other nations and messing up trade. Iran has been the engine behind the Houthis, Hezbollah, much of the Syrian civil war, Iraq instability, and more. Its long been a truism that the actual most likely target for an Iranian bomb is not Tel Aviv, it’s Riyadh. That’s not necessarily the opinion of the “Arab Street” which is more motivated by longstanding insecurities and grievances and just wants to see the West take a bloody nose, but it is the unified opinion of anyone in a position of responsibility in the entire region.
  7. Not to be a complete reactionary here. I think a big part of the problem is that we have as a society done away with male only spaces. And of course, colleges and workplaces and jibs shouldn’t be closed to women. But the pendulum really swung and any male-only club or activity outside of a few sports got smashed along with the patriarchy. When you made those things and spaces transgressive, then actual transgressives like Tate filled the gap. I was reading an article a while back about how some wives in the UK elbowed their way into their husband’s model train club meetings because they didn’t think it was fair for them to keep women out. I think about that a lot.
  8. The witch hysteria that spread across lots of Europe is a fascinating thing to lol at and historians have all sorts of theories about how/why it happened and where it got worse— ranging from climate to instability to Catholic/Protestant competition. One thing that’s indisputable is that prior to the early modern period witch-hunts and trials were unknown and early medieval and late antiquity religious authorities held that belief in witches and diabolical sorcery was itself a heretical superstition. During the early modern period the worst of the witch-trials and hunts were done by secular courts and authorities. The areas where the Roman, Spanish, and Portuguese inquisition was strongest saw very few to almost no witch trials; the Inquisition was concerned with heresy, did not believe in diabolical sorcery as a concept, and discouraged secular courts from pursing witch trials. It’s clear that belief in witches and witch-hunts was religiously motivated: but the relationship of the phenomenon to the most organized and educated religious authorities of the time is much more muddy.
  9. I really thought he had offed himself. Glad they got this POS.
  10. My bad it got shot down over Blefuscu.
  11. Israeli F-35 downed over Iran’s Liliput province.
  12. If he’s on the run. My bet is he’s dead in some woods. America is a big place.
  13. This is one hundred percent the best quote from that article and is exactly the animating force behind Hegseth.
  14. This guy was not a badass merc, that bio is Gravy SEAL shit. He worked for 7/11 and some other food distribution companies before trying to launch an religious food mission in the DRC. His security company provided patrols for gated communities.
  15. It’s okay for me to talk about my job, as long as I’m not specific. I am the Sergeant of a three-man Rapid Tactical Force at one of America’s largest indoor retail shopping areas. Although there are typically between fifteen and twenty normal security officers working the beat there, we decided a while ago that it would be best to have a specilized force for violent individuals. We use modified electric vehicles and can be anywhere on a given floor within eight and a half minutes.Naturally, the regular security people are unarmed. We “RTFers”, by arrangement with the local police, carry high-strength OC spray and batons. If we have a full tactical alert and permission from the local LEOs we also have a Mossberg 500 with less-lethal rounds and two K-frame Smith .38s loaded with 158gr. LRN.Basically, the situation is that we get the call, we lock up the situation, put everything five by five, and cordon the area until the local authorities arrive. We’re cops, we just don’t get the glory. I am not permitted to carry Glocks on duty; however, when my wife picks me up from work I strap on the “Deadly Duo” of a 27 and 23, each with Bar-Sto .357 bbl.I am writing a proposal to replace our current Mossberg-Smith armament with the following: 3) MP5K-PDW with red-dot sights; 2) G36 rifles using SS109 rounds; 3) Glock practical tacticles in .357 Sig 1) PSG-1 using Fed Gold Medal .308 1) Starlight scope for the PSG-1 in case we lose power in the building. 3) Glock 27 backup guns 3) Kahr P-9 holdouts I think this would make us capable of facing nearly any situation. I’ll let you know what the management says!!!
  16. He admits it on his linkedIn. This guy was not a badass merc but he did have access to cop accoutrements.
  17. That bio reads like some Gravy Seal bullshit. And the company page is much more “mall cop” than “soldier of fortune.”
  18. Eh, there’s a lot of geography and capability limits that keep this within a certain boundary on the right, particularly with Hezbollah incapacitated and Hamas to ground. By necessity this is going to be likely be restricted to air strikes and small unit actions in support. Israel said this will be a few weeks and I tend to believe them. Astonishing to see how Iran has screwed the poodle over decades: diverting resources to proxies that now won’t show up, doubling down on isolating themselves regionally, pursuing a rhetorical strategy of insanity. Its important to remember that neither Iran or Israel has any strategic imperative to be at each other’s throats with three borders between them and no real core interests at stake. Israel is pragmatic in the extreme outside of Palestine/Lebanon/Syrian border and this has all been driven by Iranian ideological motivators. Even less than Jew/Zionist hate, its been Iran’s obsession with posing as the real ideological and geopolitical leader within the Islamic world, which is in itself stupidly ideological. It’s just decades of clerical-military fusion leading to collective brain damage. Syria is a good counter-example where the leader of an al-Qaeda affiliate just announced he wanted to be cool now and the entire world lined up to give money and normalized relations. Iran could have managed to detente with some of their satans at any time and wouldn’t be here. Hopefully Israel drops a few on the Shahed factory. Another place where Iran had no strategic imperative or benefit— helping to kill Ukrainians.
  19. I don’t think there will be any negotiations, Israel will just decide when they are done.
  20. The version I saw had the pilot also a woman. Such obvious blockhead bait being repeated by the person constantly complaining about social media rotting brains.
  21. The salvo they launched was quite a bit smaller than what they did earlier. Are they conserving missiles? Are their launch capabilities much degraded? Mixture of both? We likely won’t know from media alone.
  22. The Iron Dome isn’t for ballistic missiles. Which is what apparently got through. It appears Iran used a mix of drones and missiles for this.
  23. Likely they flew over Syria to get through Iraq. Neither gets much say in the matter. Eastern Iraq apparently littered with missile debris.
  24. The line is that we were aware but not involved.
  25. It also (per Israel official comms) appears as though they used tactics similar to the Ukraine bomber raid to overwhelm Iranian aur defenses with low-range drones. There us very little contestation of Iranian airspace now, and it will take a long time for a regime under sanctions to reconstitute.
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