• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    You couldn’t get me to put my boot on the ground in Iran for a billion dollars AND the Camaro and that’s assuming I were a frothing fascist okay with killing people for money. It’s just going to be such a meat grinder that honestly has me wondering if the correct stance is “critical support for boots on the ground in Iran” because while yea it would also be horrific for Iranians i think they’d ratio the U.S. so hard and destroy enough of America that it might finally be the end of it. With drones, artillery, much more advanced military tactics and equipment compared to Afghanistan, it’s going to make the U.S./Soviet invasions there both look like a picnic. Like im talkin 100:1 casualty ratio

    • daniyeg [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      because while yea it would also be horrific for Iranians i think they’d ratio the U.S. so hard

      do you even hear yourself? “le epic ratio” jesus christ

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        There were instances were teenagers in sandals with AKs in the Taliban absolutely wrecked US special forces.

        17:1 K/D

        And then the US bombed a nearby village of civilians to get the ratio closer to

        17:16

        So that they could feel better about themselves.

        100:1 ratio actually sounds in the right ballpark.

      • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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        2 months ago

        Idk why you have to apply that to lefties instead of just me, also tell me i’m wrong. Sorry i think the U.S. is going to get its shit shoved in so hard it could literally kill itself if it persists in this, I guess!

        • 30_to_50_Feral_PAWGs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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          It’s because we elected you the general secretary of the central committee of leftism while you were asleep. The decision was ratified by a 2/3 majority and your term lasts two weeks starting, uhhhh… Last Monday. Sorry, I guess we forgot to tell you. The decision to tell you was tied up in subcommittee.

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                  2 months ago

                  You know, his second band when he was a kid was called Ronnie and the Rumblers, because they were really into the song “Rumble” by Link Wray and wanted to sound like that. They had to change their name to Ronnie and the Red Caps because the local community in whatever upstate New York backwater thought that the song “Rumble” was going to cause spontaneous gang violence to erupt if any teens heard it, so even including that word in the band’s name pretty much guaranteed that they would spawn an endless tide of teenage delinquency. So the owner of their first bigger venue made them change their name. Ronnie sang and played both bass and trumpet.

  • LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins [none/use name, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Calling a conflict that has already killed hundreds of thousands with potentially millions of deaths baked into second hand effects a special regime change operation in a wink and nod to the West’s term for Russia’s actions in Ukraine is not blase and bad but using the phrase ratio means I’m a gamer demon with no respect for war, got it everybody! I know when I read critical support what it really means is critical support, obviously. Christ

    Everybody here acts like they wanna see an aircraft carrier get blown up but you say critical support to the commitment that would guarantee that and its a step too far apparently. Sorry i believe in Iran’s capabilities to bloody the U.S. into dying relatively unscathed and worded it disrespectfully 😔 🙄