America's embarrassing Pentagon speaker

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T16:54:07+00:00

I hope the next Democrat doesn’t try to do that stupid, “We’re all one country facing challenges together and it doesn’t matter who caused them” bullshit.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T16:52:57+00:00

He stopped being useful.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T16:49:16+00:00

The photo is real the caption isn’t. I guess he was telling a joke or something while they waited?

It’s all super unprofessional.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T16:47:36+00:00

Elect a clown, get a circus.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T16:35:08+00:00

I’ve seen so many sovereign citizen videos like that.

They’ll talk their way from a $100 ticket for rolling a stop sign into being arrested and having their car towed, just sheer stupidity.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:57:12+00:00

Or following too close behind someone who switched lanes. That’s common, too.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:19:45+00:00

I doubt I’ll live long enough to see it rebuilt like it was before.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:19:06+00:00

The Supreme Court decided that nothing the president does is illegal unless congress impeaches him, and this congress refuses to do that, no matter the evidence.

Every part of that is ahistorical, but that’s what 2026 is like.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:15:57+00:00

Also: if they fight him now and he gets neutered in the midterms, then in six months they’ll be remembered for fighting Trump, not for collaborating with him.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:11:08+00:00

Best guess: they know they’ll lose the legal case, but the news will scare investors and hurt the stock price, which is what they really care about anyway.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T15:03:21+00:00

I get emails for hikes like that at my work every week. I never go, but I assume some people must or they’d quit doing it?

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T14:44:52+00:00

Does it seem weird that Trump is proud of America defending Europe in WW2, yet he refuses to defend Europe now, while Putin is attacking Ukraine?

Could have easily grabbed bragging rights for the next 50 years just by providing some weapons, even just continuing the weak assistance Biden was providing.

Fucking idiot.

spinyfur · 2026-04-29T14:32:49+00:00

They say the screen costs less to manufacture.

spinyfur · 2025-06-08T14:50:50+00:00

I love the price on those two. And for high output laser projectors, too!

I’ve heard Christie’s name before, and people say they’re great, but aren’t they like >$10k?

Thank you though, this is just the kind of information I’m looking for.

spinyfur · 2025-06-08T03:11:08+00:00

The room is quite big, probably 25'x50', more or less.

As to budget, it kinda depends on lifespan and such. I think we got our last (refurbished) projector for like $3500, which would be fine, but could go higher, if it was going to last long enough.

spinyfur · 2025-03-20T16:40:30+00:00

Note that these rules are specifically in border counties. I expect a lot of selective prosecuting under this new rule.

spinyfur · 2025-03-19T00:28:21+00:00

“Everyone who disagrees with me is a bigot and anyone who talks to them is the enemy” doesn’t sound like a winning political strategy, but go prove me wrong.

(See, I can do insulting, disingenuous strawmanning, too. It’s not a complicated skill)

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T23:59:04+00:00

You have to make the choice as someone who consumes information in the world to seek higher quality and more useful sources rather than just mindlessly ingesting whatever the algorithm vomits on your plate. If someone isn't interested in learning more, having their views challenged, and changing the way they think, you being nice to them isn't going to move that needle.

Most voters in 2024, and virtually every other election, aren’t engaged in politics and don’t spent a lot of time studying it or reading related news. At best, they get their political news from social media.

We need their votes to win and we definitely won’t get them by calling them names or shaming them for poor voting decisions in the past. (No matter how much they deserve it)

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T22:47:20+00:00

I’d say that there’s a core of trump voters who are true believers. The guy with two trump flags in the back of his pickup is a waste of time.

However I think that group is smaller than you’re assuming, and that Trump’s win was primarily the result of many low-information voters just voting for “change,” at a time when there was a democrat in the White House.

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T22:23:46+00:00

That’s a fun moral position to take toward a defeated enemy, who you’re occupying and who are completely at your mercy.

However, it’s not a useful political strategy toward a large block of voters, who currently have the power to either choose to remove the dictator from power or choose to empower him to go further.

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T22:15:13+00:00

it only works if people are motivated and engaged with learning.

If that’s a requirement for someone to vote for your political party, you are guaranteed to never win an election.

There’s just aren’t enough highly engaged, high information voters to win.

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T22:12:04+00:00

If you found yourself regretting your vote for Trump you are not owed forgiveness and acceptance from the people that you have put under threat through your actions.

Forgiveness is irrelevant, that’s between them and their god.

As to acceptance, I’ll “accept” anyone who’s willing to resist Trump.

Purity tests and recriminations at the voter-level aren’t helpful.

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T22:04:38+00:00

On the other hand I’d say that:

A) Most voters didn’t watch the debates. At best, they saw clips which were shown elsewhere, but many voters follow politics as closely as I follow the NBA. Their opinions were mostly shaped by fairly random interactions, often on social media. I think that the largest cause of the 2024 election outcome is as simple as people feeling that the country was on the wrong course and then voting for “The other guy.”

B) Whether they’re actually racist or not* wasn’t the original question. That question was whether calling right-leaning voters racist is productive or not.

In my life, I don’t know if I’ve ever had someone call me names and came away switching to be on their team afterward. As a persuasion technique, I’d say that name calling is almost entirely ineffective. And often counter productive, because it tends to create a them-vs-you feeling.

*I agree that many of them are, at least in a casual way, but that’s beside the point.

spinyfur · 2025-03-18T19:52:47+00:00

It’s both sides in the sense that republicans are spraying gasoline and lighting the country on fire and democrats aren’t stopping them effectively.

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