http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/MaupinPaper.htm This is worth a read for anyone who lives in the Tri-cities and is confused by the amount of deliberate misinformation that has been spun to protect the origins of the mascot. It's a fascinating read and a genuinely perfect example of how history is re-written to suit whatever narrative or truth we most prefer.
Lighten up.
Its a Sukhoi Su-22 with swing wings.
lol did you not read the description?
Best use of a military jet... SO FAR.
Lol what does that even mean?
55 An-124s were originally built. There are about half that remaining still in service.
Except Altoon pizza.
That wasnt the artist in the suit.
Your info is out of date. The mural has been uncovered and the city is seeking the artist for more work due to the positive reaction.
Oh wow you're actually serious.
Yeah whole lotta libs working for weapons manufacturers.
Behold, the opinion of someone who has never worked in the service industry. Keep playing the victim.
Can't tell if you're trolling because the irony is too thick. Feels like Poe's Law.
Oh so now you need to actually murder someone to be a bad guy? I suppose being an unfathomable dick to minimum wage fast food servers means he's pretty much a hero...
I bet you're the type of internet person who defends Marv Heemeyer as a "guy at the end of his rope" instead of the town asshole, dying while owning a business, two houses, and nearly a million dollars in cash savings. Not really a guy without options, ya know?
He didn't snap. He was an asshole long before the movie. Look at the home movies with his wife and kid.
This. He was a monstrous piece of shit LONG before he got fired.
This movie embodies the boomer mindset and I'm pretty tired of people singing it's praise (at least, people who don't get that Dfens is not the protagonist). The whole "If I don't understand it, it must be stupid, and anything that inconveniences me is stupid," is pretty much the whole attitude boomers rallied around their entire lives.
Usually reddit is the pedantry site, not imgur. Fine. "The efforts to finish construction of this power plant were abandoned." Jfc.
I just got back from donating a pickup truck to medics stationed near Chornobyl. Every single town has one of these "Boulevard of Heroes." It is heartbreaking. I am generally opposed to how much we spend on defense, but what is the point of having a huge military if it isnt used to protect innocents and punish evil? The entire country is traumatized, and they know that any peace made without security guarantees will be violated again. There is no hope for them. They are inconsolable.
This is actually a pretty shit take. Stop looking at governments through a binary lens. The US and China can both be equally awful in different ways, but this post entirely ignores the massive military buildup China is making as it prepares to take Taiwan and assert itself in Africa and Oceania.
LOVE IT
Right but Golden Gardens is an hour away from Rainier Beach, both are in Seattle. So taking issue with a location that is 30 minutes away from the Coleman Dock on Seattle's waterfront being called "near Seattle" is pretty fucking pedantic, wouldn't you say?
Dudes ignoring the fact that Seattle is 45 minutes from Seattle.
Whoa whoa whoa. Thirty WHOLE minutes?
Many. And they are particularly terrifying. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/06/world/asia/hiroshima-nagasaki-japan-photos.html
show the stakes. Again, many of the Japanese leaders saw their countrymen as an extension of the military, and would gladly have expended it no matter how bloody resistance to an invasion got. We must remember that those at the top are the ones who outlawed listening to Allied broadcasts, who altered or outright prevented the printing of the Potsdam Declaration in public papers, and made reading or possessing leaflets to evacuate the cities a crime.
end anyway. They were already throwing away countless lives, why would this new bomb change that? 2) Announce the bomb, and use it on Japanese leadership or IJA military units. In all likelihood, this might kill the emperor and would remove the the entities with whom you would want around to facilitate an actual surrender. Instead, it might cause a suicidal pseudo-religious fervor among the population to resist. Dropping it on a military target would not underscore the power the weapon or 2/
From all I have experienced and learned, this is my takeaway: if the leaders of the US wanted to insulate themselves against guilt and criticism in the future, they could have done several things, each with their own disadvantages. 1) Announce the bomb publicly with a demonstration for world scientists and journalists - this would probably not change the attitude of the Japanese Supreme War Council, who felt it was the duty of their citizens to perish in defense of the country "to the bitter 1/
http://alumnisandstorm.com/Mascot/MaupinPaper.htm This is worth a read for anyone who lives in the Tri-cities and is confused by the amount of deliberate misinformation that has been spun to protect the origins of the mascot. It's a fascinating read and a genuinely perfect example of how history is re-written to suit whatever narrative or truth we most prefer.