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

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    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 Rightā€™s ā€˜Anti-Wokeā€™ culture is just a woke culture of itā€™s 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.

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        Idk to me itā€™s a no-brainer

        American politics (I canā€™t 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 shouldā€™ve just kept stairs.

        Regress or progress. Itā€™s simple. Republicans only care about upholding their status quo. You might think youā€™re their friends until one day you realize your position was never what you thought it was and thereā€™s always more room for coal in their burning trash pit.

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      Donā€™t forget this is the same rhetoric that right wingers used to compare Russiaā€™s 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 theyā€™re recycling their old talking points for China instead.

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        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.

        The West thought that Ukraine would fall in days in the event of a Russian invasion.

        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 Kyivā€™s 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 Iā€™m not sure whether theyā€™ve been to Mexico even, not anything in Europe, let alone Eastern Europe.

        Zero surprise theyā€™re recycling their old talking points for China instead.

        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 donā€™t 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, itā€™s better to overreact, no?

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      And even more so the irony that the Rightā€™s ā€˜Anti-Wokeā€™ culture is just a woke culture of itā€™s own on the other access,

      Unexpectedly agree.

      but rather than standing for anything it just exist to oppose and stagnate.

      And with this too. Just ā€œstanding for anythingā€ as I see usually occurs about things that donā€™t shoot back, but in general yee, that seems to be a correct description of most ā€œrightā€ folks Iā€™ve met.

      Really ā€œrightā€ 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 ā€œrightā€ is occupied by that swamp now.