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Fixed.
Good thing for us pretentious ivy-league policy wonks are the minority of the republican party. They have been mostly white trash morons more interested in football than politics for a really long time.
Grunching, but Citations Needed just did an episode about how choice is a bullshit narrative. It was pretty good episode.
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I know everything Trump does is a 5 minute news cycle now, but this Eddie Gallagher pardon thing is as openly fascist as anything Trump has ever done. If people aren’t familiar with the details:
Gallagher was accused of multiple offenses during his final deployment to Iraq and during the Battle for Mosul. The most prominent accusation and the best-attested to was the murder of a prisoner of war, a war crime. A captured young fighter of the Islamic State (also known as ISIL, ISIS, and Daesh) was being treated by a medic. According to two SEAL witnesses, Gallagher said over the radio “he’s mine” and walked up to the medic and prisoner, and without saying a word killed the prisoner by stabbing him repeatedly with his hunting knife. Gallagher and his commanding officer, Lieutenant Jake Portier, then posed for photographs of them standing over the body with some other nearby SEALs. Gallagher then text messaged a friend in California a picture himself holding the dead captive’s head by the hair with the explanation "Good story behind this, got him with my hunting knife.”
Another accusation was that Gallagher’s sniper work during his 2017 deployment became indiscriminate, reckless, and bloodthirsty. He allegedly fired his rifle far more frequently than other snipers; according to testimony, the other snipers in the platoon did not consider him a good sniper, and he took “random shots” into buildings. Other snipers said they witnessed Gallagher taking at least two militarily pointless shots, shooting and killing an unarmed old man in a white robe as well as a young girl walking with other girls. Gallagher allegedly boasted about the large number of people he had killed, claiming he averaged three kills a day over 80 days, including four women. Gallagher also was reportedly known for indiscriminately spraying neighborhoods with rockets and machine gun fire with no known enemy force in the region.
Some of these claims are disputed, but it is beyond obvious that Gallagher is a psychopath. The message here to members of the military on deployment is that you can literally do whatever the fuck you like, there are no rules. We’ve come a long way from Abu Ghraib.
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Taking over for screaminasian?
That’s a good pic. He looks like he’s straining to stay alive.
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Got a “late” start at 35 (now 55) and have built up a healthy 401k, but stress all the time about a big downturn or worse in the next 10-20 years. No hope of any retiree insurance.
My brother has probably made 1/2-2/3 of my income over the years but worked for a city and has a full pension and medical insurance guaranteed (small to medium city with a stable large corporation forming up the tax base). He’s got no worries.
Kind of hoping people are getting notices of loss of health insurance due to some court decision shortly before November. Would be nice to dramatize the impact of this nonsense approach.
Lol those fucking goals. “We need to provide a market based approach to fix the environment.”
Eat shit and choke on it
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Gallagher is the modern day Lt. Calley, who slaughtered a village of unarmed Vietnamese and was praised by Nixon. Even he served 4 years in jail.
We are the bad guys.
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