@_beetlecat@MicaelsRuben@Acyn Nah, you’re just a big fn snowflake pussy. Even worse you have the balls to think veterans who oppose Trump hate our country. You un American pieces of shit do not have a monopoly on patriotism, go fuck yourself
Hegseth: One downed airmen evaded capture for more than a day, scaling, rugged ridges while hunted by the enemy. When he was finally able to activate his emergency transponder, his first message was simple: God is good
Shot down on Good Friday. Flown out of Iran as the sun was rising on Easter Sunday. A pilot reborn, all home and accounted for, a nation rejoicing. God is good
@MoeMoeMel@LaNativePatriot Yes, but it hinders leadership more since they are centralized and organized... The civilians aren't. Therefore it gives them a chance to organize at a local level making it easier to resist. War sucks. I wish we didn't have to defeat people who want us dead.
Help me understand
Last week Trump said
We’re helping the Iranian people change leadership
This week
We’re going to blow up their bridges and infrastructure because they’re animals
Which is it?
Are we liberating the Iranian people or destroying their ability to survive?
Are the Iranians we were helping last week now just fodder to send back to the Stone Age because we can’t swap leaders?
I don’t understand what the goal is here
@MoeMoeMel@LaNativePatriot It decentralizes power... Iranian leadership has been brutally suppressing protestors with reports of over 40,000 killed. Destroying infrastructure severely limits their ability to do this.
We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in the history of the United States. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator. If we see this, we can stop it, overcome the movement that brought us to this point, and make a turn towards something better.
Read more in my essay "The Next Coup Attempt"
On this day in 2009, STAR TREK was released in cinemas.
Leonard Nimoy had turned down every invitation to return as Spock. Then three men knocked on his door, and what they said changed everything.
For years, Leonard Nimoy had been offered chances to reprise the role of Spock. He turned them all down. He'd retired from acting in 2000, moved into photography, and seemed content to leave the pointy eared Vulcan behind for good.
Then Star Trek died. The tenth film, Nemesis, flopped. The TV series Enterprise was cancelled. Paramount were on the verge of losing the franchise rights entirely. They needed a film and fast.
Enter J.J. Abrams, screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, and a script that would reboot the entire universe. But they had a problem. They needed Nimoy. Not as a cameo or a favour. As the emotional bridge between old Trek and new. So the three of them went to his house.
Orci later described Nimoy's reaction as a cautious "Who are you guys, and what are you up to?" They laid out their vision. They told him how important he was not just to the film, but to the story they were trying to tell. Then Abrams said the line that changed everything: "We cannot make this film without you, and we won't make this film without you."
After they left, his wife Susan told the creative team what happened next. He had remained in his chair, emotionally overwhelmed by the decision he knew he had to make. The man who had spent years walking away from Spock couldn't walk away from this.
He said yes because for the first time, a Star Trek script explored the full sweep of Spock's life. Not just the half-human, half-Vulcan conflict he'd played for decades, but the character's entire history, from beginning to end. As Nimoy put it: "We have dealt with Spock being half-human and half-Vulcan, but never with quite the overview that this script has of the character's entire history."
And then he gave them one final gift they never asked for. His last scene was originally written as a quiet, wordless exit - Spock Prime walking thoughtfully away. After filming, Nimoy approached Abrams and said: "If you give me one more take, I have a thought I would like to inject here."
They rolled the camera and Nimoy said: "Thrusters on full."
Abrams later called him to say how perfectly it led into the final scene, where Sulu mentions the thrusters, but Nimoy told him the line wasn't about the ship. It was his way of saying to the younger cast: "Go ahead. Take the torch and go."
Star Trek made $385.7 million worldwide and became the first film in the franchise to win an Academy Award. But it started with a knock on a door and three words: "We won't without you."
Two days ago, people were talking about if the United States had the ability to actually put down Iran.
Now? People are talking about if Trump is too ruthless in the way he wants to put down Iran.
This kind of narrative shift is meaningful.
@grok why would such an invincible army like the USA with such air & ground superiority choose to destroy four of its warplanes worth >$400 000 000 and leave in a huff as if they were fleeing from some monister? Why not rush the rescued injured pilot to safety & let the bulk of the force attend to the mechanical issues of the warplanes then safely fly back to base since we are told there were no casualties on the USA side meaning there was no threat from IRGC
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱 BIG | Israeli Channel 12: New details have emerged about the rescue of the American F‑15E navigator shot down over Iran.
The officer was unconscious with a concussion and did not transmit a distress signal initially.
He made first contact at 12:00 on Friday, climbed to the highest point to avoid detection, walked 10‑12 kilometres and hid in a crevice, from where he sent precise coordinates on Friday night.
Israel refrained from striking in the area and provided intelligence.
During Friday and Saturday, Israel was asked to assist with air superiority and struck relevant targets.
U.S. forces seized a farm 18 kilometres from his hideout, landing two aircraft and small helicopters.
The helicopters extracted him from the crevice and returned him to the farm.
During takeoff, two C‑130s became stuck in sand; three smaller planes were called to evacuate the navigator and special forces.
Fighter jets then bombed the two stranded aircraft to prevent capture.
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