And I’m saying that their oath will ultimately lose that “conflict,” because nobody gives a shit about constitutions when it comes down to it. They’re certainly not going to risk a court martial or a dishonorable discharge for the constitution.

For the vast majority, yes. Again though, we need only a single one.

There might be something that will get them to do… whatever it is you want them to do (what are you expecting here exactly)

I’m not a tactical expert - the ‘how’ is on them. I expect they’d engage him the same as any other enemy of the US, but I’m not about to tell them how to do their job - just to actually do their job.

You can’t reject imperialism without rejecting what it means to be a US soldier.

Strongly disagree. What it actually means to be a soldier vs the ideal that the individual soldier joined for will vary from one soldier to another: the ones I’m addressing are those who fell for the propaganda and joined under the belief that they’re accomplishing some good. Being duped doesn’t make them irredeemable.

And yeah, the utter silence from them thus far is pretty damning, but even if encouraging them to do the right thing is a waste of time, demonizing them isn’t going to accomplish anything either… So between the two, why not push them to break out of whatever it is that’s holding them back? If it fails it fails, but we might as well try.

Propaganda’s a hell of a drug. We’re raised under the belief that we’re surrounded by aggressors, and that military personnel are some kind of heroic defender: that joining is an act of service and altruism.

It’s bullshit, and people join for a lot of shitty reasons too, but to say there’s no decent people in the military is incorrect. Even if they’re a minority, there are people feeling the conflict between their oath and their orders: those people are potential allies, and should be encouraged to step up.

Demonizing them is counterproductive, even if encouraging them has been fruitless thus far. All we need is for a single one of them to take their oath seriously.

As a reminder to our troops, you swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all threats, foreign and domestic.

Right now y’all are just blindly following the domestic threat’s orders. This has cost us the lives of seven servicemembers so far in this conflict alone. They didn’t die defending our country, they didn’t die upholding US interests, they died to help distract the country from Donald Trump raping children on Epstein’s island.

You are oath-bound to put a stop to this shit. Do what’s right, not what’s easy - Trump will cast your brothers and sisters into the fire until he’s stopped.

hehe

They died for the most honorable of causes: using war crimes to distract the world from the Epstein files.

*Sheds a single tear*

That’s a testable hypothesis!

wtf is “blue maga”.

Literally described it in my previous post.

this binary shit of blood in the streets or you’re MAGA is insane, not even worth discussing.

You’d be correct if that’s what we were discussing. You’re arguing against something that was never pitched in the first place - that’s called strawman, and is a big part of why your posts reek of MAGA - they love pulling that shit.

my goal? not blood in the streets at a minimum.

Whose blood?

what is your goal?

I stated my goal in my first post here, which is to encourage military personnel to act on their oath instead of blindly following the orders of the evil dipshits their oath compels them to slay.

murder anyone who doesn’t have your approved thinking?

Strawman again. That particular flavor of strawman is also rampant in MAGA posting. Whether or not Nazis - particularly, those Nazis currently in power, and using that power to enact global scale atrocities - are people who are worth preserving isn’t the kind of thing that boils down to a difference of opinion any more than a tsunami could be described as just a wave. Technically correct? Sure. Difference in scope? Not even a little bit comparable.

why does every discussion on the internet these days feel like talking to a bot or a Russian agent trying to sow chaos?

Do you feel that dropping that line makes you less suspicious? Cuz the whole blue MAGA act stands out like a sore thumb.

crawl back in your fucking hole and stop advocating for violence.

No. Advocating for the preservation of Nazis is advocating for violence. Calling on people who swore an oath to fight those Nazis to actually do so is justified and overdue. There are no options on the table that don’t involve violence; nor is you coming to the defense of the aggressors.

At best, you’re what’s called “blue maga” as you’re purity-testing your way right into supporting his regime.

I kinda doubt it though, since you’re just ignoring what’s being said to keep parroting the same strawman shit over and over: either your reading comprehension really is that bad, making you a useful idiot for the Trump regime; or you’re deliberately posting in bad faith with the goal to advance the Trump regime in the first place, making you the kind of Nazi that does recognize the evil that’s happening, and fucking loves it.

What’s your goal here?

Your maga is showing.

you obviously have no idea what “do your job” means here…

Don’t conflate ‘doing their job’ with the misuse of force they’re famous for. We need them to do their actual job, not just blindly follow orders into a series of war crimes.

military are trained to kill, do you really want them to “do their job” in US streets?

Yes, contingent on those streets being populated by enemies of the US like Donald Trump / members of his regime / ICE.

Every single person in the military swore an oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC.

Domestic enemies like Donald Trump pose a much greater threat to our country than any conventional combatant with a gun or missile - the military is already oath-bound to engage him the same way they do any other enemy.

The inaction from them so far doesn’t paint a very promising picture regarding their willingness to actually do what’s right to protect our country; but we also don’t need the entire military to unite against that traitor: we just need a single one of them with the right training to apply through skills.

Servicemen and women: please actually do your job.

WAY too many people don’t realize “AI” is just marketing bullshit, and genuinely think that LLMs and shit are literal intelligence in a computer.

For one, it’s driving every company under the sun to shove it into every product under the sun; and two, if we ever do create a true AI (what we’re calling “AGI” now, at least until marketing drives that one to meaninglessness too and we have to move the goal posts again), it’s going to be humanity changer in par with shit like discovering fire… and people will be confused as all hell becuase “wE’ve hAd tHAt foR yEArS!” cuz they’ll think its the same spell-checker-that’s-wrong-occaisionally-and-generates-nudes that we have today.

They should do that more often.

Pretty sure Tucker is Hamas.

I hear you, but granting medical literacy to someone who’s already so far gone as to turn a blind eye to a nut allergy is way beyond anything my own actions or inactions will influence. You’re asking me to try to fix stupid in a society that can’t even be bothered to accept that measles = bad; or that it’s worth covering your face in the middle of a global pandemic. That kid with the nut allergy is fucked - not because some chef was desensitized by a cilantro allergy claim, but because the chef is a fucking moron who doesn’t believe in or care about food allergies.

Hell, think of it like a drill - they get to practice their allergen cross contamination prevention protocols, and if they fuck up I can give them feedback by asking for some Benadryl. Then when the nut allergy kid comes in, they’ll remember their mistake! Win win! …also cilantro allergy IS a thing. I have no idea if it relates to acetyls - that was just some plausible-sounding basis pulled out of my ass to use as ammo in the face of skepticism - but there ARE people who have anaphylactic reactions to cilantro, so again, consider my BS a drill / awareness training.

Saving lives, AND meals! Hooray!

“The most developed Non-fictional language that isn’t used by any life (or system created by said life) native to this solar system.”

It’ll either return the magic equivalent of a 404 error, or I get some absolutely ground breaking confirmation / become a human Rosetta Stone to get a jump on first contact!

I’ll do what works. Requesting they don’t add it on the basis of preference results in a plate full of cilantro about half the times I attempt it. Sending it back generally gets it corrected on the next attempt, but not only does that force you into the awkward position of asking to send it back, it also leaves you at a table full of people eating their meals having a good time while you just sit there and wait. Around the time the rest of your party is done eating, your food arrives, and now everyone else of waiting for you.

Fuck it. Cilantro will kill me. Please prepare the food with the appropriate sense of urgency. Idgaf if it gums up the line - that’s the result of them not having their shit together countless times previously. The alternative gums up my entire evening, and I’ve dealt with that enough times.

That’s also on them if they don’t take other allergies seriously. They’re not my fucking doctor - if I tell them I have an allergy, then I have an allergy. Nearly anything can be an allergen, and their job is to accept that information at face value, not audit the diagnosis.

I’ve always thought soap was the wrong comparison, but I definitely have the gene that makes it awful.

Cilantro is loaded with acetyl groups, and sensitivity to those is what defines the taste. Soap is also full of acetyls, but different ones I guess? What hits much closer to target is stink bugs. The gunk they secrete to make their distinctive stink has many of the same acetyl groups as cilantro.

With our sense of smell tied so strongly to our sense of taste, you kind of know what something tastes like just from getting a whiff, with a few exceptions (looking at you, vanilla extract… you fucking liar).

Anyway, a more accurate comparison would be that cilantro tastes like stink bugs. Or specifically, cilantro tastes like the smell of sink bugs.

I can stomach dishes with cilantro in them, but it just stings through everything. No matter how little was put in, it tastes to me like somebody over-cilantro’d the dish.

Same. The taste of cilantro ranges from bad to intolerable. If there’s just a tiny bit of it in there, it tastes only mildly bad; scale it up and the dish is ruined in a hurry.

Pro tip:

You’ve probably already noticed that “please no cilantro” will fall on deaf ears when placing an order at most restaurants. “I have an allergy to cilantro - please make sure there’s none in my food.” will get you MUCH better results.

If faced with skepticism, give them the spiel about acetyl groups and that those are the source of the allergy. Your symptoms are itchy sensation on the tongue, soreness on the roof of your mouth, constriction/wheezing in your throat, and nausea that kicks in later.

You’ll be amazed how rarely they ‘forget’ not to defile your meal with that rancid shit.

Yeah like I said, it sounds like they’ve done a lot to try to turn their product into something closer to what they advertised, but that doesn’t excuse their initial deception.

If they were a car dealer or something, and advertised a souped up 2026 Ferrari, which their customers enthusiastically ordered en mass; only to realize upon delivery that they received a 2007 Honda Civic with the Ferrari logo sloppily painted onto the side, they’d be in jail. Because it’s a videogame, the legal system didn’t give a fuck, so they just let it slide, but what they did was 100% false advertising. They didn’t just bite off more than they could chew, they stated clear as day that it contained a plethora of features that it simply did not.

Their decision to later send a series of free Honda-to-Ferrari conversion kits was a nice and extremely unexpected gesture, but doesn’t absolve them of their initial crime.

No Man’s Sky, near it’s release. Starting out it felt pretty novel, and finishing that first repair of your ship, getting inside of it, lifting off, looking up at a distant planet in the sky, and just fucking going to it all without a load screen… I cannot overstate how insanely epic that felt!!

…and then the player experience hit a brick wall as you realize more and more clearly that the game you bought doesn’t come close to the game that was advertised. Ya done got scammed!

Word is they’re done a shitload to correct that last paragraph, but dude, that initial wound still fucking stings.