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Experiments with slime mold indicate that it is capable of fundamental forms of logic and of learning from mistakes. Thus, a higher life form than a screeching harpy on Fox News.

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Or also defending Israel against literally every other country around them. Kind of a mixed bag, yeah.

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Yeah, that one was really touch-and-go.

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I would actually expect that maybe since we're not in major combat conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan anymore, that more people would sign up for the bennies and college money. But maybe a good job market is making that look less attractive than in the past? Biden's economy is ruining the military!

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And I think the Ingraham Angle is something to do with lining her own pockets or trying to get even more exposure at Fox without having to have sex with management.

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Hear me out: How about reducing the size of your military until current recruiting is adequate to sustain it?

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Another recruiting problem is fewer people in the age range of 18 to 22 are physically fit enough to enter the military. That cuts across the woke crowd and the supposedly macho men. Just look at some of the incels joining the Proud Boys and other White supremacist groups and imagine them storming the beach on D-Day.

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They are very much in practice at storming the buffet table at Golden Corral however, is what you’re saying?

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I suppose it might depend on why they were upside down and what kind of aid they needed, but I suppose in combat it’s any port in a storm.

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The troll who lived under the bridge and hassled the Three Billy Goats Gruff would look at that picture and growl, "What a dumb-looking ugly turd."

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Hasn't happened yet.

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I worked on a survey study in 1995 interviewing women that had served in the first Gulf war and their stories of sexual assault were absolutely horrifying. It's sickening to think that it's worse now.

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I'd say the Woke are also more useful to the military.

The accepted ratio is 8-10 support staff per combat soldier. You can bet the Macho Maga types aren't signing up to be medics or cooks or quartermasters: but a whole platoon of Rambos is no good if there's no one to see they have food and ammo.

Remember that Wildlife Refuge fiasco? That's exactly what happens when you only have combat troops. They brought their guns and ammo, because that's a combat soldier's job. They didn't bring any food, because that's not a combat soldier's job. What kind of Manly MAGAman is going to mess with sissy stuff like food, resupply, hygiene and medical care when he could be waving a gun???

But the US Armed Forces, having a little more experience in these matters than the average Three Percenter, does recognise the need for support roles. And that the life support system for a Rambo fantasy is not a good bet to fill them. In fact, they aren't that great for combat roles either. Soooo.....that leaves Woke people.

And who the hell uses the Russian military as a comparison these days?

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"They point to various commercials they thought were not macho enough, they make jokes about a they/them army, they cry about how Russia's military recruitment ads are so much more manly than our own."After the absolutely miserable experience of the Russian military in Ukraine they're still pointing at Russia's recruitment ads as a model to follow.Let's not get complacent. Deeply stupid people can still be dangerous.

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Even if she has one she needs to STFU.

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Recently lost a Vietnam Vet friend to COPD. He'd been drenched in Agent Orange when it was dropped directly on his position. He was never fit enough for full-time work again.

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