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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 4h

rockwell_man: I think drills shouldn't engage in literal physical assault of recruits for any reason, much less to verify a brass check and/or just for fun

that said I do think infantrydork should be punched in his xiphoid process as many times as it takes for him to stop poasting

infantrydork claiming drills laying hands on recruits builds character, including literally punching them in the stomach for fun .

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

would bet my entire mortgage if pete knows who SMAC or CMSA are, or if he can even cognate what they do

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

I didn't realize make-a-wish did alcohol related cirrhosis

anyway I could blast all those Operators to hell and back with one bomber's worth of pewpew, even accounting for missile spam targeting

Maybe Pete should spend more time familiarizing himself with SMAC and less time fastroping w/cool guys

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 8h

Pete is out here playing Operator. We do not have a SECDEF.

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

tracks with what my overall sense was, I don't think it was quite that hard for someone with his background to still get in within that timeframe, but fine he didn't it's whatever, just don't be a preening cock about pewpew bangbang shit

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

is that pete's latest SMU photo op boondoggle

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

shades of Anthony Tata as USD(P&R) has decided to litigate COVID reinstatement on xitter

on the one hand, what in the fuck, on the other hand, apparently what transpires xitter replies is official USG policy so welp

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 6h

look none of us want to know what he's thinking but also he is literally working in sean and/or pete's office soooooo

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 10h

So this is happening, getting the gang back together over there

also adam now uses "Indian" as his go-to attack slur on anyone who disagrees with him, which is nice

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

That said there's now a three way shitfit between him, someone who I can best tell is a DeSantis booster who was AD and is increasingly bearish on Trump, and Kanteens Kurt so that's happening

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

That said there's now a three way shitfit between him, someone who I can best tell is a DeSantis booster who was AD and is increasingly bearish on Trump, and Kanteens Kurt so that's happening

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

I'm too lazy to screenshot (he wrote like literally 14 paragraphs lmao) but his position in summary, GWOT, difficult to impossible for non-COMPO 1 to go, CIB matters more

As to what the community says, not my place obviously so no idea

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 11h

where's the AUMF

agree or disagree with the 01 AUMF, it exists and the legal opinions in question made an honest attempt to make a linkage

they aren't even trying to make a linkage (however absurd) to an AUMF to cover Article I considerations

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 13h

4) Disingenuously compares lethal strikes in Caribbean to prior drone strikes during Obama administration. 2/n

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h

He's still going, while also making excuses for pete's lack of a tab lol

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

It gets better because he's been in a multihour argument with a bunch of fellow travelers who (rightfully) pointed out his words didn't even make sense from their (and his) perspective

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 22h

Dude continues to demonstrate his willful ignorance of American history and the Constitution he swore an oath to. Americans have birthright. THAT is what makes one different from a subject or a serf. FFS

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 12h

"S/NCO who wanted to be even more in charge who acts like a super NCO instead of an officer"

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

That is a stereotype with a lot of basis in reality

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

his apparently formative iraq deployment was under Mike Steele, is a thing I feel compelled to routinely remind folks of

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

as lieutenants academy grads are (marginally, maybe) better at militarying, ROTC grads are better at lifing, it's a wash by O-3 if not sooner

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

everything else aside it is very funny that as subtext this dork thinks military academies (whether service or SMC) are the ultimate way to produce officers when the reality is there's basically no quality difference between them and ROTC grads in the aggregate

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 21h

listen to these fucking twits

americanmind.org/features/res...

How to Make Enough Good Men

The path forward lies in building male-only military academies with an unambiguous martial ethos that are backed by federal policies.

americanmind.org

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

Because of who he is

Unfortunately he's not just a random O-4 shithead poaster

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

attn @sickoscommittee.org

tbh I could also easily imagine overhearing this in Monroe or Ruston

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

Undergrads having a coffee shop discussion about whether diarrhea or chlamydia would be a prettier name, hypothetically

Geaux Tigers

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16h

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

grandpa just says things, but also fuck you pay me

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

“.. we’re going to take care of our people,” Trump added. “There are some people that really don’t deserve to be taken care of. And we’ll take care of them in a different way.”

@thehill.com
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

feel like I need to set up a bot over here to mirror his tweets

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

then a pepe av showed up and accused him of being too friendly towards "job stealing Indians," at which point Adam felt compelled to defend his white nationalist bona fides and honor

add in adam calling everyone who disagrees with him mentally disabled, toss in a few slurs, and fin

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

It gets better because he's been in a multihour argument with a bunch of fellow travelers who (rightfully) pointed out his words didn't even make sense from their (and his) perspective

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 22h

Dude continues to demonstrate his willful ignorance of American history and the Constitution he swore an oath to. Americans have birthright. THAT is what makes one different from a subject or a serf. FFS

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