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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

They're not going to fight any wars, they're going to be joining the administrative and R&D side of the military where there's millions to be made in contracts, lives to be wasted in "optimization" of military's warfighting capabilities, and so forth.

The officer Corps is in simple terms divided in two, between the combat arms branches and the combat support branches. The high command of the military falls into the combat support role, meaning that for career combat arms branch officers to achieve positions in the DoD they have to quit the field and become corporate snakes to politick their way up the promotion ladder. This means more often than not whole sections of the military's higher command are people who haven't stepped onto a battlefield. Nominally they do want people that actually have combat experience in roles that involve developing combat tactics and strategies, but that seems to be even more on the way out than what I remember

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not as read on Che as I am on Stalin so I couldn't answer you on the veracity of your question

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In vulgarized terms, its the inverse of tailism.

In more elaborated terms, its where a party or its leadership dictates revolutionary action from ahead of the proletariat without adequately considering the actual conditions or the will of the masses. The tendency of commandism usually manifests in the form of an impatience to jump directly to open revolution, bypassing critical stages of development of dual power structures and neglecting the importance of mass mobilization and education.

In some circles commandism is also called "Left-Adventurism"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

It would be a touch more accurate to say his actions after Cuba were more commandist than adventurist

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Plenty of valuable information here that puts both the tweet and the general movement of the ships at port into context

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

All the other fleets have huge fuck off regions they patrol through while the 5th is exclusively stationed to patrol the arabian peninsula, Iran's coast, and the horn of Africa.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

@[email protected] puddle pirate shits more your territory so I'll rely on your for any nautical jargon

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

At best, it's for the fleet to make guard duty easier with a mobile force on observation duty, at worst we're going to enter a new epoch.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 months ago (13 children)

Whispers of rumors that the 5th fleet that's stationed in Bahrain has been deployed to the seas. Whether or not this is a combat deployment or a bout of nuclear chicken brinksmanship, or even fake news will only be known with time.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Kautsky to Lenin pipeline confirmed

 
 
 
 

That said

 
 

thinking-about-it

 
 
 

stop-posting-amogus STOP INVENTING INTERGENERATIONAL DIFFERENCES!

Bridie, you’re a millennial – tell me about your socks

NO ONE GIVES A SHIT

Oh Gabs, you could ask me what beauty I saw in the world on this glorious blue sky morning, or how my relationship is with my mother, or what rage is in my heart. But no, everyone wants to talk about millennial socks.

WHO THE FUCK IS EVERYONE? IS THAT ODYSSEUS PLAYING A TRICK ON US BY PUTTING A TWIST ON HIS OLD PRANK?

I actually wear great socks. Heavily influenced by my little brother, I’ve worn Uniqlo crew socks for years. Which are actually “zoomer socks”. But I have loved ankle socks as well, and that is the foghorn that signals I’m a millennial, apparently.

SAYS FUCKING WHO THEYRE JUST FUCKING DOCKS SHUT THR FUCK UP

Wait, I’m just trying to wrap my head around the concept of “millennial socks” – which you now tell me are just ankle socks – and now you’ve introduced the concept of “zoomer socks”. Are they merely coloured crew socks or is there more to it?

THEGRE JUST FUCKIBG SOCJS HILY SHIT AASSSSSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH frothingfash

Millennial socks are small socks that stop at the ankle, or even the ones you can’t see at all above the shoe (I loved these!). Zoomer socks are generally crew socks – any sock pulled up high. They invented them (citation needed). Also, I think they’re actually called gen Z socks – my beloved zoomer colleagues are always telling me that only millennials say zoomer.

I LOVED THESE matt

"They invented them" citations-needed CITATION citations-needed FUCKING citations-needed NEEDED citations-needed

OK, so millennials love ankle socks – good to know. But why is Jennifer Lawrence being called “brave” by Vogue for stepping out in “millennial socks”?

SOMEONE PUT THE PEOPLE IN TEEN VOGUE IN CHARGW OF THE WHOLE BRAMD PLEASE FOR THE LIFE OF GOD

Ah, I think because one of the most tragic things you can be in some corners of the internet is a woman in her 30s dressing herself with no regard for a trend.

INCOHERENT SCREAMING

Oh no, what about a woman in her 40s?

LOUDER INCOHERENT SCREAMING

I don’t believe they exist.

INCOHERENT SOBBING

So, ahem, the long and short of it is that gen Z have pulled their socks up?

TF2 SOLDIER SCREAMING NOISE

Ha! They’ve also moved their hair part to the middle, millennials favour the side part. And they’re wearing enormous pants – skinny jeans are definitely out. Also high-waisted jeans are a millennial relic. Gen Z are wearing pants that hang off their hips.

SQUEALING PIG THAT SHAT ON ITS BALLS NOISES

Wait, I wore pants that hung off my hips!

I CANT TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS FUCKING MONOLOGUE TONGUE-IN-CHEEK

Ssshh, ssshhhh. This is the first time in history that any of this is cool. And it will stay cool for ever. There definitely won’t be articles in 10 years calling a 35-year-old zoomer “brave” for wearing crew socks.

PLEASE LET ME BE MOULDERING IN A GRAVE BEFORE THIS HAPPENS

With temperatures hovering around 0C this week, leaving ankles across pre-Y2K generations practically frostbitten, I have been wearing crew socks instead of ankle socks. This Xennial is accidentally cool now.

Fucking amateur, just-freezing is great weather to be wearing summer clothes in.

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