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Splitcoil
@Splitcoil
Half-deaf queer guy with a little extra metal in his head. Designer, builder for Crowfoot Electric Guitars. Making music with Last Valley. He/him.
Mar 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The US has long treated a healthy and growing economy as a national security issue.
We maintain a large standing army and deploy them around the world to safeguard that economy.
We pay to train that large force and keep them at a constant state of readiness for major conflicts. We go decades at a time when only a small proportion of that force is deployed, the rest held in reserve, training, staying ready.
We rarely question this, and when we do, it's only to the extent of maybe shaving 2% off the expenditures.
Jul 23, 2019 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
This thing. I can't fully explain why, but this thing makes me feel so fucking awful. I volunteered for two deployments. One to Iraq, then one to Afghanistan. I went in eyes wide open, having studied conflict all my life, expecting it to be more terrible than I'd imagined, expecting to have an awful time, expecting to be haunted by the pointlessness afterward.
Jun 9, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
I did some incredibly stupid fucking things in Afghanistan. Mostly because I'd volunteered for it out of anger in the first place, and then I ended up with no supervision, literally no supervision at all, in country. But I never did that stupid shit alone. Someone always had my back. Usually it was 2 or 3 Marines, or a couple of British military cops. And it was never a feeling of "these guys won't let me get shot." It was more like "these guys won't let me get shot more than 5 or 6 times."
May 10, 2018 • 23 tweets • 4 min read
A few things bother me about Gina Haspel that I don't see getting any play in the news. First is the stupidity of many of her answers. Yes, stupidity. She appears to be a profoundly stupid person. “I’m not going to sit here, with the benefit of hindsight, and judge the very good people who made hard decisions, who were running the agency in very extraordinary circumstances,” she told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Oct 31, 2017 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
A lot happened yesterday. Let's break it all down on a timeline.

0600 Eastern: Paul Manafort calls 911, saying he thinks his morning coffee may taste like polonium. The operator replies "Bitch, you should've thought about that before you took that dirty money," and hangs up. 0645: George Papodopoulopoulooza knocks on Manafort's door. He brought donuts like every day since 5 Oct for no reason. Manafort sees 9-foot antenna poking from Poopodolomite's jacket & freaks out. "It's for my new iphone," says Porpoluffagus. "Fuckin AT&T network, right? Haha."