Joseph Sadighi

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Joseph Sadighi

Joseph Sadighi

@LTGreenwald

Chemist turned soldier, now I divide my time. Would rather talk with someone who disagrees with me but makes me think, than a hack aligned with my own views.

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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool [others]. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that." – Richard Feynman, Caltech Commencement address, 1974
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
There’s a line from Charles Grodin in Midnight Run that I find myself using a lot in bad city traffic: “You’re making it very difficult for me to do the right thing here!!”
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@RSE_VB Maybe someone can e-mail the CDR the coffeeshop scene from Loudermilk: “you’re not a teenager, so unless you’re Eunice Kennedy Shriver, knock it off!”
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Rich "Corky" Erie
Rich "Corky" Erie@RSE_VB·
I was on a Teams call yesterday with 5 people, and one was a female Commander (O5) from an Echelon 2 Command (4 Star). She spoke with a very noticeable vocal fry (low-frequency, creaky, or gravelly speech pattern) and it drove me absolutely NUTS that a Naval Officer would adopt that speech pattern. Yes, it's a choice; no you do NOT normally talk like that. Like it or not, if you speak with a vocal fry you're perceived as annoying, unprofessional, and lack authority, competence, or confidence. Those negative qualities are anathema to being a Naval Officer or in a leadership role anywhere. Stop it. Leave it for the 20-year old sorority sisters.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@TheStingisBack I wasn't a regular viewer, but one that stuck with me is where Sam leaps into Vietnam as one of his brother's teammates, trying to avert his brother's death. Al is in dress whites the whole time and it's left to us to understand why. "Up here. I was always free." Packed a wallop.
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The Sting@TheStingisBack·
Quantum Leap premiered 37 years ago today. Scott Bakula debuted as Dr. Sam Beckett, jumping through time and inhabiting different lives, guided by Al (Dean Stockwell), to fix history’s mistakes, one leap at a time. It's one of the best sci-fi premises of all time. "Oh, boy."
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@JonahDispatch “Eventually” was the way to bet. Ukraine’s ongoing stand, its ongoing survival, are against the odds. My hat is off to them.
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Jonah Goldberg@JonahDispatch·
There were many people who were very confident that Russia would make mincemeat of Ukraine either rapidly or eventually. Those who said “rapidly” were proven wrong long ago, in some cases embarrassingly. But now events are coming for the “eventually” crowd too. And I hope the embarrassment is even more acute.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@ParanoidPol You date the birth of an expansionist Iran to some time after 2003? We differ.
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Aristonkle
Aristonkle@ParanoidPol·
Iraq was a failure that resulted in the birth of an expansionist Iran that is more ideologically radical than Saddam ever was. Saddam, for all his ills, checked Iranian influence in the region. Today Iraq is at best heavily influenced by Tehran and at worst its a proxy state by way of the PMF. Would the region be better/safer if Saddam wasn't tossed? Too many variables to definitively say. Would he have continued to pin the Iranians? Very likely.
Zaoist 🇺🇸🇻🇦🇰🇵@Zaoist4

Iraq was a long-term success, but few are prepared to admit that.

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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@ArthurBoreman As badly as they are written, they are scored even worse. I got a moderately high score for Superstition. I am not at all superstitious, and I have no idea what answer I gave would begin to justify that.
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Simo G.
Simo G.@simogio·
@millerman Some questions were difficult as they were too multifaceted.
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Michael Millerman
Michael Millerman@millerman·
In 1950, the Frankfurt School designed a test to find the fascists among us. Carl Schmitt said the instrument itself was the problem. 30 questions. Make up your own mind. fscale.millermanschool.com
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@SMF904 😂 He does seem to! He looks a little hurt, then he subsides and walks away.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
I love dogs. But there is this one I cuss out in a bored tone when he comes out to his fence to bark and snarl and snap at us for passing by. I’m a little worried his owners will hear, and know enough English to understand. Because really, who doesn’t understand this:
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Arthur Boreman (yes, that Arthur Boreman)
Arthur Boreman (yes, that Arthur Boreman)@ArthurBoreman·
Every time I read something like this I think about how Nazi Germany would get frustrated because U.S. forces weren’t wedded to doctrine like the “smart” armies.
Russians With Attitude@RWApodcast

One advantage the Iranians have is that their entire elite seems to consist of 130 IQ polymath combat veterans with PhDs who stormed across minefields with fixed bayonets surrounded by poison gas back in the day and then spent 30 years studying philosophy, game theory, engineering and military science. Average decision-maker quality appears to be dramatically higher than elsewhere, especially qualified for shit-hits-the-fan situations

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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@fedtanyl If your presumption is wrong, then what follows is wrong. I am not optimistic that your presumption is wrong. But it may be.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@HarryToe57 @StupidMinotaur @ArthurBoreman I think there is some truth to that. Not always, but an important part of the time. There is also the fact that our NCOs are trained and trusted to carry on if their officers are out of action.
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HarryToe57
HarryToe57@HarryToe57·
@LTGreenwald @StupidMinotaur @ArthurBoreman Yeah its long been a joke (its not really a joke, its the truth) that the officers are the only ones holding the enlisted back. Its something that has always set the US military apart from other countries.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@MaxNordau And now I recall a key plot point in The Sum of All Fears: That they really did load up their planes with special weapons, and one went down, payload unaccounted for until its core was repurposed decades later.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@MaxNordau – Israel is widely, and I think reasonably, believed to have had nukes before the 1973 war. – Israel very nearly went under, around day 3-4 of that war. – I infer their threshold for nuclear use is set very high. As in, the very last extremity, not just We can see it from here.
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Max 📟
Max 📟@MaxNordau·
People are confused by the Samson Option but “Nuclear weapons are a last resort” is the same reason that every single nuclear country has nuclear weapons.
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StupidMinotaur@StupidMinotaur·
@ArthurBoreman the soviets manuals should a w*r break out straight said dont k*ll the usa officers -the enlisted dont know when to surrened
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@McCainJack I said you had a point. We weigh the benefits and costs differently. Thanks for your responses.
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@McCainJack And, given that there are necessarily way fewer slots than soldiers who want to go, is there a benefit to the Army that lots and lots of soldiers push themselves harder in the hope of getting one of those slots?
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Joseph Sadighi
Joseph Sadighi@LTGreenwald·
@McCainJack Now, is there value to the Army in having a certain number of soldiers who *want* to fling themselves out of an airplane? Might that correlate with a gung-ho attitude and unusual willingness to put fear aside, combined with exacting attention to detail, in their other duties? /
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