From one human to another, yes I feel valued within my family. Beyond that? Not so much.

Feels somewhat trivial but this matters at least for me for ensuring elections remain fair as these are controlled state by state.

Beats Musk, Bezos, Ellison, Trump etc. And all the other trust fundies

Certainly not, but seems this Admin is attempting a speed-run for a new record in both quantity and severity.

With this Trump-appointed crooked SCOTUS and the Trump-appointed crooked US Attorney General, combined with the fact we are not signatories to the ICC? I’m going to sadly say yes.

Always a tankie from Lemmy.ml with a curious predisposition to defending Russia and China who espoused both sides false equivalence fallacies. How curious.

So very Russian.

They are betting on there being no midterms, or provoking a 9/11 type attack and rallying support before then.

I think red hats will follow whatever bait billionaires dangle in front of them. It only takes a little meeting among the puppeteers to decide whom to start promoting, and then they’ll all fall in line like good little pawns. They fall for it every single time, this much I know. If they can fall for Bush Jr., for Trump, then the next person will be no different. In fact, they’ll just go, “You guys said Trump was a clown with the bronzer! Look how refined and sophisticated JD Vance is! He’s even a pretty good debater and just speaks facts that you don’t like!”

The only way out of this I see is to drive a wedge between billionaire oligarchs and this administration. Seems like a smart move.

He’s way smarter though, at least rhetorically to the median electorate as a psychopath anyway. We all thought the same of Trump back in 2015 too.

When the billionaires make their pivot, and you can tell they’re already setting up the chess pieces for a post-Trump era, watch how suddenly they promote Vance or some other shithead

Can we have him live and ship him off to The Hague? I’d much rather see him in cuffs and also avoid Vance becoming president automatically

I mostly agree, which is why I knew the air frame was largely being antiquated given modern warfare; that being said it does not change that the warthog itself is designed and proven to take a pummeling relative to these other planes who fly significantly higher and stand off further away, or that Warthog losses are rare. They’ve taken plenty of hits from MANPADS, have .50 and 20mm rounds blow off parts of the tail and punch through the hull, and kept flying, so I’m curious what air-defense system took this one down.

There’s another point to this that is probably more important to highlight: Leadership matters. A rook is a strong chess piece, but if you launch it out of the gate in your opening moves and don’t protect it you’re in for a bad time. Any war sim or RTS should convey this idea. It is rare for these to come down relative to the sorties because good commanders know when the strengths and weaknesses of their pieces.

Might have something to do with at least 10 highly experienced Generals being fired by Kegsbreath recently… Leaving aside all the others he’s done. Seems intentional.

Aaron was by far the best of them all. That documentary moved me to tears…

Are you factoring in as a percent of combat sorties and proportionality? Because when taking this into account, I’m not sure that’s right.

And has numerous incidents of being blown to bits and still returning to base. The pilot themselves is literally inside a “titanium bathtub”.

Keep in mind finally that the nature of this aircraft is not to engage from a stand-off distance but rather be up close. Ultimately I’m really curious what brought this bird down.

… The V-22 Osprey on the other hand… Look at it wrong and she falls out of the sky.

Extremely rare. This thing is like a tank in the sky.

I also thought that Warthogs were antiquated as CAS? Fucking dipshit Kegsbreath (Epstein War aside)

They had to clarify enemy fire because several were already shot down by super-duper competent friendly fire.

What was the actual comment she made?

ok

I wonder how all that space debris compares to the probability of all the commercial airliners ascending and descending through birds and what not. Comparative damage aside.