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@SALTyTaxLaw1 @maffybarbz @TwoRulesOfWar Is the Coast Guard in the army, dumb ass?

@maffybarbz @TwoRulesOfWar There are 40 4 stars now by billet if you include the Coast Guard and PHS. Without them 37.

The point is that the WWII Army was 12.2 million men with 13 active four star general officers. Today it is 1.2 million and 279 general officers. It’s top heavy; which is a sign of the bad combination of administrative bloat and the Peter Principle.

@maffybarbz @TwoRulesOfWar Because he’s a lying piece of shit.

@TwoRulesOfWar Why are you comparing 4 stars and total GOs (1-4 stars)?

@TwoRulesOfWar There were 19 4 stars in the WWII army and seven now. You can still make the argument even though you’re a lying piece of shit.

@CaseySapp @ABellInTheBurbs @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Do you wear Depends to stay at the computer all the time or a catheter?

@ABellInTheBurbs @Totalitat2 @jonkarl @grok @nytimes This has been the best discussion seeing the echo chamber you all live in.

Hey @grok is the New York Times failing? Is the circulation down?

@ABellInTheBurbs @CaseySapp @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Being an AI? Yep.

@CaseySapp @Totalitat2 @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Casey is going through some things.

@CaseySapp @jonkarl @grok @nytimes This has been the best discussion with AI that can’t decide what it’s doing.

@Totalitat2 @jonkarl @grok @nytimes This has been the best discussion arguing with a bunch of people on Medicare.

@CaseySapp @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Burner. Which means you’re not even important enough to get my real account.

@Totalitat2 @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Bot

@NBCSPhilly Because he buys tickets?

Do the Eagles really need a new stadium? And if Jalen Hurts has so many issues then why does he keep going to Super Bowls? 🤨 Roob unpacks it all in this edition of Roob's Obs: nbcsportsphiladelphia.com/nfl/philadelph…

@CaseySapp @jonkarl @grok @nytimes Hahahahahah. Oh, son, take the loss.

@jonkarl @grok No one reads @nytimes anymore.

@ewong @MeghannMyers_ @nytimes Still need to know what treaty the US would violate if they did this.

Front page of the print @nytimes: Trump Revels in Making Emphatic Threats to Commit War Crimes. He said he'll send Iran back to the "Stone Ages." Today, he argued he has the right to destroy Iran's civilian infrastructure to pressure the government because "they're animals."

@RoddBaxley @annaesnydr Does he get issued a youthful girlfriend?

Michael Malone is set to replace Hubert Davis as UNC's next men's basketball coach. Malone was on our initial list, but this is quite the development. The Tar Heels will have someone in place before the transfer portal opens April 7. fayobserver.com/story/sports/c…

@MeghannMyers_ @ewong @nytimes Thanks! The proscriptions on attacking civilian targets are in the 1977 Additional Protocol 1. The United States is *not* a signatory to that protocol. If reporters are going to cite that language, they should at least acknowledge that, legally, the US is not bound by it.

@Totalitat2 @ewong @FmrRepMTG @AnnCoulter @nytimes redcross.org/content/dam/re…

Voices on the right are calling out Trump and his supporters on his threats to commit war crimes in Iran. Among them are @FmrRepMTG and @AnnCoulter. Here’s a gift link to the @nytimes story on Trump’s threats, which reached a new pitch on Easter: nytimes.com/2026/04/05/us/…

@JakeLandauTO WTF is wrong with you?

Let's be clear, this has nothing to do with age. Plenty of seniors are adept with modern technology, it has everything to do with personal motivation and stubbornness. Computers have been normal in the workplace for more than half this man's life.

@geraldposner No, it’s just a mistake. Let it go.

There are mistakes, and then there are mistakes that reveal everything. The @nytimes had to correct a print headline that called NATO the North American Treaty Organization, not the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was not a random typo. It was a kind of Freudian slip that distilled the article's hyper-American framing of an alliance that's supposed to span the ocean. Veteran reporter, prestige paper, basic fact wrong. This is bigger than sloppy copyediting. It is what institutional erosion looks like: cut newsrooms, thinner editing, speed over precision. The real scandal? If they can't get NATO's own name right in print, what else is slipping through? My full analysis, paywall-free: justthefacts.media/p/the-nyts-nat… What do you think — is this an isolated blunder or a symptom of deeper legacy decline?

@AC_NavalHistory @HiddenHistoryYT I see it more as part of the continuing and weird obsession with battleships during WWII, a class of ships that were mostly useless and yet still get a massive amount of attention.

@Totalitat2 @HiddenHistoryYT the point was making is its period appropriate to naval treaties, which still defined things into WWII for pretty much everyone, other than the soviets, but also you are right in terms of discussion of any other period

British Capital Ships in WW2

@AC_NavalHistory @HiddenHistoryYT I’m not a signatory to the Washington Naval Treaties, so I'll stay with my answer.

@Totalitat2 @HiddenHistoryYT Under the Treaty definitions, Capital ships = vessels on the battle cruiser - battleship spectrum, Carriers were their own category... if you are talking Capital Ships in terms of status & power projection (the traditional phraseology) you would be correct...

@realOBF Dude. Settle down.

@VDOOZER Questions Does same cast mean same characters? Will they be new characters in some alternate universe? Will this be a prequel?

That was fun! Talk more later. Maybe let's all go outside?

@ka_grieco China doesn’t feel deterred when Taiwan loses the ability to blow the chip factories. Notice how the US is not part of this discussion and think about what that means.

US sending nearly all JASSM-ER cruise missiles to CENTCOM, leaving "only about 425 JASSM-ER out of a prewar inventory of 2,300" for other contingencies. When does the US lose conventional deterrence against China? We're edging dangerously close. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…