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@jonlbs That extremely over-simplified, distilled version of the event is all you’re going to get - it is what it is. I don’t see this one as unwarranted (though I understand the speed at which it was pushed through is almost certainly politically driven). Like all awards/medals, including the MOH, there will always be people who easily could have/should have received them and didn’t. That fact doesn’t immediately negate the validity of someone else’s award.

Well deserved and earned.

Exactly. Many of the big tech names work in the black world, but publicly they’ll cry for world peace and shit on the DOW, an administration’s foreign policies/decisions, etc. They don’t actually give a shit about all of their professed “ideals,” they only care about money and power. They are more than happy to participate in things that result in death and destruction (and they’re fully aware of it).

If you’re an AI company and want to do business with the DOD, then you have to be OK with them implementing it in ways that will result in death and destruction. If you don’t like that, then don’t do business with the DOD.

CH has been very clear on his criticism of dumb shit being said across the entire spectrum, as has just about everyone else here. Start living in reality instead of making up/implying blatantly false things.

Mexico is perhaps the most perfect example of gun laws being absolutely useless and only screwing over good people, and the root cause of violence problems being a lack of positive societal norms/proliferation of dogshit societal norms.

I’m not surprised. They work fast.

@disgruntledemployee Ratner has pretty much covered it. But I’ll emphasize one point: Every president (and pretty much any politician) in my lifetime can easily fit the “what a POS” definition for one reason or another - if you think a single one doesn’t in the last 40+ years, you are delusional. Good, “wholesome” people just don’t run for national level politics. My recommendation to anybody, including you, is stop being emotional and vote according to policy plans/outcome records that you agree with (including the candidate you only agree with 51% vs. the other guy).

It’s a fair point. But yes, it does still matter because the force composition will never be 100% CCA anytime in the medium-term future (sure at some point it’ll all be T1000 fighting each other, but that’s a ways off).

An article written by a guy who has zero clue. That said, I do share his disdain for our acquisitions process and understand his comments regarding cost creep, etc. But he showcases his zero credibility with multiple comments. Restarting the F-22 - GTFO, that’s a dumb idea and non-starter. 6G is necessary and it’s going to hurt the bank account, pretty much no way around that. The hope is they can produce what they claimed they will relatively close to the timeline they said they would. That would be a massive improvement over LM’s bullshit with the F-35. I’m not holding my breath, but I am rooting for Boeing to succeed where LM has failed miserably. Our national defense depends on it.

The “both sides do it” argument in the context of what we’re talking about is lazy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant. Conservatives at scale are absolutely not rioting, looting, vandalizing, threatening people’s lives and livelihood, losing complete emotional control over everything, etc. The left on the other hand has and is continuing to do all of those things at scale. Do I need to list all of the very obvious examples and give you a list of personal experiences, or can you put the ego aside and recognize you’re blatantly wrong on the “both sides do it” bullshit? Of course I’m not saying you can’t point out some ultra right nut job who did something bad, or even point out a few. We also probably agree that politicians by and large are asshats, whether they have a D or R next to their name. But when it comes to at-scale violence, destruction and willful disregard for the law and societal norms, GTFO with this “both sides” bullshit. That doesn’t mean you have to like Trump or identify as an R, but you should acknowledge reality.

Too bad state law doesn’t stop federal law. But this is just a performance for the lemmings, we all know that.

Federalizing elections is right the fuck out. Voter ID requirement should have happened forever ago. Voter rolls are fucked in several states (probably more than we know), so maybe a better fix is to amend the law to be more specific instead of using massively subjective language like “reasonable.” Fed takeover though is absolutely not the fix.

But not surprising, considering Trump may be a lot of things, but a true politician is not one of them. And true politicians for the most part seem to get very little done.

How does it sound with the suppressor? I assume it’s still not hearing safe. I’m still undecided on the 5.7, but it is interesting and somewhere on the list. I’ve started a pretty expensive rifle build, and hunting for an airplane, so I unfortunately may actually have to break my own rule and only get one gun this year (gross, that just sounds terrible).