The two forms of liberal analysis. If it’s not Great Man Theory, then it’s declaring a whole people to be inherently evil.

We also don’t really know how far the drop is, could just be a few feet.

If I choose the Moon landing, do I get to watch it from the Moon? Because that sounds pretty fun.

He’s also great at hide-and-seek.

Tbh the biggest danger that would come from having bin Laden babysit your kids is the possibility of them being killed in a drone strike.

As someone with an encyclopedic knowledge of Key and Peele sketches, let me just say, there were signs.

You don’t understand how sources work. Let me break this down for you.

That troops are imperialist killers-for-hire is my conclusion drawn from historical facts. Those historical facts include that they went abroad to occupy a country for decades in a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

If you’re disputing those facts, tell me what you’re disputing and I will happily supply a source for it. If you agree with those facts, then no source is needed. If you agree with those facts but still disagree with my conclusions, then you must disagree with my logic and reasoning, which doesn’t need a source.

If you don’t understand my reasoning, then I’m happy to explain it, but I think it’s pretty straightforward. They are hired to invade countries and kill people, so they are killers-for-hire.

If you understand my reasoning but still disagree with my conclusion, then you can challenge some specific part of said reasoning.

That is how reasoning and debate works. You don’t just point wildly at whatever someone says and demand a source. If you’re asking for a source, it means that you disagree or are uncertain about some specific fact underlying the chain of reasoning that leads to a conclusion.

If you want me to link you a source on a claim, tell me what specific claim. Otherwise I have no idea what information you’re looking for.

What do you think the guns are for, exactly?

You need a source for the claim that murder is wrong?

Links for what info? Do you need a source for the fact that there was decades-long occupation of Afghanistan? Have you been living under a rock?

Murderers deserve punishment. What more is there to explain?

You don’t think some members may have joined before this administration and got trapped doing this kind of shit?

What, when we were occupying Afghanistan for 20 years and slaughtering hundreds of thousands of civilians? What on earth makes you think I only hate them because of who the president is?

Its not like you can just quit, you usually do jail time.

Tough shit. A person threatening you with jail time does not justify committing murder.

And if they have a family, are they supposed to just abandon them?

Even if they have to, they’d be no worse off than the families of the people they kill. Although, I suppose they often kill the families too, so kind of a bad example.

Help me understand why it’s their fault they were told to do stupid shit with very little recourse.

This may be a difficult concept to grasp, but human beings have agency which means that if someone tells you to do something, you don’t actually have to do it, because you are not a robot.

Because they’re imperialist killers for hire?

Lots of people arguing about this in the comments, but I’m glad there’s so many people defending the position that it’s ok to do bad things if you’re poor, because that’s exactly my position. I wasn’t in the military, though, no.

I was the guy that trafficked kids to Epstein’s Island.

I don’t talk about it a lot because most of the time people judge me pretty harshly for it. You wouldn’t believe how many dates have walked out on me the moment I drop what I used to do for a living. I mean, look, I’m not a pedophile myself. Most of the guys I was working for were just desperate and in it for the money. I don’t support what the guys in Washington decided to pay me for. Blame them, not me.

What was I supposed to do, work in a warehouse or a grocery store or something? What am I, some kind of chump? Fuck that. With the money I made duct taping children’s mouths shut and throwing them into my trunk, I managed to earn enough money to put myself through college, and finally persue my real passion.

That’s right. Now I’m finally able to persue a dual major in Moral Philosophy and Women’s Studies. Also, funny coincidence, I’m a TA and I’m actually teaching one of the girls I met in my previous line of work about feminism. What a funny little coincidence!

It’s just culture war bullshit. Trump gets to distinguish himself from other politicians and pretend he’s doing something for the nationalists without actually spending any money or improving their lives in any way. It also means people talk about this instead of the Iran War or the Epstein files or the masked thugs raiding workplaces and hunting down minorities.

Keep an eye out for the other side of this which will be establishment politicians running on “restoring sanity” by changing it back to Lake Ontario, because they don’t want to run on abolishing ICE or anything that actually matters.

You’re not familiar with techbros?

I have little reason to weigh in on the DPRK specifically because it makes no difference to my positions in practice. Even if retired US army lieutenant-colonel Roger Cavazos’ allegations are true, my stance is the same: just leave them alone.

The US government has a very long record of orchestrating regime change in countries across the globe, but I’m not familiar with any case where the result was actually an improvement for the people who live there. It’s also incredibly inconsistent and hypocritical for the US to take such an aggressive stance against the DPRK while buddying up to countries like Saudi Arabia which make absolutely zero pretence of being a democracy. If I were going to entertain the notion that US policy is in any way driven by benevolence and promoting democracy, then obviously step 1 would be to not actively give weapons and military support and even perform military attacks on behalf of a literal monarchy.

Why is it that the DPRK and Saudi Arabia are treated so differently? Because the Saudis provide the US with access to their country’s natural resources, while the DPRK doesn’t. This is a far more consistent through-line that explains US foreign policy much better than any concern with “human rights” or “promoting democracy.” When they do talk about promoting democracy, it’s opportunistic, it’s just because someone who is standing in the way of the expansion of the empire can plausibly be labeled as undemocratic.

Even in cases like Afghanistan, which is controlled by Al Qaida and clearly undemocratic, I see no reason to support sanctions or other forms of aggression towards them, because I have no interest in supporting imperialistic expansionism. If a country is just trying to be left alone, why would I support going there and fucking with it?