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cyclonefence

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Wed Dec 3, 2025, 01:01 PM Dec 3

What Pete Hegseth and these other chest-thumpers don't seem to understand [View all]

is that rules of engagement work both ways. Don't they see that if we start killing people who pose no threat--people who are drowning--we don't get to complain if *our servicepeople* are tortured, mistreated and killed when they are hors de combat?

Typical of conservatives, who are unable to imagine themselves in any situation other than what they imagine themselves to be.

Re-education camps for conservatives: force them to read novels.

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