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@AlexGodofsky That we know of….(cue ominous music)

This furniture store has a Space Force flag up with the other service flags for Memorial Day, which seems inappropriate or at least premature since no Space Force servicemember has ever died in the line of duty.

@PopcornPost_ Under Suspicion.

Best GENE HACKMAN Movie that is Not named Unforgiven.

@JesterJum Open carry is a huge flashing sign that says ‘kill me first’ to any bad guy.

Might upset a few people with this one: Open carry is dumb. Its "I drive a lifted truck" of the gun world. Concealed carry like the Founding Fathers intended.

In 2024, a Todd Heldt stole over $500 from a 12-year-old girl's medical charity GoFundMe. Now he's trying to use DMCA to silence anyone who talks about his theft. On investigating the fraud, the organizers of this fund mentioned Todd as one of the participants. In the course of their internal investigation, GoFundMe made them remove all identifying details of the thieves. In an effort to set the record straight, the organizers set up a website with details of the theft. They included examples of Todd's poetry and links to his books in an effort to help future charities know that Todd is a dishonest thief. Now Todd is issuing DMCA threats against the organizers in an attempt to remove the evidence of his crime. So (and here's the fun part) they replaced his poetry with an AI roasting his poetry. toddheldt.com

@iowahawkblog Zero (one) one (zero) zero (one) zero (one)

Tequila

@benonwine As a conservative, you have to. Or you’re stuck with some really narrow options for quality.

I can’t deny it… Bruce Springsteen has made some absolutely incredible music that I absolutely love! 🎸 But honestly, I find his politics so distasteful now that it genuinely kind of ruins it for me. Can you separate the artist from their politics?

@GovPressOffice You might lower the $.71 tax

Mr. President, we just want lower gas prices

@lionel_trolling Jackhammers would be good too.

probably nothing dynamite couldn't handle

@Heminator John Kerry, per his own reports, is a war criminal and should have been dishonorably discharged.

John Kerry spent something like 3-4 months in country and received three Purple Hearts without missing a day of duty. His Purple Hearts were sketchy.

@MayorFrey No, sir, we do not. And he was not, fyi.

Today, we remember George Floyd, who was murdered by a former Minneapolis police officer six years ago.   That moment changed our city forever.

@NWSteury Trigger? Silver? Mr. Ed? Seabiscuit? Traveller isn’t even close to ‘most famous’.

The grave of America’s most famous horse. Traveler.

@TheDemocrats Seriously, even a long dead slime mold could create a better post. You should fire the intern who did this. And everyone in their reporting chain.

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.

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.

Apparently the animated corpse of Telly Savalas is in the new Star Wars movie. Ahh, who loves ya, baby Yoda?

I find the way he swings the gold club at the end oddly threatening. Like he’s going off to finish the job their crash started. youtu.be/8cYByLBIB7g?si…

I’ve also read the idea that the shared travel back on ships gave them time to talk it out with the guys who were there. I know my grandfather never spoke about his time in the pacific theater. Not to my dad (even after dad’s time in Vietnam), not to anyone so far as we know. But I bet he talked with the guys on the boat home.

(TL;DR) Here's the thing about WW2. It called up millions of ordinary American men who were shoved into the IET pipeline—Initial Entry Training, aka: "Boot Camp," followed by specific jobs skills training—then spat out the other end as infantrymen, signalmen, artillerymen, adjutants, mechanics, truck drivers, tankers, et al. And when it was all done? Most of them went back to civilian life. Their service (those who survived) ended when the war was over. These were not professional soldiers. They were normies made to perform soldiering for a specific war, and only when the war was done did they exit the soldiering life. And went back to being normies again. But the soldiering life gave them a shared experience they would keep with them. It provided a common nomenclature and emotional framework that could be referenced in an instant. Any setting or situation. Sometimes just even by guys looking at each other. They could tell. (break whistle, guys sitting down to open lunch buckets) "You in North Africa?" "Naw, Bougainville. What about him over there?" "Jumped from a Gooney Bird over France." "I heard that was rough." "Not as rough as The Bulge." And so on, and so forth. It was for many of them *the* singular touchstone of their lives. And it cut across economics, class, status, even ethnic barriers. A language of shared suffering, shared boredom, shared laughs, shared effort, sometimes shared terror, also sometimes tears, and ultimately formed a common-denominator vibrational bedrock which echoed through the decades. Influencing both families, and communities.

@RealJamesWoods @elonmusk Just saying…

Tortured for months, finally and mercifully she died alone in the filthy hovel of her captor. Democrats will condemn society, and forgive her killer. Others believe a brutal public execution will be the first step on the long road to reclaiming civilization in our nation.

Don’t let it all be for nothing @POTUS #FreeIran‌

Yesterday’s World Goth Day (not a joke apparently) is just another sign of the ongoing dismissal of goth culture and traditions by an ignorant mainstream. How far those woke appropriators expect goths to celebrate a DAY?!? Now a World Goth NIGHT would be culturally appropriate.

@BlastingThrough Not a veteran, but I suspect we all know the feeling of saying things in anger or frustration that we regret. Self-forgiveness is the hardest thing to possibly do. But it needs to happen. Show yourself the grace you show others.

Here’s another scenario that could lead to moral injury: During a deployment, a service member participates in a raid where enemy fighters are killed, but in the chaos, the unit also destroys property and humiliates local civilians in ways that feel degrading (e.g., aggressive searches or verbal abuse driven by fear and adrenaline). Upon returning home, the veteran avoids family gatherings because he feels dirty" or unworthy of love. He thinks, "I'm not the hero people think I am—I'm a monster who terrorized people who didn't deserve it." Shame manifests as a deep sense of personal defectiveness, leading to social withdrawal and the hiding of service history. Your thoughts on this hypothetical? Don’t feel obligated to share anything you don’t want to share.