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@OswaldHale @scottydinnaknow @Mark___Taylor Marine 2ndLts leaving TBS are objectively better at land navigation than Marine NCOs and SNCOs, on average.

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@nickonx @MorosKostas She’s merely assimilating to the culture of a woke college campus. Maybe if we our education system didn’t indoctrinate our youth to love communism and believe the west is uniquely evil, we wouldn’t have incidents like this, or the Boston marathon bombing, for that matter.

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@DocStrangelove2 Despite what everyone on this thread seems to think, the V-22 has a good safety record for a mil a/c. Early failures in the program combined with fabricated evaluation milestones brought stigma to the program that never went away, however, the safety record speaks for itself.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Tired of this excuse. First of all, social security is not something you “pay into.” If it were, you wouldn’t need younger people to “pay into it” in order to get your check. But you do. Because this is a Ponzi scheme, not a retirement account. What you really mean to say is that your money was stolen from you — which it was — and now you want to steal from younger people to get restitution. That’s the actual case you’re making and it’s exactly as morally deranged as it sounds.

Second, your generation continually for decades voted for politicians who would keep the scheme going. You might not have invented social security, but you damn sure made certain it kept going. Why should younger people have to pay the price for the shitty policies you supported?

Third, you “paid into” social security in a different time. The country is now bankrupted and 40 trillion dollars in debt, and basic things like housing are prohibitively expensive. It wasn’t like that when you were young, because your generation of leadership created this problem.

So the theme here is that there are a bunch of problems you guys either created or contributed to. You can choose to pay the price for that now, or force your grandchildren to pay the price so you can live comfortably until you die and leave them holding the bag. You’ve chosen the latter, and I think that’s wrong. Simple as that.

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@myth_pilot ACOG is probably responsible for more kills in battle than any other optic so far.

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@avidseries In fairness to the rightoids, Mamdani’s position before being elected was “What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD… NO to fake cuts – defund the police.” If he followed through on this rhetoric, collapse of law and order is the predictable outcome. He has essentially reversed position

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@JeremyTate41 @the_culturist_ Regents diploma was a statewide credential. A kid from a small, unknown school (like mine - Otsego County) could put a recognizable standard next to an SAT score and get taken seriously by colleges that had no reason to trust the local transcript. Now that’s over.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

A Hero That Trusted His Intuition.

The problem wasn’t that Morgan Stanley didn’t believe him.

Rick Rescorla had already been right once. After the 1993 basement bombing of the World Trade Center, the firm’s security chief walked the towers, studied the site, and reached a conclusion most people preferred not to hear: the World Trade Center was still a target. Next time, he said, it would not be a truck. It would be an airplane.

An airplane. In a 1993 report.

Executives listened. Then they looked at the lease.

Morgan Stanley was the largest tenant in the complex—twenty-two floors of the South Tower, thousands of brokers, and a trading infrastructure that could not be packed into boxes and wheeled across the Hudson.

They literally made it a trading center.

The contract with the Port Authority ran until 2006. Walking away from premium Manhattan space of that scale would have meant penalties measured in the hundreds of millions, plus the operational chaos of relocating an entire downtown machine. So the company stayed.

Rescorla adjusted. If they could not leave the building, they would learn to escape it.

He built a protocol and treated it like doctrine. Unannounced drills. No exemptions. Brokers who billed by the minute were pulled off their desks and sent into the stairwells two by two, starting from the top floors, leaving a lane for firefighters coming the other way.

People complained. He did not care. Practice, he believed, was the only thing that would beat panic.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, American Airlines Flight 11 hit the North Tower. From the 44th floor of the South Tower, Rescorla could see the fire. Then the Port Authority came over the speakers: the South Tower was secure. Stay at your desks.

Rescorla grabbed a bullhorn and ignored them.

He started the drill his people already knew by heart. Floor by floor, two by two, down the stairs. He sang as he moved—Cornish songs from childhood, then “God Bless America”—keeping the line moving, refusing to let the stairwell become a stampede. Seventeen minutes later, the second plane struck the South Tower.

By then, most of Morgan Stanley was already on the way out.

Of the 2,687 employees in the building that morning, all but 13 survived.

It was stunning.

Rescorla could have been outside with them. He went back up instead. Colleagues told him to leave. He said he would, as soon as he was sure no one was left behind.

He was last seen around the 10th floor, heading higher.

The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m. They never found him.

He was one of the 13.

He was a hero in every sense of the word.

Remember Rick Rescorla, he remembered for us.

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@Gavin_McInnes Jacob Gardner - Omaha, Nebraska

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@aviationarchive @MCCCANM “What’s a good airplane?”

“The P-51 mustang.”

“Ok, cool. Let’s make that, but two of them.”

[JB92109 @BegleyJoseph]

@TheCinesthetic Kubrick omitted the 21st chapter from Burgess’s book, which completes Alex’s arc and gives the story a coherent conclusion and message. That being, if we eliminate people’s ability to choose to do wrong, we also deprive them of free will and the capacity for ethical behavior.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Tomorrow I will file by bill to #DefundTheUN.

Please like and repost if you’d like to see that bill become law.

[Xi Van Fleet @XVanFleet]

This is how Communists operate.

They steal from you.
They deny the theft. They then turn around and accuse you of theft and claim themselves the victims.
They have you put in jail.
They then declare they are the defender of justice.