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Liberals are 100% consistent: they want to defend the democracy in Palestine from the first-strike tyranny of Israel. Hamas values trans-rights and Israel just wants to ban music festivals and gay people. #freeukraine

Right up until they started defending themselves, roughly.

Too late...

Exactly, zero sympathy, cry me a fucking river! Maybe more time doing legislative work instead of grandstanding for whatever dumb hot social media issue. Both parties are guilty. Back to the intent of the founding father’s intent - working in congress should truly be an “additional duty” and act of service along side your normal career. No more toxic career politicians like Diane Fiensteine.

BLM, Palestine/anti-Jew, etc. protestors - they are all people without a shred of individual thought and amount to nothing more than useful idiots for anti-American causes. I’ll hold my breath waiting for any of these jackasses going to jail.

I've worked in the same circle several times. Having 50,000 positions that require Senate confirmation is ludicrous and obviously part of the problem. Judges represent many of the vacancies and that needs to be addressed because of the impact it has on our judicial system (particularly with regard to immigration cases). The Air Force nominate 20-25 Colonels to become Generals each year...the other services have about the same number. The Senate has a DUTY to review those nominations and 100 a year is not asking too much. There should be a a heavy review when making O-7 and another look for O-9 and above.

One tenet helps me dive into issues like this that are so baffling (not saying you're confused). Namely, that there is no such thing as a contradiction in nature. If something like this doesn't fit (which it clearly does not), it's because we misunderstand something. That "thing" as far as I can tell, is that the left is simply trying to upset the current power dynamic in the world. Whatever their reason - which I don't claim to know - it's the reason for this chaos. It's a tactic in order to create space to allow a different world view, philosophy, or power structure to arise.

Do these "lib" demonstrators understand that abortion is a lib thing. What about women's rights? They seem to not care about those anymore, especially in Palestine. Try being gay or trans in Palestine. That is definitely not "cool" overthere. Fuck, draw a picture of Muhammad. You will be killed. A fucking picture. Art will get you killed. Freedom of speech is very limited as well. It makes no sense to support Hamas as a lib. None. Democrat and Republican are just words. Teams that people pick because they can't think for themselves. The words Democrat and Republican dont mean shit anymore. "I just wanna get mad at someone too, so I support Hamas." - American Hamas supporters also known as retards.

My Senator (Sen Mike Rounds) actually did a ton that you would never hear about. He is a genuinely great person. I know it is popular to hate Congress but he made a real difference for the military and for constituents, including regular Airmen that were getting screwed over by DoD. For example, I made a trip to Ellsworth when I was there and met with the Vice WG/CC. He told me that they were having issues with Tricare. There weren't enough providers in certain specialties and the providers they did have were taking months to get paid. This was negatively impacting families that had children that needed to see specialists. When I got back to DC, the Senator asked me how my trip was and I conveyed the Tricare problems. He was not happy. The next week we had the Admiral in charge of DHA in our office and the CEO of Healthnet, the Tricare provider in the region. He let both of them know it was unacceptable what was happening. They both promised to fix it and they did. Within a month, the Vice WG/CC called back and told us things were much better and the providers were paid immediately. Of course you would never hear about this. But this is the type of stuff we worked on day in and day out. I also worked on increasing the number of O-5 control grades for the ANG, and it passed into law in the 2019 NDAA. This opened up more billets for O-4s to get promoted to O-5. Again, you never hear about this but it has a real impact for military families. You see a lot more of the grandstanding and BS in the House. Many of the bills over there are simply PR stunts that would never pass. We did none of that. Other than deploying and dropping bombs, my year on the Hill was the best year I've had in the AF. There is so much ability to make an impact there compared to what you can do in the Pentagon. I'm not saying Congress as a whole is great and I'm not defending their ability to get anything done. But in my little corner of the Senate, we worked extremely hard with a small staff and made a huge impact.

Like i said, agree to disagree. My wife and I are heavily involved in the local public middle and high schools. No woke. No pronouns. No gender ideology. No book banning. No LGBTQ shaming. Top tier academics. Top tier extra-curriculars. Tight integration with the local community, churchs, and public service volunteer organizations. I'm fully aware how unique it is, but it does exist. Bearing in mind that I assume a normal low level of all that stuff that has always, and will always be at the fringes of every society. Just because one kid claims to be LGBTQ doesn't mean it's a main stream in the school. I knew gay guys and girls in my high school growing up. It's normal and not the center of mass. The more people I meet from around the country, the more I'm realizing that the doom-and-gloom-nay-sayers on all sides of every aisle are usually the ones with low real awareness outside of their own community, and form their opinions of what's "happening in America" based on CNN, Fox, OAN, MSNBC or some other outlet that thrives on fear mongering. Reality: There are many local communities in America that are perfectly healthy and not saturated with either wokeism or anti-wokeism. They aren't in major cities. You don't hear about them because they don't make noise. Just because you don't hear about them doesn't mean they don't exist.

Agree to disagree. We're fine here in my corner of the country.

Fill the tunnels with human excrement.

There shouldn’t be so many offices to confirm in the senate then. Smaller government, boom problem solved.

Or, I know this is crazy, not every single thing has to be some giant strategic indictment of the American system designed to make you miserable or cream in your Ron Paul boxers. I just like the guy because I bitched to him (my rep) about the FAA and he handled it. Which was nice.

I just spent the last few months digging into something I had no knowledge of, that at some point after I became an adult the education system decided that phonics was a bad idea. I'm not sure there's an example I've ever seen with a more precipitous and obvious decrease in results than when schools went from phonics based reading to contextual based reading. Same thing for math apparently. It's to the point where my wife and I are considering starting an Acton school just so we can have more control over exactly what is going on. While I'm sure there are a few good public schools out there, I'm as skeptical as brabus when you realize that the entire education establishment has been taken for a ride. It also doesn't cover the reality that our curriculum hasn't changed much in 100 years, yet the world has. Kids are still graduating with no idea what taxes or interest rates are, and that's ridiculous.

Sure, your example may be true...but you have to admit you may have a bit of a myopic view of the situation. If National Security was truly a priority, and there was the political will to get it done, none of the listed examples would stop them. Again, why didn't the Senate Majority Leader bring a full floor vote for the USMC Vice Commandant, CSAF, & CNO when CQ was up for CJCS? Was there a legal hurdle or a political one stopping them? At least that's my opinion as a voter and taxpayer.

I just can’t understand why people don’t want to sign up… https://dnyuz.com/2023/11/05/a-secret-war-strange-new-wounds-and-silence-from-the-pentagon/ Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network Forums

This is ultimately why I believe AI, at least in its current form, is massively overhyped. AI can't create anything yet. It's just a very capable search engine, that can combine the results into one output. There are a ton of uses for this, but the jobs destroyed by AI are creating AI jobs required to create things like, for example, prompts. So if you ask GPT to create a super prompt, it will fail, until there are enough human-created super prompts in its repository of data to output one.

My limited interaction with elected officials has been very positive. They also were people that you wouldn’t know were senators if they were standing in line with you at the grocery store. The grandstanding types looking for a sound byte are chides and suffer the same problems as IG influencers, etc.

Apparently they're called superprompts, and the new hotness is software design is building programs that create superprompts. Humans designing software designed to help humans communicate with a computer that will communicate with humans. What happens when you ask GPT to create a superprompt for GPT?

He does. Amazing stuff. A couple examples of the prompts he uses for the AI to create scenes : Filmstill Closeup, Masterfully crafted 38mm view from the remnants of an old overpass, now broken and suspended above the city's ruins. Vines snake around rusted car chassis and the remnants of a billboard which once advertised the marvels of the future. The golden hues of the setting sun glisten off the scattered remnants of shattered glass. Captured on classic Lomography film with a Minolta X-700, this visual sonnet speaks of urban dreams once held high, now returned to the embrace of the earth. Filmstill Closeup highlights a sapphire-hued circular object, levitating above a clear jungle pond. Its glow disturbs the water beneath, creating ripples that emit soft electric blue sparks. Trees encircling the pond appear ancient, with their bark glowing subtly, showcasing intricate vein networks. Looming in the backdrop, a monumental stone figure with its hands outstretched, as if presenting the floating orb, adds a layer of biblical gravitas to the scene. The balance of shadows and light, taking cues from Roger Deakins, renders the image both surreal and haunting.

Took me 5 years to graduate from the U of Hawaii. Who in their right mind does it in 4 over there? Majored in Business barely passing due to spending most of my time on the U's Sailing Team. I am living proof college has little bearing on your future aviation endeavors as I flew fighters and for Delta.

Political Science is where it’s at #aviationdegreesmatter

That’s what those with their head in the sand say. Sorry man, you either got woke, poor academics, or both. The amount of each can be all over the place depending on part of the country, but one or both are there to some degree.

I’m honestly embarrassed for bringing the falcons up a few days ago. I apologize. Such a horrible performance

Better yet, pig excrement.

Standing by for Hamas “baby and war widow tunnel enclaves” to show immediately after the combination of shit, fire, seawater, hot dog water, sponge bombs, and bees to be released.

Whatever you do, do not over pay for a worthless aviation degree. No one cares.

Best get started then. Or we're going to have 50,000 vacancies a year.

1Cs are awesome! The weird part is seeing them on a random Tuesday in the squadron, in uniform. "Hey Sugar Tits, I mean SrA Sugar Tits. I need to do a records reveiw."

It is feasible and THIS is part of the problem. If you have to be confirmed by the Senate why just accept the blanket approval of each service. This practice only reinforces the broken process and continues to promote some of most acidic leaders we have ever seen.

Good, sounds like you’re going the right direction As to BA or BS, to the Guard / AF I’m not sure it would matter or how much in whatever candidate selection method they are using now I never sat on a SUPT candidate selection board but I did on several promotion and interview boards If we knew the candidate was not an immature knucklehead by his / her service in the Wing, that paid the biggest dividends IMHO, good grades, flying time, etc all matter too but your performance in the Wing is where you’ll make your mark I’m telling you something you already know but FWIW If you think you can score a higher gpa with a BA vs BS, and you want that degree then proceed that route Except for test pilot / astronaut, the tech degree doesn’t matter Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hot take…the airlines don’t require a degree. Spend your money on hours to get to the regionals, run hard and get to the majors. Live on ramen for another 2 years until you’re a narrow body captain, then spend your money on a technical school for something like welding. Profit.

You are the king of posting small Twitter clips and adding your own click bait title to it to try and steer your own narrative. Maybe I missed the woman getting beaten in the first video? I mean yeah I see a man, silencing her since he knows they’re being recorded, and that’s definitely not good, but welcome to mass patriarchy of Islamic society. However she didn’t get beaten like you so emphatically claimed. Where’s your source that those Orthodox men were protesting the war? There’s zero evidence in the clip either way of what’s going on in that video. Not endorsing the police officer body slamming that man in the street, but you have absolutely no way to prove what’s happening there. I tried to find an article referencing that incident and the only one I found was Al Jazeera. And we know what straight shooters they are. Now I’m not debating the wrongness of those videos, and perhaps more will come out and back up what’s happening there. But what really gets obnoxious is over and over on this website you post links to short video clips on Twitter with some sensationalist title or post about them, and most of them are easily proven to be false or carefully cut and crafted to take a small snippet out of context. Be careful how much 10 second Twitter clips you’re consuming as your “news”. I realize I’m probably wasting key strokes here, but shit like a this just proves how fucked we are as a society. It’s mind blowing how many people, both left and right, will get sucked into a 10 second video clip with a short title that has no basis in facts, and take it as gospel, so long as it aligns with their own personal views. I haven’t been on this site as long as some, but I’ve been around long enough to remember there was generally a lot more critical thought that used to go into discussions here. It was a real gem of the internet, now it’s just mostly shitpost central like everywhere else. It’s no wonder some long time posters have left this site. Whatever, long and probably useless rant over.

I agree. I know who I consider the "good guys". Let them beat Hamas without American troops. Israel can and will kick the shit out of Hamas. We're going to get some too. We alsways do. History and stuff... I'm glad I taught my kids how to shoot. Hopefully that will save them if they need it one day. Maybe Israel should just drop some leaflets with a picture of Muhammad them? That would screw with them for little while. How do you reason with people who will kill you over a fucking picture? Why do we even care. What if I start selling shirts with Muhammad's picture on it and he happens to look just like Macho Man saying "Snap into a Slimjim!"? Someone would kill my family. Think about that. We can make "art" with Jesus and Moses fucking each other and not only is it ok, but a lot of people would laugh at it. One picture of Muhammad and the world is doomed. We also need to quit catering to the Muslim religion so much. They aren't fucking special. Hail Santa

True story. On a Nellis trip, a new OG (from off station) was standing in the lobby of the casino/hotel, when two girls walk past with lots of skin showing. He says to the D.O., "Oh look, the working girls are out already." D.O. says, uh sir, that's two of your 1CO's... 🤣.

"well, he's in the Army, so...."

If you believe this new narrative that a spy balloon was “turned off and didn’t collect or transmit any intelligence” while flying over multiple military installations then I have a new 100% effective vaccine booster to offer you

I think I saw that guy posting on the FB OFP group yesterday. Just below the post about how we'll lose every future war because we don't do formation takeoffs anymore.

You can read unclass plenty of sources in the future Im referencing if you have an open mind to change. I’d start with Army long range hypersonics, check out open source space capes, read up on adversary capes. Sone interesting naval stuff as well. Brabus is right on this probably reaching the end of conversation on some levels but lots of open source out there to get you thinking. Reminds me of when my PAS in ROTC who was a F-4 pilot got upset that I wrote a paper on computers replacing the need for WSO’s. Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

Terrible experience. Couldn't even get drunk after the game because some Karen and a bunch of cops made us dump our BBQ and leave. Giving up a home game for TV money is BS.

We got vital data before terminating the test for an unexpected anomaly! Great success!