In No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward — Noem's forthcoming book which was reviewed by The Guardian — Noem describes in excruciating detail the brief life of Cricket, a 14-month-old wire-haird pointer puppy she intended to use as a pheasant-hunting dog.

Noem describes Cricket as having an “aggressive” personality she hoped to calm by taking the dog on a hunt. According to the governor, Cricket didn't so much hunt as have “the time of her life” chasing birds and going “out of her mind with excitement.”

So it's a shit hunting dog. My lab learned to flush out ducks and rabbits with virtually no training at all.

This would not do for Noem, who attempted to rein in Cricket with verbal commands and a shock collar before declaring the hunt a wash because an untrained puppy had a playful romp rather than read its owner's mind.

Dog was 14 months old. Not a puppy.

On their way home, Noem made a pit stop at the home of some locals who owned chickens. Cricket, fresh off her joyous bird-chasing romp, escaped the truck and began terrorizing the chickens, Noem writes.

“Like a trained assassin,” Noem writes, Cricket began “grabb[ing] one chicken at a time, crunching it to death with one bite, then dropping it to attack another.” While it is legal in South Dakota to kill a “dog found chasing, worrying, injuring, or killing poultry or domestic animals,” it's by no means required, and there's no indication the owners of the chicken made any such demand.

And not only was it a livestock killer, but it was one of the c*nts who kills for sport not bothering to eat the birds. I'd put a dog down over that alone.

According to The Guardian's review, multiple chickens lost their lives before Noem finally intervened to restrain Cricket, who she described as “the picture of joy” throughout the ordeal. When the governor attempted to grab her dog, Cricket allegedly made to bite her. They say dogs are like their owners, and after paying the distraught family for the value of their chickens, Noem was apparently seized by a similar deadly urge.

So it was a shit hunter, a chicken killer and attacked its master.

“I hated that dog,” Noem recalls, calling Cricket, “less than worthless as a hunting dog,” “untrainable,” and “dangerous to anyone she came in contact with.”

“At that moment […] I realized I had to put her down,” the governor recalls.

Noem dragged Cricket to a gravel pit, and shot her dead in front of a startled construction crew. “It was not a pleasant job but it had to be done,” she recounts, “and after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

that's life.

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100% this all whiny city folk bullshit and this chick did nothing wrong.

!g*mers welcome to team fortress

hintshot is cool sometimes this song feels like hes writing from his perspective

also this is a parody of the welcome to the internet song by bo burnham

Just when coverage of Israel in much of the broadcast media couldn't seem any more spiteful and misleading -- the slippage into the mainstream of slurs like "genocide" and "famine", for instance, neither of which are remotely accurate descriptions for what is going on in Gaza -- a story breaks that destroys all my remaining confidence that such outlets will cover the war impartially.

It was reported last week that a "mass grave" had been discovered in Khan Younis. Few were willing to blame the Israelis directly, but the coverage -- and the response from some politicians -- heavily implied that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) must have been responsible. I listened and read with a now-familiar torpor; vaguely interested in whether anyone would question the story's assumptions, while knowing that they wouldn't.

The globally parroted suggestion that the IDF had tied Gazans' hands behind their back before shooting them and dumping them in these graves (there is a deliberate resonance here: the SS often shot Jews in Eastern Europe into graves they'd forced them to dig) immediately struck me and most other sane Israel-watchers as almost certainly untrue. Israel, unlike Hamas, does not conduct warfare with freewheeling sadism; instances of any such foul play are investigated and punished, for which there are plenty of examples.

Of course, I could be wrong in this case, but I highly doubt it -- especially given that geo-imaging now shows that the "mass graves" are actually on a site in hospital grounds in which Palestinians had previously buried dead bodies.

But there is a tendency to always assume the worst of the IDF. There is an ancient anti-Semitic trope of Jews drinking the blood of the innocents. A version of this trope appears to have structured many people's views of Israel's war in Gaza since the Hamas attack of October 7 -- and indeed long before, at least since the turn of the millennium when the Second Intifada broke out, receiving similar encouragement to that enjoyed by Hamas now.

The urge to portray the IDF as an immoral army is very strong indeed; almost a religion in itself. But it's wrong. In fact, the IDF has a strong claim to being the most moral army in the world.

I once interviewed Asa Kasher, the philosopher and linguist who wrote the IDF's code of ethics, in his humble flat in a Tel Aviv suburb. I was amazed at the sobriety and rigour with which he had approached his task. This very unglamorous philosophy professor had put immense thought into the life-and-death implications of his work.

The code sets out four "fundamental values", number three of which is "human dignity". This states explicitly that "every individual is of inherent value, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality, gender or status". Soldiers are instructed to "maintain their humanity during combat". Elsewhere, under "discipline", it reads that "the soldier will ensure they are only giving out legal orders, and do not follow illegal orders".

This code of ethics used to be handed out in paper format to all conscripts and is now disseminated in basic training. And it's hardly surprising that the IDF seeks to inculcate such values in its troops. Israel is a democratic, free country, and many non-Jewish Israeli citizens serve in its armed forces. It also knows that it will face more scrutiny than perhaps any other army in the world.

And it's not just theoretical: the IDF's morality is seen in its actions. It is currently trying to dismantle probably the most extensive, cunning terrorist infrastructure ever known, one that is highly likely to have been built with the help of hundreds of millions of Western taxpayer money, UN and other "aid" funds. Hamas operates via an outstandingly well-constructed tunnel network bigger than the whole London Underground.

Israel uses a great deal of precision technology to limit the bloodshed. But it's difficult. There are booby traps and mines above, below, and fire all around. Hamas's whole strategy revolves around using civilian shields and as many brutal tricks as possible, such as those that have resulted in IDF soldiers firing on their own and on aid workers.

And still journ*lists and Twitter armies lap up the idea that Israel is going after "women and children", refusing to acknowledge how and why they end up stuck in the cross-hairs.

Despite this near-impossible battlefield, the IDF seems to have managed to keep its ratio of civilians to combatants killed lower than almost any other army ever has. The world eats up Hamas figures for the numbers who have been killed, naturally refusing to distinguish between Hamas fighters and civilians.

But according to one analysis earlier this year, even if we accept the terror group's statistics, for every Hamas combatant eliminated, approximately 1.5 civilians have been tragically killed. Given that the UN says that civilians usually make up a shocking 90 per cent of casualties in war (a 1:9 ratio), this is impressive.

Unlike most, Israel drops leaflets and sends texts to people before any attacks so they can evacuate; in this war, it has sacrificed some of its objectives in order to limit civilian deaths.

No army gets this right all the time, but the IDF operates in a manner light years away from that of all the terror groups and militias that hate Israel, currently being cheered on college campuses.

It is the ultimate taboo but it is true: the IDF is the most moral army in the world, and its enemies not only know this, but also trade on it.

In October, fans began requesting that developer Eric Barone – aka ConcernedApe – add pronouns to the farm-life sim game, as a way to better represent non-binary players.

A petition was created by fan Atmos Fierce, which has garnered more than 8,600 signatures.

However, the call has resulted in abuse from anti-LGBTQ+ fans of the game, who have targeted streamers and members of the community by either purposefully misgendering them, sending abuse, or doxxing them.

Doxxing refers to the act of sharing private information such as a home address, phone number, or other identifiable details, publicly on the internet.

Transgender streamers appear to be the main target of the abuse, with some users telling them to “be careful” playing Stardew Valley while the controversy continues to rumble on.

Barone's silence has been “deafening”, one person claimed.

“Transphobes are doxxing and harassing members of your Stardew Valley community simply because they are advocating for a pronoun update,” the user wrote. “It is extremely important for you to speak up for them.”

The lack of response has led some to suggest a boycott of the game until either a statement is made or pronouns are added to the game.

“I truly do not care if ConcernedApe speaks on pronouns in the game any more,” one user said. “I want [him] to condemn the transphobia and violence against the trans members of the community.”

An affiliate for the streaming site, Twitch, said they would not be playing the game any longer because of Barone's lack of response.

“It does not feel right for me to continue streaming or playing Stardew Valley,” they wrote. “It truly breaks my heart to see the amount of people getting hurt.”

PinkNews has contacted Eric Barone for a comment.

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Lmfao you guys love to talk about "baby murder" so much, yet do jack shit for the multitude of kids that just get abandoned at orphanages or the struggling families that actively chose to have kids. If people who shared your ideology actually gave a shit about the lives of children, they wouldn't vote for war mongering, gun toting dumbfricks that pass military spending budgets that facilitate the mass deaths of ACTUAL children, with thoughts, emotions, and dreams. Get a grip. (-3)

Sorry, I didn't realize that conservatives were against adoption, orphanages, and stable families… you mention struggling families, but conservatives would never suggest that family was better off murdering their child. You've got your head on backwards mate. Christians are twice as likely to adopt as the general population and conservatives are far more likely to give to charity than their progressive counterparts regardless of the religious affiliation of the charity. The last portion of your comment goes right out the window because the entirety of the Iraq war (up to 2021) saw less than <50,000 casualties (<5k killed/ <35kwounded) including civilians whereas nearly 1,000,000 babies are aborted each year. For all the talk about Black Lives Matter, the progressives seem to want to ignore the fact that more black babies are killed in New York than are born. It's the number one killer of African Americans in the country. 23 unarmed black people, many violent criminals, sparked the ... (3)

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Woah, imagine an army with a 50% suicide rate? Blood for the blood god indeed (228)

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Ukraine will need until 2026 - 2027 to develop a powerful counter-offensive
-The Economist
▪️A person familiar with the planning said that Kyiv, in theory, needs until 2026 or 2027 to develop a serious offensive capability.
▪️A big military breakthrough for Ukraine can happen… pic.twitter.com/waYu2imSXr

— -- GEROMAN -- time will tell - 👀 -- (@GeromanAT) April 25, 2024

If now khohols having hard time mobilising and in US around 50% don't support this conflict. I can't imagine they will have money and manpower to fight back in 2027

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Anti-tank training is one of many specialized courses we are providing to Ukrainian soldiers.

This is critical to defeating Russia.

Sons of Liberty International (SOLI) provides free training in Ukraine, funded by donations to our 501c3 organization.#UkraineWillWin #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/3amUGXzw0I

— Matthew VanDyke (@Matt_VanDyke) August 7, 2022

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And this is 2022 post

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