• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        Jade Helm, back in '14/'15 was a massive military training exercise across the Southwest. We’d been saber rattling across North Africa and the Middle East for ages, so this was larger than normal but not inconsistent with US foreign policy. Just another day in the paradise of the imperial core.

        But Republican influencers and spokesdorks jumped on it as an actual invasion of the territory being practiced over. Then several of the state governors chimed in, demanding that Obama halt his occupation of their states. We had a big rash of “Should Texas be allowed to secede?!” discourse. Obama issued an apology or some dumb shit. Republicans declared victory. Yadda yadda.

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        God damn people are fucking stupid.

        “Twenty-four years after foreign nationals trained in our flight schools flew planes into our buildings, our leaders are inviting their financiers to train inside our bases. This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.”

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          Ack, I keep reading that as

          We’re being led by officials who no longer [recognize] or [refuse to name] the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

          And I’m thinking “wait, which is it? Are you upset the officials no longer recognize the enemy or because they no longer refuse to name the enemy?”

          I get what they’re trying to say, but it’s not clearly stated.

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      Mate, your civil war has already begun. Most of you don’t realize it yet though, but you will soon enough.

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    Really, never? Seems like he fucks over his people at least once a week.

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class.

    Christ on sale, these people are stupid. The GOP-led Congress could pass a law called the Fuck Our MAGA Simps In Particular Act, signed by Trump, and they’d still blame Obama.

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    Well at least now we know the price of opening an airbase in the US for non-NATO countries

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    For what legitimate purpose could Qatar have to put a military facility on Idaho? And Trump and Hegseth have absolutely no legitimate reason to allow it. Clearly payback for the bribery of the Plane and future bribes.

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    Just checked r/Conservative and they seem completely unfazed. They literally do not care.

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    Well Qatar literally threatened to sell all of their treasury bonds.

    which would have resulted in a permanent 38% drop in the dollar in 24 hours

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      Now everyone knows how weak we are and exactly how to get whatever they want from us.

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        Go look up how long it took Trump to call Xi after China hit the off button for rare earth metals.

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        Lol … most powerful military in history and all you have to do defeat it is … threaten to stop investing in them.

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      That’s ridiculous. Qatar holds like a billion or two in US Treasuries, which isn’t even a minute’s worth of trading volume. Japan, China, UK, all closer to a trillion, would be a serious threat. Even UAE at $100B. But Qatar?

      No, if anything this is payback for the nice airplane Qatar gave to “Trump Library.”

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      Tinfoil hat: the threat was just a ruse to provide plausible deniability. The actual reason they are allowed to establish an air base on US soil is because they gave Trump a $400M airplane.

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      So you have a source? Because this would be amazing to have in a discussion with some maga idiots I know.

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      Is there a source on that? Not saying it’s not true I’m just having trouble finding anything atm

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      Google AI (sorry) indicates this is a false story. “Reports of Qatar threatening to sell all its U.S. Treasury bonds are false. The rumor, which gained some traction in September 2025, appears to have stemmed from a misinterpretation of remarks made by a Qatari official.” I asked it, “did qatar threaten to sell all its us treasury bonds?”

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          how does one even know and verify what an LLM’s “sources” are? wouldn’t it just vomit out whatever response and then find “sources” that happen to match its stupid output after the fact?

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            Precisely my point. But if it is correct and can link to an authoritative source (eg. a news article), that is relatively easy to verify.

            How much you can trust a news article is still up for debate.

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              so then all the value it brings is the exact same thing search engines have already been doing for decades.

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            Agreed, I’m more worried about people blindly trusting AI than I am about this particular situation.

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    I remember what happened the last time US trained middle eastern pilots in the late 90s / very early 2000s

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      I remember people online said some racist shit that they had to tone down the training because Arabs are stupid and can’t fly.

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        I don’t want to take the bait, and I don’t even believe it…but:

        they can fly but they can’t land.

        Fuck you for making me do that.

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        In case you’re actually that ignorant, they’re referring to 9/11

        Pretty racist but that’s still the point.

        You may also be confusing this racism with the racism against Korean pilots but that’s a whole different asshole.

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    I just love, that even in this, they seem to find a way to still, blame Obama and Biden for it.

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.

    The cope is strong with that one.

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      Well most of them have brain damage, and still think he gives a fuck about anything other than being a soft richie-bitch. It’d be funny if it weren’t so sad. No, I was wrong, it’s still fucking hilarious.

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        Given how many kids he has fucked his entire life and lifelong friendship with Epstein (who himself was a known pervert even back in his high school days), and his business failures and need for money that often came from the Mafia or foreign sources such as Russia, the fucker doesn’t have skeletons in the closet. He has more skeletons around his home and yard than a skeleton-obsessed Halloween decorator.

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      I’m surprised you’re confused about their surprise. When do they think critically about anything? They are racist and hateful. When (not if) things finally come around to hurt them they will cry foul. They deserve all their suffering.

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    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.’

    Wut.

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    Also, in totally unrelated news, Trump’s personal wealth jumped by another half billion dollars thanks to his personal cryptocurrency suddenly going up in value.

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    And yet as outraged as they are, MAGA still finds a way to say this is the Democrats’ fault:

    This is what happens when you gut national-security training, scrub every mention of Islam, jihad, and Sharia from the manuals, and let Obama- and Biden-era bureaucrats turn counterterrorism into cultural sensitivity class. We’re being led by officials who no longer recognize or refuse to name the enemy they’re inviting into our own backyard.’

    🙄