James Ramirez

@IWasOnlyFunning @CynicalPublius US military actions live and die by public opinion. Price pressures are the only thing voters really care about. It's not a coincidence we hit a ceasefire as oil hits a high since 2022. It will cool, prices fall, and blow up again if they want it to.

How am I supposed to think of this as anything other than the United States surrendering to Iran? I feel like Iran won. The IRGC stays in power. Nothing changes. How is this a victory for the United States? I'm asking this genuinely, not with snark. I am majorly disappointed.

Every Democrat, RINO, NeverTrumper, Libertarian and European is a house cat. And Trump is a laser pointer. They never, ever, EVER learn, do they?

“Oh so how many people do you think it’s ok to kill to save one airman?” Uh….all of them. Every living thing in your country is expendable if it means saving a single downed American. And that goes for every country in Earth.

good post - immediately thought of this scene

"Here's why low tax on a commodity is actually bad" - signed a Limey. It's actually comical.

@TheFl0orIsLaVa "We care deeply about STDs, that's exactly why we practice abstinence instead of advocating for condoms and birth control." - it's the same argument.

A lot of Americans on my timeline: "Europeans don’t understand why we’d lose millions in tech to save a pilot. They don’t care about their troops". That's not true. We care deeply and that’s exactly why we didn’t agree to send our people into Iran in the first place.

You Polish fucking idiot... you absolute mouth-breathing, historically illiterate simpleton who wouldn’t recognize genuine warrior ethos if it curb-stomped your fragile national ego into the dirt where it belongs. You sit there, sneering at the spectacle of America committing every asset, every operator, every ounce of kinetic fury from the most lethal military machine ever forged...just to yank one downed pilot out of the fire....and you sneer. That’s doctrine. That’s identity. And your limp-dicked dismissal proves exactly why your military culture treats its people like disposable serfs while ours forges legends who fight like they have a nation that will burn the world down to get them home. “Leave no man behind” isn’t some sentimental bumper-sticker slogan for the U.S. military. It is the sacred, blood-oath covenant that has defined American warfighting since the Revolution, through Belleau Wood, Iwo Jima, the Chosin Reservoir, Vietnam’s endless Combat Search and Rescue missions that diverted entire air wings to extract one airman, Mogadishu where Task Force Ranger bled rivers to recover every last brother, and every black-op Delta, DEVGRU, or Ranger stack has ever run since. It is codified in the Ranger Creed, the SEAL Ethos, the Marine Corps’ every-man-a-rifleman creed, and the Army’s Warrior Ethos: “I will never leave a fallen comrade.” We enforce it with lethal precision because we understand something your culture apparently never grasped: the individual American fighter is not expendable cannon fodder. He is the irreducible unit of national power. This policy is pure predatory genius. It weaponizes trust. Every pilot, every operator, every grunt steps into the breach knowing...bone-deep, soul-deep...that if the worst happens, his brothers and his nation will expend whatever it takes, risk whatever it costs, to drag him back alive or bring him home in a box. That knowledge annihilates the paralyzing fear of abandonment that has broken lesser armies across history. It transforms hesitation into ferocious, calculated aggression. It creates men who fight like cornered lions because they trust their tribe implicitly. Betray that covenant and you erode the very foundation of combat effectiveness. Armies that treat their soldiers as interchangeable meat...look at the meat-grinder doctrines of the Soviets, the Chinese, or certain Eastern European “allies” who’ve spent centuries getting partitioned and occupied...crumble from within. Morale collapses. Initiative dies. You end up with conscripts who surrender at the first real contact because they know nobody’s coming for them. We don’t do that. We never will. That’s why our warriors are qualitatively superior. It projects unassailable resolve that deters enemies and cements alliances. It raises the cost of engaging us exponentially. It tells the world that American lives have infinite value while theirs are negotiable. That message is worth every asset, every round, every risk...because it sustains the dominance you now resent from the sidelines. History is littered with the corpses of empires that forgot this lesson. We studied those failures. We weaponized the opposite. So when we lose “all this” to rescue one pilot and still call it a triumph, it isn’t delusion...it’s affirmation of the spiritual steel that makes us the superpower and leaves you polishing participation trophies from other people’s wars. Your sneering exposes a profound cultural weakness: you don’t value the individual fighter with this ferocious, unrelenting loyalty, so you can’t comprehend why we do. That’s why your military produces cannon fodder and ours produces predators. We don’t leave our own to rot in some foreign shithole. Period. That isn’t weakness. That is what makes us lethally, unapologetically superior. And that, you clueless Polish prick, is why we win. 💀🗡️🦅🇺🇸🪖

the european mind is too poor to comprehend that we got it like that.

@ProtestBusters @Cappyarmy based

@Cappyarmy Cappy's just a dumb grunt, I don't expect him to try and understand other points of view, but for others here: he's basically rationalizing killing dozens of innocents and probably 100 other folks (they were killing anyone within 3 miles of the place) just for 1 pilot. insanity

A lot of Iranian Forces got killed finding out we will go scorched earth before leaving a man behind.

@ITshortking2 He is risen babygirl.

Waking up to find: the Tomb empty My Sins forgiven The WSO recovered No Casualties taken And a shit ton of those Iranian dirt worshippers turned into dog food.

Sorry, the F-35 pilot survived.

@hhgfdyk87034 @ByChrisGordon Fuck em.

@ByChrisGordon those were actually unarmed civilians, as shown in the videos who were not aware of the operation going on

U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones protected the rescued F-15E crew member by striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers of the Airman, a person familiar with the operation told Air & Space Forces Magazine.

Imagine being Iran's leadership right now You once were the feared boogie man of the Middle East. Instead, you get the complete shit kicked out of you for 5 weeks straight, your entire navy sunk, your supreme leader killed, and you FINALLY shoot down 1 plane This is finally your moment. You can parade the pilot on TV and use him as negotiating leverage But instead, Air Force Pararescue puts boots on the ground on your home turf, we basically build a whole patrol base including a Forward Air Refueling Point, kill hundreds of your dudes, something goes wrong with one of the C-130s at the FARP on our way out, we're not even cortisol spiked so we simply just fly in another plane and blow up the old one instead of even bothering to do any maintenance just because of how much money we have that we can simply buy a new plane Good grief. I haven't seen a beatdown this bad since Will Stancil got molested by Grok. This is honestly embarrassing for the IRGC at this point. That was LITERALLY your home territory where you know all the terrain and have home field advantage, we have never done real boots on the ground operations in Iran before, and you still lost. Everyone throw up the set right now

@goob_was_here @Devon_Eriksen_ @5ducks5 California was a pretty safe red state between the 50s and 90s - it was only until Clinton and Prop 187 that it went deep blue.

@Devon_Eriksen_ @5ducks5 Do you think that all those things just magically appeared because of the land? Lmao it's that exact political entity that has created so much prosperity

カリフォルニア産ワインを飲み、カリフォルニア産の野菜やフルーツを食べて、シリコンバレーの技術でゲームを楽しんで、iPhoneでTikTok見て、ハリウッド映画を観て、アボカドトースト食べながら『あの州は嫌い』とか言ってる🇺🇸人って本当にいるの？イジってるだけで本当に嫌ってるわけじゃないよね。

@PatrickHeizer The line items he posts are also fucking useless without seeing the rest of the bill. We have no idea what's arrears, late fees, time of use differences, demand charges, or if it's even a legit bill.

This person used 2,551 kWH in a single month while in a one bedroom apartment. The average American home uses ~11,000 kWh per YEAR.

@DonroeDoctrine1 @PatrickHeizer $0.08 per kWh is insanely fucking cheap, the national average is ~$0.17 per kWh (more than double). there's no rate on the previous line items so I'm not sure how the bill breaks down but it looks like the dude is also behind maybe 2 bills which is why he owes nearly $800

@PatrickHeizer So what? Are people not allowed to have interests and hobbies that use electricity? Why are you so interested in controlling other peoples consumption that doesn't effect you in any measurable capacity.

@akevittnvg I'M HERE. PRAISE THE BEAVER.

アメリカ人と交流してたらなんか外国嫌いやなんか変なやつまで表示され出した… 助けてbuc-ee’s！マッケンチーズ！アンクルbbq！エルヴィスプレスリー！

@josephTremarie @JadeAtrophis @Michaeldudufudu "beauty is subjective" and its a girl pissing behind a car

HOW DOES THIS MAKE ME A FASCIST LOL

@JamesxRamirez @srarsx Also if we are talking political reality socialism doesn’t require *not* spying on your class enemies.

@srarsx @mitchysuch I don’t understand this argument. Everyone’s data has already been out there, for like, a long time. Smartphones were this epoch. The only meaningful difference AI makes is in collating said data, which isn’t really the doomsday implied. The phones were.

@mitchysuch there are good reasons to oppose this tech specifically, though, moreso as it appears in the current social moment than in absolute. do we really think ai (for one trained on user conversations) isn't being used to attempt to usher in an ultimate oppressive regime?

Marx or Lenin would never be hounding people for using the electric loom or splitting the atom, or using claude for recipes.