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I disagree!

for some context, A&W's 1/3 lb burger failed because Americans thought it was smaller than the 1/4 lb burger

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled”

You are looking at the natural result of government-run healthcare. Decisions must be made to control costs. But it's the government, so the decisions will be idiotic. Instead of doing the obvious thing, and the only one that will actually control costs (limit care to the elderly as they age into an actual inevitable death), they will use stupid cases like this because there's no massive voting block of sick 19 year olds to be afraid of. The boomers created this fucked up system, and now for their final act they will bankrupt it.

More applicable today than anytime in our history.

I just got off the phone with the editor, several people have called, they are aware and "looking into it". The editor was a little cagey, I suspect they are embarrassed. Also, I think Roberts is grasping at straws, the Editor told me "we have asked for information and the person providing the information has had a death in the family so we are giving a little time and grace." I told the editor a simple DD-214 which you can pull yourself should clear everything up...she didn't respond.

Apparently we learned nothing in the past 3 years. Fun fact refreshers: - According to Johns Hopkins It takes 5-10 years to completely develop and study a vaccine. History tells us it take longer then that. Logic says it takes 20 years to do a 20 year study on the 20 year impact of a vaccine....weird. It's been 3 since this show all started. - Modern news agencies exist to do one thing: Make Money...which they do by getting us to click...which they do by posting scary stories. - Politicians want a crisis during an election. This should shock no one. Stop feeding into the real enemy's game (politicians trying to polarize their bases). They don't care about you, they just want to retain or gain power. Everyone chill out. Frankly, I think @Biff_T has the right line here. Can we somehow link the word replacement game with a drinking game?

And if you watch until the end, you can witness ourfuckin, brain-dead, Invalid-In-Chief wander off at the inappropriate time, like a two year old.

We live in the land of make believe. Its cool to be a liar. You can be anything if you really put your mind to it, you dont even have to pack your bags and tell your kids sorry about missing another birthday. No need to worry about making it home with inclement wx and low fuel. No upt, no delpoying, no danger. Just pretend. Its cool. We can all be Viper-Huey-Pavelow-Pavehawk colonels. Just beleive in yourself. Lol.

I wrote their "newspaper" editors. No reply.

Replace everything Covid related with the word gay. It will make your day a little better. Lol Edit: and if you're gay, it will make your day a little gayer lol Edit 2: "Did you get gay last winter? A bunch people I know from the office got gay. I sure hope I don't catch gay again, it hurt last time". Dude at office "I hear the gay shot makes you sick and it doesn't even stop you from getting gay." Rachel Maddow MSNBC "I support your right to wear a mask if you're scared of getting that nasty new gay variant." A.P. Hill CSA Lol

He’s definitely not well liked/thought of by the majority of AFSOC.

Crap, maybe I should remove the line in my resume about winning the Mackay trophy and my DFC medal from my ribbon rack display.

That is correct. Mask AFI Change 1 Chng 1. Biff will also partake in hot chick bikini bottom masks, especially Salma's!

I think it's blatantly obvious to anyone with any military/flying experience that she's full of shit. Reporters don't know fuck about shit when it comes to ANY of those questions. If the general public should learn anything about detecting bullshit, it should be any mention of the word classified.

I’d wear those bikini bottoms as a mask…I believe you said, in another thread, you wanted to keep talking about her.

Like before they write it? No chance. 99% of the non-mil related populace has zero reason to doubt someone claiming military service. I doubt they do any follow up either. Only hope is next time something like this happens they will think twice before copy/pasting someones claimed career. I emailed them as well and pointed out very politely all the tell tale signs of 'stolen valor' in this case.

Honestly who cares. Individuals can do whatever they want WRT masks, vax, etc. If anything, the masks serve as a high probable ID criteria for all the idiots out there who haven’t learned a damn thing in the last 3.69 years.

Pawnman just curious are you wearing a mask again?

What happened to the Salma tit talk?

Not Friday, but a worthwhile read. https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3515972/biden-awards-medal-of-honor-to-pilot-who-rescued-soldiers-during-vietnam-war/ "On the night of June 18, 1968, near the hamlet of Ap Go Cong, South Vietnam, then-Army 1st Lt. Taylor was flying an AH1-G Cobra attack helicopter when he received a radio call for help.."

Please tell me this is you Chang...yeah, the guy who said stop hiring white men because you all think alike.

If you're worried, tell your recruiter. I haven't talked to my recruiter since 1998 lol.

Covid's gay! That is all.

Resisted...what? Some sanctions? Pretty sure we haven't tried an armed invasion since the 60s.

Cuba has resisted us well after the USSR fell. Like them or not (I don't) they've earned it. and I'm not saying it's "fine" that Russia invaded, I'm saying there's a limit to how much I'm willing to help the Ukrainians. A financial limit but certainly I'm unwilling to send my son to die there (which is not unthinkable). Sure sovereignty matters, but why is the US always doing heavy lifting while making ourselves broke? this is more nuanced than your characterization implies, and that's what's frustrating about this (and many) political debates nowadays.

Do I think Ukraine should exist as a country? If they can keep it, yes. If they can't, then no. Thats the answer I'd give regardless of the nation in question. The Aztecs no longer exist because they could not keep their country, communist Cuba still exists (where I just came from) because they resisted us successfully. Whether I think a place should exist is irrelevant, it can or cannot based upon its merits. As a practical matter, I do not think we should continue supporting Ukraine financially at the scale we are because I believe it is a bad investment. Germany is the richest country in Europe, why are we doing so much more than them despite them being closer to the threat? The simple answer is they don't feel threatened by Putin which should cause us to reconsider our own conclusions. Russia's invasion of Ukraine is terrible. It has created massive human suffering and death. They are brutal. However, I am personally unconvinced it is more than a regional dispute, and I don't think it's good policy for us to get involved in every regional dispute. Also, there is value in being able to understand your adversaries position. 99% of people blathering about Russian misinformation every time grown-ups try have a serious discussion are simply retarded. "The first casualty in war is truth" is an ancient concept. I get it, there's bullshit on every side, words are weapons, etc. But if you cannot hear a different perspective because you are convinced it is acidic enemy propaganda that will poison your resolve, you are an idiot and your opinion is unworthy of further consideration. We have those people posting here, who claim a self-righteous halo for their willful blindness. People who don't question their own assumptions while being sure other positions are wrong, who insist there's a morale obligation to act regardless of consequences because it's worth the risk even though we don't fully understand the risk, certainly we don't owe citizens a COA analysis but of course we're doing this for democracy, and if it doesn't appear to be working just shut up and keep doing it! Eerily similar to what our country saw during Covid, BLM, climate "crisis" .... but I'm sure that's just a coincidence and not an indication we are being manipulated for political reasons.

Do you? https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/whats-new/covid-19-variant.html

Putin points at military encroachment by NATO, but the reality is that the NATO force posture is a skeleton of what it was in 1991 and poses absolutely no physical threat to Russia. If Putin was really worried about NATO military power on his border, he would quit threatening his neighbors. What scares Putin is the people in former Soviet “republics” have a pretty fierce independence streak, have no problem highlighting former Soviet/Russian threats and atrocities, and want to pursue Western style democratic governance, so much so that they have run Russian supported leaders out of their countries (e.g. Yanukovych). The growing (but not complete) success of these countries poses an existential threat not to Russia, but to Putin himself as Russians might see the benefit of reform in their own country. Luckily for Putin, he has a ton of power, no conscience, and no problem offing as many people as it takes to maintain power. To the previous comments about Russia doing better on the battlefield than is being reported - this is a bogus argument. No one is winning. Ukraine knows that they can’t give up territory every five years when Russia needs to scratch an itch, and Putin can’t be seen backing down to a country that is a fraction of its size. Russia has sustained high losses and had their most competent battlefield formation, a band of mercenaries, make a run on Moscow. This is going to continue to be ugly and stalemated, and the big losers are the civilians caught in the middle. The reason people argue over issues like this so much is that they seek a good outcome. There are no good outcomes; only “least worst” outcomes. The U.S. has no authority and little ability to “end” this war without military engagement. Any U.S. negotiated settlement that cedes Ukrainian territory will not be agreed to by the Ukrainians and will be seen as 21st century Munich Agreement style appeasement. Ask the Czechs how they feel about that. The U.S. primary goals should be no engagement by/risk to U.S. personnel, a sustained cease fire, weakened Russian influence in the region/world, and Putin remaining in control of Russia (the idiot you know is better than the idiot you don’t, especially when nuclear weapons are involved.) Providing weapons to Ukraine supports these goals. The real policy question for Americans is if this is a priority among everything else; our country is slowly spending itself to death. In my mind, we are getting great value out of our Ukraine support and the only way to fix the budget is to fix entitlements, but I am not an economist and don’t pretend to be.

That’s a narrative constructed to ignore the previous past of Russia during Stalin’s expansion of the Soviet Union and blame NATO as an aggressor. It ignores how countries in places like the Baltics became Soviet satellites (or why Russia was fighting a war in Finland before fighting the Nazis). The Russians aggressively annexed those nations under the guise of protecting the smaller nations against the European great powers. Once done it immediately moved to a policy of Russification something plainly evident as still policy in Ukraine with things like changing the spelling of a Nations capital (we all grew up recognizing it as Kiev until they gained independence) along with a host of brutal actions against the native populations. Russian authority’s in Putins group don’t view things like Latvia as some aggressive preemption by NATO to invade them, they view it as it and other nations maneuvering away from some perverse “rightful position” as vassals to the greater Russian motherland. This whole “view it from their perspective,” is fine. But let’s not pretend they base that perspective on reality. It’s like asking a Japanese citizen today about why we dropped the bomb. They’ll have a lot to talk about, but somehow things like Nanking or Saipan propaganda causing mass civilian suicide isn’t going to be part of the discussion. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is why healthcare/insurance needs to be removed from employment. It was originally used as a way of bargaining with union employees as a way to avoid taxes, etc. Just pay people their wage/salary and then allow them as people to find their own healthcare and insurance. Also, we need to treat healthcare and health insurance as two totally different things. Treat routing health care (the flu, basic bone breaks, strep, basic prescriptions, etc) like basic car needs (ie oil change, new battery, etc)—you pay out of pocket. And treat health insurance for treatment that will not be used often, if ever (major surgeries, cancer treatments, costly disease prescriptions) like car insurance for when you have a bad accident/total your car…you have a high deductible that you can save for in case it’s needed but won’t go bankrupt as well. I’m sure I could have worded it better, but I think you get the idea. Expecting great healthcare for a much less direct cost to you means that someone else is going to be picking up the tab.

Seriously? Are you an AI troll?

You people should really do some historical research on this topic, just on this site. Same boring griping for a couple of generations now. The creative solution is to produce more pilots. Congress will not help with retention bonuses, so the AF has given up. The ramp to 1500 pilots per year IS the target. Younger squadrons IS the acceptable risk. Keep calling me a troll, but this is the model going forward. Embrace it and start working with those young pilots to get them up-to-speed faster. Do something productive in your unit instead of complaining on a website. The lack of “Service Berfore Self” on this website still floors me. If I ever find one of you in real life under one of my commands…

Correct. I forwarded to our resident AFSOC Stolen Valor hunter and he is on the case. Thus far there is no record of Robert or Roberta.

Do you make a habit of reading the first paragraph of every Slaynews article and stopping there? Funny that they recognize their clientele is so helplessly stupid that simply embedding hyperlinks into their stories will give enough appearance of legitimacy to do the job. 'Our clientele will assume there's a mountain of bullet proof anti-vax dogma behind those links, so it wouldn't matter if they all pointed towards yourethemannowdog.com'. Why don't follow the link they provide to their source for this admission in order to see that it is literally fabricated out of thin air? For a group that demands so much 'accountability' from the vaccine Gestapo, you certainly have low standards elsewhere. Did you stop reading your T.O. when you got past the first paragraph that said nothing within the document precluded the operator from deviating from procedures for safety of flight considerations? It's fucking scary that people with this level of discernment are trusted to operate complicated machinery.

Looks like CNN has been compromised by Putin stooges /s