@geoffs73 @BlastingThrough you give the leadership too much credit
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Rumplestiltskin
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Civilian perspective.
I’d like to think I’d try to see the command position and reasoning. But I know that’s hard enough when no one’s life was lost or even in jeopardy.
I truly believe the best case would be a deep and abiding distrust of the specific command structure and people, possibly extending to the service itself. But I also find myself thinking that a distrust of authority in general is a very distinct possibility.
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I’ve received a lot of feedback on the last two hypotheticals that have potential to lead to moral injury. What do you think of this one about betrayal?
A platoon leader is ordered to hold a checkpoint in a high-risk area with inadequate support and outdated equipment, despite repeated requests for reinforcements. Several members of the platoon are killed in an ambush that command "knew was likely" but downplayed. The leader feels betrayed by the chain of command: "They sent us out there like expendable pawns, knowing the risks but lying about the support we'd have." This betrayal erodes loyalty to the military institution and can extend to distrust of government or authority figures in civilian life.
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@DontTweetMe15 @planefag I'm not sure what else we got when a sumo is involved. They're much more athletic than people think
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so @J0hnADouglas is absolutely right about sumo wrestlers being human beings too but this is also an important point, the usual strategy of "hit them really hard as they close" is more difficult when you're trying to stop an Indiana Jones rolling boulder trap with a punch
How2Fix@how2fixtv
@J0hnADouglas @planefag Sumo wrestlers tank a full speed headbutt in like half of their matches, and they get 15 matches every 2 months. This is not counting training and the constant palm strikes they take to the head. They can fake being conscious really well.
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@J0hnADouglas @planefag I'm saying hoping to knock someone out while they're trying to close the distance and grapple is a bad strategy
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@DontTweetMe15 @planefag Alright, well you go ahead and start with growing body shots at a guy that has ten quick dry cement bags worth of body mass on him instead of his head and let me know how that works out
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@wil_da_beast630 @Templarpilled I think his point is the other person would not see them as African
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@Templarpilled Well...yeah. These are Rhodesian nationals, one of the two old "white tribes of Africa."
They lost in the end, but I'm not sure how this supports your point.
Many still live there - Miss Zimbabwe and IIRC Miss Africa was white, a few years back.
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Behold, African men defending their homeland
bartholomew cameron crave@camliekr
“would you consider a white person chinese if they were born and raised in china” literally yes. what is this argument
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@CuriousBunnie12 SIDS dominantly happens only with the mother…. Never in public…. And never with a father.
It’s just moms having mental breaks and killing their kids.
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no one who shouts this “fact” can explain why the back to sleep campaign reduced SIDS rates
Truth Reigns Supreme@awkeNotWoke
@CuriousBunnie12 SIDS is a lie - healthy babies do not die for unknown reasons. Babies only die in their sleep after their vaccines.
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@collin_mes10768 @OpenNoteGrapple sure, it changes things, just how you grapple. The same as if strikes are allowed, you grapple different. it doesn't negate grappling though
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@OpenNoteGrapple I will say when a mf can bite you it does change things a bit
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grappling being unnatural because primates being "ungrabable" is my new favorite combat philosophy
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@illusive_duck @Soyloquesoy_17 @11975MHz He did advocate for peace after he said that? Did he tell his superiors to avoid war? No, he advocated for the pearl harbor attack, threatening to resign if it wasn't carried out. quite possibly one of the dumbest plans of ww2
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@DontTweetMe15 @Soyloquesoy_17 @11975MHz No he wasn’t he argued against it he warned saying the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I shall run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.
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In all fairness, the Battle of Midway occurred on the very day that Yamamoto informed his superiors it would.
Admiral Yamamoto told them he could give them six months of unchecked expansion and conquest in the Pacific from the advent of December 7th, 1941.
Six months to the very day on June 6 1942, in the space of five minutes, that prediction of his was fulfilled.
medieval memelord@medievalmlord
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@a_big_chad @LegalYookay I’m white I’m just not a gimp like you lot
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@Hotara4 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 you belong to a deeply corrupt and bigoted culture, that's how it's still a thing. If the British were still there then there would be indoor plumbing
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@DontTweetMe15 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 Everyone with means have plumbing - not a flex … but if ur sarcasm is for poor ppl that don’t have much - shoes that u are a horrible human & that’s on ur parents , for the values they gave u
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When Britain took over India and Indian justice, they ran into problems of "combinated mendacity". Their colonial administrators had to learn not to assume petitioners were truthful even with hundreds of witnesses – whole villages would happily defraud the next village over.
Russian Garbage Human@RusGarbageHuman
So his entire family turned up to defend him after he stabbed an English kid? - His mother stashed the murder weapon. - His father and brother backed up the nonsense allegations of racism while Henry lay in a pool of his own blood. What a horrific community.
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@DontTweetMe15 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 British , American , Australian , EU - who cares … you are all fruits of the poison tree
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@k9_reaper this just speaks to a lack of imagination on your part
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Dudes with the chest man-bag things.. stop it. Get help.
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Perfect example as to why I will never understand men who store their handguns in a backpack or those little chest man-bag things. Ignore whatever the hell this shooting is.. focus on the amount of time that it takes the shooter to deploy.
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@Hotara4 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 lol I'm not British. kinda crazy that India is still a shit hole 70 years after the British left
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@DontTweetMe15 @RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 I can understand why you think this … looters grandkids aren’t expected to have values different from their forefathers.For WWII,British borrowed £3Billion (in 1942 €) from India and then wrote it off, wrote off tens of Bil while exiting IN. Grok can tell u the present value
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@RIGHTORIGHTOtwo @halogen1048576 The British were made for this word; after all they looted $45 trillion , were they ur ancestors ? Moron-gan 😂
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@CanyonCohle @SlumRNA_Dog Dude same, I don't understand how mma coaching is so bad. the key to beating Ronda was always going to be footwork. And what did everyone except Holly do, including gina the other night? charge right at her. I rarely gamble, but I paid my rent for 2 months of the Holly fight
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@SlumRNA_Dog No. She couldnt execute on Holly
I called this fight and this outcome for several years and also that Miesha Tate was going to be a WAY worse match up for Holly
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This was because her retard trainer/boyfriend tried to turn her into an “exciting stand-up fighter” but the thing about striking is that you either have it or you don’t.
Swipa@SwipaCam
Never forget when Holly Holm LEVELED Ronda Rousey when she was undefeated and on top of the world. One of the craziest fights of the 2010s.
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@SlumRNA_Dog @CanyonCohle nah dawg, Ronda repeatedly tried to take her down
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@CanyonCohle She couldn’t do anything because she was trying to outbox her
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@SlumRNA_Dog that's not true about striking at all. Ronda had terrible coaching and misplaced confidence. The only thing she knew how to do was bullrush into a clinch, which to be fair, had worked incredibly well up until then because women's mma and coaching is generally terrible
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@corgdad @Michael_Druggan it was the same sequence though
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@DontTweetMe15 @Michael_Druggan He did. The single leg failed then he switched the double leg which was successful. And to correct what I previously said, he competed at 175 at the time, but I have no idea what he actually weighed at time of filming
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This comment is both factually mistaken and completely misguided.
It would take an elite level of skill for someone to be favored in a fight over someone literally double their strength and 70-80lb heavier. Merely being a high school wrestler isn't going to cut it.
But that's honestly besides the point. The reason I'm proud of my bench press numbers isn't because of what it says about my fighting ability. I'm proud because I'm a strength athlete and I've achieved an elite level of performance in my chosen discipline.
No one would say that Steph Curry's basketball shooting ability is any less impressive just because he can't figure skate. That's ridiculous. They're different athletic disciplines.
Cernovich@Cernovich
Yeah. Gym bros talking about strength is tedious. A high school welterweight could body slam pretty much anyone reading this, no matter the how much can you bench bro. Talking about "strength standards" if you can't actually fight is peak vanity and delusion.
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