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@Redactor0 grandpa confirm what I got wrong

Nothing fam. Just like I expect from you. Let's see if there's a few points I can elaborate on slightly.

USA Navy forces were not immediately aware of the ramifications the Battle of Midway would have upon the momentum of the Pacific Theatre

Keep in mind that both sides didn't even know how what ships the other had. They were getting bullshit intelligence from their own pilots all the time, so for example the Japanese were overestimating how many carriers they had sunk and had no idea we still had 3 left in the Pacific at that time.

the sheer dominant magnitude of the influence an aircraft carrier would as a weapons platform would supercede even the wildest prewar speculations

I gotta push back on this just slightly. Battleships were going obsolete but it wasn't completely over quite yet. Notice how important they were at Leyte Gulf on both sides and that was near the end of the war. This is one thing where I actually got some insight from computer games. Like so often, that comes in the form of actually getting the geometry involved. A battleship at flank speed could get about as far overnight as a carrier-based plane could fly (I'm oversimplifying here, but you get it). So you could actually dash in and catch them with a little luck. Especially if there were a few clouds out.

But it was really marginal. At the end of the war the proximity fuze for AA shells came out which helped the battleships a lot but also jet engines and guided bombs. And just planes that could fly farther. So it was really obvious by 1945 that within a few years they would be totally useless for fighting other ships.

the Royal Palace in hue

The bastards got there before Old Man Redactor could take pictures of it. But there was a lot of beautiful stuff left in Hue even after the battle.

this upcoming deafeat would be the greatest blow dealt to the US for the entire war

That's a really good way of putting it. You must have some angloid DNA.

It was the single greatest massacre of VC forces to the extent that they literally ceased to fricking be a political power within the communist sphere in Vietnam entire and Cambodia. From then on the North Vietnamese had near absolute control of military operations.

The VC were never really an independent force. At least not at the top level. There were lots of commies in South Vietnam at the beginning of the war of course, but the leadership was always directed from Hanoi. What was really changed by Tet is that all these low-level commies native to the South got killed off. After that, there was no longer any pretense that this was a guerilla war. By the time the old man got there (I think 1970) it was completely a conventional war between the North and the South fought with advanced high-tech weapons. He wasn't hauling an M-16 around when he was on his photography trips to old historical buildings in Hue because there weren't any guerillas to be scared of. Those people were all dead.

The Phoenix Program was also very helpful here. Just using basic 1960s police and office work they rooted out the commies in the villages. This was basically just turning the tables on them. Going after everyone who is on the enemy side. Except we didn't use terrorism the way the VC did, chopping off the head of the mayor's kid and shit like that. The cops just arrested people in 90% of cases. (Statistics on the Phoenix Program are quite interesting, something to go into more detail about someday.)

The US and ARVn performance was absolutely spectacular, perhaps one of history's great battles like fricking Cannae or Waterloo or something

Let's not suck our peepees too hard here. Old Man tells me a story second hand of a guy who had been in some big base around Saigon during Tet. He complained that he never got to shoot anybody because they were all slaughtered by .50 cal machineguns before they even got close enough. This wasn't Hannibal or Wellington we were dealing with.

us Air Cavalry (helicopter troops)

My dad will swear up and down that he hated everything about the Army but this is exactly the kind of comment that would draw him out. The 101st was airborne, it was NOT cavalry!

the lies and deception of the military a and 2 administrations about how good the war went

That's what the real crisis was. If it wasn't Tet it would have been something else to trigger it. They kept saying the war is about to end and they were clearly lying. This is a generation that wasn't beyond sacrifices. Everyone's parents had been in WW2 in some shit job sweeping asbestos off the floor of a shipyard or on the side of the world fighting. A lot of them never came back. But there was a purpose. People will sacrifice a lot for a purpose, but if they're getting jerked around, they notice real fast.

Old Man's story about this is listening to the radio where Nixon is saying that we're not bombing Laos and he's looking up in the sky and there's planes above him heading west. It didn't take fricking Descartes to guess where they were going.

unexpectedly brought low USA civilian morale to continue to send their sons overseas into the meatgrinder

A lot of the conventional wisdom about this isn't always right. We had something like half our casualties after Tet. (One third, I dunno.) And popular support for the war wasn't really eroded all that much if you look at the polling data.

Keep in mind that there's a certain class of people who dominate the discussion of the Vietnam War. Specifically: Guys who dodged the draft so they didn't have to go there and know anything about it. There's an extreme level of self-serving bullshit they claim. Like that the "Anti-War Movement" (lol you sure cared about the Vietnam-Cambodia war) had any impact at all on anything other than being so disgusting they helped get Nixon elected in 1968. These are the last fricking people on Earth you should ever believe. I trust the guys fighting on the other side 1000x more than them.

By the time 2023 arrived the most critical munitions would be basic artillery shells

So my two things I was saying going into this is ATGMs are gonna be important (because of experience in the Middle East in previous decades) and basic b-word artillery shells. There was this cult of precision munitions from Desert Storm. The thing I never heard anybody explain is: What if you don't know exactly where the enemy is tho?

Unironic WW1 bunkers and trenches also came to dominate the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine from Donbass to Crimea, with static artillery war and massed charges for both sides being the most popular strategy, on a grinding stalemate similar as to the ending phase of 1952s Korea War.

The last full-scale war we had between two opponents that was a fair fight was the Iran-Iraq War and it was a heck of a lot like this. I keep telling everyone, but nobody believes little old Redactor. I guess I gotta post more Chronicles of Victory.

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Try again! This is only true till a 50yr old with a peepee tries to watch my little girl go pee! (-38)

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And it's the people like Republicans that vote to remove them (74)

Every and each one is different. I wouldn't make such a blanket statement so confidently. I used to think the same way. But my family votes Republican and they have been my biggest supporters thru my transition and always tell me to be proud about who I am. (-39)

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2020 – Alexa Luciano Ruiz was fatally shot in Puerto Rico on 24 February, after an incident in a local restroom.[99][100] Carmen Yulín Cruz called attention to her death before the 2020 Puerto Rico gubernatorial election. Ms. Luciano was killed while the assailant men laughed.[101]2020 – Selena Reyes-Hernandez, 37, was fatally shot in Chicago, Illinois, on 31 May by a man she went home with, after telling him that she was transgender.[102]2020 – Brayla Stone, 17, was murdered in Arkansas in June 2020 by a man seeking to conceal his sexual relationship with her; the killer was "afraid of being considered homosexual" were Stone to reveal their relationship;[103] he pled guilty and was sentenced to 50 years in prison.[104]2020 – Valera (name is changed in the report), a 46-year-old man, a janitor, was killed on 10 February in Chelyabinsk, Russia, by his dorm roommates after they learned he was a transgender man.[105]2020 – Serena Angelique Velázquez, 32, and Layla Pelaez, 21, both tran... (1)

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Well, you said women can r*pe too, which had nothing to do with anything we were talking about, so I thought I would get you another r*pe fact because I thought that's what was happening. But what you said had frick all to do with anything we were on about. It's an easy way of inflating assault statics that's what spitting is. It's not nice, but it's harmless. Well, unless you have aids. But 99% of the time it's harmless.The way you are defending and the points you are making, I just thought you were trans. Let's start. I'm an adult who can't hear and see words because of some bullshit. Schools are messing with kids' heads and are destroying lives because of this trans moment. The impacts this will have in the future will be more suicide. They are pushing child mutilation. Trans women are way more violent, and I don't understand how this isn't being looked into more. They're a real danger to the public. But yeah, can't be arsed with this bye. (0)

It does. You said male feminists don't have access to women's bathrooms in prison. Obviously that's incorrect, since male feminist women go to prison, and they use the bathroom there. Or do you think r*pe doesn't count when a cis woman does it?How? Do you have any evidence of this?That's just factually wrong. Statistically, trans women are LESS violent. Where are you getting the idea that they're more violent? (1)

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Just like pretty much everything else, it's performative lip service bullshit that grew out of a partisan divide. The liberals were against the Vietnam war, and it was spun by the right as being against the veterans. Some of them were, of course, but not really all. Anyway, the right claimed it as some sort of moral high ground bad for preachy about it, so now everyone makes a distinction between being anti war and being anti vet by using nice, cheap words to thank them for their service rather than being inconvenienced by doing something useful for veterans. (2)

My uncle fought in Vietnam. He would send notes home to my grandmother, and everyone in the family telling them how bad the war really was and that the media lied to everybody, (and they did lie.) They made it seem like it wasn't a big deal but it was. Agent Orange was not a joke. Napalm was not a joke. They had kids that they were forcing to enlist. Imagine having to shoot a kid because they were forced to believe that you were an enemy. He had to shoot them and came home with ptsd. Full regrets of going to Vietnam. Just remember that war is never like most of media claims. It might actually be way worse than they make it out to be. The media lies. (2)

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Me and my partner are both plus size. We were having s*x doggy position and he slipped out and immediately try to go back in but went into my butt instead.

This is the second time within a month that the same incident has happened. First time I cried so much because it hurt and he comforted me. This time it hurt still as much but I didn't cry because I'm more mad than sad.

I'm mad because I've always told him that I never want to do anal it's not something for me and he brought up doing anal for the longest time until I told him I'd have to break up if this was a deal breaker because it's never happening and he let it go.

Now that this has happened twice so close together I feel as if it's been done on purpose. Only because we've always done doggy and when he slips he repositions himself gently back in he never just tries to immediately go back in.

He apologized and said "I'm sorry. It's my fault I've gained weight and my belly is more round so I couldn't see and didn't realize"

So am I to believe his belly blocked him and he was just into it that's why he didn't position himself gently back or was this done on purpose? He didn't stay in long only because I let out a scream and told him to get off. It just feels so close together to have the same thing happen twice when in our 2 year relationship this has never happened before.

JUST WANTED TO ADD: Thank you I just felt like I was overthinking this. Once I brushed it off as accidental but twice within a month is too much. He is currently snoring while I'm here with a bit of soreness, nothing compared to the first time it happened but still. This happening twice now… I don't want to think he did it on purpose but this is looking like it was. I'm not sure how to proceed if we didn't have a baby together I'd say it's over. But me being a sahm me leaving over this it just can't happen overnight.

I think I'll just refrain from s*x with him for a while. He's not an aggressive or mean person but this incident just has me needing to take a step back from being intimate.

!foidmoment

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/u/themadhatter077 you use the delusional echo chamber that is Reddit, so you believed Kamala was going to win Iowa by 3 points or that Biden didn't have dementia

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1hvqyi3/comment/m5vhwl1/?context=8

"we need European-style tech regulation!!!" - /r/neoliberal in 2025

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1hvqyi3/comment/m5vbmaz/?context=8

btw "bisexual" means on /r/neoliberal ( also means )

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1hvqyi3/comment/m5v924v/?context=8

they're this close to understanding why free speech reduces misinformation

!neolibs

I'm a motherfricking Fenkell Ave 7 mile neighbor til the death. I fricks with neighbors as far as Joy Rd and McGraw and them neighbors. I don't frick with too many Eastside neighbors cause they're too fricking grimey. What y'all banging?

also that , comma

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People who are using apps have been vocal about how much the experience sucks. Hinge seems especially awful to me with its limited number of photos, lame prompts, limit on likes per day, and keeping your "best" matches behind a pay wall.

Imagine foids don't have enough likes to give it to all top 1% guys and top 0,0001% guys are pay locked.

Frick life of foids is hard.

I want to combine Facebook dating with OkCupid. I think Facebook gives you ample room to write about yourself, and it gives you more than enough photo slots. I love that you can see if you have mutual friends with someone. I'd mix that with the part of OKC where you answer questions and that give you a compatibility percentage. Unfortunately, both of those platforms are very unpopular in my area, so I have to deal with Hinge & Tinder.

Every guy knows that foids don't give shit about it. They will read is if you are absolutely Chad but if you are absolutely Chad you already getting like from her since to foids guys they like are automatically funny

I'm curious about what a better dating app experience would look like to others.

PostWall inc

I agree about filters. Even when you pay to apply the filters, it still shows you people outside of the filters you've set and just highlights the people who match the preferences you've set. To me, something like childfree or monogamous is non-negotiable, so showing me people outside of that is just a waste.

App be like: b-word your filters are so extreme, why not look at this decent guy (that probably won't like your flobs back)

childfree or monogamous is non-negotiable

Why would a successful good looking 34 year old man would want a fat 34 year old sterile foid and be monogamous to her ?

And I know many of you won't question her being fat

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hd0u8n/sometimes_i_think_i_like_plus_size_women_actually/

I've been in "romantic" relationships before where the man I was with wasn't physically attracted to me, and it was really painful to endure.

And we know he was in shape

The problem is, though, that too many of the men I've talked to who say they prefer plus-size women have been awful. They've rushed to talk about s*x

She also don't understand supply and demand curves. There so many fat foids supply and so few demand and such guys are working hard

To make sure all fat chicks get some D

I feel so stupid even asking this, but are there actually decent people out there who are more attracted to a size 16 than a size 6? Because I'm having suuuch a hard time finding someone who likes my body and is also capable of just being kind & normal to me and not scaring me or sexualizing me too much too soon.

Yes there are decent people like 1 such guy for 50 size 16 kwins and if she has green card to share.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1fb6bpa/why_i_stopped_asking_men_on_dates/

When I was single, this was my experience as well. I would always hear men say "We want to be asked out too" but what they don't say is that they only want to be asked out by women they find attractive. Otherwise they will freak out, be upset or get weirded out.

My experience as well. That look of disgust they get that an average woman like myself dare think they be interested, or even I dare be attracted to them lol. I've asked out plenty of men in my early 20s and pretty regularly rejected-gives you thick skin. But unfortunately socially, we are not at a place where women have equal footing when doing the approaching. Now I don't approach-if he's interested he'll approach me.

I actually were approached by shit tons of fat foids and it always surprised me like I always looked at them and was thinking (wow she is a foot smaller than me and weight more than me, why is she even approaching me ? We look like cartoon troop of tall and skinny person and fat and short)

Especially this

No I'm clickbaiting frick off

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This year for Fistmas we are doing something new, simple enough for everyone to participate in, and hopefully fun

The UGLY CHRISTMAS SWEATER CONTEST.

@JoyceCarolOates has very cheerfully created the Marseys wearing unadorned sweaters below for you to make any of them into WHATEVER YOU WANT:

EDIT: PATTERNED VERSIONS FROM @BussyBoy

Design an ugly Christmas sweater for her. Or even a very nice Christmas sweater, I don't care. Post it in this thread and also submit it as an emoji making sure to include "XMASSWEATER" as a tag. Your prize is the badge you see in this thread and 500dc.

Once they're all in I think I'd like to make either some margin art with them or maybe a happy sidebar image or ten or an animation or something idk. You're welcome to do the same.

Anyway like I said, simple.

RULES

• Must be in by 12/24/2024.

• I know I said "everyone can participate" but don't just draw a fricking line or something, at least TRY to make it look like an ugly Christmas sweater.

• That's literally it, merry Fistmas.

!everyone

>White Supremacist

Holy mother of reddit, this reply is the personified

>MySpace emos of the 2000s became the "queer community" of 2020s social media

"It's not like he killed anyone" yes he did you chud bigot, posting mean tweets towards tranx folx is genocide and makes you as evil as Hitler and Pol Pot

No, as long as they still have access to their MCU merch and UberEats, ledditors do not get tired, fighting back against online bigots is their reason to live.

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>mfw when I die I will be regarded as a terminally neurodivergent BBC/BWC poster on an obscure subreddit splinter website

!transphobes !chuds !trump2024 !project2025 !music

Canada, as it turns out, isn't broken. That was the message coming out of Pierre Poilievre's big rebrand rally, where he tried to reposition himself as a champion of Canada's virtues rather than just another critic of its failures. And while Liberal partisans will look skeptically on this attempted political metamorphosis, the biggest doubters might actually be some of his erstwhile fans: the freedom convoy.

Right out of the gate it clearly is a hit piece on Pierre.

Check the social media accounts of any prominent convoy participant, whether it's Tamara Lich, Pat King, or their dedicated transcriptionists in the alt-press, and their sympathy for Donald Trump and antipathy towards Canada becomes immediately apparent. "Your sudden, newfound, fake patriotism is truly indicative of how stupid you think we are," Lich said. "The entitlement of certain Canadians is humorous," fellow organizer Chris Barber wrote. "If we had leadership in Canada who cared about Canadians like Trump cared about Americans … we wouldn't be in this situation."

Yes the !leafs who like freedom want to be part of a country that unarguably has more rights and freedoms.

They insist the real problem isn't Trump's ongoing threats to our sovereignty but Justin Trudeau's continued existence — and, of course, the injustices and affronts that were inflicted upon them by his government. Rupa Subramanya, one of the most sympathetic chroniclers of the convoy's exploits, suggested that "Canadians have bought into the lie by politicians across the board that Trump wants to annex Canada, when what I believe is that he really wants Canadians to get rid of the Liberal government and have greater economic integration and cooperation with the US."

Trudeau drove the country into the shitter. He is why it sucks here. I don't give a frick about Trump and his "threats", "threats" which amount to "We'll make you a full state and give you all full citizenship in the best country on the gods green earth"

That's right: for these folks, public health orders aimed at protecting them and their fellow citizens are a greater threat to their liberty than an American government explicitly threatening their liberty. Policies like vaccine mandates and mask regulations — most of which, it's worth reiterating, were implemented by provincial governments — are worth resisting, apparently, but unjustified economic warfare is best met with submission and docility.

Yes forcing me to wear a mask that doesn't stop the spread (inb4: well you shoulda worn a kn95! No I don't care they were sold out everywhere and tons of the one in circulation were fake!) and get vaxxed to be able to buy food (This was seriously floated and why I finally gave in, well that and being able to work) is and was a massive threat to my freedom.

Getting to be American is the opposite of a threat to my freedom.

In some respects, the convoy's refusal to join the rest of the country in its fight against Trump's repeated provocations isn't all that surprising.

The convoy is over. It ended years ago. This is some g*mergate in current year shit.

What brought them to Ottawa in 2022 wasn't love of their country but hatred of the government in charge of it

No shit r-slur

hich helps explain the very conspicuous presence of American flags, Trump flags, and even Confederate and Nazi flags. It's why they plotted, at least in the beginning, to overthrow that government. And it's why, in a moment where the country they claim to love is being actively threatened with economic and political subjugation, they're rooting for the person doing the threatening.

I'm getting a stars and bars shirt just to piss off this jslu

They're welcome to believe whatever they want, of course. That's one of the virtues of living in a free and democratic society: you can pretend it's a woke dictatorship if that makes you feel better about your life choices.

"Dear subhuman filth"

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Mark my words, LBP is going to come out about how destructive her obsession with her fitness/health has been. Mostly basing this on her admission to having unhealthy self image before and doing very unhealthy things to maintain a low body weight in her past.Any time health and fitness is a vanity thing, it opens a lot of room for unhealthy, and even dangerous, habits to maintain that vanity and even further it.Im and advocate for healthy body compositions, and a fat % that low is not healthy. Just like a fat % too high is also not healthy. (1)

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Shockingly the CPI (customer prices index) has risen again to 3%, nobody in the country could've predicted this happening.

Of course, this doesn't mean much of anything when prices seem to be entirely arbitrary, as seen by this monstrosity

Alongside non-existent wage growth

Results entirely in the obvious choice to get out of this country as fast as I can. But the next vote will fix things surely.