Hey - why am I not seeing the Ivan’s extra special love brigade thats been so active on here the last couple days all over this story yet? You’d better believe that if these were American missiles, they’d the SCREAMING about how irresponsible we were.

This.

Wait, we do that? Am I supposed to be touching black people to check for smoothness now? Did i miss something? Never, when with a black person, have I even thought to compaire our skin texture - am I wrong?

Similar problems (busted economy, recently ceeded territory), similar leadership structures (dictatorship which depends on insane levels of nationalism to maintain legitimacy), similar strategies. Putin’s love of criminalizing homosexuality does kind of smell like another Reich invention as well, really.

SHUT UP WITH YOUR FACTS! THE LARGE POPULATION OF RUSSIAN FETISHISTS AND AMERICAN ISOLATIONISTS PRESENT ON FA WILL NOT TOLERATE THEM!

I know I’m bringing up an old post here, sorry...

This should have gotten at least a supernumiary.

Turns out boys fast pitch softball is a thing in Missouri, according to the internet.

It’s actually boys high school only. Maybe a regional thing somewhere?

Its just reporting - a quick google search demonstrates death rates have been steady for quite some time.

Significantly higher levels of reporting - football has hovered around .8 deaths per 100,000 participants for quite a while (4th in death rates overall to gymnastics, water polo, and softball - softball being over 2).

In 2013 an average of 8 teens died, per day, in car accidents. The most dangerous thing a high school football player does on Friday is drive to the game.

When did it start?

hahahahahahahahahahaha. Yes. This is the hallmark of sports fans the world over.

I don’t disagree with that, actually.

Good luck, and best wishes.

Oh, I’m under no illusion that they’re better - just that theyre allied. I don’t ascribe to the idea of ‘good guys’ in the middle east, just friendlies. Morality went out the window in middle eastern conflicts a long, long, long time ago.

Number Four - There’s value in being the meanest, toughest, craziest sonofabitch in the room. Nobody, not person effing one, thinks that Isreal will ever hesitate to attack, with wild enthusiasm, anyone they see as a threat. They’re basically a continually cornered badger - and while the bear (see what i did there?)…

But Ivan has a long and storried history of doing so well fighting revolutionaries in Islamic states! I mean, Afganistan turned out well, amirite?

Those decisions are actively prosecuted as war crimes today. Unless our generals want to dance a jig at the end of a rope should they ever leave the US, you’ll be hard pressed to see much area effect bombing of civilians. I’m sorry that we cant have any wholesale slaughter.