What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
ā Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering riflesā rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisonsā¦
ā Wilfred Owen
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
ā Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering riflesā rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisonsā¦
ā Wilfred Owen
I love the irony of the man responsible for holding up officer promotions and DIRECTLY AN UNEQUIVOCALLY DAMAGING MILITARY READINESS FOR A CONFLICT OR EMERGENCY is criticizing service members who do more good for this country on a bathroom break than this shitheel will ever do in his entire life.
And even more so the irony that the Rightās āAnti-Wokeā culture is just a woke culture of itās own on the other axis, but rather than standing for anything it just exist to oppose and stagnate. The sooner all these people retire and go back under what ever rock they came out from under, the sooner things start to improve across the board for the US.
Like abortion, itās a losing topic for the GOP. The majority of Americans consider āwokeā a positive thing.
Well, it is. The opposite of woke is asleep.
You do the math.
Idk to me itās a no-brainer
American politics (I canāt speak for other companies sorry I meant countries) boil down to: do you want to make consistent, planned, and supported efforts to improve and progress the country or do you want to be the dumb fuck at the back of the stuck elevator yelling about how we shouldāve just kept stairs.
Regress or progress. Itās simple. Republicans only care about upholding their status quo. You might think youāre their friends until one day you realize your position was never what you thought it was and thereās always more room for coal in their burning trash pit.
Donāt forget this is the same rhetoric that right wingers used to compare Russiaās military to the US. Russia is real men, the modern modern military in the world, the best trained, the US is falling behind. The West thought that Ukraine would fall in days in the event of a Russian invasion.
Then an invasion actually happened and the facade was stripped away.
Zero surprise theyāre recycling their old talking points for China instead.
Oh, come on, no Russian (with balls turning around the correct axes in the skull, so to say) would believe that, about modern and best trained and falling behind.
That was sufficiently close, if you remember news and videos from the first weeks. It could have happened for all or most of the Left Bank Ukraine, if the Russian military would be just a bit less shit.
That helicopter assault on Kyivās suburbs was rather Hollywood worthy. Ended with wasting best assault troops for nothing, though.
I mean, returning to modern and so on, if an American believes that, then Iām not sure whether theyāve been to Mexico even, not anything in Europe, let alone Eastern Europe.
Now about China they may be right. China manufactures lots of things. China has its own consumer electronics. China has everything for a bloody autarchy, though of course it would take decades more to reach that and I donāt see that being useful for them.
China is much more serious than Russia. It really (as in many times confirmed) does things in terms of modern weaponry and control systems which Russia has been doing only on paper, which has become clear now for everybody.
Anyway, itās better to overreact, no?
Unexpectedly agree.
And with this too. Just āstanding for anythingā as I see usually occurs about things that donāt shoot back, but in general yee, that seems to be a correct description of most ārightā folks Iāve met.
Really ārightā views (as what LOTR hobbits have in the book, for example) I usually encounter from people with chaotic-good alignment who would themselves most likely identify politically as leftists. Because the ārightā is occupied by that swamp now.