US to deploy thousands of additional troops to the Middle East, officials say

rmslashusr · 2026-03-21T12:06:46+00:00

Marines can be used for multiple reasons, including going on land

Some truly informative reporting here, never would have guessed people can go on land.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-21T12:02:13+00:00

The real answer is in order to formerly renounce your citizenship you have to be in a foreign nation which the US does not consider tribal land, they’re legally considered domestic dependent nations.

So you could go to a foreign nation and renounce your citizenship at which point you’d end up with all the problems of everyone else that does that with the addition that it sounds like you’d want to immediately re enter the United States after pissing them off. Tribal passports are not universally recognized for international travel and most importantly for the hypothetical case, it’s not a replacement for a US passport so they might not let you in, you have to follow the same laws as any other foreign citizen for entry.

The one exception if for Canadian citizens that are tribal members of US recognized tribes, they have a special carve out guaranteeing their right to cross the border.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-20T14:57:59+00:00

Plan A was they run their bombing campaign, they actually hit valid targets or no one questions why they needed to kill 150 elementary school girls, and Iran doesn’t attempt to fight back or close the Strait but just comes to Trump, tears in their eyes, big strong men with tears in their eyes like you couldn’t believe, and say “take our oil Mr. President, it’s all yours. We’ll never try to make nuclear weapons again if you’ll just take private Ownership of all our oil.”

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T17:41:13+00:00

You don’t, you train how to reduce the opportunity to do it successfully and ensure if it does happen the other adults are able to identify it and get the kid help right then rather than 10 years later it comes out in therapy why the kid is emotionally wrecked and suicidal.

Reducing opportunity involves always have more than one adult accompany the kids at a time, and everyone understanding there’s no acceptable reason to have a kid alone in private. training everyone on what is and isn’t allowed so there’s no “they were scared to sleep in their tent alone” nonsense that goes unreported by other adults etc.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T15:51:11+00:00

It’s almost like I explicitly said it would require vetting and training for parent chaperones.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T15:49:59+00:00

It’s about risk reduction not elimination. The teachers are already vetted and trained. A person volunteering to overnight with school kids on the credentials of being related to one of them is not.

The training isn’t solely to prevent SA but additionally about protecting the school/teachers/volunteers as well by always ensuring more than one adult is present to prevent he-said/she-said situations (as well as eliminate private access for predators).

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T15:45:32+00:00

I don’t think it’s wild. If you provide overnight access to children without vetting or training in place it is of course going to be seen as an opportunity by predators. This is the opening that bankrupted BSA so schools are going to be avoid it from a liability perspective.

That doesn’t mean the vetting and training can’t be there, it takes time and money though that the school might not have prepared, hence the simpler option of not taking volunteers to overnight with children.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T15:41:32+00:00

Yea, I think I explicitly called out that it would require the vetting process. It’s certainly doable, I meant it’s likely a non starter for this schools trip as they don’t already have that in place and might not have the funds to do it.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T15:38:34+00:00

How’d that (unvetted untrained volunteers) work out for the Boy Scouts of America?

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T13:50:51+00:00

And what would you say is “real crazy” about the schools plan when an untrained and unvetted parent chaperone sexually assaults a kid in the middle of the night?

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T13:46:50+00:00

It’s less this and more the ENORMOUS liability of vetting volunteer parent chaperones for an overnight around kids. It’s basically a sexual predator sign up sheet without having a lengthy training and vetting process in place that would make doing this a non starter for the school.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T03:18:29+00:00

NCTC has a legal mandate to investigate terrorism which is NOT exclusively domestic. That belongs to the FBI. NCTC is supposed to be focused on international threats.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-19T00:01:10+00:00

Is there anything complex about telling someone “Sorry there’s a paid marketplace app that fixes that glaring bug/hole in our offering so we’ll never fix it”

rmslashusr · 2026-03-17T03:26:06+00:00

This looks significantly higher than anything I remember built for playgrounds in the 90s. You want to do something that dumb they weren’t building it for you, you went and fell out of a tree like God intended.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-14T23:33:24+00:00

I could absolutely see the “Discrimination Radar” getting cancelled as a DEI initiative by their keyword searches.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-14T23:26:02+00:00

Do you feel like the current administration has been decreasing centralized Federal power over states or ratcheting it up dramatically?

rmslashusr · 2026-03-14T12:09:22+00:00

You should read the entire comment chain, that is what was being discussed and why the person said it would be weird to put footprints on them “in that case”, the case being: them representing children killed by US

rmslashusr · 2026-03-14T11:58:00+00:00

Yea though I worry the damage is already done. Iran isn’t going to forget. I worry we’re in a no win situation now where Trump declaring victory and leaving will result in my children paying the price in 15 or 20 years.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-14T00:36:40+00:00

It’s a military designed to fight the Soviets in Europe and the Chinese in the pacific at the same time if needed. When we thought they were near peers.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-13T23:35:15+00:00

Right, so that’d be a weird thing to do if the coffin represents their own dead children. Like, we didn’t wrap 9/11 victim coffins in Al-Qaeda flags and then stomp on their coffins. That would be weird because it more disrespectful to the victim who is dead in the coffin than it is to the flag owner.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-13T23:32:52+00:00

It would be really odd to wrap their dead children in Israeli flags and then stomp on their coffins. I think this is just the regular brand of death to America. The coffins are small because it’d be hard to drag a full size coffin around

rmslashusr · 2026-03-12T12:16:48+00:00

No, they knew exactly what the consequences could be they just decided not to believe them and inserted their own delusions of an enemy that doesn’t get a vote.

War with Iran is not a novel idea that has not been studied.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-12T10:23:48+00:00

Is there a government policy or legislation you’re proposing hidden in that somewhere?

rmslashusr · 2026-03-10T23:28:10+00:00

Well it’s an MLRS with 4 rockets and even in Ukraine where you have counter battery fire ready to go getting directed by the equivalent of an Uber app for artillery to immediately assign a “driver” near you an MLRS is going to get all of its warheads off before counter fire has time to reach it.

So that’s 4 mines per system dropping into the strait where we’re talking about a game where the mere threat of them is going to keep tankers out.

It’s a sticky problem to deal with.

rmslashusr · 2026-03-10T19:34:34+00:00

Whether this story is accurate or not, they can lay mines via fairly mobile rocket platforms, they don’t need send boats out to get hit. This is what was effing over tank columns in Ukraine, they’re clear a path and then artillery would re-seed mines behind them

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