hegemony absolutist

the devils advocate in me says it may be in my interest to play the devils advocate less. communism didn’t work

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

Many of you have wondered if EOD are trained to disarm nuclear weapons and nuclear devices.
When I graduated from EOD School, I was a PFC E-3. I couldn't attend Nuclear Weapons Disposal, but as soon as I made SP4 E-4, I attended Nuclear Weapons Disposal, the Render Safe of Nuclear Weapons. Later, I attended Advanced Access and Disablement for Improvised Nuclear Devices.
Requirements also include Top Secret Background Investigation (TSBI) clearance and a Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information (CNWDI) clearance.

[𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 @MrLeadslinger]

I don’t really think this is controversial. Shooting competitions are tests of shooting skills, not tactics. Training for competitions and competing is a good way to become a better shooter, which is also good for gunfights but I can’t imagine anyone thinking you should treat a gunfight like a USPSA stage. It’s kind of surprising it would take anyone being in two gunfights to realize that.

[ｖｅｇａ @vega_holdings]

uh oh spaghettios

[FJ @Natsecjeff]

Iran attacks U.S. bases in Kuwait (again)

More humiliation for Trump. He deserves every bit of it - and more. Unfortunately, because of him America, which I hold in high regard, is also suffering. SHAME.

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

Costs are a problem, amongst many problems.

Messaging around “tell people inflation is not bad” is a recent narrative, and it is retarded.

The idea we cannot finish a war, opposed to simply ending it, while lowering grocery costs via long term decision making is also retarded

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

Read the comments here to see a number of conservatives angrily insisting that rising grocery prices aren’t actually a problem. Just stunning levels of suicidal idiocy. What are you guys doing here? Who do you think you’re fooling?

[Fishtank Simulator @Blair_TankWatch]

this guy is funnier than sam hyde

which is a huge compliment

[Gideon Travail @GideonTravail]

@MilitantPiss @WeaponOutfitter Some people are incapable of applying critical thinking because they’ve built not thinking into their training regimen.

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

Or a reactivated rpg7

[T_p_tio 🎈 @Txp_RBI_Xctuxl]

Fuck a truck gun, we need to normalize EDC'ing oddball shit in the off chance you have to engage an active shooter.

Like a Webley.

Or an Automag.

[Mason @webdevMason]

All that needs to be said about pit bulls was said by S-tier dog trainer Stonnie Dennis in 3 minutes

[ℍ𝟘𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪 @littlecorporal7]

@webdevMason "it's not fair to externalize that type of risk onto your neighbors"

Perfect point that cuts through the selfish arrogance of idiots telling themselves lies about this breed and making others suffer for their delusions.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

I was going to go to the grocery store but I forgot my ID so I just went to vote instead.

- New York City

[Shin @hey_itsmyturn]

Now go beg Trump to not strike Iran to let them have their Arbaeen carnival in peace :)))))))

[HumphreyBohun @HumphreyBohun]

@MilitantPiss @DiscoJer @ElliotKaufman6 this “equalizer” away from them. The Israelis are close to operationally deploying the Iron Bean laser interceptor which will go a long way towards flipping the cost equation.

[HumphreyBohun @HumphreyBohun]

@MilitantPiss @DiscoJer @ElliotKaufman6 Our military is state of the art and makes us the preeminent global power. Drones are a partial equalizer for 2-4th tier powers fighting defensive wars and seeking to impose those relatively minor costs we’re unwilling to absorb. Nonetheless, we can and should catch up to take /

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

@HumphreyBohun @DiscoJer @ElliotKaufman6 Highly accurate to put equalizer in quotes. Drones are being treated like tanks once were. They are only a piece of a puzzle, and require infrastructure to maintain.

Just bc we are reaping the results of failed uparming does not preclude our dominance

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

@JackZwack @CedereNescio2 @marklevinshow I concur. The left is experiencing a similar fracture but without a figurehead to make it as divisive, and not as the incumbent party.

The right is now either afraid of war, or afraid of calling Trump out for this failure. Both are dangerous ledges to stand at. Interesting days

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

At least one party involved in this conflict can adopt a firm policy

Could take notes here stateside

[C14 News | EN @c14english]

Iran's diplomatic channels are effectively dead.

🚨🇮🇱🇮🇷 According to Channel 14 analyst Dror Balazada, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has officially withdrawn trust from both Iranian and American negotiation teams. IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi’s zero-concession hardline doctrine is now official state policy.

@DBalazada

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

@Natsecjeff foreign policy as a whole*

Vance is naive dove who loses heart at the first sign of risk

I would need a blue check to write my full witkoff spiel, but will chalk it up to no experience with MENA other than Qatari dollars

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

So the situation is roughly this: Zelensky listened to his buddies, and with a snap of his fingers sent an entire government tumbling down the drain, just to get rid of one single defense minister whose anti-corruption policies had started to greatly upset some very respected people who were used to earning handsomely off military procurement.

And also because, you see, torn between a deeply unpopular and repeatedly scandal-ridden commander-in-chief of the armed forces and an effective, innovative minister of defense, Zelensky had no time to sort it out and decide -- so he did the simplest thing and, without the slightest public explanation, fired the defense minister.

Whose firing, conveniently, the respected people had also been asking for. And also because the young minister was rapidly gaining popularity!

So Zelensky decides to appoint as defense minister someone who has never distinguished himself in any way and is deeply unpopular, but obedient, lacking any initiative, and convenient -- a former cop from yesterday's Ministry of Internal Affairs.

But the Verkhovna Rada, exhausted from its grueling labors, fails to give a vote amid public outrage and heads off for a month-long recess in the middle of wartime, leaving the country without a full-fledged defense minister or foreign minister in the new government.

As a result, Zelensky triggered one of the largest wartime political crises: street protests, paralysis, confusion.

And on top of that, Zelensky decided to move Ukraine's ambassador to the US and suddenly appoint the just-departed prime minister in her place -- except, well, tough luck, because he'd already had a massive falling-out with her over that scandalous and insulting dismissal, and she quite fairly gave him the middle finger.

Plunging into total chaos, Zelensky urgently arranges heart-to-heart meetings with practically every respected and prominent combat commander of Ukraine's defense forces, takes dozens of photo-ops with them, and suddenly has an epiphany -- removing his favorite general from the post of commander-in-chief, the very general he'd been backing and deferring to just yesterday in his standoff with the defense minister.

"The people have been heard," but the return of the defense minister, Zelensky is somehow in no hurry (the respected people are asking, after all, and why grow yourself a political rival!).

Instead, in direct violation of the law, he hides behind the name of a deeply respected combat general, yanks him out of the SBU, names him acting defense minister until the Rada convenes again, and installs a decorated soldier and intelligence officer as a civilian manager of resources, budgets, and process optimization.

And by the way -- our former Minister of Internal Affairs, the cop, is left without the defense minister post he was promised! What to do? Gotta find him a job, fast.

Oh! Let him go head the National Security and Defense Council -- symbolic, meaningless, but nice for a friend.

And what about Zelensky's buddy who's already sitting in that chair, who's already proven himself a thoroughly useless defense minister and a rather mediocre negotiator, which is exactly why he's parked in that ceremonial, symbolic security council post?

Well, let him go head the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine -- never mind that he hasn't served a single day in any intelligence service, never had any connection to one whatsoever -- can't leave a buddy without a post now, can we?

You have just read a short sketch on the theme of "Volodymyr Zelensky's personnel policy, or God alone knows how Ukraine is still not dead in this war with such a mess."

[hegemony absolutist @MilitantPiss]

Power tweeting to ignore the fact that my juice at work has been squeezed to its fullest extent.

Outgrowing the position which made you realize you are capable of more than you assumed is an odd place to be