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ecstatic

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18. Low IQ individual

Reply to Tanuki (Original post)

Wed Dec 3, 2025, 10:02 AM

Dec 2025

First, there's nothing arbitrary about it unless some military leaders are breaking the rules while others enforce the rules. If everyone in command is following and enforcing the rules, there shouldn't be a problem.

Second, if we adopt an "anything goes" stance, guess what? That affects the safety of our troops. Hell, our conduct affects the safety of the world as well. How can the US convince other nations to follow a code of conduct when we're regularly violating the same standards?

Shit... now I'm back to being so disappointed in so many people. Whiskey pete *openly" confessed to breaking the law and yet he was still confirmed?! There's no fucking excuse for this shit. Especially now in the age of AI--which could have summarized and found all the red flags in his book within seconds. The senators who confirmed pete need to be held accountable.

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