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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper)

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Fed defense university faculty, Security Cooperation pro, international relations, diplomacy, diverse democracy enjoyer, some boardgames, human

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · Feb 15

My internal monologue is just a medley of the angry Kendrick bars

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 6h

"Mr. President, Sir. We need you to just move a little bit so we can confirm you're in here. They went a little light on the orange and you're blending in with all the greige."

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 7h

Really have to appreciate the absolute confirmation of journalism's "if it's not served in front of my eyeballs on X the everything app, does it real?," worst impulse.

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 7h

My only **minor** disagreement is that fare jumping should be abolished as a crime (like jaywalking) and public transportation should be no cost at point of service.

Also, it is unethical to insist on backing into a spot in a parking garage if people are waiting for you.

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 7h

Yes! I am 90% certain the Army and USCG made accounts, but sure Space Force did - but it's gone now.

The Services made accounts here during the pre-NoKings executive branch invasion, posted nothing, and then deleted the accounts hours later.

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 9h

Others are saying it's 100% routine, so there's that

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 10h

I've only been to Pendleton once, but am I crazy or can the Marine Corps truly not livefire artillery without high-arcing it over the coastal highway?

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 12h

Case in point (and I know it's NYC not the national org, but still No Kings willing to put the logo on it), but "No Billionaires" was not a moderate stance in Jan 2020, and things like No Kings is pushing that into the mainstream

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 14h

I'm sorry, OP is being absolutely delusional bc these protests and the spaces and grassroots groups and leaders that are growing out of them are not having their appetite whet by this. The opposite is true! People are hungry for more action, and No Kings is not moderating center-left opinion.

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 14h

Just put it on the Qataris tab

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 16h

A pinball tilt sensor for the Costco carts and they give you $5 at checkout if you don't set it off while shopping

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

Homeland and hemisphere, and by that I mean we will destroy all of our trust and credibility in both of those places first

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

Super, it came with a threat to use military force against "Columbia" bc of course it did.

Stop the killing fields or we will create fields where we will kill people in your country.

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

Civ VI ass diplomacy

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

It's like we're unlearning the entire development of the 18th Century dispassionate, professional diplomatic service.

"L'État, c'est moi," indeed. Maybe No Kings is onto something.

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

This is just personalist foreign policy too, that actively hurts the security and prosperity of the US. Trump does this bc he sees it as an afront to him personally. There's no strategic consideration, no consultation with the NSC (lol) or SOUTHCOM (double lol).

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 18h

But we have a good security cooperation relationship with the country, and it's been good for both sides to maintain mil-mil engagements even when the civilian/political side has been strained.

I wonder how much pull the new SOUTHCOM CCDR will have to keep the SC stuff going. Just an own goal...

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Eli Kahn 🏳️‍🌈 @elikahn.bsky.social · 1d

political institutions vary, cultural histories vary, but everywhere on earth, there is… gender

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 19h

We gaming

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

So this isn't actually correct. I believe one of the first No Kings protests was on February 17 in DC. Maybe a couple thousand people there on a Monday, but the reason it stuck with me is that Trump put that magazine cover out two days later and I thought it was a good forced error by the organizers

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

In April on a Signal chat group for banner messaging I suggested "RFK KILLS KIDS" and half the group recoiled in horror about how it was too confrontational. They've now got hot-swappable giant canvas signs that read "TRUMP IS A RA_IST" that they can plug C or P into depending on the day. So yeah...

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

spent a couple hours downtown today and there's a lot of white women in their 40s and 50s fedposting harder than i would ever feel comfortable with

this meme is actually just real life

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

That short clip is right next to this too!

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DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

I am leaving this awesome DC protest to take my kid to a neighbor's Diwali party because this country is a place worth fighting for and filled with incredible people.

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

Cool

DoD VAPID RESPONSE (dba Clay Copper) @claycopper.bsky.social · 1d

USAF authorize this now

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