1.) If these were women people would be losing their fucking minds
b.) cue the dusty old-timers talking about how they never did shit like this back in the day blaming this on wokeness or insufficiently masculine ads
iii.) grand pap did even weirder shit in the Pacific Theater https://t.co/PFofXGsfrb
— Affable Himbo Critical Russ Theory (@RPG_volley) April 25, 2023
Somebody needs to make sure the Blogmaster sees this… and also the replies.
People are gonna watch this and honestly think the Corps is going soft.
That scene in Jarhead exists for a reason. Marines have been doing this shit since Samuel Nicholas in 1775. It’s been passed down as our most hallowed tradition. pic.twitter.com/TCu4jQQFnj
— Kyle (@SonOfUhGunn) April 24, 2023
Of course, I’m sure Army tank dudes (like Cole) were *much* more serious about their tasks & purpose…
Yeah until these millennials came we were good at war because all we thought about was killing pic.twitter.com/ymVsE508aj
— Blake Herzinger (@BDHerzinger) April 25, 2023
mrmoshpotato
OT – the Cubs totally slapped the Padres, and that totally slaps!
Go Giants!
trollhattan
Ukraine soldiers get their dance on.
https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1650058055554330625?cxt=HHwWgsCzweTDl-YtAAAA
WaterGirl
I had my post scheduled for 5pm, so I moved it back 30 minutes. Just letting folks know in case you saw it for the 2 minutes of overlap.
Math Guy
@WaterGirl: is that the one where you get error 404 when trying to comment? (The one about the SCOTUS ethics letter.)
Tony Jay
“Mom, why was I an only child?”
“Because your Papa screwed the wrong bazooka, son.”
WaterGirl
@Math Guy: yes.
Baud
The old anti-gay stuff at least had some history behind it. The anti-drag panic is so fake.
lee
All the haters of that video can go fuck themselves.
That video was heartily embraced over at the USMC subreddit.
I will also attest to the fact the bored Marines do some seriously weird/crazy/offensive shit. Some of it is now viewable online as well.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
Srsly, moar marine videos plz 🥵😈🥵😈
zhena gogolia
I guess the guys in South Pacific were in the Navy. Coconut bras, anyone?
Tony Jay
@Baud:
Drag is as American as powdered wigs and knee-high stockings.
trollhattan
@Tony Jay: Heh “Always assume it’s loaded.” Forgot lesson 1.
Delk
Stalag 17 dance scene
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
The anti-drag panic is the tell that they’re full of shit when they say Trans people can dress however they want, they just want them to use their “correct” pronouns.
Baud
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
I’ve never heard that, but it doesn’t surprise me that they would make a dishonest argument like that.
Tony Jay
@trollhattan:
The blowback alone. 🍆 💨 🦴
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Baud: That’s the line I constantly get out of a former friend who obsesses over Trans people. They can dress how they want, he just shouldn’t be obliged to use their preferred pronouns, and they should be obliged to self-identify to everyone immediately.
Don’t know how he expects them to go about it. Maybe they could all wear a patch or a tattoo or a brand…
Suzanne
This is why I never want to hear another negative word about student loan forgiveness.
Ruckus
@Baud:
Are any of their arguments honest?
Doesn’t seem like it to me.
Baud
@Suzanne:
While I agree with you in principle, the connection escapes me.
Baud
@Ruckus:
I mean, some people honestly hate change, and that includes any kind of social change. I kind of get that, even though I’m moral enough to recognize that aversion to change is not a justification for injustice or oppression.
trollhattan
@Suzanne:
Friends and I found ourselves unexpectedly spending a night in Palm Springs, in May after snowbird season when the town is pretty empty. We stayed at a motel on the strip (Palm Springs isn’t large) and the place filled up with Marines from Twentynine Palms. Holy hell.
Eventually gave up on sleep and napped on a pool lounge the rest of the night.
Mind, the desert rats that emerged to cruise the strip all night–literally dusk to dawn–were just as nuts.
Suzanne
@Baud: There was a lot of discourse around college being where you go if you’re a spoiled kid who just wants to get drunk and mess around. But if one was really hardworking and dedicated (and not liberal, of course), one would join the military and do real work. And, of course, veterans get the GI bill, but we shouldn’t do anything to help out lazy kids who take out loans.
Ruckus
I used to be on twitter a lot. A LOT.
I may check it once a week now, and normally then only because I see a twit that might interest me. Today I went on to answer someone about something and it seems it’s sinking in a way that reminds me of the Titanic debacle, and it’s time to jump even without a lifeboat.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Thanks. I never would have figured that out.
JaySinWA
@Suzanne: I think I liked it better when I assumed it was a non-sequitur as an analogy to the other RWNJ arguments.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Yeah, but they’re MAKING change. These anti-drag bills are more repressive than anything that’s existed in at least 50 years. They’re not conservative in any principled Burkean sense.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Right. That why I called it fake up above.
Ruckus
@Baud:
No, it’s not.
But.
Given human nature and that the world is more complex than it used to be and people with an unearned spot more towards the top of the heap really, really do not want to give that up, we should be at least aware that often people with an unfair advantage are going to be pissed that advantage is being erased by the people they used to hold that advantage over. IOW, they are behind the times because they used to be at least towards the top of the pile and they really, really are going to, in their eyes, lose from a lot to everything, depending on how shitty they were previous. I believe that is today’s rethuglican party. They wanted SFB because he’s smart with a lot of money – or so he told them. Really he’s a dunce with less than 1/4 of the money he claimed and his decades of failure have brought him to a current world in which failure of someone like him (hopefully an extremely small group, say like a group of 1) is almost guaranteed, because of the dunce qualities.
Roger Moore
@Suzanne:
This strikes me as being ultimately the same as the complaints about trans people mentioned above. The complaints they’re making are basically made up BS because they can’t or won’t explain the real reason for their hate. As a practical matter, this means arguing with them is always playing whack-a-mole. Even if you shoot down whatever argument they’re using today, it doesn’t get at their real issue, so it won’t change their mind.
kindness
Well what we need is 51 Democratic Senators elected who will eliminate filibuster when they are sworn in and make the term’s rules. Then they can get to work. I guess we’d need a Democratic House too….Damn. And that 51 would have to be real Democrats. Not fake ones like Sinema and Manchin were/are.
Omnes Omnibus
Dear Sir, I am glad to hear that your studio audience disapproves of the last skit as strongly as I. As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the RAF who now suffer the largest casualties in this area. And what do you think the Argylls ate in Aden. Arabs? Yours etc. Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.
kalakal
@Omnes Omnibus: Ugh, with a gamey leg?
mrmoshpotato
Can you really not open a hashtag link now without being signed into Twitter? Did Musty really break shit that much more?
Yutsano
Where the fuck is Bnut? I need some expert opinioning here.
@trollhattan: Ukrainian soldiers are adorable. This is known.
Honus
Has anybody here ever read The Thin Red Line? By a WWII Marine veteran of the South Pacific? It is not bereft of references to homosexuality.
Basilisc
Reminiscent of this classic: https://youtu.be/Qxs3gmewuhI