Joshua Bailey
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Science & conflict studies nerd / Depressed & alienated Baltimoron / Mutualist /YPG veteran Jin jiyan azadî My idiosyncratic views are my own
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"How did Democrats lose abortion rights?"
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@LORRAKON
The Rock hadn't smelled something cooking like this since he left the WWE in 2004
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@Justice_forum
What are you going on about
Rioting is one of the most authentically French cultural customs one can engage in
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My new conspiracy theory is that the US government is scared of us owning Hiluxes for the same reason they're scared of us owning AR-15s 🥷
This could be you if your government didnt hate you.
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If your kids' Granddad was slotting Nazis don't throw away the war spoils
Why are people like this
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They may both have the same bedlength to haul dirt on the farm but only one of these has the weight I need to haul a family of five into the afterlife after I slip on black ice and crash into a minivan
Mildly interesting: these two trucks have the same bed length.
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@amindfulmanlet
Probably the closest I've ever been to feeling accepted in was in high school where I was the only white boy in most of my classes
Once I went to a college surrounded by wealthy white folks they made it clear that I was just white trash to them
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Friendly reminder that the Ukrainians were also the ones who jailbroke the proprietary John Deere software so they didn't need to take it to a John Deere dealership for any & every repair
Hoist the black flag, Ukrainian farmers 🏴
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@jeremythunder
Not Italian myself but the difference between the Italy-Italians I met overseas and the Italian-Americans I've known is night and day.
American: I'm Italian!
Italian: Yes, but from where?
American: From Italy!
Italian: But where in Italy?
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@anthonyocampo
To think these folks probably thought they could impress this successful American chef with talk of their maids and he just crushed their hopes and dreams
Rest easy Anthony Bourdain
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@RoyReadsManga
@shaTIRED
We are witnessing the birth of new fusion cuisine in real time ladies and gentlemen
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The chad LGBT ally guntuber Paul Harrell versus the virgin homophobe guntuber Lucas Botkin
@austinwiltshire
Paul Harrell answered my e-mail when I was starting out, helped me get started! He's cool with queer folk existing and arming up.
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"You want expensive, dangerous toys - you’ve got to carry insurance proportionate to the risk it poses based on your background."
Gun insurance companies gonna be like:
I have long believed forcing gun owners to carry liability insurance is the most pragmatic way to reduce gun violence.
You want expensive, dangerous toys - you’ve got to carry insurance proportionate to the risk it poses based on your background.
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@BoredisSam
Nothing too serious as far as I remember
Everyone just assumed Roe v. Wade was safe and the Republicans would never flip the courts conservative
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Myself and basically every other YPG veteran just learned yesterday that we lost another one of ours over a year ago. He had served four years in the SDF but passed away about a month after coming home.
Rest easy Reşid 💔
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In Tabqa our team breached the side of an apartment building under ISIS sniper fire, then cleared the rest of the building in like 20 mins
We didn't have a $4.1 mil budget either, just 50-yr old AKs, sneakers, airsoft rigs, & bombs made of gunpowder & wrapping tape
Grow a pair
@braxton_mccoy
Anyone who's been overseas fighting should know dam well why those cops were there holding the parents back. It ain't rocket science. At the end of the day, I'm going home no matter what. We can 100% be sympathetic, but not one of those parents rushing in would have helped.
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Eh fuck it, I'm making a thread about stuff that Garand Thumb missed on his weak urban evasion vid with my insights as both someone who grew up as inner city white trash, lived through Baltimore's 2015 unrest, & saw a little urban SHTF overseas
Garand Thumb urban evasion vid was basically the same old for conservative rural dudes trying to flee the city for their homes in the sticks, not very useful for anyone else
Also doesn't help they don't specify what is good for gangs v. state actors
Maybe I'll make a thread
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@KyleTrainEmoji
Have you ever heard the story about the time a town in West Virginia convinced the USSR to build them a bridge
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@IwriteOK
The funny thing about cats is that the only reason we can keep any of them safely is because they are too small to kill us with their "playing"
Also have to note rusty spotted cats, the other contender for smallest little guy
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Going out on a limb & suggesting if we had organized, trained citizen militias like liberals mockingly suggest they may have had a faster response time than the police did in Uvalde
Doubtful these grannies would have let a guy shoot outside a school for 12 mins & then go in
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A thread of comrades and brothers in arms I lost over the years since it's Memorial Day
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I really wonder who seriously believes that Muammar Gaddafi had enough clout to unify Africa under his leadership
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@boygrrI
Imagine joining Catholicism and only realizing afterwards the reason for the Schism of 1054
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@Max_Shields
@rechelon
I was in Syria in 2017 & I have had literal nightmares about this this past year
I'm a gun nut who doesn't trust Dems too but most these folks don't know what they're asking for, even vets I've seen talking shit think it'll be nice & organized like it was in the fucking Army
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If I were an FFL I would have a trash AR pistol like this one on display and if anyone were to show interest in it I'd take that as proof that they are too stupid to safely use a firearm and bar them from buying any firearm in the store
What do y'all think about the people carrying Micro AR ?
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@Manga_Kamen
Showing my age here but there was something wonderfully romantic about walking around in Pokemon Silver late at night, especially since the world was now in color & the real-time concept was then new
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@ettingermentum
If they were to do this one simple trick Israel would finally be a legitimate Middle Eastern country
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I already did that one in Raqqa actually 😂
We are one “all your base are belong to us” away from this being the most online conflict of all time.
The ball is in your court, Syria.
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@night_girl_02
@OcularSteak
@szczurestwo
@Kele_kelo
@SparrowLucero
This still looks like practical effects which is successful CGI as far as I'm concerned
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@SadMike5
If any of my great-grand nephews or nieces toss my damn ISIS flag I'd be salty, I'd rather they keep that as a memento of the kinds of fuckers our people took down and that they can do it too
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Since he mentioned Kurdistan, there's no contradiction in saying people should be able to preserve their homeland & culture while stating ethnic nation-states have been the biggest drivers of mass murder over the last 200 years, democratic confederalism seeks to address this
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@cheapncheerless
Would 100% rather clear trenches with a battle-hardened pink haired lady than Ian Miles Cheong
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I would not advise joining the PKK because it's a lifetime commitment and a felony but imagine the tricks you could learn about warfighting from those dudes
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What were the Minions doing between 1939 and 1945
Why does this photo look like the Minions are marching to demand genocide?
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It's 15 years since the passing of Murray Bookchin
Just wanna say thanks for giving goofballs like us a reason to dream for a better world
(This is an old photo from the Raqqa stadium after the liberation)
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The algorithm is trying to give me an aneurysm with this clown again
If you clear corners like this irl you will absolutely fucking die in CQB
T.REX ARMS
As a material to learn shooting and tactics
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A bit heavy on ideological terminology but explains how primary responsibility for keeping the peace has been transferred from police to patrols of armed, trained, and organized members of the community in Rojava.
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Freindly reminder that if Biden allows Erdogan to invade more of NE Syria for Turkish permission to let Sweden & Finland into NATO, these will be the lovely folks our valued NATO ally will deploy to murder, kidnap, displace, and rape the US's Syrian allies
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@VolguusZil41112
There's a difference between holding on to Nazi memorabilia because your dad was a Nazi versus your dad and his buddies pulling it off of dead Nazis tho
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@esw0rp
@jeremythunder
I don't feel particularly English from my ancestors that came here in the 1680s but for Irish, Italians, Jews, etc. it's more recent
Tbf when these folks abandon their heritages here & just identify as white they celebrate that "heritage" by viciously hating black & brown folks
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For everyone cheering the Democratic majority in DC tonight as some kind of final victory
We are entering extremely dangerous territory
And here it is. The "America first" "conservative" crowd no longer backs the blue if they can't sick the cops on black people.
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I took part in armed revolutionary struggle a number of years ago now
Most of the few photos of me sincerely smiling are from Syria, but not sure I could call it "fun" b/c there was always the thought that we could all die very horribly
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Hey guys let's check in on how based trad Hungary is doing preserving traditional Christian family values
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For anyone who is curious how real guerrilla armies train & utilize women in mixed-gender environments, the policy for YPG & YPJ is simply that YPJ visit YPG units in pairs at minimum so no woman is ever alone with the men
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To all the single women out there. I wish we could have you at our events. Women need to be training too. But this is not the environment for single women.
I am sorry but this is not the environment for you to be alone. It’s just not. ESPECIALLY open events. I don’t know these
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Tfw all the GunTubers always simp for Rhodesian light infantry but never simp for YPG light infantry 😐
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@YasujiroBozo
Me reading James Joyce's letters about huffing the farts of the woman he would spend the rest of his life with and growing terrified of what I might have to do find true love
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Reminder these are also the folks buying up all the homes
Read the room and realize what corporatism does to your society, conservatives
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Worth noting about opsec if you live in a liberal state
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If anyone is curious, while our unit was primarily known as the International Tabur, our internal name within the YPG was Tabur Şehid Ivana Hoffman, after the first Western female volunteer killed in the Rojava Revolution
Today is the birthday of Ivana Hoffman. As an internationalist she has decided to support the revolution in Rojava & fight for a solidary society. As member of MLKP she fought alongside the YPG & YPJ against ISIS. 2015, she fall in battle against ISIS in
#Rojava
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Şehîd namirin!🌹
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@NotoriousPBG
Another thing to consider is that even if intelligent life develops, do they have the dexterity to build civilizations that can build rockets and radios and artificial lighting that could be detected
Dolphins could be as smart as us but they've got no hands
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I didn't know these two, they were killed in action a month before I arrived, but I was given their names to carry as my own through my time in YPG to ensure they were not forgotten
Thankfully FB reminded me b/c I do like to take a moment to reflect whenever the day comes around
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Learn how to organize and use an IFAK
I'd be never feel comfortable telling someone that they need to buy a gun if they weren't already inclined to do so, but there's no harm whatsoever for owning the means to assist a casualty and knowing how to use it
Here is a centralized article about building an Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) and learning to use it. This series will continue to grow with time to include various skills for revolutionary survival.
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Besides Trump lying off his ass - he endorsed red flag laws & gave ATF the ability to ban bumpstocks - it's also kind of pathetic that the GOP can't offer any pro-2A solutions for people legitimately scared of gun violence
Things GOP could advocate that don't involve bans:
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Trump brags about doing “nothing” to save children from being shot in school: "There was great pressure on me, having to do with guns. We did nothing"
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@CiaranDold
Imagine having the privilege of being able to fly anywhere for $20 and not doing it just to virtue signal about it in an article no one will read
Here in America a plane ticket costs a whole paycheck
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@CampbellxEmma
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I was about to say myself, gonna suck when Ancestry shuffles the numbers around again 😆
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@PolRepFemboy
@Tankgorl
You should have seen my brother's reaction when he learned the Russian Army doesn't use pallets
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Tfw you got triggered by people taking their kids to Drag Queen Story Hour back in 2018 because degeneracy so now you stan the dude who used dogs to rape women, forced family members to commit incest, and operated a Nazi child rape camp
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Fwiw Sharia permits you to eat non-halal food if it means you won't starve to deatb
“If you’re gonna bitch about the food someone gives you, you clearly aren’t that hungry.” - Moms everywhere
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It's almost like raising your kids in a well-off, privileged environment means your kids are more likely to embrace their well-connected liberal friends' politics rather than your working-class Marxism.
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Today is a friendly reminder to your chud friends and loved ones that confederacy in Rojava has lasted more than twice as long than it did in the US South
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Who would have thought that a battle in some tiny town in eastern Syria that nobody cared about back in 2018 would spawn a beef that would end an armed uprising at the gates of Moscow in 2023
1/ The bitter feud between Yevgeny Prigozhin, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov appears to have originated in Syria, as an interesting personal account by Prigozhin of the February 2018 Battle of Khasham illustrates. ⬇️
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European security officials have now named Russian diver Samuil Hyderov as a lead suspect in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline
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The "No one needs a gun, just call the cops" crowd gonna have a hard time once jammers become mainstream among American gangs
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@Iraqveteran8888
The last time our country did things like this it involved lots of usually black folks getting hung off of trees without a fair trial
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@BoredisSam
If it had been enshrined in federal law the GOP would have needed enough votes to kill a filibuster to overturn it
Instead SCOTUS killed Roe v. Wade and all the pre-made state-level anti-abortion laws took immediate effect
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First he gave everyone assault rifles and now he's cutting taxes down to nothing
Unintentional first Libertarian president Zelensky
⚡️It looks like Zelensky canceled taxes amid war.
“Instead of VAT & income tax we give you a 2% tax rate and simplified accounting. For small businesses - we set a voluntary payment of a single tax. If you can - pay. You can't - no questions asked,” said Zelensky.
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@catherineesson
@nonbinarybooty
Keegan-Michael Key is also a hell of a character actor, don't leave him out
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@idrinksoymilk
Why the hell would anyone go out of their way to overturn this law so they can specifically adopt Native babies
My white ass doesn't understand this either
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This is the official headwear of the Texas Foreign Legion
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One Arab Muslim YPG I was with in Raqqa specifically asked me & the other Internationals I was with to let folks back home know that ISIS wasn't real Islam
Me & my friends saw where they filmed those videos firsthand, most of our people that died fighting ISIS were Muslim
Remember when ISIS burned Yezidi civilians alive, and millions of muslims worldwide marched in protest?
Yeah, me neither.
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So Osama bin Laden is dead, which means it's been ten years since I cleared out my voice mail because one of the saved voice mails is my dad telling me that bin Laden is dead
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A whole bunch of people in the replies who have never been to the Middle East and don't know that bootleg 5.11 merch is EVERYWHERE over there
Do “asylum seekers” from Syria normally wear clothes from 5.11?
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If you don't already know, the People's Republic of China has sold arms to the Philippines to be used against these Maoist rebels
Because international solidarity and all
54 years ago today, one of the world's longest-running & still active communist guerrilla armies was founded, the Philippines' New People's Army (NPA). Starting with 60 fighters, today the NPA counts thousands in its ranks & has built a mass base of several million nationwide.🧵
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@IwriteOK
We also need an interview in full makeup with the drag queen that stomped the shit out of him in heels, we need Divine justice
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Capitalists: Co-ops don't scale well!
..But they routinely live longer than corporations.
Marxists: Co-ops are inefficient compared to central planning!
...But every attempt at central planning reverted to state capitalism within half a century.
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Seven years since Rojava & almost as long since it seemed like anyone cared, so seeing the kids write "Jin, jîyan, azadî" makes me feel warm & fuzzy, if old
So much leftie activism here dominated by campist ML parties, hope the kids actually learn about democratic confederalism
i was just sent a photo from inside the Portland State University library occupation, which heavily expects a raid soon
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12:36pm. a little girl quietly pleads with the 911 operator to “please send the police now.” she has been under siege for an hour. the hallway is full of cops who’ve spent that hour letting her fend for herself as her classmates bleed out.
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@Abi32641
@Zephronic
@DreamLeaf5
They didn't make any exceptions, these nasty mfs gonna knock up their own moms, sisters, and daughters
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Andok Çotkar, born Konstantin Gedig
Our medic in Raqqa, had previously served with the Tactical Medical Unit before us, had a dry sense of humor & loved his job
Survived a shot to the helmet, a shot to his behind, took an airstrike to stop him
KIA in Serekaniye in October 2019
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