Lord Ratner

So... They hide behind civilians, which gets the civilians bombed, and because they implement the strategy consistently and effectively you no longer believe it? Copy. What's hilarious and sad is that Hamas is not even particularly shy about this, admitting their strategy openly over the years. Ah, there it is. So strange to have someone who is/was in the military have such a morally confused position. Your geopolitical philosophy is ultimately incoherent and incompatible with the realities of human nature, so the things you must believe (and refuse to believe) will be increasingly unhinged as the inconsistencies build. Edit: Also, holy shit dude, *that's* the source you want to post 😂🤣. This is like asking a Boeing lobbyist for dispassionate facts about the 737 Max crashes. For anyone interested, check out their statement of "journalistic" integrity: https://www.972mag.com/about-journalism-israel-palestinian/

I call bullshit. Zero percent chance a helo driver passes on a lifetime of threesomes, even if it's a couple legs short.

Well, you see, uh, the Israelis had a blockade, so, uh, all that money *had* to be spent on building terrorist tunnel networks that civilians weren't allowed to use for shelter, and, uh, lavish penthouses in Qatar. Because it's like if you and your neighbor had dogs, and... The extent to which people will go to draw equivalence between any two groups of people is astounding. But seeing this new wave of neoconservatism embrace moral relativism is fascinating... I understand it from the socialists, everything is about power hierarchies and their entire philosophy requires people to have no agency or moral worth. But if the Palestinians and the Israelis are on some sort of equal moral footing, or even more hilariously, if the Israelis are somehow *more* responsible for the bloodshed than the monsters holding the machete and gleefully raping a woman before she dies, why concern ourselves with right and wrong at all, ever? Sure, if you took a Palestinian baby and raised it in an Israeli household, that baby would almost certainly grow up with no hatred of the Jews and a western Outlook on freedom, morality, individual agency. Now, aside from the fact that that premise *supports* the strategy of occupation and forced relocation, what does it matter? People don't exist as individuals, they exist as part of social communities. And social communities have unique characteristics that make some better than others. For example, since the enlightenment the West has had a historically unique appreciation for individual sovereignty and rule of law. That makes our culture *better* than say, a group of cannibals living on the Amazon. Or for example, a society motivated to rape and slaughter their neighbors based solely off of religious history and guidance from their political and spiritual leaders. It's perfectly reasonable to suggest the US shouldn't be involved in the Palestinian conflict. But to suggest equivalence is bananas. It's like saying we are no better than the Taliban. Somehow this entire twisted philosophy requires accepting that any mistake by the West justifies any response by our adversaries.

Tit for tat? 😂🤣 Bro you have no idea what you're talking about. Just another Westerner with no concept of how other cultures think. Ironically, this is the same misinterpretation of Islamic fundamentalism that brought us the forever-wars you seem to be (incorrectly) comparing this to. If only the Palestinians weren't under a blockade, there'd be peace! Thanks for the chuckle.

You need senior talent to have "senior talent impacts."

We did 13 hours in the tanker pretty regularly, and the seat wasn't nearly as adjustable or comfortable as in the 737. I wouldn't want to do it, but compared to other military flying it's not notably awful.

Of the three, prestige is the motivation I want my generals seeking the least. Pay them.

I will be forever baffled by dudes who get off on secret footage of women doing routine non-sexual activity in various stages of undress, and forever grateful that I don't have whatever brain defect creates that kink.

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If they are going to set the price of the drug, that's bad. Price controls are never a good thing. But if they are going to establish rules by which pricing must be fair across trading partners, that's an entirely different thing altogether. This is a perfect example of how other countries take advantage of the United States by methods other than tariffs. We don't participate in the same sort of fuck fuck games, so using tariffs as a retaliation are a simple way to make the problem go away.

Yup...

It's a Kel-Tec. Janky is included free of charge

PVC will just be the new heritage 🤷🏻‍♂️ We're just getting old, that's all.

Being against Hamas is not the relevant metric. By the time of October 7th I believe Hamas had already lost a support of the majority of the Palestinians living in Gaza as political leadership. However there was practically no daylight between the "citizens" of Gaza and Hamas on the key issue: October 7th was to be celebrated and the Jews are to be killed. To further clarify using your distinction, I believe that Hamas needs to be exterminated with lethal force. I believe the people of Gaza (who have not individually murdered Jews, but pray for it daily) must be forcibly relocated from Gaza to another part of the world where they are with and/or surrounded by other Muslims. We could not exist peacefully with Mexico as a neighbor if a core identity of the Mexicans was the religious calling to murder, rape, and otherwise dominate Americans. And yes, of course an alternate solution would be to move the Israelis, but since they have no stated or apparent desire to rape and murder every Palestinian they can find, I think they get the benefit of the doubt.

We might be advocating for different things... I'm suggesting (and I think Gkinnear agrees) that the only real solution is the forced relocation of the Palestinians out of Gaza (or I suppose the slaughter of all Israeli Jews). At which point Israel can do whatever they want with it. To my knowledge this has not been tried yet.

The validity of the Gaza Riviera plan is this: There is *no* solution where 2 million+ Palestinians are living in Gaza, and Israel remains as a Jewish state. Period. History does not equivocate on this. The only solution is the same solution that humanity has turned to forever: migration. The Palestinians must be moved somewhere else. Either incorporated into a collection of existing Muslim nations or, more likely, moved to a new territory that borders more than a single nation of people the Palestinians believe God wants them to murder. Any other suggestions of a two-state solution with the current geographic reality are either ignorant or disingenuous. No one thought a country as developed and Western as Germany would systematically round up and slaughter millions of Jews and other Europeans in the Holocaust. People will be equally shocked by what happens in Israel or Palestine the next time a global conflict keeps the attention of the rest of the world focused on their own problems.

Not to mention the dogs have been killing your family members for *decades* It's such a delusional way of looking at the world. I don't get it.

I wonder if you have a bad unit. This is mine at 10 yards using just the stock sights. I'm not going to win any competitions, but the gun is more accurate than I am. I've also been using a red dot as a crutch for so long my iron-sights skills have definitely atrophied. 🫣

So about the Keltec PR57... It's kinda great. It's *very* thin, so thin I think it will be more comfortable to carry than my P365X. The 5.7 round has stupidly low recoil, and 21 rounds feels like you are shooting a magic gun with unlimited ammo. It didn't take long to get the hang of the clip loading system, but you do have to live with reloading after every "magazine" since there isn't one... I guess you could buy a bunch of the clips and preload them, then it would only be a few seconds to shove another 20 rounds in. I've only put 150 rounds through it, so it'll take a few more trips to the range to be sure, but for $400 it's a pretty cool gun and quite fun to shoot. I think I'll probably get an optic for it if I decide to carry it. But boy is it ugly 🤣😂

See above. The Senate may not interpret the Constitution, but they damn well do write it. Including the 14th amendment.

I know you know the law well enough to know that when the Supreme Court is answering a constitutional question, they go back to the framers, including any of their writings or recorded conversations. The Senate was responsible for framing the 14th amendment, and their conversations are meticulously chronicled. And they are 100% clear about their intent. Not even native Americans born in the United States were considered citizens by birth, and a separate law in the twenties had to be passed in order to make them so. This will be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court that got rid of Roe and Chevron. Did you think I meant the current Senate? My bad if I was unclear.

Boy are you in for a shock when you actually look into the Senate conversations regarding the 14th amendment. Spoiler alert, it explicitly does not include anyone subject to the jurisdiction of another country. Regroup, reassess, then reattack.

Trump is a media guy from a previous generation. Hollywood is a glamorous memory full of him on the red carpet and fucking a bunch of wannabe starlets. It's classic Trump, taking something good and pushing it to an extreme that is going to end up sabotaging the entire movement.

I think Eisenhower would have thrown up in his mouth if he knew how bloated the command structure had become. Bravo.

*Proceeds to disagree with the liberals on the core point* Well stated. Deportation is not punishment, imprisonment, or torture. If you show up to an airport without a passport, you get put back on a plane to where you came from. No trial. Being sent home requires no process, due or otherwise. Sending illegals to a Salvadorian jail *is* a completely different story. As for the posted interview, Boomer covered it. If you can't handle context, don't follow politics. They are all liars, Trump included, and every interview is a game. That doesn't mean any interpretation is valid. Of course you once again left out the key part of the response, where he talks about legal interpretation. And how it is absolutely not his job to do that. Thank you for proving my point. Context matters. His supporters, which I am around 60% of the time, have often pointed to his instincts, not his intelligence. That has some pretty huge downsides, But the reason you guys aren't getting through to anyone is because you offer no realistic alternative. No Republican or Democrat politician in my lifetime has done fuck all about illegal immigration. Every time it's been some preachy sermon about due process, or the cost of picking lettuce, or the humanity of the dreamers. Yet nothing gets done, and the problem continues to get worse. The people are able to intrinsically understand whether an issue is right or wrong, and illegal immigration is wrong. Support something that is wrong for long enough, regardless of the justification, and eventually you will lose the people. Especially when that thing starts to directly impact their lives. Even now you guys are arguing for "due process" in a situation that was clearly and obviously never contemplated by the Constitution. You want to destroy the Constitution? Try to apply it to situations that it wasn't meant to handle. There are people on the left trying to do exactly that, and they are quite open about their disdain for the limitations imposed by the Constitution. The rest of you are just being taken along for the ride. Sorry Boomer6, I don't think that was 10 paragraphs but it was still pretty long. I'll try to sketch some drawings next time for the fighter pilots to follow along 😂🤣