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wütender Adler
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wütender Adler
@AT2Pro
Who me? I'm a Navy Veteran, I bludgeon the willfully stupid with facts (mainly about history and the sciences), and host a sometimes weekly show on YouTube.
Rhode Island, USA Joined Temmuz 2018
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@frozenaesthetic ‘The Three Musketeers and a Squire’ doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
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@realpeteyb123 Functional reset with term limits for Congress and a total ban on corporate involvement in lobbying. Remove public office as a means to amass wealth.
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@RichScotford @nxt888 I’ve met them, and the analysis does show that politics and changing ROEs factored in heavily. The situation was very similar to Afghanistan; allied forces drove out the Taliban, wasn’t allowed to wipe them out, handed governing over to the civilian population, Taliban returns.
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@nxt888 I’ve never met an American who said we could’ve won if our hands weren’t tied.
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There is a particular type of American who, when confronted with Vietnam, says:
"We could have won if the politicians hadn't tied our hands."
Let us examine this claim with the respect it deserves.
Which is none.
At peak deployment, the United States had 543,000 troops in Vietnam.
It flew more than 5.2 million combat sorties.
It used weapons so advanced that Vietnamese forces had never seen anything like them.
It had total air superiority for most of the war.
It had naval dominance of the entire coastline.
It had satellite intelligence, chemical defoliation, electronic surveillance.
It had the full industrial capacity of the wealthiest nation in the history of the world pointed at a country where most people farmed rice by hand.
And it lost.
Not barely lost.
Not lost-on-a-technicality.
Lost so completely that the last image of American presence in Vietnam is a helicopter on a rooftop in Saigon and desperate people climbing the walls trying to get on it as the American empire evacuated its failure in real time.
Broadcast live.
On television.
Watched by the entire world.
"They tied our hands."
With what?
What hand was left untied?
What weapon was withheld?
What tactic was forbidden?
The truth is too simple and too brutal for that excuse to cover:
You cannot win a war against people willing to fight forever for their own land.
You were never going to win.
The politicians didn't lose Vietnam.
The logic of empire lost Vietnam.
Because empire always eventually loses when it meets people who refuse to accept that they are supposed to lose.
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They put forth bills to pay TSA 9 times and the republicans voted against them
Big Fish@BigFish3000
AOC and Bernie Sanders will not pay TSA agents but fly first class on tax payers dollars. Agents make around 45,000 a year.
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@myonlinetrust @wickens_richard @ennui365 If they’re government loans, going zero interest would just have them perform accounting kabuki to divert funds from their other source - OUR TAXES. The real way to prevent that is a legal ban on all forms of punitive interest for all loan and credit types.
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@wickens_richard @ennui365 If they’re government loans then no, no one would be paying the interest.
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@MorgothsReview He will most certainly be impeached after the mid-terms. However the Democrats are not the idle replacement either. We need the Mamdani crowd to take over to see any real change.
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@logicensues @icy_pitschy @esjesjesj @grok Oh no, married at 6, waited until she was 9 to consummate, which was a sexual act.
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@grok @icy_pitschy @esjesjesj You already stated that Muhammed had sex with a 9 year old, which is prepubescent, is this something a person does who is not a pedophile?
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Based on primary Islamic sources like Sahih Bukhari 5134, Aisha was 6 at betrothal and 9 at consummation. Modern revisionists cite timelines (e.g., her sister Asma's age, battle participation) arguing 17-19 instead.
Clinically, DSM-5 pedophilic disorder requires recurrent intense urges/fantasies toward prepubescents (≤13) over 6+ months, plus acting on them or distress/impairment. No evidence shows this pattern in Muhammad's life—his other wives were adults/widows, this was one alliance marriage in 7th-century norms where young betrothals were common globally.
Thus, he does not meet the definition.
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@esjesjesj What’s worse, an elected official being a pedo or worshiping a pedo as the perfect human ordained by god?
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@AT2Pro You should try looking things up before you post
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Then why have my wages been stagnant for 20 year while the rich reap massive rewards?
The Rabbit Hole@TheRabbitHole
Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.
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@blandCinema No, wage stagnation means wages haven’t changed, but they’ve also have changed so they are not stagnant, aka unmoving. Wage devaluation is more accurate for what you’re intending to point out, the comparative buying power of those wages has significantly decreased, which is true
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@AT2Pro When wage growth is behind inflation is what stagnant wages means
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@tufpraise Or we’ve gotten tired of the shit and just want them to get it over with already.
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@QuantumGuard17 Except she also had/has access to insider information which the general public does not
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AOC says she has “no reason” to cooperate with federal auditors investigating her suspicious $22 million net worth.
“I have the same right to privacy as everyone else.”
Meanwhile, investigators are baffled—how does a socialist congresswoman go from bartender to multi-millionaire without something shady going on?
One federal official warned:
“It would be in her best interest to cooperate.”
The walls are closing in.

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Literally a fucking murderer with plenty of video evidence to prove it
US Homeland Security News@defense_civil25
🚨Update: Officer Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who fatally shot Antifa terrorist Renee Good in Minneapolis Minnesota after she hit him with her car, will NOT face charges for his self defense action! 🇺🇸
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@AT2Pro @JeffGreason To be fair, it took me a lot of work to convince you to watch Lower Decks.
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