You stole a review code from us, lied about an offer of payment I never made to try and extort cash from us, and attempted to turn some of us against each other via DMs simply for fun. Fuck your apology.
Fuck right off with every bit of this. Delete your account and never come back. You damaged our reputation with publishers because of your code stealing and you have the gall to blame this on mental health?
Fuck that. I have severe mental health problems and somehow I manage not to be a thieving, lying, backstabbing manipulative shithead.
Stop accepting these “brave” apologies, people. Blaming your mental health for something you’d have happily continued doing if you hadn’t been called out isnt brave.
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The Afghanistan understander has logged on. This is pure bullshit. Almost every Afghan (or any other FN) working with coalition forces is extensively vetted, including polygraphs, call chain analysis against known extremists, and background checks.
Hell, interpreters are rigorously vetted long before being allowed to accompany US forces on patrol. We don’t just yank people off the street, hand them a badge and say “CONGRATULATIONS U R NOW WORK FOR UNITED STATES”.
For those individuals who ARE early in the SIV stages, they are taken to third party countries until the vetting process is complete. Period. I’m speaking as someone who’s been directly involved in these processes.
"John how could you say Trump and the GOP are a greater threat to America than 9/11 was?". Well, because I know what I'm talking about. But I realize that doesn't do much for the critically stupid, so let's address that and try to jolt those brain cells to life.
There is absolutely no doubt whatsoever that 9/11 was the worst terrorist attack in modern American, and indeed world, history. Before that, the worst was the Cinema Rex fire in Tehran, Iran in 1978 in which 422 people were killed.
But anyone trying to conflate the death toll of a singular act of terrorism with a broader threat to American democracy has literally no idea what they're talking about. Quite simply, AQ was
Starting to think this guy might need to be on some sort of watchlist.
Like, dude. We laugh, but this shit is chilling. My man here is practically outright stating his desire to slaughter people and see a fascist in power. This is Nazi Germany shit.
Now imagine how many others think like him that we don’t know about.
So, let's examine this through the lens of someone who actually knows what he's talking about. I've spoken at length before about terrorism and what it is/isn't. Not surprising that someone from The Blaze wouldn't know. So, let's go!
When we talk about "terrorism" we aren't talking about tossing a brick into a laundromat or punching someone. Terrorism encompasses things like kidnapping, hijackings, executions, hostage-taking, mass casualty events, etc to instill....y'know....terror.
While there isn't one globally-accepted definition of the word "terrorism", it's roundly accepted that it involves everything I just mentioned. Remember that, because we'll come back to it.
So, putting on my COIN hat for a moment, this is how I see the buildup to the next Trump insurrection happening. Yeah, it's hypothetical and no, it may not happen. But it's already happened once; to think with certainty it won't again is shortsighted and foolish.
If I had to wager a guess: Trump smells an indictment coming. That's the reason we're hearing all this "reinstatement" stuff suddenly. He knows or strongly suspects it's coming soon, and he thinks he can twist it and use it as a means to either protect himself or seize power.
He's going to use that indictment as "proof the Deep State is trying to prevent my reinstatement in August" or "they're trying to take your vote away" or "they're afraid of the truth" or something similar. "THIS is the only way the Socialists know they can stop us!".