Politics

[Brent in Az]

The meme that earned me another jail sentence. Accused of inciting hate & violence. Facebook code for...."We dont like the truth, and we dont want you posting it"

I hope Elon Musk kicks the snot out of Zuckerberg in that cage fight

 

[Red Leg]

This is a superb movie that the Left and Hollywood have been working very hard to bury, ridicule and/or ignore. It is available on Prime.

 

[Red Leg]

Not really. This is classic propaganda designed to imply assertions as facts so as to generate a response among the anti-Ukraine wing of the Republican party and anyone else who reads it uncritically.

What the Presidential decision does is actually put a cap on the number of reservists who may be activated to fill billets in Europe in support of operation Atlantic Resolve. Under US code up to 200,000 reservists can be activated to support contingency operations of which 30,000 can come from the individual ready reserve. The President's order limits the number of reservists who might be called up to support the operation to a total of 3000 from the selected reserve of which no more than 450 maybe from the IRR. And of course, none of these personnel will be deployed in a combat status - something this yellow journalist seems happy to imply.

Of course any of these selective activations pale to insignificance compared to what we were doing throughout most of the war on terror where reserve and national guard personnel and units were deployed regularly. Indeed "stop loss" was far more draconian where soldiers with special skills were involuntarily kept on active duty to fill critical needs.

We have increased our forward deployed ground component footprint in NATO countries of Eastern Europe as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those combat forces require a correspondingly greater logistics, medical, general support footprint to support those rotating forces. This determination will allow the US armed forces to potentially rotate a reserve support unit into NATO on a rotation rather than a scarce active duty one. Much of the Army's logistics and medical support organization is actually in the reserve component rather than active duty.

Individually, a particular medical specialist might be called up to support a gap in a military medical facility.

Again, this is something we did regularly in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And no such activation is in breach of any contract.

I want to return to this for just a moment because it is such a classic case of how we are gas-lighted by our own side just as badly as an urban soccer mom can be on the left.

Following Vietnam and then the end of the Cold War, fully 78% of the US Army's support and sustainment structure was moved to the reserve component. This was done for two reasons.

First, in an ever shrinking army, it allowed the active component to maintain a powerful tooth to tail ratio immediately capable of decisive combat over a short period of time. However, that also meant that any sustained combat operations would require activation of the reserve component to maintain the field force.

Secondly, and this is more directly attributable to our Vietnam experience, it would mean any president had to get broad support for a major deployment because reserve component forces, coming from the civilian sector, would create an enduring political challenge.

The army has been lobbying very hard within the Pentagon to activate the sustainment structure to support the increased combat formation rotation in NATO. It does not have the active duty sustainment structure to duplicate what it can do with active component armor and mechanized infantry brigades.

Biden's authorization merely enables that while also putting a fairly restrictive cap on any activation and deployment.

Obviously, the author is uninterested in any such factual discussion and wants to create an outraged response among his readers. And of course we fall for it.

 

[Doug3006]

I want to return to this for just a moment because it is such a classic case of how we are gas-lighted by our own side just as badly as an urban soccer mom can be on the left.

Following Vietnam and then the end of the Cold War, fully 78% of the US Army's support and sustainment structure was moved to the reserve component. This was done for two reasons.

First, in an ever shrinking army, it allowed the active component to maintain a powerful tooth to tail ratio immediately capable of decisive combat over a short period of time. However, that also meant that any sustained combat operations would require activation of the reserve component to maintain the field force.

Secondly, and this is more directly attributable to our Vietnam experience, it would mean any president had to get broad support for a major deployment because reserve component forces, coming from the civilian sector, would create an enduring political challenge.

The army has been lobbying very hard within the Pentagon to activate the sustainment structure to support the increased combat formation rotation in NATO. It does not have the active duty sustainment structure to duplicate what it can do with active component armor and mechanized infantry brigades.

Biden's authorization merely enables that while also putting a fairly restrictive cap on any activation and deployment.

Obviously, the author is uninterested in any such factual discussion and wants to create an outraged response among his readers. And of course we fall for it.

Another example of how the political movement I’ve associated with my whole adult life has abandoned much of what I value. Suddenly the party of Reagan has become the party of Trump, and Carlson. Many who claim to be conservative seem to prefer being lied to by populists than to hear the truth from conservatives.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

This is a superb movie that the Left and Hollywood have been working very hard to bury, ridicule and/or ignore. It is available on Prime.

I just watched it last night. I have to confess: I was unaware of its message prior to watching it. I'm a horror genre fan and watched it for that reason. I thought it was very well done, in all respects. Flanery was fabulous.

 

[LivingTheDream]

This is a superb movie that the Left and Hollywood have been working very hard to bury, ridicule and/or ignore. It is available on Prime.

I just watched it Friday night. It is a great movie, the acting in it is amazing but really gets you thinking.

 

[LivingTheDream]

I just watched it last night. I have to confess: I was unaware of its message prior to watching it. I'm a horror genre fan and watched it for that reason. I thought it was very well done, in all respects. Flanery was fabulous.

Yeah I didn't realize the messaging in it either. I just like Boondocks Saints so decided to watch it.

 

[jpr9954]

I'm not big on the whole concept of hate speech and hate crimes. I see it more as incitement to violence and illegal violent acts. That said, I might make an exception.

The Johannesburg High Court found on Friday that the South African Human Rights Commission exceeded it authority when it declared a statement by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema was not "hate speech". Malema had said he was not "calling for the slaughtering of white people, at least for now".

I am not a South African nor a big student of modern post-colonial African politics. That said, Malema's statement seemed pretty provocative to me.

The complaint was brought by AfriForum in 2019.

Here is how the South African press covered it:

https://www.citizen.co.za/news/south-africa/courts/sahrc-suffers-defeat-over-hate-speech-malema/

https://www.news24.com/news24/south...rate-malema-on-hate-speech-complaint-20230714

https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/so...cision-that-exonerated-malema-of-hate-speech/

 

[Ray B]

Malema should be free to say whatever he wants- including that he is encouraging the slaughter of white people- but when anyone follows his suggestion and injures a white- then Malema is accomplice to the crime and should be executed on sight.

 

[observe]

 

[bowjijohn]

The irony of modern South African politics is that most of these folk who wish to kill the Boer farmers are, themselves, immigrants, whose ancestors, driven out from the North by the Zulus, slaughtered the indigenous cultures

Those cultures are those with whom the Boers were trading peacefully since the early 1700s

 

[WAB]

The irony of modern South African politics is that most of these folk who wish to kill the Boer farmers are, themselves, immigrants, whose ancestors, driven out from the North by the Zulus, slaughtered the indigenous cultures

Those cultures are those with whom the Boers were trading peacefully since the early 1700s

How dare you use facts that don’t agree with the woke narrative! [emoji41]

 

[observe]

Facts are Facts...
Forget all the current political correctness (lies) for a moment...
Here are some proofable Historical facts to ponder on.
(Do the research!!)
The Dutch (Afrikaner Boers) have been in South Africa for +_ 374 years, and that is way longer than the current population numbers majority of the Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Tsonga and the Tswana! [current anc government!]
Considering that most the of rest of the (legal!) citizens are mostly other Europeans, British or Asians like Indians or Malay, as well as Cape Coloreds, well that means that the "Dutch" have been longer in South Africa than at least +_ 85% of the rest of the total (numbers and races) of the entire RSA current population!
Only the Khoi, San and a very few others are longer than the Boers in this beautiful country of South Africa!!

 

[observe]

 

[WAB]

Facts are Facts...
Forget all the current political correctness (lies) for a moment...
Here are some proofable Historical facts to ponder on.
(Do the research!!)
The Dutch (Afrikaner Boers) have been in South Africa for +_ 374 years, and that is way longer than the current population numbers majority of the Zulu, Xhosa, Pedi, Tsonga and the Tswana! [current anc government!]
Considering that most the of rest of the (legal!) citizens are mostly other Europeans, British or Asians like Indians or Malay, as well as Cape Coloreds, well that means that the "Dutch" have been longer in South Africa than at least +_ 85% of the rest of the total (numbers and races) of the entire RSA current population!
Only the Khoi, San and a very few others are longer than the Boers in this beautiful country of South Africa!!

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I hope you realize that I was joking?!

 

[Daniel Cary]

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[sestoppelman]

Not really. This is classic propaganda designed to imply assertions as facts so as to generate a response among the anti-Ukraine wing of the Republican party and anyone else who reads it uncritically.

What the Presidential decision does is actually put a cap on the number of reservists who may be activated to fill billets in Europe in support of operation Atlantic Resolve. Under US code up to 200,000 reservists can be activated to support contingency operations of which 30,000 can come from the individual ready reserve. The President's order limits the number of reservists who might be called up to support the operation to a total of 3000 from the selected reserve of which no more than 450 maybe from the IRR. And of course, none of these personnel will be deployed in a combat status - something this yellow journalist seems happy to imply.

Of course any of these selective activations pale to insignificance compared to what we were doing throughout most of the war on terror where reserve and national guard personnel and units were deployed regularly. Indeed "stop loss" was far more draconian where soldiers with special skills were involuntarily kept on active duty to fill critical needs.

We have increased our forward deployed ground component footprint in NATO countries of Eastern Europe as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Those combat forces require a correspondingly greater logistics, medical, general support footprint to support those rotating forces. This determination will allow the US armed forces to potentially rotate a reserve support unit into NATO on a rotation rather than a scarce active duty one. Much of the Army's logistics and medical support organization is actually in the reserve component rather than active duty.

Individually, a particular medical specialist might be called up to support a gap in a military medical facility.

Again, this is something we did regularly in both Iraq and Afghanistan. And no such activation is in breach of any contract.

One big difference between the Ukraine conflict and Iraq/the Stan. We were actively involved, directly in combat against them and with good reason and support, at least at the time, hindsight says maybe not, so be it.
Here in this conflict, not of our own choosing, we are essentially fighting a proxy war against Russia under the umbrella of NATO, to ostensibly to save Ukraine.
So I guess you can call the well respected David Horowitz a yellow journalist, but I hardly think that is so, just because what he wrote here doesnt follow the current rah rah Ukraine narrative.
I have a lot of concerns about this conflict for all concerned. Its much more complicated than just "well, Russia invaded", more to it than that.

So where does it end and when, and how? I admit to being automatically against anything that Joe the Child Sniffing Perv is for, so I guess I am biased that way.

 

[Tundra Tiger]

I am not an engineer. My structural engineering peak year, well, that was probably Lincoln Logs or Tinker Toys prior to age 7. So I don't know how practical this actually is... but I for one appreciate the governor's willingness to try and find solutions.

Texas Gov. Abbott installing buoy barrier along Rio Grande; opponents decry 'dangerous stunt'

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar asks U.S. DOJ, Department of State to weigh in on Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's buoy barrier.

www.yahoo.com

 

[Red Leg]

One big difference between the Ukraine conflict and Iraq/the Stan. We were actively involved, directly in combat against them and with good reason and support, at least at the time, hindsight says maybe not, so be it.
Here in this conflict, not of our own choosing, we are essentially fighting a proxy war against Russia under the umbrella of NATO, to ostensibly to save Ukraine.
So I guess you can call the well respected David Horowitz a yellow journalist, but I hardly think that is so, just because what he wrote here doesnt follow the current rah rah Ukraine narrative.
I have a lot of concerns about this conflict for all concerned. Its much more complicated than just "well, Russia invaded", more to it than that.

So where does it end and when, and how? I admit to being automatically against anything that Joe the Child Sniffing Perv is for, so I guess I am biased that way.

Davis Horowitz misrepresented nearly everything in that article in order to pursue his particular narrative. That is in my view the quintessential definition of yellow journalism.

I think I'll stick by the summation I provided of what is actually happening whatever anyone thinks about Ukraine's right to self-determination, NATO's support of those efforts, or what I believe is our inherent national interests in ensuring Russia is thwarted in its imperial designs. I would hardly think that represents a "rah rah" narrative.

 

[sestoppelman]

Davis Horowitz misrepresented nearly everything in that article in order to pursue his particular narrative. That is in my view the quintessential definition of yellow journalism.

I think I'll stick by the summation I provided of what is actually happening whatever anyone thinks about Ukraine's right to self-determination, NATO's support of those efforts, or what I believe is our inherent national interests in ensuring Russia is thwarted in its imperial designs. I would hardly think that represents a "rah rah" narrative.

You disagree with Horowitz and thats fine, you have your opinion he has his.

I have yet to see anyone lay out what our national interest is, beyond inane things like "well, if we dont stop Putin now he will just keep going", when there is nothing to suggest that is valid.
I continue to be very skeptical of the whole thing. Especially after hearing the idiot former Admiral John Kirby state right up front with Shannon Bream that in so many words munitions makers are pretty much dictating to the govt, that they need to make lots of ammo to make any.
Eisenhower warned us.

"The defense industry obviously wants to make sure that if they're going to increase production, that that production rate is going to stay elevated for a period of time. Because that means hiring more workers, it means retooling and adding capacity in their factories and manufacturing capabilities. So we understand that and that's sort of the central thesis here of the discussions that we're having with them, is to get them to increase production and let them know that we're serious about doing that for some period of time," Kirby said