Phoenicianpirate @ Phoenicianpirate @lemm.ee

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They are no different than slaves to him. Slaves to be used and discarded once they are done. This has actually been the norm throughout history. It is why very few people wanted to be soldiers in the past. They weren't respected, and weren't well paid and weren't treated well afterward.

The whole idea of giving ex-soldiers benefits after the war is a fairly new idea in history. Historically the only people who did it were the Romans. If you were a roman legionaire and served 20 years you were given a plot of land. If you weren't a Roman citizen you got that at the end, too.

But that was a uniquely Roman thing. For the most part if soldiers did get something out of war it was due to plunder. That was actually the principle motivation for many common people who went to war.

In France, if a member of the Foreign Legion is wounded, they are automatically granted French citizenship. This is known in France as Français par le sang verse. French by spilled blood.

Why the US doesn't have the same makes no sense. If you were a green card holder, and you served in the US military and were wounded, citizenship should be yours for the asking at any time. No need for any lengthy legal shit.

Great. Now nicknames will be illegal. No more Max or Jim or Bill. It's either Maximillian or James or you're fired (and no one cares about poor ol' Bill).

Pete Hegseth is not top shelf, but his liquor is.

This is why I will always have some nostalgia for physical media. I still got CDs I bought in the 90s (which I've copied onto my hard drives a long, long time ago) and while they need a like coaxing to work at times, they are forever mine and no one can take them from me.

I was very hesitant to go on steam specifically for their 'you don't own shit even if you paid and followed the rules' garbage.

I still vote on newgrounds. Been a member for more than 20 years...

You can still do that on newgrounds.com

He does. His father lived a damn long time and his grandfather only died when he died due to the Spanish flu during and after WW1.

Yeah I am aware of that. Civil religions, political religions, and economic religions.

I remember the first half of the 2000s, back when I went on many atheist sites of the era that scoffed at organized religion and Christianity, Islam, and whatever... but the true bit of depression dawned on me when I realized that not only was the world not being liberated from religion, but other religions were being seamlessly integrated into them, even if those religions held highly contradictory beliefs to the originals...

The GOPers won't assassinate him. He is too useful for them to want him dead. Steve Bannon made it clear that his interest in Trump is solely due to his unique ability to command such a following.

No one in the Republican party has even close to that kind of ability.

And Trump has been honing that ability ever since he was a kid. Countless people hated him back then. As a child his classmates couldn't stand him, his teachers found him unbearable, and when he started in 'business' in the 70s writers of the period bashed him as a blowhard who can't deliver anything near his lofty claims.

Yet for all that and despite a massive downturn and series of public humiliations in the late 80s and throughout the 90s, he somehow managed to cultivate the image of a successful businessman... despite having no business successes at all.

He was the perfect personification of what the libertarian movement wanted... wanting 'not a politician, but a businessman' for president. They got what they wanted but still thought the results were great despite it being a complete derailment of the US's soft power in the world.

But he will still have enough people doing his bidding and will follow him to hell and stay there that he will sadly be idolized by millions for many, many years to come. Even going so far as to be a Reagan like figure despite being far, far worse and having no redeeming qualities as a human being whatsoever.

Kinda like Hitler, who held Germans in absolute contempt by the end of the war and refused to allow Berlin to be evacuated as the Soviets invaded. He and other top ranking Nazis even conceded that they were wrong about Germans being the master race and thus deserved the same kind of extermination that they had planned and were carrying out during the war.

With that in mind it legit makes you wonder why the fuck anyone would still admire Hitler... but I did have a Nazi tell me that it is because he made them feel supported and special, so they followed him into death and suffering and they refused to believe he was anything other than their savior. He said the first part, I added the second.

Not what I heard. But if that was the case then he was a worse shot than anticipated. He still came VERY close though.

It is kind of amazing how selective the justice system is. There is a man who spent 30+ years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread. Apparently he had a criminal record prior and that meant he had to be thrown in prison for that long for any subsequent crime... but I find that utter bullshit.

Actually no. The worst of the worst stay in the US. The people they are deporting to El Salvador are mostly non-criminals or petty criminals. The actual violent criminals (the ones that are harder to control) do not make for good slaves and are kept in whatever prison they are already in.

Satire has been dead for many years...

I think the Republicans personally hate him. His only use is as a charismatic rabble rouser. Without him they will lose the only guy truly able to get their movement together.

He was using a .223.

The rifle he used was a cheap, bottom of the line AR-15. The AR-15s are so popular and made by so many manufacturers that they have super low end and super high end. He had on the lower end.

I do not know what kind of .223 he was using. But that round has been experimented with for so long that there is a load for every occasion. He probably didn't use decent ammo. You need something that is specifically designed for longer range, precision shooting. The rounds are much more expensive but you do get what you are paying for.

He also used iron sights. No scope. And he was not known as a particularly good shot. It is actually surprising how close he came.

BTW, the .223 would still have penetrated soft body armor even at that distance. Even military vests designed for combat zones don't stop rifle rounds until it is fired from a few hundred meters. It would not have stopped a .223 to the chest.

Why would Israel want JFK dead?

In Australia that was the case until around 1987. No permits for rifles. Some tourist from Germany went to Australia, bought a rifle and went on a shooting spree.

Descent.... man I haven't played that or magic carpet in ages. I need a trip down memory lane later tonight...

Even with soft body armor. A high velocity round like the .300 win mag or 6.5 creedmoor with boat tail JHPs would still zip through like nothing is there. The cavitation that those rounds make is devastating. Also the shooter tried to go for a follow up shot but missed. Double hitting the chest would have been more possible and that would be much more likely to do it.

I am aware of the circumstances that president's and ex-presidents have in terms of medical support. All of his bodyguards are probably EMT level trained and they probably have a full on trauma team ready. But getting the head under those circumstances would have been tough.

But then again... if he did have a proper target rifle and long range caliber... the head would have been easier to hit and maybe the wind wouldn't have blown it off course as much.