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Just terrible.

 

You see the eyebrows picture too? lol

 

It wasn't so much that, but more that the money thing in court was weird. The showing his ID at Mcdonald's thing was weird. I haven't read the manifesto, but some people who have says it's very weird.

 

I haven't read the whole thing but I saw people on Twitter quoting bangers from it

 

Really interested in seeing details come out about this case but it’s absolutely the most Twitter thing imaginable to see posts in light of all this that are like “uhm yikes, he followed Joe Rogan! Can’t get on board with this guy”

 

why are the police out here releasing cell phone photos of him standing in a holding cell

 

Democrats spent the better part of this last year trying to figure out how to “unite” the country by endeavoring to court Republican votes while failing miserably, and this guy just waltzes onto the streets of New York with a silencer…

 

i've never felt more.....united

 

Because the networks pay the cops or admin workers thousands of dollars under the table to get their hands on that shit.

 

counter-point: America's last conventional war against someone resembling a near-peer was with China in the early 1950's and they kicked our ass. We have been fighting against farmers and third rate armies ever since. America's recent combat experience this guy is hyping up is fighting an entirely different type of war, meanwhile China has been investing in cyber warfare, missiles, and drones for the past decade preparing for actual 21st century conventional warfare, while we are just now trying to pivot from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.

A quote from Ukrainian soldier I read not too long ago comes to mind: " All these American veteran guys came in as volunteers at the start of war. They thought it was going to be like Iraq and Afghanistan. As soon as they experienced what being on the receiving end of artillery felt like most of them got out of here as soon as they could"

 

The replies are…hmm

 

this is a new level of pathetic even for these two absolute fucking morons.

 

the shooters family is better off than mine but as someone who’s parents are probably considered, at the very least, upper middle class I can tell you first hand my experience with health insurance has been one nightmare after another

 

lmao burning the midnight oil at the Graph Factory I see

 

next time someone posts a Matty tweet for any reason other than to call him an idiot theyre getting blocked

 

this is incredibly foolish

 

David and Knight speed running this challenge

 

I’m so glad I’m not a kid and don’t have kids because what the hell

 

Ehhh, I don't really agree with this take; all the combat the US has been in over the last 30 years has given them a lot of experience in what works and doesn't work, and the Ukraine war is at least giving the US some idea of how western tech functions in a near-peer environment, which is now fast-tracking changes and updates at most US/European defense companies. China has been investing a lot, yes, but the US has been investing in R&D even more, only in the US a lot of it is done by private enterprise, whereas in China most of it is done via state run orgs/companies. China meanwhile hasn't been in any serious combat engagement in decades; yes they've observed the US in all the conflicts during this time, learning from afar what is likely needed, but unless you actually do the combat yourself and understand everything it takes to make it happen, it's only just an idea of what you think you can do. The only area I could see China having parity in is the cyberwarfare side of things, but then again, we have no idea what the US/West is doing around the Ukraine conflict currently, which likely provides a big training round for US cyber operations. Although, when it comes to the manufacturing/building side of things, in terms of sheer output, China is probably ahead right now, especially when it comes to shipbuilding capacity. The availability of shipyards in the US has dramatically reduced over the last few decades, especially after the end of the Cold War, but there has been alarm for a while now how the US navy is lagging behind in how long it takes to build new subs and ships, with no quick fix. And because a lot of the manufacture of weapons is done by private enterprise, they depend on government contracts, especially those that are long-term in nature, so if those long-term contracts aren't there, the capacity/factories needed to build massive capacities of ships/tanks/IFV's, etc, aren't going to happen. Overall though, I feel the US government is fully aware of what they think is needed going forward, especially in terms of the advantages China has, so will, eventually, get on the track to match China.

As for international soldiers in Ukraine, there's tens of thousands of them over there right now, from dozens of countries around the world, and many have served for nearly the full length of the conflict so far. Most of the outfits I've read about don't have a problem finding recruits, but instead its more about finding the soldiers with the best skills; the requirements to serve now are stiffer than at the beginning of the war. There def was a problem with some internationals going over to serve, more for the glory than doing the job, but that's not really the case anymore.

 

The funny thing is, the point that they're trying to make (That it's actually our prices/the prices of providers that is the problem) can really only be solved by doing something I'm pretty sure both of them spoke out against very vehemently--forgiving student loans/making college free. You can't ask doctors to take lower pay for care while still burying them in 200K of med school debt.

 

No. The problem is for profit health insurance.

 

when you’re doing a complicated quest chain in a video game and the next step doesn’t have any map markers or tell you what to do