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Yup. I was taken in by Fetterman. I am understandably gunshy about the same shtick being used again.
Security contractor in Afghanistan in 2018.
"This imperialist war, which I do not support, and which only fills the pocketbook of defense contractors, is evil." *looks at bank account* "Okay, I can be involved in an imperialist war just a bit more."
Combine that with his statement in The Guardian, and I'm getting real Fetterman "stab us in the back upon getting the seat" vibes.
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"Never trust a man who sucks Satan's dick for a living."
lol he was a mercenary in *2018*? Pass. Hard pass.
Don't love that the Maine guy was a fucking mercenary. That triggers a lot of big alarm bells.
Starting to think that people with no concern past accumulating wealth and power might not handle mortality well.
I mean its nice to have corroborating evidence off a hot mic that both those dudes are insane but that was known already I think
Berry was the best part of the show, tbh. But while I liked the show, it was the actors lifting occasionally solid bits up on their shoulders that made it good. The bits were better than most sitcom slop, but not often exceptional.
Chris Morris wasn't there long.
I'm an American. It's we, regardless of my hatred of the government.
Worth pointing out that the German unrestricted submarine warfare campaign of WWII was more legitimate than just blowing up some defenseless boat in international waters. This is not a defense of Nazi Germany, but an indication of how effortlessly evil we are.
This is just the Wolverine meme.
I do love that the NRA is treated either as a complete warlord mess, or a unified whole under Chiang. The Central Army was pretty good! But the further you get from Nanjing, the more likely they were just horrible warlord forces.
So the question is not "can Bardia be held?" It absolutely can not. It's not going to. But if the Italians can put up a spirited resistance, then they can wear down the Commonwealth, and maybe prevent a historical beating like Beda Fomm.
The Italians are unlikely to crumble quite as hard as they did in real life, but it's not gonna be an easy scenario for them. They need to hold out for a week against concerted British assaults. If they hold out, they can give their army time to recover at Tobruk. If not, Compass rolls on.
The Commonwealth, on the other hand, has artillery, air, and naval support. Not nearly what people who are used to studying battles in Italy or France would be used to, but by the standards of British forces in early 1941, quite a lot.
The support for each side is lopsided. The Italians have no naval, air, or artillery support available outside of their units, as they are holding a position that is unlikely to be reinforced without holding for longer than the scenario will last. All they have is the ability to defend in depth.
So what we're going to see is three Commonwealth formations, with significant tank support, having to break through a defended position held by a force about half again their own size, but which has dramatic limitations in mobility and quality.
The Italian infantry forces are green, the lowest quality the game has, as their fragile morale and insufficient equipment to deal with the British attack precludes treating them as trained. But the Cavalry reserve, though small, is actually trained, due to their comparably higher quality.
The Italians have elements of three corps, with the 62nd, 63rd, and 64th Infantry Divisions, and the 1st CCNN and 2nd Blackshirt Divisions, along with a hodgepodge "Cavalry" reserve made up of Frontier Guard, Bersaglieri, and a force of tankettes with a small amount of real tanks backing them.
Okay, so the game has taken a bit more form. The Commonwealth forces include the 2nd Australian Division, 7th Armoured Division, and the 32nd Tank Brigade. All forces are trained quality (average), and all of them are in good strength, as the Italians didn't harm them much at Sidi Barrani.
He was the second best of Stalin's marshals from before the war. Low bar when compared to butchers like Voroshilov and Kulik, but still, he had occasional moments of clarity, and sometimes listened to subordinates who weren't morons.
i agree that it is genuinely hilarious to see incredibly weird little guys like Nate Silver claim they're more in touch with what Normal Americans think than your average Bluesky user is nothing is more abnormal in 2025 America than being a centrist with a well-paying media job
Yeah, I don't know how you do it, man.
Nah, they're cowards and know I'd fight back.
lol lmao
You've also made it clear to everyone that surrender isn't even going to be asked for. Just murder at a whim.
Profoundly bad day at work, as is the standard payment for having the day where we pretend American workers are treated with dignity. "Here's a day off. Don't worry, the work you didn't do today will be here when you get back tomorrow."
How does that get tiny men giant stiffies based on murder?
same rhetoric from 40 years ago
Enjoy it, because rumor is there's gonna be a massive race war soon.
Hard to be angry at the few genuine Christians for their beliefs. I'm pretty okay with anyone who doesn't worship the patrons of America, Mammon and Moloch.
Blessed be the owner, for only his labor is of value. Blessed be the manager, for only his mind is capable of making decisions. Blessed be the elected politician, for only his voice can speak for the people.
The difference between the local dealer and the McKinsey consultant is mostly one of scale, not of personality.
Leftist workers have to accept a temporary alliance with the middle and professional managerial classes. There's no way around it. But they shouldn't trust them to have their best interests in mind. They're still going to want their cheap servants when this is over.
Lol why?
I think the spider riders came out best of the units, but the shaman is pretty solid.
All done today, outside of the lighter squigs, who I only flocked.
We made some progress today!
Jesus, fine. I won't coach college football. Happy?
BULL BUTTER
But also, part of the fun is staring down you opponent, declaring an order roll, and then immediately failing it without flinching, because you're playing Goblins.
Not sure what I'll take from the optional units, but I could go artillery heavy, or chariot/cavalry heavy, and still have a "competitive" list. Gotta put that in scare quotes, because the little bastards are awful.
Painting Goblins on Labor Day, because if I can pull off getting to 1,000 points by Sunday, I can take these terrible little bastards out for a spin.
He might, *might*, get lucky enough to limp dick an eight-yard pass for an INT.
Nate Silver, if put in at QB in a high-school freshman football game, would alternate between getting sacked, and fumbling the ball.
Lol I don't personally mind it (homosexuality, not fascism). Just calling it how I sees it.
Context?
Signing players like we're going to compete this year is some hilariously bad decision-making. You let Parsons go. It's over, man. Tear it down and rebuild. We're not competing with Washington or Philadelphia.
If you think about it, everyone has valid points.
It is not enough to show people the evil they must oppose, but also the necessity of not continuing with our current plan to win. You won't convince some, especially among the commentariat, but you need the average person *mad*.
It is important to both fight for electoral wins, but also understand that electoral wins will almost certainly not suffice for victory. Trump will not be able to stop every win, but he will have the power to stop enough to stop any reform. But each overturned win radicalizes our side! It's good!
This is communism. If this is all You aspire to- fuck off.
Not that I think it's a bad thing, I just know it's very much not the 40k of my youth.
I blame the Horus Heresy novels, and the lack of women in the Imperial Guard model range.
40k was always a bit gay, but once some parts of the fandom became more fascist, it gotten way, way gayer. We're way past "they are roommates" jokes for House Escher at this point.
They'll be exhausted once they get their 400 rushing yards.
I came to it later in life, but I find I enjoy it.
Getting high, watching MST3K, bought gelato. You know, a full Saturday evening.
Queen is a title, not a band, idiot.
Ace of Spades and Maneater.
That's the meanest thing anyone is going to say about Jews on here today.
Sanders v Clinton in 2036 Democratic primary is what we deserve.
Reasonable people can disagree. We dont have to be carbon copies to respect ond another. Not you, though. Doesn't apply to you.
"Minimal fights" The Union commanders would disagree with this. The Union commanders would also have loved if Johnston had put his army at risk taking offensive action in northern Georgia, where it could be destroyed. Trying to force Sherman to make mistakes was the move. It almost worked.
Hood got the AoT to fight at Peach Tree Creek. Fighting for the sake of fighting doesn't turn out great. But picking your battles, like Kennesaw Mountain and New Hope Church?
The fact that his aggressive actions at Bull Run were vital to winning the battle, and the fact that he lost command of the ANV leading an attack at Seven Pines? Johnston was willing to be aggressive when he had sufficient manpower or no better choice. He just rarely did.
Nope. Very, very few wars are foregone conclusions, and no way with forces that had the parity of those in the American Civil War is a foregone conclusion. War is a messy business, and choices matter a lot.
If the Sun Yat-Sen living in exile were alive today, people would 100% try to own him with the firebomb a Wal-Mart tweet.
Many similar cases throughout popular history. It's a big reason why Manstein and Rommel, who were washed clean (for a time) in the Clean Wehrmacht myth became big names, while Model didn't, because nobody on Earth could claim Model was just following orders.
You can't force calls for party unity anymore. Sorry, but that's not in the cards. You can't make a case for party unity in pure opposition to something, when the group in power has slow-rolled, or flat out stopped, all efforts to actually oppose what you're uniting against.
It's undervalued how funny it is. Let people have fun.
God, imagine having a frail and senile 76 year-old in charge of your country. How embarrassing that must have been.
"Checkmate libs, he's clearly in excellent health."
Longstreet going west for one campaign nearly destroyed Rosecrans, and would have allowed real offensive action by the Confederates.
Johnston understood that only Confederate armies in the field could win the war. Sieges were a mug's game for the Confederates, who would inevitably end up outgunned, outmanned, and undersupplied, with little hope of relief. Losing the guns, and especially the men, in Pemberton's army was awful.
One underrated aspect of the Vicksburg campaign is how badly Jefferson Davis misunderstood the assignment, and how not up for the moment John Pemberton was. The moment it was proven that Vicksburg couldn't keep the Mississippi completely closed, the Confederates should have begun evacuation.
Eh... Bragg wasn't very good. But I'm down for continuing my Hardee and J. E. Johnston revisionism.
Rosecrans, Hooker, Howard, and others lose out because they had one bad moment, often not even one that was their fault, and became a punchline. But these were good officers! I don't know how we can look at New Hope Church or Spotsylvania and call them one offs, but not those of other leaders.
We lost a lot of votes in 2024. Maybe it's time to investigate why?
I mean, I kept voting for the Democrat I didn't like, and who made big chunks of the base very unhappy, or at least uncomfortable. We got a win in a year where the incumbent was dealing with a literal plague, and then we got trounced by that same loser, but four year less coherent. Not great!
It's gone too far the other way, tbh. Lee wasn't an abysmal general, and this was a war that had them. Now people are so desperate to find Union generals they can call geniuses that they latch onto the biggest names, declare their undisputed genius, and walk away.
"We're going to put up a dogshit candidate who hates a lot of people you care about, and you people better fall in line." Okay man, good luck with that, I guess.
Yup. But strategy takes a backseat to tactics in most popular Civil War history. Except, for some weird reason, with Sherman, who gets unlimited tactical fuckups that put his army in a bad spot because he made one strategic decision that worked out.
Yup. People just don't tend to rank him as highly because they don't consider 1812 to be worth paying attention to, and out of casual disrespect for the Mexican army.
Take a stubborn narcissist desperate to prove himself to be the military genius the people who put him in charge think he is, and put him in command of a man who, while being a decent man, lacks the drive or ruthlessness to be an effective frontline officer. Then massively understaff the operation.
This would require less petty bitch behavior on the part of Eisenhower and Bradley, as well as putting us in a world where WWII dads might show the French any respect at all. Impossible timeline, tbh.
