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Firstly, poor taste in photo choice, obviously. Secondly, the offer is par for the course across many presidential PACs that span R and D. Thirdly, this is a PAC, not the president directly - he had zero personal direction associated with wording or picture. Bottom line - whoever in the PAC made the photo choice is a dipshit, but the fake outrage directed directly at Trump is just that.

Damn, not news I wanted to wake up to. Prayers for those (and their families) involved. The Wild West is unforgiving - thank you to all the tanker bros crushing it out there, you guys are doing great work in a tough environment.

This is what happens when stupid and/or completely uninformed people make up a majority of voters. Elections have consequences, as they say. And in many cases, it’s really the consequence of rational people being too damn lazy to go vote.

You guys are giving way too much credit to gulf states…it is horribly apparent how much they have no idea what they’re doing with all the equipment we sell them (nor do they appear to use any reasonable application of ROE, SPINs, etc.) It’s far worse than I imagined.

@RegularJoe Aircrew didn’t fuck up in this event, not even slightly. The gross problems and blame lie elsewhere.

Easiest way to put it: F-Kill vs. K-Kill. This isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

@jonlbs That extremely over-simplified, distilled version of the event is all you’re going to get - it is what it is. I don’t see this one as unwarranted (though I understand the speed at which it was pushed through is almost certainly politically driven). Like all awards/medals, including the MOH, there will always be people who easily could have/should have received them and didn’t. That fact doesn’t immediately negate the validity of someone else’s award.

Well deserved and earned.

Exactly. Many of the big tech names work in the black world, but publicly they’ll cry for world peace and shit on the DOW, an administration’s foreign policies/decisions, etc. They don’t actually give a shit about all of their professed “ideals,” they only care about money and power. They are more than happy to participate in things that result in death and destruction (and they’re fully aware of it).

If you’re an AI company and want to do business with the DOD, then you have to be OK with them implementing it in ways that will result in death and destruction. If you don’t like that, then don’t do business with the DOD.

CH has been very clear on his criticism of dumb shit being said across the entire spectrum, as has just about everyone else here. Start living in reality instead of making up/implying blatantly false things.

Mexico is perhaps the most perfect example of gun laws being absolutely useless and only screwing over good people, and the root cause of violence problems being a lack of positive societal norms/proliferation of dogshit societal norms.

I’m not surprised. They work fast.

@disgruntledemployee Ratner has pretty much covered it. But I’ll emphasize one point: Every president (and pretty much any politician) in my lifetime can easily fit the “what a POS” definition for one reason or another - if you think a single one doesn’t in the last 40+ years, you are delusional. Good, “wholesome” people just don’t run for national level politics. My recommendation to anybody, including you, is stop being emotional and vote according to policy plans/outcome records that you agree with (including the candidate you only agree with 51% vs. the other guy).

It’s a fair point. But yes, it does still matter because the force composition will never be 100% CCA anytime in the medium-term future (sure at some point it’ll all be T1000 fighting each other, but that’s a ways off).