Giled Pallaeon
Military & International Affairs nerd. Defense professional. Mostly naval subjects, but all aspects of defense and natsec welcome. Oh, & plastic spaceships, that too. All opinions on all subjects my own #WeAreNAFO
- This is not the point of the thread but this is not why TikTok needed to be banned. I frankly don’t care what people thought was or wasn’t the reason. The actual reason is that The People’s App is an information weapon, and the People is the People’s Republic of China.
- On top of being a privacy invasion and security threat that Facebook/Cambridge Analytica could only dream of, TikTok may yet go down in history as the most effective psyop in history by an intelligence service infamous for being so unsubtle a comparison to sledgehammers is unfair to the hammers.
- If how discourse on that app played out vis-à-vis Gaza as opposed to Ukraine didn’t make that clear to you, you need to touch grass. Or at least snow if you’re somewhere that can’t get to grass right now.
- Scouting should call the Secretary’s bluff. Diversifying the organizations Scouting can depend on to support its mission will only expand its ability to do its mission. And to be clear, that mission is forming young people of good character who also have useful skills. Camping, merit badges,…
- 1/2 Harvard is a category-leading institution that has defended many others by standing up to Trump. Who has raised his extortion demands to $1 billion. Scouting (ex Boy Scouts) also defines a category. It needs to stand up to extortion by Hegseth. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
- Even Eagle rank is but a means to an end. And that end isn’t creating conservatives, or liberals, or any other political bent. It’s creating civic-minded, upstanding citizens. Exactly the sort the Department wants, both in uniform and as civilians. And the sort who won’t forget this.
- I feel obliged to add the smartass comment that artillery is generally the most efficient way to deliver the appropriate chunks of supply onto enemy positions.
