If they're stunned by this then they're gonna be catatonic for the next 4 years. I wonder what effect that'll have on national security...
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Anyone surprised by something Trump does is either an idiot or been living under a rock.
So he'll cripple our military by installing loyalists and removing competent leaders by Totally bypassing existing procedures in the Pentagon... Wonder if any foreign adversaries will decide to test our strength once this is done... Love this timeline. Give me more.
I'm not seeing much benefit for them. If their goal is to destabilize the US, we're doing the job ourselves far better than they ever could. And if their goal is to conquer territory? The US is pretty isolated and it would be difficult to maintain control unless it was Mexico or Canada invading. Oh, other than Alaska, Russia could attempt to annex it. Trump might even just hand it over if they ask!
As an individual territory, the U.S. is isolated. As an empire, we have bases on every continent. The risk isn't being killed. It's being declawed.
Not advocating for American imperialism, just clarifying the point.
100% agree, also, I think we've come across each other before. Love the tag and pic. Metroid is my favorite series.
Sadly, Dread was not for me. Too much twitch reaction and pattern memorization required to progress, not enough exploration. Hoping I'll like Prime 4 better!
Haven't played all the way through personally, but I enjoyed it. There was a skill gap for me though via the same twitch reactions 😂.
We'll just pretend the other m didn't happen. But yes been looking forward to MP4 for SOOOOO long. Honestly gonna miss the Wii controls, thought they worked really well for Metroid.
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Militaries that promote for political loyalty tend to perform really poorly when fielded.
SecDef may not be a military-proper position, but if this goes regime goes on long enough, that's where we'll end up.
I don't think Trump intends to field the military against another military anyway. The performance required to massacre civilians isn't a high bar.
Hegseth’s nomination is seen as a boost for the far right in Israel, as he has shown support for territorial expansion and suggested the construction of a new temple on the Temple Mount.
Let me know, protest abstainers, when it sinks in how fucked palestinians are.
Yea, anyone who didn't know that Trump's immediate policy would be to glass Gaza is a fucking idiot. He was extremely transparent about it.
His son in law Jared kushner is a practicing orthodox jew, and his daughter Ivanka literally converted to Judaism for him. They are both practicing orthodox jews, check Kushners wiki.
This is the daughter trump adores. Anyone supporting Palestine who voted trump or didn't vote is an idiot.
Orthodox Jews, while being more likely than the other major branches of Judaism to be conservative and support expansionist and oppressive Zionism, do not inherently hold that belief. There are sects of ultra-orthodox Jews that are hardline anti-Zionists. Don't make the mistake of conflating religious belief with support for Israel in general or Israel's genocide specifically.
Kushner and Ivanka probably do, but because they're just shitty people, not automatically because they're religious.
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"I will never vote for genocide" Yeah, and you didn't help stop it either.
Was such a stupid stance. By abstaining, they effectively voted for a swifter genocide. And it was obvious.
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They were always astroturfers
Someone from an Arab group was saying on the radio that they basically didn't care if it meant more deaths in Gaza if they encouraged their members not to vote for Harris, they would blame the Democrats... That's some twisted logic if I've ever seen it.
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Are any Palestinians even still going to be alive come January?
The State Department said on Tuesday that it did not plan to decrease weapons aid to Israel, as a 30-day deadline set by the Biden administration passed without the country substantially improving the humanitarian situation in war-devastated Gaza.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/us/politics/israel-weapons-gaza-aid.html
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Oh no, it's the consequences of our actions! What a fucking joke of a country we are in.
Placing people in positions of power based on personal loyalty over competence. This is how dictators secure their power. It also usually completely cripples the country's ability to function at every level but the dictators don't care about that.
but not a surprise to the people who actively voted against him and his party in order to not have them in control.
I wonder how many thousands of pentagon people voted for trump.
You better worry about how many will obey when he orders them to be used on American soil.
Anyone who's been on a military base should be very worried about that answer. It's Fox News 24/7, in both recreational and professional areas.
People seriously do not understand the degree of nationalistic propaganda anyone on a military installation is subjected to.
Every poster, every event, every song, every sale ad for the commissary or other on-base stores, daily national anthem blasted over Giant Voice systems.
It's not just the military members themselves exposed to it; it's their spouses and children; people are raised from birth in this environment. It's every retiree who got a job back on the same base they retired from active duty on.
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Virginia, where most of them live, was blue.
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OH OH OH OH IVE SEEN THIS ONE!!!!
NEXT THEY'RE GONNA REVEAL VAULT PROGRAMS!!!!
I think this is pretty funny in a the capitalist propagandizers are running the nuclear state insane asylum kind of way.
I guess on the plus side when China invades Taiwan we won't have to honor our long-standing commitments and get our hands dirty defending our allies I mean economic partners
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This is a pretty outstanding Dipshit Move, even by the standards of Trump. And a good 90% of his actions seem stupid to the point of being actively malicious anyways.
Why the fuck would a good candidate for Secretary of Defense have any serious opinion on foreign policy.
Don't miss that red flag among all the others.
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