TranscendentalEmpire

I mean, if you wanted to venerate black soldiers there are many more worthy of praise than buffalo soldiers. Which were basically utilized as shock troops of the early empire, especially in America's colonial aspirations in Cuba.

Just off the top of my head The Abraham Lincoln Brigade a volunteer group that fought against the fascist in the Spanish civil war, or the Harlem Hell Fighters who served with distinction in France during WW1. They would be particularly culturally significant as they helped introduce jazz to France.

Lol, I would think this picture was a complete joke if bath salts Joe Rogan cosplaying as wolverine wasn't there as well. My dude is rocking a carbine with X50 scope indoors....

Let the kids smoke, maybe enough of them will get asthma and will be able to dodge the draft.

I mean I don't think kids should actually smoke, but I always find it funny that on some things governments are willing to move heaven and earth for the sake of the children.....and then turn a blind eye to things like global warming and war. Like these are also bad for the children my dudes.

Lol, what part of her comment was an hominem, how did she infantalize anyone?

His response was inappropriate and completely avoided her points. Telling a woman to watch their tone is about as common as a misogynistic dog whistle as you can find.

Just because he didn't call her a slur doesn't mean he wasn't being an asshole. The substance of his response was more offensive than any ad hominem.

I dont respect anyone defending sexism, so throwing ad hominems at incels is fine with me. I also don't care about the opinions of misogynist, so please fuck off and go be a disappointment to your mother elsewhere, thanks.

Edit: oh I thought it was some once defending you, you were the fuckface in the original post. Yeah you can go fuck yourself, Lord knows you're never going to find someone else to do it for you.

Lol, people need to keep their damn hands off the lathe of heaven.

I mean if this is true I can't imagine the Russians would think this would be a very successful attempt. This would be hilarious as a movie plot. Polish grandpa is a Soviet sleeper agent being pulled out of his retirement home and having a fsb agent attempt to explain to him how to operate a drone.

I guess throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks works with assassinations as well?

Companies that spent billions of dollars in climate propaganda and only funded his presidential run for the sole purpose of lowering their tax burden........"You see this is what we call suffering from success".

Maybe we make an ethical compromise and say stupid people shouldn't be allowed to raise children.

Imo stupid is not really passed through genetics, it's more an issue of exposure.

Biden just followed through with what was negotiated with the Taliban by the former Trump administration. If the US doesn't follow through we lose credibility in all future negotiations with everyone.

I am skeptical of the claim that we had any credibility to lose in respect to our dealings in Afghanistan. Plus, our negotiations weren't with the Taliban, they weren't in control of the country until we extracted. Our dealings were with the former Afghan government who weren't in favour of the expedited process.

What you're complaining about is the fact that Trump et all made an agreement to pull out the troops within a certain (completely unreasonable) timeline. They had no idea WTF they were doing and obviously didn't do due diligence or any sort of logistics planning for such a withdrawal before making the agreement.

And knowing that the Biden administration still rammed through the pull out. It's not like delaying the pull out of Afghanistan didn't already have a precedent.

What do you think makes us look worse on the global stage....? A slight and understandable delay in moving our troops out, or completely abandoning our partners to a regime that everyone knew was going to hunt them and their families down in retribution?

You are pretending as if geopolitics is completely devoid of nuance.

you think that sounds like bullshit let me ask you this: Does Trump ever do due diligence on anything? During his first administration nearly all his executive orders got thrown out because they were deemed arbitrary and capricious and during his second administration it looks like we're getting the same exact situation.

Again, I fail to see how that makes the Biden administration seem competent if they chose to proceed with something they knew was going to be a shit show.

My point was that it was a shit show, and that both administrations are in some way responsible for it.

In other news..... I seek to solve cold fusion with my basement reactor any day now. Join us for more wishful thinking at 8pm.

White collar DOD employees are frantically erasing the large white board labeled "lessons learned from the last two decades of war". AI servers begin to melt in their racks in the attempt to erase the word insurgency from the lexicon of the English language. The general public collectively experiences Déjà vu on a day in mid September, but can't quite remember why......

Not that I'm a fan of any of America's modern wars, but the way we pulled out of Afghanistan was just above and beyond a shit show. We spent over a decade running around with our dicks in our hands, and when its finally time to end the farce we decide that it has to be done virtually overnight.

I'm not one to normally "both sides" Democrats and Republicans, but imo bidens refusal to change the withdrawal does lend evidence to that argument, at least when it comes to certain foreign policy. We fucked over the country, but worse of all we fucked over the people who actually believed in whatever good will we were selling them on.

I volunteer with an organization that connects healthcare providers like myself with Afghan refugees. When they came over here they didn't have access to social security numbers, programs like Medicaid or Medicare, or even Tricare. They were basically being brought with what they could carry and then dumped in section 8 housing in some of the roughest neighborhoods in the area.

My friend Mahmud was a translator who had been blown up in an IED attack while serving with our military. I met him because he was trying to find a job without papers, but had a hard time keeping up with his work because he had severe drop foot because he was missing the anterior of his calf muscle.

His wife, himself, and their 6 beautiful children were living in a rundown two bedroom apartment, and even though they had virtually nothing they were gracious host. They basically force fed me tea and what little food they were provided to live off of.

This article is just another example of the government wiping its hand of any responsibility when we decide to make war. Mahmud and his family are doing so much better now, but it's only because we have a very active Islamic community that has taken the responsibility over caring for these families. Things like this make me embarrassed to be an American citizen.

If you ever have the chance to befriend an person from Afghanistan, I highly recommend it. Be warned, you will basically be kidnapped and forced to eat more food than you can handle, they are an aggressively loving people.

More than the amount of doctors who found direct scientific evidence ....

The guy wrote a paper about it and tried to find any evidence to support the new rules, he didn't find any.