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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@GreyBirth @mindyisser No1 is going to help you. It isn't the same as "pick up your boot straps". There is a significantly lower barrier of entry when everything you need to learn is at your finger tips on the same device to order food. You could even ask AI to make you a grocery list based on a budget
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GreyBirth@GreyBirth·
@mindyisser I see all of the responses of “be an adult”. And I agree, but this is the same thinking as “pick yourself up by your bootstraps”. They don’t teach it in school. If parents don’t teach it, it’s less likely to be picked up on their own. Everyone needs help, not humiliation.
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mindy🌷@mindyisser·
dumbest person in the world it’s not even close
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@LazerNYC @MichaelKarlis Anyone can run for a primary, and she hasn't gotten the nomination yet. She's gross but I'll choose to be concerned if she actually wins the nomination
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Lazer NYC 🇺🇸@LazerNYC·
So let me get this straight. A congressional candidate openly talks about putting American Zionist into internment camps and castration processing centers, and we’re supposed to pretend this is just edgy political discourse? Replace the word Zionists with almost any other group and this would be national breaking news for weeks.
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Michael Karlis@MichaelKarlis·
TX-35 Democratic candidate Maureen Galindo says she will convert ICE detention center in Karnes County into an internment camp for "American Zionists." "It will also be a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists," she added.
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@DeRhuyter @ZaraShepherd9 @Snakeeater36 But they can't. Having the expectation that they could but often we're not able and/or asking too much of them, combined with not having enough SOF, was what spawned the SFABs as a short lived idea. You're still downplaying the effect of psychology and desire as well
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Alexander De Rhuyter@DeRhuyter·
@ZaraShepherd9 @Snakeeater36 This isn't something I'm disagreeing with. Obviously they are psychologically superior on most metrics. Why is everyone saying this. My point was originally soley that Infantry can absolutely complete most of the missions given to SOF these days. Nothing more.
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RedDevil 😈@Snakeeater36·
This i think is a sad but true reality for SOF. And unfortunately we have done much of this to ourselves.
Irregular Warfare Initiative@IrregWarfare

What happens when the force built for unconventional warfare can no longer survive in the environments it was designed to penetrate? In a new two-part series for the Irregular Warfare Initiative, retired Special Forces Colonel Ned Marsh argues that U.S. Army Special Forces have failed to adapt to the realities of modern warfare. From pervasive surveillance and biometric tracking to multidomain operations and digitally contested environments, Marsh contends that the traditional Green Beret model is no longer suited for contemporary conflict. The article examines how decades of counterterrorism deployments, institutional inertia, and an emphasis on persistent global presence left Special Forces optimized for missions the joint force increasingly does not prioritize. Marsh calls for a fundamental redesign of Army Special Operations rather than incremental reform. Read more here: irregularwarfare.org/articles/the-l… #IrregularWarfare #SpecialForces #NationalSecurity #MilitaryStrategy #GreatPowerCompetition #SOF

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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@FrankBednarz @politicalmath Yes, but OP and loud RW voices don't want competitive districts. They want reliable R+10 districts which just isn't possible in NE due to human geography. We should move to a proportional representation system.
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PoIiMath@politicalmath·
This is such a perfect example of the left-right dynamic. New England (everything east and north of New York) already has zero GOP representation. They already nuked the ground. The GOP in the South is going to severely reduce Dem representation. But this isn't the "opening salvo". It is a response to an already partisan situation. The Dems went first. They are angry that the GOP can also play that game, so they threaten consequences that can't come to pass because they already did their worst.
Marco Foster@MarcoFoster_

AOC: “It is time for the North to pull up to the South and let them know exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. They think they can draw us out of power. They do not know the sleeping giant they just awakened. What they thought was the final blow is actually just the opening silo”

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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@FrankBednarz @politicalmath ME-2 in '25 shifted 21 points to vote No on ballot question 1. In '24 King ran up a +30 on the Republican in ME-2 even though he is a Dem caucus. ME-2 will probably flip this cycle but it is by far a more independent and unpredictable district than calling it a GOP district.
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@FrankBednarz @politicalmath That just isn't really true. It's another D+1 or D+2 district. In the last 26 years, the GOP held it for 4 years. It's been redrawn in 2012 and 2022 should be noted. But the 2012 redraw largely accounted for the change from D to R in the 2014 midterm but Ds regained control in 20
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@douglandry The 30% of the country that thinks this is "le epic" because it gets "the libs" mad
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Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟
Nancy Pelosi Stock Tracker ♟@pelositracker·
Breaking: Two Trump White House officials were caught on a hidden camera, per @JamesOKeefeIII The First is Maxim Lott, Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Second is Benjamin Ellisten, Senior Budget Analyst and Fund Manager for the White House They admitted: • Trump is using $1B of tax payer money to retrofit his new plane • Domestic policy decisions are made based on what "feels like a good idea" • No formal cost-benefit analysis exists for major policy calls • Staff bypass the Oval Office and act on their own interpretation of Trump's preferences • Ellisten called Trump "a madman" and said "We've got to get rid of him" There appears to be people in the White House acting on Trumps behalf without his direct approval
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@SireRottweiler @wokbonds That's extremely common when applying second skin to have air pockets then will then expand as the skin starts to leak fluid as part of the healing process.
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Sir Rottweiler 🐾 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈@SireRottweiler·
I need someone in Maine to ask Platner to take off his shirt at his next Town Hall. Since Oct, there are no public photos of him shirtless, and I guarantee you that he still has the Totenkopf. The “cover-up” was obviously a sticker tattoo! Just look the wrinkles!
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@ck_gen @EmmaMAshford All the job gains are in retail, warehousing, and elder care for an aging population. Not exactly great jobs that make up for 11% of jobs, all in Information Technology, have been wiped in 4 years. Not to mention wage growth has been wiped by inflation.
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Emma Ashford@EmmaMAshford·
Amazing quote in this FT piece. American financial elites are so insulated, they don’t believe that physical realities matter for the economy.
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bumbadum@bumbadum14·
This is literally fraud. The entire VA has become fraud. It's become nothing more than UBI for illiterate morons who contract consultants that help them get 100% disability.
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Straight Line USA@StraightLineUSA

Sub 85 IQ moron -no job -collects 2100 a month for 80% disability from the VA and is applying for 100% to get 4000. -disability is "tennitus" "back" "PTSD from drill Sargent being mean" -never left the country and was a cook in the army -served 1.5 years and got "honorably discharged" because his commander "didn't like him" -games 15+ hours per day and is in 90+ discord servers -wants to move to the Philippines and continue to collect disability to date Filipino women -is dating a 600 pound woman End VA disability and force everyone to reapply, anyone who does not have a combat injury has to go before a review board to get it back.

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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@yinzer_g Raleigh, Nashville, and SLC are best options. Raleigh has a motivated owner, a richer baseball history, financing figured out for a stadium. Charlotte doesn't have that.
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Yinzer G@yinzer_g·
MLB expansion?? Charlotte, NC - Good option Montreal, CN - No to Canada Oakland, CA - Just lost their team, why go back? Nashville, TN - Best option Orlando, FL - can't fill seats in the other 2 FL baseball stadiums Portland, OR - disaster of a city Raliegh, NC - Decent option, very small market Sacramento, CA - Would cost $5B to build a $750M stadium Salt Lake City, UT - Good option, small market. Vancouver, CN - No to Canada If they were going to add 2 teams, I'd probably go with Nashville and either Salt Lake City or Charlotte.
Maury Brown@BizballMaury

MLB expansion is in the not-too-distant future. Here's a detailed guide to each of the top markets. I spoke to each of the active groups for this report. There are 10 markets examined: ·      Charlotte, NC ·      Montreal, Quebec, Canada ·      Oakland, CA ·      Nashville, TN ·      Orlando, FL ·      Portland, OR ·      Raliegh, NC ·      Sacramento, CA ·      Salt Lake City, UT ·      Vancouver, BC, Canada READ THE REPORT 👇🏼 forbes.com/sites/maurybro…

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The Mind Scourge@TheMindScourge·
I made this argument a few years back - I called them the “second tier cities” - and I’m glad to see it’s reaching a wider audience These cities mostly avoid the governance problems that seem to plague the major US cities and their amenities now (largely) rival the super stars Unless you need a very specific career, you can do very well basically anywhere now in the US
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@Jeff21461 2nd brigade also has an MFRC
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@ArmyRecognition It also isn't 18× 105mm howitzers in a FA battalion.
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iwao@Red_Mallard500·
@ArmyRecognition It's wrong about the composition so it's not even accurately providing a summary. There are no brigade cavalry squadrons or brigade engineer battalions anymore.
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Army Recognition@ArmyRecognition·
Detailed organizational diagram of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division
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