The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Will be my fourth set of PTs.. Still waiting on the AGSUs do get delivered through S4...
I was expecting something different from a Presidential address at Mar-a-Lago flanked by the SECWAR and SECNAVY. Oh well, will the third time be the charm?
Trump announces "Trump class" Navy battleships
ETA: What's the over under the CO gets a gold plated toilet and the ships have "Trump" all over it like his hotels?
Trump announces "Trump class" Navy battleships
ETA: What's the over under the CO gets a gold plated toilet and the ships have "Trump" all over it like his hotels?
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I mean, if we are beig honest, we do need to look good...
...I'm 58
...left service in June of 2017
...shaped like a pear
...and just came off my BP meds because I started doing PT again and lost 30 pounds
...and I look gooder than a mother fucker
...because I prioritized looking good while I do old man PT
It's time we prioritize looking good.
We sure as hell can't seem to prioritize anything else.
If we are going to spirail into the shitter becuse we aren't serious about being Americans anymore, we may as well look good doing it.
Otherwise - I think the talk of a new PT uniform started last year - this isn't really new.
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Nope, was not the Bee or the Onion, nor even the Duffelbag.
Rail guns, hypersonic missiles, and lasers oh my.
https://www.goldenfleet.navy.mil/
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What's crazy to me on the Golden Fleet bit is how they think they'll get around the Jones Act. The new Frigate which is a partial redesign that won't be fit for the ASW role immediately is funny, like Ficantieri won that contract with the FREMM because the USN wanted an OTS design...but then it wasn't to load the thing with requirements thus leading to a redesign and delaying acquisition. If anyone thinks the Army's acquisition pipeline is shit, look at the Navy's. You can see it with the LCS, idea was great, but then Congress got involved and we built two designs. But the trimaran was a proven design that we loaded with bullshit but then never developed the mission modules for either.
We need to build real Frigates, Destroyers, and Cruisers again. Zumwalts could have been great, but then they fucked off on the gun system and now we're refitting them with Missiles? Like cmon now.
I for one will enjoy me a large surface combatant that can bring true naval gunfire to bare.
We need to build real Frigates, Destroyers, and Cruisers again. Zumwalts could have been great, but then they fucked off on the gun system and now we're refitting them with Missiles? Like cmon now.
I for one will enjoy me a large surface combatant that can bring true naval gunfire to bare.
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With the advancement of 4 hours long loitering munitions that can be improved upon, naval gunfire for shore and some inland bombardments may be a thing of the past.
But some smart munitions that are gun launched with the modern rate of fire as a redundant backup multipurpose and multi mission does sound good, on paper at least haha. But not a over a several thousands a pop good.
But some smart munitions that are gun launched with the modern rate of fire as a redundant backup multipurpose and multi mission does sound good, on paper at least haha. But not a over a several thousands a pop good.
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Maybe I should take this comment slightly back on the Army acquisition fuck up...we're calling the current tank that's being tested the M1A3...it is not close to an A3 model as it is a completely different turret and engine system, also, it has an autoloader.
But hey we could talk for hours about how the Army doesn't understand history and maintenance of it's history for hours.
Everything costs more when you let things balloon and fall off the timeline. Your unit costs skyrocket. If they had built 50 Zumwalts we wouldn't be talking about munitions that cost 500K per shell because we would have needed a hell of a lot more. But now we have three Zumwalts and we've stopped development of the AGS completely so this pretty sick BLOS gun was wasted.
But hey we could talk for hours about how the Army doesn't understand history and maintenance of it's history for hours.
Everything costs more when you let things balloon and fall off the timeline. Your unit costs skyrocket. If they had built 50 Zumwalts we wouldn't be talking about munitions that cost 500K per shell because we would have needed a hell of a lot more. But now we have three Zumwalts and we've stopped development of the AGS completely so this pretty sick BLOS gun was wasted.
The future of naval warfare isn’t with big ships.
That’s a product of laws and how we handle acquisitions. Models vs. block upgrades and the approval and funding process.
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Forgive me for posting this here but it seems rather noteworthy because someone or someone's are creating groups on Facebook using just bots and fake pages as admins and moderators to push division hard.
This one has over 170 alone: God, we Hate Trump | Facebook
Not one of these "females" for a feminism group are real either, over 30 so far and growing: Feminist News | Facebook
Another anti Trump group mirrored after the other two groups of the same name and same cover and main photos, has a staggering amount of fakes for mods and admins as well: Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger Against Trump | Facebook
I'm starting to wonder if the same agent provocateur's is also in the opposite political spectrum groups as mods and admins as well. This is actual topic worthy worth talking about because it's keeping us all divided even more preying on people's allegiances and emotions, some of which have actually acted on it even.
This one has over 170 alone: God, we Hate Trump | Facebook
Not one of these "females" for a feminism group are real either, over 30 so far and growing: Feminist News | Facebook
Another anti Trump group mirrored after the other two groups of the same name and same cover and main photos, has a staggering amount of fakes for mods and admins as well: Liz Cheney/Adam Kinzinger Against Trump | Facebook
I'm starting to wonder if the same agent provocateur's is also in the opposite political spectrum groups as mods and admins as well. This is actual topic worthy worth talking about because it's keeping us all divided even more preying on people's allegiances and emotions, some of which have actually acted on it even.
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I've been noticing a lot of these engagement farming fake pages lately. I don't believe it's limited to just anti-trump stuff, but across anything and everything that could have divisive sides. I used to hate when every fourth post on my wall was an advert, now I think it takes maybe 1 in 10 for it to be actually related to one of my connections. totally enshittified
The Russians were pretty big on perfecting the troll farm approach (both sides) in the mid 2010s.
Divisive topics get more engagement.
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I'm a major defender of free speech but I think that this needs to be curb stomped out of existence when it's being used for nefarious purposes.
Way, way more. We (the crew at OR) have said it for years... if we went scorched earth negative on the training pipelines, we would immediately skyrocket in analytics.
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Most of that was well over-stated. Look at the actual impact the Internet Research Agency. Usually stated as a "look at what the Russians did to sway our elections!," but doesn't really stand up under any scrutiny when you look into it. Most seems like posturing to help eventually lead to conflict with Russia. I believe the current threat to us in this is mostly coming from India and China and has just spread way worse due to generative AI.
If you're interested and haven't seen it.. the IRA stuff is still available for research in a couple of github repos.
GitHub - russian-ad-explorer/russian-ad-datasets: Datasets derived from the 2018 IRA ad release.
To be clear: I'm not saying that they had an outsized impact on swaying the elections, just pointing out that foreign state actors increasingly use social media for helping inflame division.
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