You still need to pull every punch.

Why couldn’t he do both at the start of the term?

Yeah if he did this 3-4 years ago, it would have made a dent, now it’s nothing but virtue signaling.

Will they though? Mangione is behind bars, the media has largely sided with the CEO, and other insurance CEOs are probably getting police protection.

People sided with Luigi, and it showed that health insurance CEOs can be shot and killed relatively easily, and that it works in sending a message.

The police protection won’t save anyone, but it will remind both them and the masses that this is something that can happen.

It’s a good question what “loss” means here. A total disorganized rout is also a total loss, even though some men might be recoverable and still in fighting shape. The hardware is cooked though. And actually, a rout usually means the Ukrainians get to capture it, so there’s your new tank.

And I wouldn’t want to be the guy trying to find where hundreds of North Koreans ended up near Kursk, with them not speaking any language anyone would understand and not knowing the area.

The Kursk front has some of the biggest single hits the Ukrainians have delivered to Russian manpower though. Remember the troop convoys where artillery hits were killing dozens to hundreds of soldiers all at once since the freshly mobilized troops didn’t know where to go and were just sitting densely packed in trucks on the road?

In my case it was a hail mary, a perfect lineup since the guy was straight diving for me, and dumb luck. It was my third shot, the enemy was on the second strafing run, I managed to defend the first by turning into it and I needed to continously point myself at him, since my SPG had only front armor. Might as well shoot back.

It was also hella satisfying, the HE hit smashed the plane to the ground in front of me in pieces. I’m sad I didn’t record it.

I know “it will still happen later”, but the fact that it didn’t happen right now has already saved lives.

What I don’t understand about the whole thing is that targeting the Dem representatives already has happened. Not just Jan 6th, one idiot tried to murder Pelosi, and bashed her husband’s head in with a hammer.

I just can’t see Pelosi as human after not going after the fascists and sitting in the lukewarm shit for a bit more. I don’t know how the hell didn’t she make it her life’s mission to see at least some justice for that.

I’ve hit a fighter plane with the Jagdpanzer I once. It was diving for me since I was an easy target, open top, no MGs.

Never managed to replicate that.

If you extrapolate from that and suppose that somewhere around half of all internet traffic is ad transmissions, that means that the internet ad industry has about 20 times the carbon emissions of crypto.

Of the many things that can be publicly subsidised and made available to the public at large, car travel to one of the densest areas of the country might not be one of the most worthy.

He’s a CS student, surely he could learn some hacking skills and access some internal communications that exposes illegal activity, no? That takes longer, but is probably more effective at actually sparking change than murder.

It would be swept under the rug, maybe get prosecuted and fined for q token amount.

There are three ways just off the top of my head that this improves the situation.

It puts fear into the people murdering the masses through policy, other CEOs might think twice now.

It makes people think and talk about this, and put the topic of healthcare CEOs being murderers into the public discourse.

It showcases that public support, actually bipartisan public support exists for positive change, it’s just not on the ballot. Some smart politician might figure out how to ride that wave into office.

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Soviet-style battalions are half that size though. They usually get augmented with more hardware and are then used as independent units, in what the Russians call a Battalion Tactical Group.

If they lost a battalion, that’s 500-600 people, if they lost the whole BTG, it’s 700-800.

I think the thing being advocated here is using context, not stopping talking about issues.

Like instead of saying “you are not alone with burnout, it is something most people experience from time to time”, say " you’re not alone with burnout, it is the result of the alienation from your work and the incentive structure of our society".

He stands wherever he’s told to stand by his constituents, unlike most.

You assume he reads

I urge the US electorate to dissolve Elon Musk in a vat of acid

They want to own the internet and all the voices on it. That’s the long and short.

Seems like Terror won the war on Terror