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Golfer. Perpetually semi-retired rugby player. Christian anarchist(?) Very retired Army NCO. Cyber operations professional. Guitar player. Views are mine, likes/RPs/quotes != endorsements
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Audie Murphy's statement "They were killing my friends" is often stated as a sort of driver in war; the idea that a man does what he does *in combat* out of care for this band of brothers he calls friends. This has become regarded as the motivation for going to war generally, to our detriment. 1/?

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Throwback to when he called USAID staff anti-American Marxist criminals and recommended prosecution for all the fraud and corruption we were allegedly doing and then 0 cases of fraud and corruption were revealed

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More friend-shaped! It's like a giant squish-mallow!

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Me: GWOT era, baby! Historians: The GWOT is the latest path to ground for built up tension in the era we are still calling "the long peace" as it denotes no all-out war between multiple great powers. Me:

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Friend-shaped!

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Things that are important: -How much of the federal government Musk was able to destroy in four months -The impact this had on people's welfare and lives -Which parts of the federal government proved resilient Things that are not important: -How Musk feels about Washington

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Surgery time! It needed a Bigsby.

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Fat Bottomed Girls, Charlie Brown

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Once again begging white men to, like, go outside and experience life like a normal, not-scared-all-the-time human.

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It’s actually quite simple: Anyone who’ve called teachers groomers for giving teens (allegedly) sexually inappropriate books, but won’t call Andrew & Tristan Tate groomers for beating, sexually assaulting & trafficking teens, is a hypocritical fraud — and a misogynistic asshole.

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Why Is The Discourse So Infuriating? One Reason: Everyone* Wrongly Insists On Assigning Monocausality To Big Problems *except for me**, obviously **oh no

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The end of a an 85 year old bilateral relationship is going to come due to an extradition fight over the Tate brothers, isn't it?

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This is the interview in which I learned that as hard as I try to make sure that the words I say are entirely analytic, sometimes my facial expressions betray a deeper sense of what I also feel.

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Love that companies are encouraging people to buy things before everything gets more expensive, but they can't say why they're getting more expensive because otherwise they'll be deluged in the comments sections.

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Americans will claim they can't because the roads are too dangerous, when the biggest contributor to the danger of the roads is the number of drivers trying to drop their children off at school. Make bike trails and sidewalks and encourage kids to ride to school.

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It is helpful to remember what Europe looked like ~1790, and remember that even within most of these empires existed a dozen or more entities trying to break away and (re)gain some level of autonomy from their imperial overlords. 1/?

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Didn't southern states successfully petition the US Supreme Court to be relieved of oversight regarding their voting and districting practices vis a vis racial discrimination, like, a decade ago?

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Capitol Police chief blasts Jan 6 conspiracy theories: “My folks were here on Jan. 6.. They were assaulted.. Many of them were injured. They know exactly what happened on Jan. 6. For somebody to make up some story that, 'Oh, it wasn't that bad’..it is just not true” www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol...

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