The last true OG of American civil-military relations

6/ Or perhaps most starkly, this:

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

If I say what should happen to people who do this i will be banned

Raytheon Executive: I know you’re skeptical about buying American again. But hear me out. The MIM-104 Patriot is the only surface to air missile system with a proven track record of success against the US Air Force. Danish Defense Minister: Continue.

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

This is a symptom of the U.S. military’s erroneous conception of strategy as scale. If it’s happening at a large scale, it must be strategic. It’s difficult. It takes a lot of folks and resources. It requires high level commanders. But it’s not strategic.

it's funny to see the odd AI reporter and such on the timeline right now cause amidst the great histories of war and incredible, mind-bending hubris of great powers on display is some perfunctory "uh, sam altman" shit, like yeah man true but lmfao

goddamn dude

Wild

The Zone of Interest (2023)

Everything they do is so lame and juvenile and performative, like a group of 12 year old boys playing war in the garage

I refuse to call it the "Department of War." Fuck you. Hashtag NotMyDOD

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Lmao

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this clip from Shoresy of people rattling off Dutch names is the funniest and most impressive thing I’ve seen on tv in a long time

tbqh i only ever watched evangelion the way it was intended by the auteur - 240p .mpgs with fansubs, when i was like 19. haven't seen it since

THIS LIKE FUCKIN' HAPPENED, MAN.

yes, the wheels of justice are slow. agonizingly, excruciatingly slow. and oftentimes they miss or go off the tracks entirely. in fact most of the time. but occasionally, very infrequently, that big wheel of justice delivers theoretical remuneration for a handful of vested business interests

Had a dream where I was hanging out with a gang of scrappy street smart hooligans with hearts of gold(each had a personality matching dog), just straight slice of life type shit until the last 30 dream seconds or so when a massive space robot invasion happened. 7/10 dream all considered.

Maybe Something Beautiful Will Happen Today

Median election Twitter moment

X vs BlueSky discourse right now feels like arguing the merits of Bentley versus Volkswagen in 1940. At some point, the fact Spitfires and Messerschmidts are dogfighting over London has to take priority over gas mileage or whatever.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

German political leadership in 1941 thought something akin to this too lmao

You don't have to hand it to ChatGPT but it's producing the correct random sentences here.

i'm crying lol

Lawful Evil is the funniest alignment. Nothing Le Wacky Wholesome Chungus Chaotic Good bard does will ever be as funny as the guards in Morrowind asking you if you have a license for that murder then pleasantly apologizing for holding you up when you produce said license.

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his multicultural economic zone. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his autarkic ethnostate.

one of my favorite posts

read theory

god shoot me with a gun

Actual bandit behavior

bechdel-esque test for pokemon games where two characters have to have a conversation without mentioning pokemon

i'm a fan of the rhetorical one-two of "we're coming after you in this life and in the next"

Whenever you see someone talking about "retvrning to pre-industrial methods of agriculture" you need to bluntly ask them how many people should starve to death to serve this goal.

the first choice is literally what Jesus would teach, i feel like i'm losing my mind

Honestly, it has to be a weird time to be a figure in pop culture due the president being Literally The Worst. Like, Elmo can say sharing is good and somebody in his X mentions will say “Elmo, you rotten son of a bitch. This goes against everything President Trump stands for.” And that’s not wrong.

Wanna see the guy piloting this play ace combat 7

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

The Mommy Party is always responsible for cleaning up the Daddy Party's mess. Failure to do so because Daddy beat her too hard to remain upright is Mommy's fault for being too shrill and annoying. This too is gender.

they added a new kind of biathlon where competitors alternate cross country skiing and preparing a perfect omelette

HBO is 100% going to ruin Baldur's Gate. They'll make everyone queer and it'll be about refugees or something.