Lord Ratner

Okay so now we've gone from this shouldn't be mandatory, to this should be mandatory and so should a whole bunch of other things? I'm just trying to follow along.

Are they producing new ballistic missiles? I'm just reading what you quoted.

Just so I understand. Low-T is a brutal condition that affects the ability to maintain physical conditioning. And it affects multiple service members on this board alone. and We shouldn't be testing for low-T. Do I have that right? Are we doing to pretend like we care? Women in the military was never about physical performance.

Big day for the 2A. It still surprises me to see so much progress in support of the 2A

There's no such thing as correcting exactly back to the trend line. Hegseth was the response to things getting way out of whack on the dei/safe space/pussification side of the spectrum. He's going to spin the wheel hard right, get back to the center line, and blow through it a little bit. We're never going to know whether or not this is handled correctly because we're not going to know what the actual debrief for that pilot sounds like. But if he is chastised, given a few shitty additional duties here and there, and otherwise not punished for a singular mistake, then I would say hegseth and company have handled this well. There is absolutely no need to discuss the disciplinary side of this publicly, because ultimately nothing happened.

First article: Garbage. The headline doesn't match any of the actual quotes in the article. The actual quotes are much more boring. The best you have is "a few Jews at a rally said evil things." Now, if the minister with the flag had said something like "we will kill any Palestinian that prevents us from retaking the Temple Mount" then you might have something. But to try to compare this to even the now-boring "from the river to the sea" is idiotic. Second article: “There’s no such thing as ‘means, intent and ability’ in Gaza,” Vilk says. “No soldier ever mentions ‘means, intent, and ability’. It’s just: a suspicion of walking where it’s not allowed. A man aged between 20 and 40.” Nonsense. The article pretends that there was no enemy at all. Just a bunch of refugees looking for food. There's tons of footage of Hamas fighters engaging the IDF. If their repeated, documented use of civilians and civilian disguises made the IDF paranoid and trigger happy, that's a bummer, but entirely predictable. The US soldiers killed a lot of unarmed Germans as we took Europe from the Nazis. Yet no one is stupid enough (except for Tucker Carlson) to claim the allies were the bad guys. Welcome to war. Maybe your military service was so blessedly uneventful that you never saw or heard these very human things happen. Your general philosophy does usually reek of ignorant utopianism. It still doesn't make it even remotely difficult to know who the bad guys are in this situation.

Okay, so no longer the largest generation. Interesting. But I'm pretty sure they're still the largest voting block, as far as actual participants go: From AI Baby Boomers cast the largest number of votes in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Using standard Pew generation ranges and the Census Bureau’s single-year age data, the estimated totals were: Generation Approx. voters Baby Boomers (born 1946–1964) 47.2 million Generation X (1965–1980) 39.8 million Millennials (1981–1996) 37.8 million Generation Z, voting-age members (1997–2006) 19.2 million Silent Generation and older 10.3 million

Are you in the airlines yet? You should hear what these guys say when they get close to 65 and start arguing for no retirement age. They make it sound like the actual hard part of the job is remembering where ops is or which taxiway they usually cross you across the runway at. Not reaction time and hand/eye coordination.... Obviously experience is important, but after ~10 years of experience it's no longer the save-your-ass knowledge that accumulate, it's layover trivia and ancestor worship.

How strange that the Baby Boomers are the largest generation and voting block.

Yeah it would be really fucking nice if for a change we didn't have literal invalids sitting in some of the 500 most powerful positions in the country. The gerontocracy needs to come to an end. It's absolutely bananas that the people with the least skin in the game are running everything.

I just grabbed an H&K VP9A1 F because I'm tired of stretching my little girl hands as far as they go to hit the slide release. It's actually a really nice pistol so far. I'm not crazy about the trigger-guard-mag-release, but I guess nothing is perfect. Also been working on a custom storage wall since I have a 3D printer. Pretty happy with it so far

Hopefully they don't make a martyr out of the guy. Just give him an lor and make him serve as long as you possibly can.

And yet here you are defending them. "Human animals" is pretty generous for what those people did on October 7th. No, the children of Gaza did not participate in the rape and massacre, but they also weren't targeted. They were positioned like sacrifices by their parents and their parents' friends to make sure they would die when the Israelis attacked. "Human Animals" does not come close to describing that level of depravity. You can whine and moan all day long about the asymmetry and unfairness of the situation, but there's no amount of poverty or oppression that justifies sacrificing your children. If your moral compass is so defunct that you can't wrap your head around that, honestly it makes the rest of your positions a lot more understandable. It doesn't make them any less wrong, but at least there is an underlying consistency that can be predicted. “We love death like our enemies love life.” - Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh Killing monsters is never an atrocity (or genocide), no matter how many of them you have to kill, and no matter how many of their children they hold up in front of your weapons. It's ugly and tragic, and an inescapable feature of war for the entirety of human history.

How many pseudo-governmental militias does Israel train, fund, and direct within and surrounding Iran? You guys bend over backwards in ways that make a stripper jealous, all to excuse the acts of a bunch of islamist lunatics who are literally awaiting the prophetic arrival of the 12th imam. I'm a simple man. I just judge a society by what they say and do. And in ~75 years I have yet to see an Israeli street rally calling for death to the Muslims. I haven't heard the orgasmic phone calls of young Jewish men telling their parents they had raped and slaughtered Muslim women and children. I haven't seen any of them strapping bombs to their chest or jumping on buses with knives to kill as many Muslims as they can. You shed alligator tears for dead Palestinian children who are only dead because their parents decided that the 72 virgins in heaven are worth more than the lives of their kids. How many is too many, you ask with no conviction or thought. Because you know that if it was your daughter or wife you would kill every single one of them if that was what it took to stop them. And if you wouldn't, your wife or daughter deserves better than you. It's always been very simple for those of us who don't let the emotion get in the way of the reality. If the Israelis put down their weapons and opened up their borders to the Palestinians, how many Israelis would be left alive by the end of the week? And if the hypothetical was reversed? And let's not pretend like it's just because the Palestinians are oppressed. Absolutely nobody was oppressing the Iranians. No one was oppressing the Pakistani rape gangs in the UK. No one is oppressing the immigrants in France. Not all cultures are equal, and we will continue to support the ones that don't believe in the forcible conquest of the rest of us. If that means we print some more fake money to give to the Israelis so they can give it right back to us to buy the weapons that we make with other fake money, so be it. I'll worry about foreign aid to Israel and other allies once we stop mortgaging the future to keep old fat people alive forever.