So that’s a no on the evidence? And criticism is one thing, but immediately jumping to “the US must have done this, because the IDF doesn’t have commando teams that do hostage rescue, or something” is another. I’m really not sure where you get the idea that Israel needs the US to do special forces shit like ten feet from the Israeli border.

Ah, yes. The famously incompetent IDF. Unlike those US SOF who have definitely never screwed up in any way.

Do you have any real evidence that US forces are operating in Israel besides your hatred of Israel?

No government can afford giving large enough baby bounties to move the needle. Kids are really, really expensive.

It’s also a safeguard against the reigning power using bogus prosecutions against their opposition, like we see in many authoritarian states.

Jailing someone in the middle of a trial is a hugely disruptive delay. But now the trial is over, and the judge gets to count all ten counts of contempt (so far!) against Trump during sentencing. Trump has also been doing everything that a repentant defendant should not be doing, so even though it’s his first offense, he might get some actual jail time. Not the max, but maybe a few months. Especially if he violates the gag order and goes after the judge of his family again. Or the jurors.

Because Jack Dorsey is obsessed with the same “free speech absolutism” that Elon Musk is, and he’s butter that people don’t want to be shown Nazi propaganda, hate speech, and all that other shit on his platforms.

Dorsey is an idiot, just like Musk. Don’t let their money fool you.

No, it went to open signups a few months ago. I’ve been on it since February.

The US government also did time travel so that Obama could kill Kennedy.

If Elon Musk had had the misfortune to be poor, he would have been institutionalized by now. But since he’s rich, the media just fawns over all his whacko bullshit.

Arcane was such a an amazing show. Both because it was amazing on its own and because it made me go so crazy over show from a video game I care nothing for.

I’ve played 2 games of LOL in my life and I still loved Arcane to death. Season 2 can’t come fast enough.

Man… Years ago, I started doing a bit with my friends where I joked that having sex with women was super gay and the only way to protect your manhood was to get off by swordfighting other men. Now these lunatics have gone so far into the deep end that they’re doing my bit unironically! I think someone needs to recalibrate the simulation because something is broken.

Somehow I think I’ll find the strength to carry on without your brilliant wisdom to guide the way.

You want to give up, throw your vote away voting for some third party crank and somehow I’m the defeatist? I want some of whatever you’re smoking because it sounds really strong.

If voting Democrat isn’t going to change anything, voting third party is definitely not going to change anything. Might as well make the higher percentage play, which is voting Democrat.

Artillery isn’t only indirect fires the category of direct fire artillery exists. Tanks only get eaten alive in urban environments when they’re poorly supported. The US has used tanks in urban areas from Hue to Baghdad without problems.

Tanks’ primary role is infantry support and for that job they have a big gun. You know what’s useful when there’s a bunch of guys holed up in a city building, firing at you? A really big gun you can point directly at them and give them hell.

The US has won against guerrillas before. They won in the Philippines and had mostly won in Iraq before the Iraqi government pissed off their Sunni minority and ISIS spilled over from Syria. The US also crushed the Viet Cong during the Tet Offensive and most of the war after that was fought by regular North Vietnamese Army units not VC guerrillas.

Most insurgencies fail Max Boot wrote a book called Invisible Armies where he analyzed insurgencies throughout the 20th century and determined that only about a quarter of them succeeded and more than half failed outright. Not only that, many of the successful ones took place in the context of colonization and the Cold Warz where they had weak imperial opponents, super power backers, or both.

Mansa Musa was just the king. It’s like saying that everyone in America is rich because Jeff Bezos is rich.

Also, Mansa Musa’s wealth has been exaggerated a lot and the crashing economies while on pilgrimage thing is probably bunk.

She

Well, there’s your first problem. Musk doesn’t give a shit about what women think. The man is an S tier misogynist. He probably zoned out listening to this woman and wondered how many horses it would cost to get a handy out of her.

Definitely. Expecting to live after calling off the coup was the stupid move here. He crossed the Rubicon when he seized Rostov. After that, it was win or die and he ruled out winning. It wasn’t hard to figure out what would happen next.