It’s totally just a coincidence that this is being done just under two weeks from the midterms. This is definitely not intended to put his finger on the scales for getting new parents, especially poor ones, to vote for him as a quid pro quo, more or less. 🫩

I don’t have a terribly high opinion on the intelligence or critical thinking capabilities of my countrymen in a statistical sense, so I would not be surprised if this actually moved the needle.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50258954

Hear Me Out.

The article also makes it abundantly clear that a blind eye was turned to Epstein at multiple levels by multiple people and agencies, effectively as a matter of policy. It’s a “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” sort of thing. And both orangeboi and Bill Clinton are mentioned numerous times. I’m sure there are more, but that’s just from a quick glance.

So yeah, we’re probably gonna start another war as a distraction from this specific article 🫠

Stolen from the old place

Honestly this is one of the funniest bans I’ve ever gotten

Sorry for the link from The Other Site, but I thought this was too good to pass up. This is attitude is one of the main reasons I love this city so much. When the chips are down, we don’t fuck around. No tolerance or quarter for fascist bigots.

Honestly, this is a fantastic insult

Super awesome that the heaviest hitters in the industry are folding like this. It’s almost as if the entire legal profession is worth jack shit. Jesus tapdancing christ.

archive.is copy

Government websites now no longer mention perhaps the single most selfless, incredible, and strategically significant coordinated effort by a community of First Nation military personnel in service to a country that did worse than nothing to deserve their loyalty - and yet they played, and succeeded in, a pivotal role that literally helped win the pacific campaign.

Any veterans on here: I really do hope you’re furious at this.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/34623787

It’s a very obvious solution once you take a look at what a lot of their coastline looks like. Elevated armor delivery. Skip the beach. Dump ‘em’ straight on the coastal roads. Makes a shocking amount of sense. Definitely much more specific of a use case than the more general purpose landing support vessels that the USN/USMC employs, but for their primary missions and targets in the next decade, this is exactly the hardware that will significantly increase the CCP’s chances.

This is the an evolution of the combined arms amphibious assault tactics that the US has refined for the better part of a century. For heavily built up targets - specifically those that need to be assaulted and captured quickly for any reasonable chance of success (read: Taiwan + establishing a foothold on the island), this is PERFECT. This basically lets you dump 1000 tanks and a ton of IADS and 100k infantrymen in like, an hour.

That’s a paradigm shift right there.

This definitely isn’t a ruleference to anything that may have happened recently in the news

Edit: lol yeah, I deserve this, I teed it up rather magnificently.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/15203982

Russian D-30 howitzer with anti-drone protection and ERA.

https://t.me/yigal_levin/69976

👀Russian D-30 howitzer with anti-drone screen and dynamic tank protection. Dynamic protection, in essence, is blocks of plastic that explode towards the cumulative stream of anti-tank ammunition and deflect it to the side. Placing this protection on anything other than the powerful armor of a tank is fraught with even greater damage to the “protected” object. Published by Balu.

@yigal_levin

**"

https://t.me/BaluHub777/13351

As the gifts went on, they began to suspect us of something 🤔