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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm a bit confused.
Now granted Im an 80 year old woman who never served in our armed forces, but I keep having this confusion. As far as Ive been able to tell from reading and listening the war in Ukraine has pretty much demonstrated the use of technology, ie drones being superior to throwing men with weapons at each other. If thats true how come our secretary of defense/war is so focused on creating the master soldier race with oodles of testosterone. Arent we a few years behind?
wcmagumba
(7,176 posts)Biophilic
(6,868 posts)And looks are so important when sending men and women off to die.
NewLarry
(181 posts)calimary
(91,799 posts)Well done!
2naSalit
(105,387 posts)Exactly the same thing.
wnylib
(27,112 posts)ICE agents, too. They are boots on the ground.
From their aggressive behavior, who knows? Maybe ICE is already getting testosterone to make them so "testy."
So maybe some menopausal women who are taking hormone replacement pills can make friends with ICE agents and slip some estrogen into their coffee. Call them thevsenior women's resistance brigade.
Srkdqltr
(10,267 posts)bucolic_frolic
(56,560 posts)far better. The economy would stop if we switched to drones, and dividend payments in Republican investment accounts would dwindle.
Biophilic
(6,868 posts)H2O Man
(79,554 posts)The answer is that the fella who is the secretary of rage is for all practical purposes a little boy inhabiting a cinematic concept, no different that a five year old playing any number of fictional super heroes.
Biophilic
(6,868 posts)H2O Man
(79,554 posts)I remember back in 1974, in one of the cassette tapes RubinCarter sent me (when we were able to commnicate that way) when Rubin Carter was telling me about inmates existing in cinematic concepts after the Friday night movie in Rahway state prison. He said they would pretend to be Shaft one week, Superfly the next. The fella in the rage department's mind is in prison.
FakeNoose
(43,497 posts)It seems like maybe he believes that gay men have lower testosterone levels? I don't know if that's true, but if he believes it, he might try to use that as an excuse.
flvegan
(66,783 posts)ananda
(35,998 posts)...
Norrrm
(6,316 posts)They operate with Elon's Starlink.
Like Trump removing support from those he does not like, Musk could remove Starlink's capability.
I believe America has its own satellite systems for the same capabilities.
3825-87867
(2,073 posts)Shut down Starlink, Zelenskyy could lose Ukraine. There would be no where on earth Musk would be safe regardless of how many guards he has. Musk could never stay locked up in his fortress of solitude forever and sooner or later even he realizes something would happen...probably first to someone close to him.
Life isn't a storybook.
Tesha
(21,187 posts)Sad
fierywoman
(8,682 posts)ashredux
(3,027 posts)Some fat guy in a darkened office in Florida can fly a. drone that will take out a of the enemy . And he may weigh 250 pounds .. welcome to the new warfare soldier
SCantiGOP
(14,808 posts)Our Armed Forces are being run by a Fox News charlatan, not a trained and experienced military professional.
God help us if we were to get involved in a war with a real opponent.
relogic
(467 posts)With these testosterone-jacked-up, rugged marlboro prancer show ponies there is the notion that their elastic doctrines permit them getting high on the highest grade of hormone and it aint the Holy Ghost.
58Sunliner
(6,481 posts)Matthew28
(1,951 posts)that believes that men should act like spartans.I am serious...
I agree with the drones being far better then a dead father or son. But most of their hatred of trans people is literally the same shit as sparta had and defined their society.
ZDU
(1,693 posts)And to sow fear within the U.S. of A. At least that's my intuition...
warmfeet
(3,386 posts)This reality, our reality, is quite different than the reality some 35% are experiencing. Confusion is something I would be very happy with right now. I am entirely puzzled by what is going on now.
Cirsium
(4,361 posts)He is creating the master soldier race with oodles of testosterone to use against us.
swong19104
(692 posts)And manly men gets his sword stiff.
paleotn
(23,295 posts)They simply default to what they know which is many times outdated. And you care correct. There has been a complete ground shift in warfare. The concept of an aerial minefield using hundreds of drones to down jet aircraft, cruise missiles and other drones has now become a thing. Something few ever dreamed of a short 10 years ago. Ukraine has worked on it. There's rumors the Iranians are deploying the same. It doesn't take much to down a jet aircraft. Simply ingesting a drone through an engine air intake is all that's required. Although a little bit of explosives increases the probabilities. It's like flak with a brain. Damn scary times.
https://nextgendefense.com/ukraine-airborne-minefield-drones/
ToxMarz
(3,260 posts)Sogo
(7,389 posts)nt.
IbogaProject
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And worse schemes. Yes IBM's punch cards were a tool in the holocost but the work was done by men and women working together for total evil. This high-t thing lines up w the push to expand the military to "fight communism at home" which the admin has openly said this week.