Dude even just hearing these radio messages from the safety of my office is chilling.
"This is your warning. You have five minutes to clear the platform before we commence firing."
"I am going to sink you in five minutes."
Just think about you're at your work day and someone sends you some shit like that.
How often do you get to get a close look at your biggest adversary fighting a battle at close range, and just observe how things play out
You can say a lot of things about the US military, but they're absolutely qualified at how to fuck shit up. They're not perfect, but they have good technology, basically unlimited money, and they get plenty of practice.
"I looked at something Lincoln said, and it didn't right away make sense to me. Clearly, then, this Lincoln guy needs to get on my level."
I absolutely hope very very much that this will be the moment of sea change in American politics, where we fund Ukraine way too late (as opposed to after they’ve lost the war, which is what will happen if we don’t), and funding for Israel becomes a point of contention for the first time in decades and gets held up, after Netanyahu has done his absolute level best to tee up that result by being directly antagonistic to the US at the exact same time he’s ramping up his war crimes to historic and world-outraging levels
I am I have to say somewhat prepared to be disappointed though
“Black sheep” I took to be in the sense of, you can throw a bunch of criticism at the person you’re oppressing and make it clear they’re an outlier from humanity and make it more palatable that you’re doing that and change the subject.
“You shouldn’t be killing Gazan children on an industrial scale” “But they’re monsters, look at how terrible was Hamas’s attack on our music festival!” Things like that.
Nader actually talked about this and he has a significant experience with bringing progressive agendas to success in Washington. One of his big methods from early in the article was, build a big coalition and then promise votes to the Democratic candidate if they get on board with particular parts of the agenda you're asking for.
But the point is, it's targeted and there's strategy. It's not just this "both parties are the same!" (they aren't) or "I'm just frustrated things are bad, I won't vote!" (which will make things worse)
I legit thought this wasn't satire until you started talking about abortion
Holy shit I didn't realize that until you said it
You right tho
With the possible exception of a few like Mike Pence, I don't think they believe in heaven. If they did, they'd be a lot more worried about going to hell.
IDK about Iran, but the US ran a wargame for the Iraq war before they did it, and they had a pretty capable American commander running the fake-Iraqi side, and he absolutely fucked up the fake-Americans and then they stopped it and rewound and said he wasn't allowed to do the things he did the first time around and that time the US won.
All the strengths and weaknesses of the US military brass on full display all in one little anecdote 🙂
And yes guerilla warfare will fuck up any military that relies on money and technology, but in particular the US is especially vulnerable to it for a couple different reasons, I think