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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?

— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons...

-- Wilfred Owen

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[-] swiftcasty@kbin.social 30 points 3 years ago

right now, we are so woke in the military we’re losing recruits right and left

Tuberville is blocking military promotions. If officers are not regularly promoted, they are discharged from the military. Tuberville is contributing to the discharge of US military persons and blaming it on "wokeness".

We’ve got people doing poems on aircraft carriers over the loudspeaker.

Tuberville portrays this as a problem contributing to "wokeness". As evidenced by this thread, there is a long storied tradition of war poetry. Including famous military persons.

After Ingraham asked, “Could we confidently take on China?” Tuberville replied, “Oh no. Oh no. No, and we’re running Russia into China."

This is false, China is warming to Ukraine. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-09-06/france-sees-china-easing-stance-on-ukraine-before-g-20-summit#xj4y7vzkg

"They’re combining up and now BRICS is very, very concerning to me because they’re controlling all the petroleum in the world.”

Blatantly false. https://investingnews.com/daily/resource-investing/energy-investing/oil-and-gas-investing/top-oil-producing-countries/

Tuberville is either lying or misinformed. Debunking these comments took some minor work and taught me how effective it is to spew bullshit.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago

Break the system, complain that the system is broken and blame it on the Dems, repeat. He's only fooling the morons but unfortunately, they vote too.

[-] stigmata@lemmy.world 8 points 3 years ago

Breaking shit and blaming it on Democrats has been the Republican MO since I've started voting.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 6 points 3 years ago

He's a Republican correct? If so, you don't need to ask if he's knowingly lying, that answer is always "yes" especially if he's a guest on Propaganda Now™©®

[-] Spuddaccino@reddthat.com 4 points 3 years ago

This is false. Republicans don't always lie. If they did, literally nobody would believe them.

What they do is actually far worse. They tell just enough truth to make their lies seem believable. That's why they end up being dangerous: because they're believable.

I know you don't believe them or find them believable, but enough people do that they keep getting elected.

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 3 years ago

I know you don’t believe them or find them believable, but enough people do that they keep getting elected.

More accurately enough people blindly vote with party lines to keep Republicans in power

[-] bemenaker@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

The republicans don't write the talking points, right wing media does. The politicians just parrot them. Right wing media dictates what the party is saying.

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 years ago

This guy is human trash

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