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Replace “mask” with “reflective belt” and you just became what’s wrong with the Air Force. By the way, neither do anything to keep us safe.

Solid rebuttal! Yes my heart comment was a small bit of hyperbole; but myocarditis, heart failure, and death is real. This thing where you call the other guy crazy to avoid questions & critical thinking worked just fine until the damn on fake COVID info started breaking. Now that approach is less convincing.

Now thar so much more is coming out, it’s clear this entire thing was the bullshit many of us suspected from the start. A Chinese bio weapon escaped from a lab funded by the very people insisting it wasn’t. Masks were just a distraction to avoid this fact, and the doctors forcing masks compliance knew they were useless. Medically valid and effective treatments ignored and derided to push experimental vaccines. Those vaccines now mandated for college students in little danger from C19, but the vaccines are making their hearts explode. Medical doctors censored and banned from media for pointing to evidence. Have all the “conspiracies” come true or only most? 3 years ago, I wouldn’t have believed anything this insane and dystopian could rapidly grip America. I was totally wrong. We are living in scary and unpredictable times.

Good point. That’s some scary ass commissar stuff.

I don’t think we’ll be back this time. I had the same experience in Iraq, but the mood was very different in 2013 and early 2014 before we re-invaded: Obama was doing everything he could to let ISIS have their caliphate but those idiots could not resist provoking him with their disgusting torture propaganda. The Taliban will do a lot of terrible things when they regain control, but beheading western journalists and aid workers while filming it, making snazzy videos and mocking the impotence of our president is not one of those things. I think we’re out of that place for good.

Spot on for AFSOC as well. But you’re asking an impossibly difficult organizational task: for its leadership to realize they can’t lead in a new environment. And what is the mechanism to ID new leaders whose thought processes are compatible with the new environment? There isn’t one. When the next high end fight kicks off (which I think is not soon), we’re going to follow the pattern we’ve always followed: get our ass kicked a little bit, then pivot dramatically by firing existing leadership. That will be our only chance to win…. Assuming those new military leaders are matched by political leaders who also demand victory and enable it. Our entire approach to war will need to look very different than the last 20 years.

Here’s a controversial opinion: I don’t care about near peer/GPC. If it happens, I’ll have time to get smart because other taskings will be zero. If it happens and I don’t have time to get smart, I’m screwed anyway because I can’t keep that level of proficiency concurrent with maintaining my CVEO specific skill set. Also I don’t think it will happen. We have an almost zero percent accuracy record predicting future conflicts (seriously, look it up, the US has been awful at this).

But the science indicates it evolved naturally and didn’t escape from the bio weapons lab! We have to trust the science; it’s “settled” so don't ask questions.

You’re onto something. Some folks are joyless and boring. Ban dancing at weddings? Check. Kissing with masks on? Check. Ban pictures of spouses wearing bikinis in a persons office? Check. Ban books and podcasts, ban parties, wear a mask, suppress normal sexuality but defend pedophilia…. If you’re defined by all the things you want prohibited or ways you force compliance in others, we all know your political affiliation. Likewise if you are a “live and let live” kind of person so long as we all follow common rules evenly applied; we know your political affiliation as well.

Just picked up a SCAR 16. They’ve been discontinued by FN apparently 17 & 20 only remaining in production) but I always wanted one. I’m excited to put it through the paces!

Dude spot on. I’ve often considered the analogy between mask nonsense and the reflective belt nonsense of 2004-8. Worth noting, sometime about 10 years ago people just got sick of the psycho belt enforcement and quit wearing them…. Action which resulted in ZERO rise in cases of people being run over by vehicles. We had Nazi level belt compliance enforcement (not hyperbole) for years based on the idea that leadership had to save us from ourselves in the name of safety. We quit doing it, and data proved there was never any “there” there. The belts prevented no accidents, because no statistically significant amount happened when they disappeared. It was just all bullshit. Anyway, great observation. Since I have nothing to add I your point, I’ll post an article instead about C19: Origin worth the quick read. Several good threads; curious one side of our government (DOD) is acutely focused on China as a bad actor and suspicious (with good reason) of their actions. Another side (NIH) is deeply protective of the relationships they’ve developed with China and willfully stopped inquiry into China’s C19 role.

Actually Liz Cheney was ousted because her fixation on Trump was preventing Republicans from moving on and being constructive. The first attempt to oust her failed, this one succeeded because she proved incapable of moving forward. People don’t like that. It’s not usually helpful. Might be germane to this conversation since you don’t care about current leadership and started this discussion by looking back a year…. That simply isn’t the most important and relevant thing for most of us. I also note you chose not to comment on the massive group aligned to push lies in order to take political power away from Trump. Yes everything is hyper partisan nowadays, to attempt leadership analysis in a vacuum discounting those variables is to guarantee an incomplete and therefore inaccurate result. Red vs Blue isn’t the only lens I can see through, but your link was atrociously partisan followed by decrying partisanship so I’m guessing this is a troll.

Ok, I’m game to hear your “debrief of lack of effective leadership.” However for context I’d like to know three things up front: What US elected leader did demonstrate effective leadership during the outset of C19 pandemic, or did they all initially bow to recommendations of “experts” who we know in retrospect were completely wrong (no outside transmission yet they locked us up and closed beaches, no surface spread yet they had us Clorox wiping groceries like idiots, etc.)? I’m trying to separate your analysis of Trump’s leadership from the leadership & recommendations from Fauci, CDC, WHO, NIH, etc. Do you acknowledge the unprecedented alliance of democratic political operatives, major media sources, and insurgent insiders within the government who conspired together to promote lies, even at the expense of hurting Americans, in order to damage Trump politically while he was attempting to lead during the pandemic? And finally, are you happy with our current national leadership regarding COVID; all the clarity of thought and consistency of guidance emanating from our CDC and White House? providing your thoughts on the above questions will be helpful in filtering out genuine discussion from trolling.

Alive on life support = alive. There’s nothing in the definition that stipulates self sustaining respiration. “Personhood” whatever that means is not something I even understand, much less have an opinion on.

Why would you think I meant that? The answer is no, I do not believe that nor do I think my statement you quoted implies such. I won’t speculate on personhood, but if a human being medically dies when circulatory or brain function ceases, it’s logical to conclude they are alive when those functions begin. Which happens in the first few weeks inside the womb.

I don’t understand, did you initiate this discussion to blame Trump for something? The link you posted stretches imagination to blame the former POTUS. Here’s an article about C19 origins with some truly good analysis and information: https://nicholaswade.medium.com/origin-of-covid-following-the-clues-6f03564c038

A philosophically consistent mechanism for determining the beginning of human life might be using the opposite of the identified end of human life: 1. cessation of either circulatory & respiratory function OR 2. cessation of brain activity. A logical starting point would be assuming human life begins at the opposite of defined human death.

Exactly right.

Agreed. Which leaves only two possibilities: either Fauci/CDC are absurdly risk adverse (further casting doubt on their judgement) or they are not letting us see the real numbers (demonstrating themselves untrustworthy). There’s no good outcome for the “experts” here. I am curious if the same standard applied to C19 deaths is being applied to C19 adverse vaccine reactions. ETA: speaking of statistically insignificant numbers driving illogical policy changes... the drive against “assault weapons” is mathematically analogous.

Carlson on vaccine questions I understand Tucker Carlson is a commentator who thrives on controversy. I’m not linking this because of an affinity for him, but rather he’s the only one discussing a topic I can’t get a straight answer on: does the vaccine work? If so, why no alleviating restrictions for vaccinated? If not, why the massive guilt campaign to compel vaccination?

Agreed. Has anyone ever filled out a GO initiated survey that mattered? I spent an hour on the pilot retention survey years ago only to hear, 10 months later, AFPC had “lost” the survey results. None of these are worth the time.

All 3 were prosperous before and without politics. Is that true of our current class of career politicians? But I do agree with your last sentence.

Historical sidebar, but your 3 examples are totally wrong. Lincoln- soldier/lawyer. Jefferson- plantation owner/ lawyer. Reagan- actor. None of the examples you gave were career politicians; all had successful careers before and outside politics. As Reagan said “The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so.”

What are destination jobs? I’m trying to get smart on all things airline. I’m currently ignorant.

Are old/obese white people or more or less vulnerable to C19 than young otherwise healthy people of color? I haven’t been following the science closely, appreciate any data you have. And since discrimination based on ethnicity is on the table now, what other areas of society is this practice acceptable?