You ever start feeding raccoons, for like years, and then suddenly stop? Even if yours aren’t 60lbs like ours, you’re gonna notice they get a little too personal.

I don’t know why I thought of this. It must be the masks.

Those $2-mil missiles add up fast.

Like coca-cola in Newfoundland. It’s not gonna be the same.

The deal that was already signed? That one?

yearslong

That a big slong.

I wish journalists remembered the 4th-grade and hyphenation. Then again, the nitwit pluralizes mass nouns like “e-mail” with an S, so…

everyday

Did you mean “every day” (i.e daily) here, or did you really intend for “everyday” (i.e mundane) instead?

I’m thinking they’ll disagree, and choose a generation of fury. And I support that.

There’s a lot of people who don’t know what a binary choice is.

You must struggle with evolution; and also pragmatism in general. True?

I love the take where the legal system is our enemy. If you want anarchy, follow McCandless.

Some people have Ski money; but no American has Trauma cash.

They cope with that by absolutely ignoring the risk they’ll become generationally bankrupt from something as common as a car accident.

If he doesn’t start a sentence with “Well, Jesus, fuck, buddy,” then he’s not one of us.

You missed a slash in there.

Ya choose better or you get worse.

Evolution takes a few iterations, but you have to put in the one day of work every 4 years without getting bored of it.

I couldn’t parse that.

monthslong

That’s a slong a month long. Is it missing a hyphen?

They don’t deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.

Right now, though, they’re playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.

It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn’t doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.

Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that’s just math.

Meh. If it was Ai doing the writing, it would have said “firstLY” and “secondLY”. For that matter, so would someone trained as a journalist: they went to school, after all.

If it ain’t got a jack, I gotta send it back.

I’m sure comments like this will inspire people. You’re really good at this.