Stupid World

[pritch]

Damn! FOX have settled the Dominion case for US$7.85 million. I was looking forward to all of their talking heads and Rupert Murdoch admitting that they lied one by one. There is of course a statement that FOX reported falsely but it won't have the same impact.

[onearmedbandit]

Damn! FOX have settled the Dominion case for US$7.85 million. I was looking forward to all of their talking heads and Rupert Murdoch admitting that they lied one by one. There is of course a statement that FOX reported falsely but it won't have the same impact.

Slightly more than that, US$787.5 million.

[sugilite:Me]

Yeah, I was hoping Dominion would go to trial as a public service to show just how fox and the republican party have been lying about the so called stolen election. But I understand, they are a business and decided to take the considerable money.
The damage Fox - the largest conservative news source by a massive margin and the republican party itself has done has undermined the very underpinnings of democracy. This time last year, 70% of republican voters believed Bidens was not the legitimate president.
All fox bangs on about is trans, radical left and CRT issues, while in reality it is them and the gop that are taking the wrecking ball to democracy.
https://www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...lection-trump/

[pritch]

Well waddya know! The Dude arrested for wrecking the beer fridge at Walmart because of his outrage at a trans person getting their picture on a beer can was arrested for exposing himself to a sixteen year old.

[Grumph]

Well waddya know! The Dude arrested for wrecking the beer fridge at Walmart because of his outrage at a trans person getting their picture on a beer can was arrested for exposing himself to a sixteen year old.

Presumably one way of personally validating his sexual identity. Not one most of us would choose but hey - Americans.

I see there's another voting machine company suing Fox. And they're making noises about wanting it to go all the way to trial. I hope that isn't just another ploy to raise the settlement figure.

[R650R]

Do I recall somebody here posting Tucker Carlson's claim that Ukraine's casualties in the war were seven to every Russian?

No it was from former US military commander Col Douglas MacGregor and other analysts.


Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1953)[1] is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator.[2] He played a significant role on the battlefield in the Gulf War and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx established him as an influential if unconventional theorist of military strategy. His thinking contributed to the US strategy in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
After leaving the military in 2004, he became more politically active. In 2020, President Donald Trump proposed Macgregor as ambassador to Germany, but the Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense

Defense Superior Service Medal
Bronze Star (with Valor)
Meritorious Service Medal (4)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
National Defense Service Medal (2)
Southwest Asia Service Medal (2 Bronze Stars)
Kuwait Liberation Medal
Kosovo Campaign Medal
Humanitarian Service Medal
French Meritorious Service Medal (Bronze Star)
Parachutist Badge
Ranger Tab

Macgregor was the "squadron operations officer who essentially directed the Battle of 73 Easting" during the Gulf War.[5] Facing an Iraqi Republican Guard opponent, he led a contingent consisting of 19 tanks, 26 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 4 M1064 mortar carriers through the sandstorm to the 73 Easting at roughly 16:18 hours on 26 February 1991 destroyed almost 70 Iraqi armored vehicles with no U.S. casualties in a 23-minute span of the battle.[5] He was at the front of the formation in the center with Eagle Troop on the right and Ghost Troop on the left. Macgregor designated Eagle Troop the main attack and positioned himself to the left of Eagle Troop. Eagle Troop Scouts subsequently followed Macgregor's tank through a minefield during which his crew destroyed two enemy tanks. As Macgregor was towards the front of the battle involved in shooting, he didn't "request artillery support or report events to superiors until the battle was virtually over, according to one of his superior officers".[5] The risks he undertook "could have been criticized had the fight turned ugly".[5]

At a November 1993 exercise at the Army's National Training Center (NTC) at Fort Irwin, Lt. Col. Macgregor's unit vastly outperformed its peers against the "Opposition Force (OPFOR)". The series of five battles usually end in four losses and a draw for the visiting units; his unit won three, lost one, and drew one.[5] Macgregor's unit dispersed widely, took unconventional risks, and anticipated enemy movements.[5]

Macgregor was "one of the Army's leading thinkers on innovation", according to journalist Thomas E. Ricks.[7] He "became prominent inside the Army" when his book Breaking the Phalanx was published in 1997, arguing for radical reforms.[7] Breaking the Phalanx was rare in that an active duty military author was challenging the status quo with detailed reform proposals for the reorganization of U.S. Army ground forces.[8] The head of the Army, United States General Dennis Reimer, wanted to reform the Army and effectively endorsed Breaking the Phalanx and passed copies out to generals; however, reforming the U.S. Army according to the book met resistance from the Army's de facto "board of directors" — the other four-star Army generals — and Reimer did not press the issue.[9] Breaking the Phalanx advocated that "the Army restructure itself into modularly organized, highly mobile, self-contained, combined arms teams that look extraordinarily like the Marine Corps' Air Ground Task Forces".[10] His article called "Thoughts on Force Design in an Era of Shrinking Defense Budgets" was published in The Dado Center Journal (the IDF's "Journal on Operational Art").

Many of Macgregor's colleagues thought his unconventional thinking may have harmed his chances for promotion.[5] While an Army NTC official called him "the best war fighter the Army has got," colleagues of Macgregor were concerned that "the Army is showing it prefers generals who are good at bureaucratic gamesmanship to ones who can think innovatively on the battlefield."[5] Macgregor was also seen as blunt, and to some, arrogant.[5] Despite his top post-Gulf War NTC showing, his Army career was sidelined.[5] The summer of 1997 marked the third time the Army refused to put him in command of a combat brigade,[5] "a virtual death warrant for his Army career, relegating him to staff jobs as a colonel for the remainder of his service".[6]

Macgregor was the top planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, for its 1999 intervention in Yugoslavia.[6]

In the fall of 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who had read Breaking the Phalanx, insisted that General Tommy Franks and his planning staff meet with Colonel Macgregor on 16–17 January 2002 to discuss a concept for intervention in Iraq involving the use of an armored heavy force of roughly 50,000 troops in a no warning attack straight into Baghdad.[11]

Macgregor left the Army in June 2004

[pete376403]

No it was from former US military commander Col Douglas MacGregor and other analysts.

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What does his entire CV have to do with anything about incorrect information?

[husaberg]

What does his entire CV have to do with anything about incorrect information?

its all hes got, remember how cr66 said russia was not going to invade Ukraine...

Russia won’t invade anyway. There troops on border are like patched gang members sitting in a car in street while the prospects go do dirty work and collect debts.
There has been substantial internal skirmishes going on for a long time by rebel groups, many think Ukraine really is still pretty much Russia absent post Cold War changes. Funny how when yanks do same with cia interfering in other countries no one says anything...,,

[mashman]

Yeah, I was hoping Dominion would go to trial as a public service to show just how fox and the republican party have been lying about the so called stolen election. But I understand, they are a business and decided to take the considerable money.

Me too in ways, but they'd already backed down so kind of a moot thing to waste loads of cash on... it was only defamation after all.

[pritch]

I see there's another voting machine company suing Fox. And they're making noises about wanting it to go all the way to trial. I hope that isn't just another ploy to raise the settlement figure.

Yeah Smartmatic. Their suit was for 2.7 billion IIRC. There are also a series of smaller actions aimed not at FOX itself but at Giuliani, Lindell the My Pillow guy, and some of FOX's talking heads personally. Smaller than 2.7 billion can still be quite large?

[pritch]

Texas Governor Abbott may have a problem. Y'all will be aware that a veteran was found guilty of shooting a protestor to death. It seems he said he was going to have at the BLM types, he drove into a crowd of protestors and shot one.

The governor immediately announced that he was investigating the possibility of a pardon. He may be discovering that all is not as it appeared. The deceased was also a veteran and was a Libertarian to the extent that he was known to the party who acknowledged his passing.

So this is no longer RWNJ veteran shoots BLM protestor. It's RWNJ veteran shoots RWNJ veteran. That's different. How different remains to be seen.

[R650R]

Texas Governor Abbott may have a problem. Y'all will be aware that a veteran was found guilty of shooting a protestor to death. It seems he said he was going to have at the BLM types, he drove into a crowd of protestors and shot one.

The governor immediately announced that he was investigating the possibility of a pardon. He may be discovering that all is not as it appeared. The deceased was also a veteran and was a Libertarian to the extent that he was known to the party who acknowledged his passing.

So this is no longer RWNJ veteran shoots BLM protestor. It's RWNJ veteran shoots RWNJ veteran. That's different. How different remains to be seen.

Could we start having your style analysis of NZ crime events, it would probably sound like this;

Labour voter does driveby shooting of other labour voters over unpaid drug debts.
Children of labour voters caught and released after ram raids.

It would be interesting to see some scientific survey in prisons. Cause I doubt many of those that end up there would vote nats or act. Mind you then we would have to direct the police to not be systematically biased against labour voters. To fix that we would have to go around on trumped up charges and arrest national voters en masse during night.
For some reason the idea of a socialist govt doing mass arrests on political bias sounds awfully familiar....,

[TheDemonLord]

Texas Governor Abbott may have a problem. Y'all will be aware that a veteran was found guilty of shooting a protestor to death. It seems he said he was going to have at the BLM types, he drove into a crowd of protestors and shot one.

The governor immediately announced that he was investigating the possibility of a pardon. He may be discovering that all is not as it appeared. The deceased was also a veteran and was a Libertarian to the extent that he was known to the party who acknowledged his passing.

So this is no longer RWNJ veteran shoots BLM protestor. It's RWNJ veteran shoots RWNJ veteran. That's different. How different remains to be seen.

Libertarian doesn't mean RWNJ.

I mean, look at the ACLU - once a bastion of political neutrality (which is why it was a respected organization) - it went from defending actual neo-nazis by a Jewish lawyer on principle to what it is today.

The dude was protesting in support of BLM, ergo a BLM protestor.

[pete376403]

Could we start having your style analysis of NZ crime events, it would probably sound like this;

Labour voter does driveby shooting of other labour voters over unpaid drug debts.
Children of labour voters caught and released after ram raids.

It would be interesting to see some scientific survey in prisons. Cause I doubt many of those that end up there would vote nats or act. ..,

I'd think you would find most of them don't vote at all. They are used to organisations where leadership is by virtue of strength and violence, not popular choice (eg any gang)

[husaberg]

Pay peanuts get monkeys... A 21 year old junior officer at pentagon arrested by FBI for leaking the Ukraine intelligence docs onto social media. Biden’s trying to dismiss the info though that western intel has known for a long time it’s been a bloodbath with a 7-1 kill ratio in Russians favour while continuing the lie via media that “we” will win and Russia will go home....
All the military power and intel ability destroyed at a keystroke via a slack education system and poor moral values. And lives of intel assetts put at risk by a young man too stupid to blot out a few bits of info to cover even his own identity.

i cant see a 7-1 kill ratio.

You really need to tell us about this 7-1 kill ratio. like where you go the numbers from. Was it under your bed or in your head?