It’s pretty wild to watch military footage through the lens of “what if those were cops, and what if the people they were engaging were civilians…?” and realizing that the military shows a relative shit-ton of restraint. Soo many times where the military folks see like a hand reach back into a pocket they can’t see - and they’ll react, by tensing up and getting a hand on their weapon or something… and that’s it… and out comes a wallet from the other dude, military folks understand there’s no threat, and the situation never escalates.

Cops? Dude would have 4 clips unloaded into him by 3 people.

I know cops have their own version of rules of engagement - probable cause and such - but they kinda just don’t give a fuck.

Don’t get me wrong, the military is fucked up in a lot of ways - I was there, it’s fucking bad - but it’s not that kind of bad.

I wish their children and grandchildren etc the best of luck in finding comfort in the hellscape we’re building for them. I have a feeling they won’t find it in the knowledge that their grandpappy owned a boat or some shit, but I’m sure they’ll be able to science-miracle their way out of all the problems the generations before them allowed to bottle up to a breaking point.

My own children will be happily non-existing, cuz I love them far too much to cast them into this dumpsterfire, especially as pawns against a horde of morons doing their damnedest to strip everyone’s rights.

Same page as catloaf - I already did my time and got my honorable discharge. If WW3 breaks out, pretty sure I’ll be getting recalled. So, yes.

Then again, the alternative is wait for shit to destabilize until we get there anyway - again this shit won’t end with Ukraine.

Call Russia’s bluff. If we’re wrong, it’s not like we aren’t fucked anyway. Might as well go down fighting evil, vs going down with evil’s dick in our throat.

*looks at recent presidential election*

…oh yeah. Reality. Pass the lube, my throat is sore as fuck.

Intelligence pruning itself out of a malicious environment isn’t really a great showcase of evolution.

It’s not technically incorrect - we are changing, but a species actively taking steps backwards by inflating itself with idiots doesn’t quite hit that stronger/faster/smarter progression that the concept of evolution implies.

These are darwinism’s death throes.

Give em full air support. If it causes world war 3, it causes world war 3. Fuck it. Avoiding that isn’t worth letting Russia just consume its neighbors on a whim - that shit certainly won’t stop with Ukraine.

There’s still the UCMJ and rules of engagement. No idea what it takes to change those.

Idk, I’m grasping at straws to find a flicker of hope in this shitstorm.

Yeah for sure - lawful orders only matter if the law is moral, and historically… yeah…

This is one of the examples where I don’t think lawful order training will make a huge difference.

That said, illegal immigrants - even if they’re just as bad a Fox paints them (WHICH IS BULLSHIT), they’re still not a tactical threat, so if there’s any hope from a military perspective of leadership not being on board, it’ll be from a priority standpoint. …which ofc hinges on military leadership not all being replaced with Trump loyalists, so even that’s a short term hope.

Even with all that though, domestically I’m not really worried about the military; it’s the cops I’m worried about. Trump already has a massive, religiously loyal, heavily armed goon squad in every single city in the US. And secondary to them are all the civilian Trumpanzees who’ll respond without question to his stochastic domestic terrorism. This country’s fucked well ahead of military involvement.

Soldiers are humans, and the average human is an evil sack of shit, so yeah there will always be new atrocities. The immigrant thing doesn’t really come down to the individual soldier though, it comes down to military leadership acting on or ignoring an order from Trump… and that outlook doesn’t leave me much hope, cuz military leadership doesn’t give a fuck about doing the right thing, just the legal thing.

There’s quite a bit of training nowadays on how to identify and abso-fucking-lutely DO NOT follow unlawful orders, so I’d have a fair deal more faith in avoiding the napalm situation than a coin-toss… but there’s also a lot of training on if it’s a legal order you fucking FOLLOW it even if it’s really uncomfortable. …and relocating people who already don’t have a legal status doesn’t stand out as a unlawful order, so unfortunately I’d guess compliance will be around 100% on this one.

Engineering points for opposing teeth orientation - forward grip on the back wheel for accelerating, backwards on the front wheel for breaking. I like it.

Lots of talk about which search engine to use; surprisingly little talk about extensions.

Block or Highlight Search Engine Results is my personal recommendation. Whichever SE you use, when you see a result that’s AI slop or a garbage website like Forbes, just add bullshit.com to the filter, set to hide, and you’ll never see that trash in a search result ever again.

Be diligent about it for a good week or so, and your search result quality will absolutely explode, whether your using Google, DDG, or several others.

bondage*

Of all the gigantic fish that urgently need to be fried, why the actual fuck do we put so much energy into legislating who can or can’t play a fucking game??

It’s boxing. Boxing.

Our planet is on fire. The Nazis are back. Most of us are wage slaves. Women are going to prison over their physiology. Multiple nations are currently at risk of being wiped off the map… and the folks with the power to contribute a shred of progress toward fixing any of those are wasting their time worrying about whether or not some fucker can participate in a game based on the dangly bits in their pants.

…not that Boebert would actually make the right decision on any of the actually important issues. Maybe I shouldn’t complain about that dipshit fixating on sports. But still, fuck!

I mean… he looks like a morbidly obese oompa loompa, can barely walk up a flight of stairs, and by recent accounts smells like a combo of a McDonald’s restroom, BO, and sour milk.

…and all of that is moot anyway: the important bit is that he acts like a nazi and inspires others to do the same.

Cult 45 doesn’t care if he targets women; but showcasing that he’s cannibalizing specifically those who served him might -probably not- but might snap a couple trumpanzees out of their stupor.

I’d leave details like that front and center.

Weird how everything happens ‘quietly’ lately.

Any real impact from blue states barring Trump, or are we just hoping to set enough of a precedent for a red state to actually grow a pair and kick him too?

Depends on the state. You must live in one of the relatively sane ones.

I live in Oklahoma, where it’s either legal or not enforced. Tow trucks, construction vehicles, you name it. Blue lights everywhere. And not turquoise or some other “technically not blue” loophole color, but like “they bought their overhead lights from a cop car manufacturer and stuck it on their roof as is” solid fucking blue.

I hate it.

Kinda wish we’d just leave blue (or off-variants like turquoise) lights for emergency vehicles only.

I like the idea of an indicator, just not the execution.

Don’t let the door hit your ass on the w-- actually fuck that, I hope the door breaks your tailbone on the way out. Piece of shit.