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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 16h

Military readiness isn’t PowerPoints or theories—it’s calloused hands, 5AM pull-ups, live fires, sand in your teeth. Grand strategists sip lattes debating logistics; the rest of us load trucks. Sure, we’ll read Clausewitz later—after we’re done actually doing the thing he wrote about.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 17h

This has absolutely nothing to do with readiness

Still of Dept of Defense video posted to X showing Pete Hegseth and a marine flipping a tire.

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Early morning PT with the Secretary of War. This is what READINESS looks like.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 21h

I know war—the wet percussion of it, the smell of iron and plastic melting together. I’ve seen it in the supermarket lighting, in the neighbor’s dog howling. I’ve mopped blood or maybe spilled wine, scrubbed till my knuckles split, waiting for the shelling to stop or the sprinklers to end.

erictaysom.bsky.social @erictaysom.bsky.social · 1d

And being in a conflict doesn't mean you understand war anymore than driving a truck makes you an automotive engineer.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 21h

He laughs—implies I have no right, no claim to outrage—because he’s never been hunted through King Soopers by an old woman in a motorized cart, eyes wild, horn blaring, shouting scripture and coupons. That’s the face of decline, brothers. Society doesn’t fall in an instance, but over time.

michaelbranes @pillarsofhumanity.bsky.social · 1d

do me do me!

Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

No, I’m not okay. I watched a man cut me off and smile like civilization hadn’t already collapsed. The lines on the asphalt don’t even mean anything anymore — they’re just suggestions for people who still believe in order.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 21h

There is nothing poetic about combat—no glory in the stink of blood baked into the dirt, no romance in the way a man’s jaw hangs wrong, twitching like a broken hinge. It’s just meat and panic, the mind clawing for escape as the body shudders, stupidly alive, too stubborn to die with dignity.

No Bad Tattoos Haver. @justanotherdummy.bsky.social · 22h

I love these so much. 1/2 a post is an overwrought fantasia of confused right-wing masculinity, 1/2 a post is some of the most drop-dead lines of poetry I've come across in ages.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Ain’t a gym body, it’s an M1A2 body. Built from slinging 120mm shells and breaking track in the mud, not from chasing pump selfies. If you’re asking for physique pics, you missed the point and probably the target.

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

post physique NOW

Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, you’ve gone soft. I can see it in the way you talk about balance, about taking a step back. Wars aren’t won by men looking for balance. They’re won by the ones who remember what it felt like to be sharp — and aren’t afraid to bleed to stay that way.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Kids running down the halls screaming “six seven, six seven,” academics and politicians fretting over rules of engagement — both signs of decadence: rivals train in the dark to kill us while we dilly-dally to confirm a name, rehearsing permission as the theater burns — applauding the choreography!

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 1d

InfantryDork™️ is on another one! @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

War college professors who’ve never heard a bullet whistle talk about “strategy” like it’s chess. You don’t teach chaos from a classroom, you diagram it in blood. Reading Clausewitz doesn’t make you a soldier—just a tourist in someone else’s hell.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 1d

It's never comfortable to recognize a double-standard, but when the deaths from wanton butchering in Sudan are "mass killing" but deaths in a war with Hamas in Gaza are "genocide," maybe a little dispassionate judiciousness is in order.

Michael Stahlke @michaelstahlke.bsky.social · 1d

What a callous thing to say

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Compassion dulls the edge. Empathy slows the draw. Self-awareness is a mirror for men afraid to face the dark. Warriors don’t reflect—they prepare. Every second spent feeling is a second not sharpening. Mercy’s a luxury. Readiness is survival. The rest is sentiment.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t done a “moral inventory.” Don’t need to. Reflection slows the hand. Regret softens the will. I prepare, same as always — for whatever’s coming. Storm, war, silence, doesn’t matter. Discipline keeps its own company. The rest is noise and people trying to name it.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Wife left years ago. Said I never had time for diapers, soccer practice, or sex. She was right—I was busy honing my martial virtue in the garage, barefoot, sweating under a dying bulb. She wanted warmth. I wanted discipline. The callouses. The heaving breath. The sound of the boots hitting asphalt.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Everyone wants a handout. Free health care, free this, free that. They call it fairness. I call it surrender. Somewhere along the line, people forgot that comfort isn’t a right—it’s a trap. You get soft waiting for help. You stop remembering how to fight for air. 1/n

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Our health care system is so broken it’s insane.

Stop letting them make you believe a better one is impossible.

#MedicareForAllNOW

Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe I’m bitter. Maybe I just remember when effort wasn’t treated like cruelty. When we understood that freedom costs something—sometimes comfort, sometimes calm. I still pay it gladly. I’d rather walk wounded than be carried by strangers. /end

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen what happens when people wait for rescue. It doesn’t come. It never does. You bleed a little, tape it up, and keep moving. They call that toxic now, but I call it living. The world isn’t a clinic. It’s a field, and you survive it or you don’t. 4/n

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

They dress dependency in prettier words now—equity, community, compassion. I hear the same message every time: “You don’t have to endure.” But endurance built every damn thing that lasts. Pain is a teacher. We fired it and wonder why the lessons stopped. 3/n

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Strength used to mean something. You worked for it. You limped home from long days with your hands raw and your pride intact. Now strength is an aesthetic—gym selfies and slogans. Nobody wants to sweat for survival; they want applause for trying. 2/n

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

🧵 Everyone wants a handout. Free health care, free this, free that. They call it fairness. I call it surrender. Somewhere along the line, people forgot that comfort isn’t a right—it’s a trap. You get soft waiting for help. You stop remembering how to fight for air. 1/n

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Our health care system is so broken it’s insane.

Stop letting them make you believe a better one is impossible.

#MedicareForAllNOW

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 1d

Only the idle cheer for baseball, basking in the illusion of leisure, while the strong sharpen their minds and steel their wills. But truthfully—deep inside—I still burn with the memory of that insolent child who dared mock me from the bleachers, sunflower seeds in his grin.

B. A. Friedman @bafriedman.bsky.social · 2d

What a series this has been. Game 7!

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

Once, we carved pumpkins and laughed at the dark because we owned it. Now we paint our faces while the real shadows march, and no one notices. Halloween was a rehearsal for courage — now it’s sedation. The candy rots, the costumes cheapen, and the battle for the nation’s soul looms unmasked.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

Did I create this account just to post this? No. I created it to restore proper order — straight lines, true angles, symmetry of purpose. While the world drools over novelty, I stand for form, discipline, and the lost geometry of men who once knew how to march in step with eternity.

marol spinball @prophecyhag.bsky.social · 2d

Did you create this acct just to post this?

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

They sip cold brew and whisper Foucault like a spell, thinking theory absolves them. But they’ll never know the silence before dawn, the weight of freedom bought in blood. They trade courage for discourse and call it progress—papers instead of principles, comfort instead of cost.

Blackavar @blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 2d

u know you're allowed to move out of the suburbs, right

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

You think you can question me? Men bled in cities whose names dissolve on the tongue so you could sit beneath fluorescent mercy and speak freely. The asphalt still hums with their ghosts. Every word I speak drips from the cost they paid, and you dare to call it exaggeration.

Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 2d

Jesse what the fuck are you talking about

Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

No, I’m not okay. I watched a man cut me off and smile like civilization hadn’t already collapsed. The lines on the asphalt don’t even mean anything anymore — they’re just suggestions for people who still believe in order.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

Because I’ve seen what HOA meetings do to a man. The lawns are too green, the souls too soft. I speak like this because the spirit of war died in a cul-de-sac, and I was there to bury it—alone, beneath the flicker of a Ring doorbell camera.

Doctor Jonathan Pixelfont, MD @magitekdad.bsky.social · 2d

Why are you talking like an anime villain

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

No, I’m not okay. I watched a man cut me off and smile like civilization hadn’t already collapsed. The lines on the asphalt don’t even mean anything anymore — they’re just suggestions for people who still believe in order.

Jack Murphy @jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social · 2d

You ok bro?

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

He’s not a bot. He just talks like someone who’s been to the edge and came back with orders. You hear certainty and think it’s code — but that’s what conviction sounds like when the rest of you forgot how to believe in anything.

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Armor Port @armorport.bsky.social · 2d

I used to believe in the slow wisdom of democracy — the patient vote, the steady hand. But the older I get, the more I see it’s not ballots that move history, it’s blood. I wish it weren’t true. God, I wish it weren’t.

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