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#31

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by crazy canuck - October 16, 2025, 05:32:18 PM

From the NYTimes

The military commander overseeing the Pentagon's escalating attacks against boats in the Caribbean Sea that the Trump administration says are smuggling drugs is stepping down, three U.S. officials said on Thursday.

The officer, Adm. Alvin Holsey, is leaving his job as head of the U.S. Southern Command, which oversees all operations in Central and South America, even as the Pentagon has rapidly built up some 10,000 forces in the region in what it says is a major counterdrug and counterterrorism mission.

It was unclear why Admiral Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure, and in the midst of the biggest operation in his 37-year career. But one of the U.S. officials, all of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss personnel matters, said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats

#32

Off the Record / Re: Quo Vadis GOP?

Last post by viper37 - October 16, 2025, 05:17:56 PM

From the perspective of a typical Congresscritter, people in their 40s are kids.

8 years old will be judged as adult, 5 years old hispanics will face deportation without their parents or a lawyer present, but 40 year old Republican Congressmen are kids.

Go figure Republican logic.

#33

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by viper37 - October 16, 2025, 04:58:10 PM

I have seen nothing that really warrants the sort of smugness some Democrats are displaying re: "the next administration".

True, but I have also seen nothing that really warrants the sort of smugness some Republican are displaying re: "the next administration."

Smugness is always a mistake.

Well there is this:
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure

#34

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - October 16, 2025, 04:32:32 PM

In contrast, X posts by right-wing antisemite Nick Fuentes routinely garner a couple million views, and thousands of reposts.

Moving along, nothing to see there. 

But seven guys waving Palestinian flags in South "Lënapehòkink" - holy shit, DECLARE MARTIAL LAW NOW

They are on the same side.

#35

Off the Record / Re: The Off Topic Topic

Last post by Razgovory - October 16, 2025, 04:25:31 PM

"Can I interest you in the flesh of this dead swine?  The tissue has been treated in the vomit of a thousand venomous insects!"

"Raz, that's not how we sell Virginia Honey Ham.

#36

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Razgovory - October 16, 2025, 04:23:01 PM

He has got to be trolling, right? Right?

No, they really do honor these murderers.

Really, Otto makes a post about suspending the constitution of your country, and this is how you react? 

He's okay with fascism, you're okay with fascism...  It's just you guys are okay with extreme right wing authoritarians in different places.

#37

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by DGuller - October 16, 2025, 03:59:29 PM

The hypocrisy shit is so lame. It just tells me you have no actual substantial critique.

What hypocrisy tells me is that the objection is not based on principles, but rather principles are assigned to the objection after the fact. 

The close cousin is selective prosecution; sure, you can point to the law that everyone subjected to it has broken, but that doesn't mean that the law is applied to further the rule of law.  Rather, the law is being used as a cudgel to attack people you have chosen to attack for other reasons.

#38

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by Admiral Yi - October 16, 2025, 03:39:19 PM

The hypocrisy shit is so lame. It just tells me you have no actual substantial critique.

Exactly the opposite.  Hypocrisy demonstrates that the accused party is basing his position not on a universal principle but on something more like tribalism.

#39

Off the Record / Re: Russo-Ukrainian War 2014-2...

Last post by Tonitrus - October 16, 2025, 02:39:47 PM

Lol Russian agencies have been increasingly active in promoting Orban in the upcoming election against his rival Magyar. Seems like the next Russian agent to prop Orban up will be Trump, the two will be meeting in Budapest.

And apparently also Putin for the trifecta of villainy.

The fun part, trying to figure out what flightpath his plane would take...

(I would guess over Turkey, round the Med and via Montenegro/Serbia)

#40

Off the Record / Re: Israel-Hamas War 2023

Last post by HVC - October 16, 2025, 02:27:32 PM

That's the sound of one hand clapping.

I think it more likely that hand is doing something else.

Reads like he got bored and took ChatGPT for a spin