Rants and Raves

[ComTech42]

Booby trapping is counter to the Geneva Convention, to which we adhere, except for a few isolated incidents, which result in courts martial.

When was the last time we faced an enemy that adhered to the Geneva Convention? Look what our Politicians did to LtCol Alan West. I am sure there are many case where Brave American Fighting Men have fallen victim to our own stupid rule so a couple Jags could screw over some GI.

[CrestWood87]

How do you know this? Not saying it's not true just curious how you know or what the source of this info is.

This information was verified through multiple sources including CNN.

[Bullett64]

Why didn't the US booby trap everything they couldn't take back home?

Booby trapping is counter to the Geneva Convention, to which we adhere, except for a few isolated incidents, which result in courts martial.

[Member #6422]

How do you know this? Not saying it's not true just curious how you know or what the source of this info is.

The Biden administration also gave them lists so they were able to go door to door and hunt and execute people who worked for the United States.

[Bullett64]

The graphic I posted was from the NY Times. IDK how they arrived at the numbers, but to claim the New York Times is pushing republican talking points to undercut Biden is foolish at best.

PRC already in country. They'll maintain what needs to be maintained.

Its going to be interesting. The Taliban took over the airport and were dismayed to find the approach radar had been destroyed. Its not a matter of fixing it. It will have to be replaced.

As to the other equipment, no-one knows for sure how much of it is either operable or fixable. My guess is most of it is not. If we had the time / desire to eliminate the airport radar, my guess would be that we also did so for any other remaining major weapons. The Chinese will come in and fix what they can, which I suspect is very little. If they really want something badly, they will have to develop software or manufacture parts to do so, which will take some time.

Any loss is bad, but in my opinion our losses will not have a big impact.

[CrestWood87]

Why didn't the US booby trap everything they couldn't take back home?

The Biden administration deliberately did not destroy the military equipment left behind. Remember it was Biden who said it was the Taliban who was protecting us from isis as we left the airport. There are multiple videos of the Taliban using our Blackhawk helicopters to hang people from. The Biden administration also gave them lists so they were able to go door to door and hunt and execute people who worked for the United States. Even as I write this there are at least two planes in Afghanistan full of refugees and American citizens that the Taliban is refusing to allow to take off. Pudding brain disrespected our fallen soldiers. He is scum and anyone who still supports him is scum to.

[Niteluvr]

Clearly because they didn't have your keen military mind. It's amusing to watch all the armchair dipshit generals on a hooker board. You're a fucking moron.

Either take the vise grips off your dick and post something of value or fuck off.

[RogerOver]

Why didn't the US booby trap everything they couldn't take back home?

Clearly because they didn't have your keen military mind. It's amusing to watch all the armchair dipshit generals on a hooker board. You're a fucking moron.

[ComTech42]

The United States Military does not lose Wars.

Our scumbag politicians send our Brave young Warriors into battle, with rules, lawyers and pseudo moralistic restraints to defeat enemies who no rules. In Afghanistan we faced the Great Muslim Hordes on the modern battlefield. What we proved to our enemies is our politicians would sell out their mothers for a buck.

[Aaron Hamlet]

The false narrative that we gave the Taliban $80 B in military equipment is just that false. The Republicans, to undercut Biden, are dishonestly calculating the entire cost of gear over 20 years even that much of that had already been decommissioned, broken down in use, been shipped out or been shot up in action.

The US blew up a lot of the gear before departure. Some of the remaining gear could be disabled by disabling the software. The rest is only good until it needs spare parts and the engineers and mechanics who know how to maintain it.

The graphic I posted was from the NY Times. IDK how they arrived at the numbers, but to claim the New York Times is pushing republican talking points to undercut Biden is foolish at best.

PRC already in country. They'll maintain what needs to be maintained.

[CrestWood87]

If you still support Biden the following applies and nothing else needs to be said.

[I Luv Emall]

The ignorance below is astounding. You're the one arguring the facts as stated in the source. And don't even try to get on your self-righteous high horse with me, and play your bullshit selfishness card, because it's not going to work. These vaccines do nothing to stop the spread, and this administration has been forced to admit that the vaccinated carry titres as high or higher than the unvaccinated.

This dumbass administration is responsible for spreading Covid around the country by telling their lies and letting people believe their fake vaccines were providing any kind of immunity, knowing full well the whole time that was pure bullshit. Rather than tell the truth, they chose to lie in order to push the vaccines, telling people if they got the vaccines, their lives could return to normal- go back to large crowds, no masking, etc. Even now, after knowing how suscepitble the vaccinated are to the Delta variant, they continue to discriminate against the unvaccinated saying that if you're vaccinated, you don't need to get tested or isolate after known exposure to Covid, but if you're unvaccinated you do. Total stupidity! So stop with your selfishness bullshit, because none of this has been about protecting others or following the science, it's been about an agenda, and a terribly misguided one. Here's a good example of how effective your vaccines are, with Cornell's Covid cases 5 times higher than a year ago, despite it's 95% vaccination rate:

https://www.thecollegefix.com/despit...ime-last-year/

America's bright young students are starting to wake up to the farce and the lies, and question this joke of an administration, which is now at its lowest approval rating ever, and not just over Afghanistan.

Your total ignorance on Ivermectin is also on display. Ivermectin has been used on humans for decades you ignorant fool, is in fact a Nobel prize-winning drug with multiple known and proven healthcare benefits for humans, and is used for Covid in more than 50 countries worldwide currently. You lack any kind of critical thinking skills, and can only mindlessly parrot what your dumbass administration tells you.

Every credible source I can find indicates a mortality rate for non-elderly adults like 100 times higher than your claimed serious illness rate. The facts are the facts. One you start cherrypicking only the sources that most align with your views, while taking them out of context in ways that might be misunderstanding what they are talking about, you aren't dealing with facts anymore. Of which speaking of the facts are that there are no known serious short or long term consequences for the vaccine despite 100's of millions of shots given out, but direct demonstrable short and long term effects for the disease proper, the latter of which gets more dire with each passing day.

Do you have the actual math you used to derive your numbers? Because frankly I don't think its possible for it to have been derived from the data there. You need more than just serious illness rates by age and vaccination, you are also need to know the population by age and vaccination rates by age as well, probably also the overall case rate by age as well. Its also fundamentally an exercise in futile because Israel's cases are spiking dramatically (new cases per 100 k doubled in the last 10 days) and there will be an inherent and uncertain time delay between when cases happen and when serious illness, hospitalization, and death happen due to those cases.

Meanwhile I see you are continuing to play the 100% selfishness card and be completely indifferent to how being unvaccinated makes more likely to spread it to more vulnerable people. Its pathetic how far the USA has fallen, from the days in which people willingly volunteered to fight in WWII despite the major risks to life and limb it imposed, to people unwilling to accept the safest most effective and natural form of healthcare possible even if only to ensure their grandpa doesn't die a painful death as they gargle on fluid filled lungs. I bet that these same people don't have the slightest concern about medication or surgery that are far less safe. There are literally people taking cow dewormers, a product with no known healthcare benefits Covid-19 or otherwise and untested on humans, rather than just take the friggin vaccine. Its madness.

[Frosty Man]

Why didn't the US booby trap everything they couldn't take back home?

The false narrative that we gave the Taliban $80 B in military equipment is just that — false. The Republicans, to undercut Biden, are dishonestly calculating the entire cost of gear over 20 years — even that much of that had already been decommissioned, broken down in use, been shipped out or been shot up in action.

The US blew up a lot of the gear before departure. Some of the remaining gear could be disabled by disabling the software. The rest is only good until it needs spare parts and the engineers and mechanics who know how to maintain it.

[Sgt Soros]

Yes we know that Trump stole the election from Hillary and made the deal to pull out of Afghanistan. Still, Biden could have stepped in and canceled it..he didn't have to pull out.

The U.S. has spent over $2.3 Trillion over 20 years or $300 million per DAY over the past 20 years trying to nation build in Afghanistan and it has not worked. Most of this money has ended up in the pockets of corrupt Afghani leaders, politicians and the US Military Industrial complex. In the process we have lost 2,500 U.S men and women. It's time for Afghani’s to fight to determine their own political future.

[Peter Johnson]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SexWorkersOnly/

We can use this to gauge how women are feeling about the economy.

That sub reeks of feminist entitlement and misandry so much, that I can only stomach a few minutes.