Obliviousness
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Civ-Mil cooperation, Information Advantage.
Following foreign policy stuff and conflict studies, history, support and defend the Constitution. Hiking and parks are where I'm happiest.
Personal account and not an endorsement by my organization.
Following foreign policy stuff and conflict studies, history, support and defend the Constitution. Hiking and parks are where I'm happiest.
Personal account and not an endorsement by my organization.
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I'm an absolute TR stan. The challenge of our generation is now against oligarchy in all it's forms and avenues.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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The profession of arms derives legitimacy from the system it serves. What happens when that system changes?
The Soldier in the Illiberal State is a Professional Dead End
The American political system today is indeed in crisis. Government function is in doubt, the administration has politicized and weaponized a previously
warontherocks.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The profession of arms derives legitimacy from the system it serves. What happens when that system changes?
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I had to tell the Boomers nobody can afford to give them grandchildren, and it's common sentiment that everyone is waiting for them to die so we can actually DO SOMETHING.
That generation cannot stand not to be the center of everything.
That generation cannot stand not to be the center of everything.
December 5, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I had to tell the Boomers nobody can afford to give them grandchildren, and it's common sentiment that everyone is waiting for them to die so we can actually DO SOMETHING.
That generation cannot stand not to be the center of everything.
That generation cannot stand not to be the center of everything.
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…and to rehabilitate Russia.
I put together this free piece--and the points are striking. This part of the long con is over. Here are the main US positions.
I put together this free piece--and the points are striking. This part of the long con is over. Here are the main US positions.
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
…and to rehabilitate Russia.
I put together this free piece--and the points are striking. This part of the long con is over. Here are the main US positions.
I put together this free piece--and the points are striking. This part of the long con is over. Here are the main US positions.
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Much of Europe this evening (5th) and tomorrow (6th) will be celebrating St Nicholas' Day, a tradition that has largely been lost in this country although many aspects have been transferred to Christmas. Below (also see post 2) is a brief piece I first wrote a few 1/2 #SaintNicholas
December 5, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Much of Europe this evening (5th) and tomorrow (6th) will be celebrating St Nicholas' Day, a tradition that has largely been lost in this country although many aspects have been transferred to Christmas. Below (also see post 2) is a brief piece I first wrote a few 1/2 #SaintNicholas
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When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health.
The amateurish buffoonery is devoid of loyalty. This whole shtick is absent any principles! It's like society is having to relearn that values matter, character matters, principles matter in leadership!!
Ladies and gentlemen: let’s all watch the chest-beating lethality macho warfighter dude trying to scurry away at the first sign of trouble.
December 2, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The amateurish buffoonery is devoid of loyalty. This whole shtick is absent any principles! It's like society is having to relearn that values matter, character matters, principles matter in leadership!!
We would still work to pay the bills, only now would also try to build a retirement. Or vise versa
Honest question: If everyone got Universal Basic Income, no strings attached, what would YOU do with it?
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
Re-post with your quote or drop your take below.
December 2, 2025 at 1:34 AM
We would still work to pay the bills, only now would also try to build a retirement. Or vise versa
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155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public
December 2, 2025 at 12:38 AM
155mm for dictators, 155% tax rate for billionaires, $1.50 hot dogs for the public
I named my fists Ivan and hoe because I'm about to smash your ass!
I named my fists Blood and Meridian because I’m fixing to Judge your ass.
I named my fists Moby and Dick because I am about to whale on you.
December 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I named my fists Ivan and hoe because I'm about to smash your ass!
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This is also why I hate hearing “it’s hard to disobey orders.” It’s hard to endure danger. It’s hard to not give up information. That’s precisely why there must be no ground given on the matter—when you bear arms, you take on that responsibility and must endure the consequences if you fail.
anyways read theory. american soldiers do not swear loyalty to the commander-in-chief. they swear loyalty to the constitution. the difference matters--not in sunny skies and good weather, but on bad days, when you are pressed to the breaking point--that is precisely when it matters most.
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This is also why I hate hearing “it’s hard to disobey orders.” It’s hard to endure danger. It’s hard to not give up information. That’s precisely why there must be no ground given on the matter—when you bear arms, you take on that responsibility and must endure the consequences if you fail.
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Disobeying unethical but legal orders in the military is illegal and you will probably be punished for it. But, particularly if you're an NCO or officer, tough shit? If you won't choose the harder right over the easier wrong, why do you feel entitled to your rank, exactly?
November 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Disobeying unethical but legal orders in the military is illegal and you will probably be punished for it. But, particularly if you're an NCO or officer, tough shit? If you won't choose the harder right over the easier wrong, why do you feel entitled to your rank, exactly?
Let's hear it, @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Let's hear it, @profanity.accountant
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Immigration=good was a principle understood by Frederick the Great! If you want to “retvrn to tradition” then the argument starts and ends with population=power. The idea of homogeneity as a virtue is an innovation of the Romantic period. The liberal idea is more traditional.
Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Immigration=good was a principle understood by Frederick the Great! If you want to “retvrn to tradition” then the argument starts and ends with population=power. The idea of homogeneity as a virtue is an innovation of the Romantic period. The liberal idea is more traditional.
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Every Western politician should know this quote by heart before opining on Russia-Ukraine. Of course the Russians want peace—it’s quite inconvenient for them that the Ukrainians are contesting their conquest!
“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.” -Clausewitz
Not saying the soldiers who were sent there were evil, they were figthing for their country.
What I condemn was the actions of Margaret Thatcher wich caused hundreds of deaths.
And the dictatorship oppressing Argentina didn't care much about winning war, just sent thousands of conscripts
What I condemn was the actions of Margaret Thatcher wich caused hundreds of deaths.
And the dictatorship oppressing Argentina didn't care much about winning war, just sent thousands of conscripts
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Every Western politician should know this quote by heart before opining on Russia-Ukraine. Of course the Russians want peace—it’s quite inconvenient for them that the Ukrainians are contesting their conquest!
*Let 'em bake
Let 'em cook
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 AM
*Let 'em bake
Post a meme from your abandoned meme folder
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Post a meme from your abandoned meme folder
Was put on lock down for several weeks back in late 2017 because Assad make vague threats to US personnel.
But here's the kicker, we were in a different theater. Different COCOM! And NATO partners and our supported org did not get that memo. It was only our immediate higher who had the good idea.
But here's the kicker, we were in a different theater. Different COCOM! And NATO partners and our supported org did not get that memo. It was only our immediate higher who had the good idea.
The sentiment is from collateral duty security officers doing their jobs. Trying to come up with ways to protect the service members under their care.
That is to say it is good idea fairies from almost completely untrained security people doing their best.
That is to say it is good idea fairies from almost completely untrained security people doing their best.
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Was put on lock down for several weeks back in late 2017 because Assad make vague threats to US personnel.
But here's the kicker, we were in a different theater. Different COCOM! And NATO partners and our supported org did not get that memo. It was only our immediate higher who had the good idea.
But here's the kicker, we were in a different theater. Different COCOM! And NATO partners and our supported org did not get that memo. It was only our immediate higher who had the good idea.
Just noodles, no cheese.
And I'm pretty sure those green beans aren't even cooked.
And I'm pretty sure those green beans aren't even cooked.
Karoline Leavitt's Thanksgiving spread. Please dissect.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
November 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Just noodles, no cheese.
And I'm pretty sure those green beans aren't even cooked.
And I'm pretty sure those green beans aren't even cooked.
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It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
November 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It is unfathomable that the USG lawyers would sign off on a no-survivors boat strike (no get of jail free card).
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
There's clear precedent dating back to World War II trial of Germans for that very act, which lawyers know well.
The Peleus World War II War Crimes Trial
www.usni.org/magazines/na...
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I read a piece by a psychologist, many years ago, about empathy, diseases of the mind and bad people.
What stuck with me was a passage where the person stated that bad people exist without having any psychological issues and our society, at large, cannot grasp it.
What stuck with me was a passage where the person stated that bad people exist without having any psychological issues and our society, at large, cannot grasp it.
October 28, 2024 at 1:08 PM
I read a piece by a psychologist, many years ago, about empathy, diseases of the mind and bad people.
What stuck with me was a passage where the person stated that bad people exist without having any psychological issues and our society, at large, cannot grasp it.
What stuck with me was a passage where the person stated that bad people exist without having any psychological issues and our society, at large, cannot grasp it.
Murdering trafficking victims.
And let's imagine, just pretend, that we're somehow in an actual war, the killing of people hors de combat and shipwrecked sailors is against the Geneva conventions.
And let's imagine, just pretend, that we're somehow in an actual war, the killing of people hors de combat and shipwrecked sailors is against the Geneva conventions.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
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"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Murdering trafficking victims.
And let's imagine, just pretend, that we're somehow in an actual war, the killing of people hors de combat and shipwrecked sailors is against the Geneva conventions.
And let's imagine, just pretend, that we're somehow in an actual war, the killing of people hors de combat and shipwrecked sailors is against the Geneva conventions.
It's the day after Thanksgiving, and I'm sadly short on pie.
I think it's time for a costco run, just for pie and bourbon.
I think it's time for a costco run, just for pie and bourbon.
November 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's the day after Thanksgiving, and I'm sadly short on pie.
I think it's time for a costco run, just for pie and bourbon.
I think it's time for a costco run, just for pie and bourbon.
Tangent to this, what is the most backhanded compliment you've ever received?
For me: "wow, you clean up nice," from a classmate after four years of honors program classes together. FOUR. YEARS. and now they say I can look presentable?
For me: "wow, you clean up nice," from a classmate after four years of honors program classes together. FOUR. YEARS. and now they say I can look presentable?
What is the best compliment you ever received? Putting aside whether or not you believed it.
November 26, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Tangent to this, what is the most backhanded compliment you've ever received?
For me: "wow, you clean up nice," from a classmate after four years of honors program classes together. FOUR. YEARS. and now they say I can look presentable?
For me: "wow, you clean up nice," from a classmate after four years of honors program classes together. FOUR. YEARS. and now they say I can look presentable?