Mighty Miscreant

I went straight to silence, with Gary's arm in a cast and he was even kind of doing the voice from Buffalo Bill.

*God slowly moves towards the door, avoiding eye contact

Well, in simple terms of production, a drone costs about half as much to produce, and the Air Force is focusing on bringing that price down. I don't know how the per-hour costs work out in comparison between the two, though.

It can be two things!

Yep, I've been reading him (and a few other blogs in his sphere) for about a year now, and it's helped me a lot in terms of conveying what I actually want to convey.

The Original Meditation on Molok is one of my favorites, just an incredible articulation of big complex issues that we need to think about.

I can understand that. I think we're on pretty similar pages in terms of why people insist on bringing it up so often online. But we have diverging ideas on how it works (or ought to work) out in the world.

The one that comes first to mind is if you're a black man in a white-dominated area. Rape allegations against black men have been issues of contention in the past [https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…].

I would agree that there's a disproportionate representation of false rape accusations in the whole conversation of rape. There are definitely assholes out there happy to use highly exceptional cases to give actual issues the runaround.

It makes for some engaging reading, doesn't it?

I guess from my perspective it looks less like you're simply mocking assholes, and more like you're saying a thing isn't real/doesn't happen often enough to be a legit concern to non-assholes.

No, but it seems pretty germane to the conversation when the conversation is "How Ridiculous Are False Rape Accusations?" Yes, assholes will bring it up at the drop of a hat as a distraction, but please keep in mind that Tumblr Feminism doesn't lack for assholes of its own who gleefully do the same elsewhere on their…

Bukowski is being a dick about it, but at least part of what he's saying is right.

At certain tasks, sure. But those forces are necessarily pretty small, meaning they can't cover as much terrain, their response and logistics are more tricky, and there are heavy long-term effects of putting that kind of stress on people.

I'm increasingly skeptical about how important it is to hold the actual territory on a map, considering the state of modern combat.

"I guess the future could suck less than today, if we're lucky."

Accountability is the big linchpin for me as well, and I see where you're coming from on the Lack of Consequence issue.

That's a fair point, but in turn, drone warfare eliminates the need to engage in long battles to hold symbolic territories, and focuses loss of life on the upper echelons rather than rank-and-file troops. Also, how many deaths do you think the 'PR issues at home' actually prevent?

Oversimplification of a complex matter, in my opinion.