The 1863 New York City draft riots
During the Civil War, northern states like New York instituted a lottery draft of fighting-age white men. At the time, Black men were exempted
The rioters’ anger over their subordinate social class largely drove their attacks against Black men
Next up, why white people should pay black people for slavery!
To just deny the crime itself makes zero sense.
There is a significant part of the American population that believes laws are unjust because a lot people break them. There are AGs decline to prosecute certain crimes because certain people get arrested for them.
No offence intended, but if your going to post the output of a language model, why not offer a defense or criticism of the out put? To my understanding, a LLM's output is, at best, a conglomeration of the posts of redditors and urinalists.
I do like the sources being attached at least. The LLM, of course didn't really use the sources.
fuck kristol and his evil ilk
As much as I love the Iowa class, there's a whole lot of design space between an old school battle ship and a design for an modern in shore fighting frigate(?).
There's a whole very technical conversation to be had here. The Navy developed and then abandoned a class of "littoral" combat vessels in the mid aughts. These ships would have been designed to handle exactly what is happening in the Red Sea. The problem is that these vessels would have to be "fighting" ships. They would have had to rely on a combination classic naval guns for offence and CIWS guns for defense. Its a workable system but not perfect. They would not have been "superior" and I think thats why they were abandoned in favor of more "modern" fleet solutions.
At modern scale you might have a point, but international shipping has been a thing since the 15th century.
Their armament can reach shipping in the straights, with incredible cost effectiveness.
Fair enough. I guess the answer to my gripes it that modern tech require a "land war" when it come to control of the Red Sea.
I know. That was kind of my point. Surely an MEU and a naval support could hit Houthi ports and surrounding facilities then return to the carrier group? Its how we used to fight. Are the joint chiefs taking such exercise off the table?
a sm2 (standard missile 2) is I think right around $1mil a shot.
I keep hearing this from various professionals. Perhaps giving up gunnery in favor of high tech ballistics was a mistake?
muslims don't care about their own lives
I'm not sure I buy this. "I'm willing to die to fight the outlander" is not the same as "I don't care if I live or die." Particularly when the Yemenese Houthis seem to be achieving their goals.
Make no mistake, I don't care about what are essentially 21st century privateers (Iranian letter of marque, as it where), but a Navy's job is not to go fight the other guy's navy. Navies exist to protect commerce. Why is a US carrier group unable to do this in the Red Sea?
Not to change the subject, but I'll see your 8/7 and raise you a 9/11. That having been said I totally buy the idea that Israel had a pretty good idea of what was going on and sacrificed a few of their own to justify military action in the Gaza strip. A proper deep dive will indicate that early Zionists, proto-Israeli intelligence groups, and Mossad more or less invented the tactics we associate with Islamic Terrorism. See also the Lavon Affair . Note the last sentence of the second paragraph
Any Navy vets care to weigh in on wtf is happening in the Red Sea?
All this shit is pretty scary to me because I don't like the idea of sectarian violence becoming common in the US. I wish "Red" states would get off the pot and push for a de facto return to federalism. In some ways this has been happening with small issues like abortion and school curriculums, but we really need to drive home the point the the US Government serves at the pleasure of the people as represented by the states.
OKC bombing
I will never be able to shake the suspicion that McVeigh was a dope that his handlers lost control of, like so many "terrorists" stopped by the FBI post 9/11.
Even the twats at reddit know that Hitch was wrong
A cross I bear around here is to constantly remind folks that "American Conservativism," that is to say neoconservatism, was founded by literal Trotskyites.
It is these progtards that will be the ones that instigate
If you look at what the feds did in Waco, this isn't new. If you do a deep dive into interviews given by federal agents involved in that fiasco, you will find a trend of quasi-religious sensibilities justifying their actions. What separates us from the 90s is that a whole lot of Americans are less inclined to buy into the type of propaganda the Urinalists and the government pushed regarding the Branch Davidians. I'm afraid that a Waco like incident in 2024 could actually lead to a cold civil war, armed insurrectionists and all. This doesn't bother the Feds because they assume they will win like in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam.
a significant portion of the domestic terrorism threat originates from supporters of the former president
How do you parse this if Trump wins in November? Will DHS publish memos stating that "a significant portion of the domestic terrorism threat originates from supporters of the President?" I thought deepstate was a conspiracy theory?
I've always loved to story behind how Edgar Rice Burroughs got into writing fantasy novels. Apparently Burroughs had always been a bit of a "failure' in life, moving from on career to the next without much success. In his late thirties he decided, after reading fiction magazines, that folks were getting paid to write "such rot," and he could do better even if he had never written before. Turns out he was right.
Specifics of the conflict aside, if American troops carried out operations like the IDF, there would be global calls to drag our officers to the Hague. Frankly I'd oppose that because I'd prefer our own JAGs to send people like that to Ft. Leavenworth for the rest of their lives.
To this day (nearly 3 decades after I read them), I vividly recall Screwtape's letter on the "most effective" temptation. The one where he explains the best way to drag down a soul was to get them to focus on all the little things than make one unhappy: "Why can't I get a proper piece of toast," "all i want is... ," "is it so much to to ask that... ." And then allowing those minor complaints to fester and eat away at a person while they blame their family, friends, neighbors, and ultimately God for their unhappiness.
The "line in the sand" exists precisely because the medical profession decided they were comfortable terminating viable pregnancies for whatever reason. They parsed a dilemma and . . . chose poorly. The populations of most American states disliked that state of affairs so they implemented democratic restrictions on that sort of behavior. So now abortionists must tackle a different dilemma: what to do in the very rare case of a pregnancy that will actually kill the mother and laws that involve extreme prohibitions. If you take them at their word and they are not cowards, then they will perform the abortion. That's how you parse an ethical dilemma.
We are in this position because abortionists can not be trusted. They were the ones that turned "health of the mother" into a opening you can drive a truck through. These fuckin whiney doctors you hear on the news are the ones unable to parse an ethical dilemma. Their profession's behavior is what lead to "harsh" legislation that creates the type of situations they complain about.
remaking the Chronicles of Narnia
I will cut my own throat before I watch them butcher's Jack's work "for the modern audience." Amazon's rape of Tolkien is where I first drew a line with things that I will not even hate watch.
I'm always salty about progressive racialists proving me right. I'm a stupid Catholic: God cares for us all. But people are not the same. Just ask ask anyone with a alcoholic bipolar twat in the family. I won't " get rid of " her, but I'll plan around her. As a society we need control the anti-social elements and direct them to functionality. The BLM and even the lackluster morons demanding weed are social enemies that don't know they are cutting society apart one bit at a time .