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Sgt.Squarehead

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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Belesarius in General news thread   
    https://popularmilitary.com/veteran-blows-live-broadcast-protest-va/
     
    Oh wow.  That's terrible.
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in Syrian conflict.   
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Toxn in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    As someone trained extensively in the dark arts (ie: evolutionary theory), the above holds no terror for me.
     
    There are reasons why life didn't end the second parasitoid wasps evolved (awful though they are), and these will hold true for evolutionary algorithm-generated ads as well. More than that, all human-implemented evolutionary algorithms suffer from issues that the real thing doesn't, and I expect these to work against the aipocalypse as well.
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    Sgt.Squarehead got a reaction from LostCosmonaut in The UK Brave Space For Shitposting and Other Opinions Thread   
    Somebody needs to shoot that fucking rat. 
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Scolopax in Name that AFV: The New Tank ID thread   
    I have no clue on the wheel-cum bike thing.
     
    Immediate response is T-80UK, but there seems to be only 4 smoke dischargers per side.  I never really got what a -UA is.
     
    Top should be a K-90, a fun looking little tank.
     
    Bottom appears to be an IT-1 turret on something other than a T-62 hull.  I'm guessing Obj. 140, but the road wheel spacing is off.
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    Sgt.Squarehead got a reaction from Bronezhilet in General AFV Thread   
    Marmon Herringtons of some sort.....Maybe the CTS1b CTMS-1TB1
     

     
    Nope.....Return roller is wrong. 
     
    Aha.....Marmon Herrington T-16s (is my final answer): 
     

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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in Go Home Robots, You're Drunk!   
    @Donward

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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Alex C. in The "Toxn Is Wrong About Hog Hunting" Thread   
    They range from piglets to hogzilla, but 100 kg is usually considered a large hog.
     
    Skip to 3:25 in this video:
     

     
     
    That is about what you see when you go hog hunting here. If you hope to bag more than 2 or so, having a machine gun is terrific.
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LostCosmonaut in The Hippie Hate Thread   
    To get this thread back on track from extreme shitposting, the inflight magazine on Delta today was the worst kind of hipster bullshit (not hippies, but close enough). There was a 12 page article about the Hamilton musical, a bunch of tripe about people "discovering" what it was like to live in a small town and open a restaurant with "simple" cuisine (protip: if your dish has five or more spices and a honey glaze on it it's not "the simplest food you can imagine" unless you're a raging moron) that probably costs $30+ a plate. And to top if it all of, an article about sustainable living, and on the facing page, "fashion suggestions" including a $450 hat, $425 sunglasses, and $400 jeans with a whole in them.
     
    Fuck you, inflight Delta magazine.
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Xlucine in Scale Models Megathread   
    A Type VIIC u-boat. I'm going to try and call this U-1206.
     
    My thoughts on the build:
    Fuck the pre-albacore hull form Fuck the germans Fuck WW2 And most of all
    Fuck 1:350 Railings  
    Also, fuck the lack of common allied WW2 submarine models
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in Scale Models Megathread   
    I got around to unpacking my modeling stuff. It was not pretty. 
     
     
    Many of the partially built models took damage.  All my CA model glues dried up. And worst of all, almost all the tracks are ruined. 
     
     
    I have a Dragon early M4A1 brit desert model from Dragon, a really nice smart kit. I was going to start on it while I was working on others, and since I don't like to mix the paints for track paining just for one set, I like to do them in big batches, kinda the same way I do tanks, build to the point of paint, primer and set aside until the airbrushing day.  Anyway, so I primered the DS Tracks for the above kit, the sets DS tracks for an M4A2 Marine Sherman and a later M4A1 76 Sherman that was about 90% done. 
     
     
    All the primered tracks just broke up, they were soft when I put them into storage but two years in a plastic tote with primer on them ruined them. The one set of DS tracks I did not primer for an M4 Hybrid4 IC firefly are in good shape. I also have a very nice after marker brass and aluminum barrel for this kit.  
     
     
    So I have all in 1/35th:
     
     
    Dragon M4A1 early direct vision 75mm Brit Sherman. Complete, minus tracks, not even the bags are open yet in the box. But not tracks
     
     

    Dragon M4A1 76 US around Cobra version, pained, built, it just needed tracks, touch ups to the paint, decals and a few fiddly bits, and it would have been done. Now it needs more detail parts fixed, new tracks, much more paint touch up. It was going to be 'In the mood' and I was using tiny stencils to do it. 
     
     
    Dragon M4A2 76 lend lease tank. this tank was 97% done, it just needed weathering and a few fiddly bits put on. Now its about 90% with some broken detail parts, it's DS tracks were fully painted but not weathered and survived fine. 
     
     
    Dragon M4A2 75 Marine tank, 75% done, no tracks. The kit is in very nice condition other than that though. 
     
     
    Dragon M4 hybrid IC Firefly, just like the one in WOT, new in box, all parts, tracks, a aftermarket barrel and some other cool goodies, so this may be the first kit I start back up on.
     
     
     
     
    Dragon M4A3E8 Thunderbolt VII totally destroyed in move. Crushed. Sad face, it was 100% done.
     
     


    Tamiya M26 Pershing. This kit was my first really well done kit after my comeback to modeling a few years back. I used the future floor wax trick to make the decals really look like paint, I weathered it with paints and chalks, and it really looked nice. It’s now in sorry conditions, the main gun missing its muzzle breaks, the detail parts broken  off the turret, some of the suspension is broken. Off the three M26 kits this was the second best. Tracks still intact though.
     
     
    Dragon M26 Pershing, this was an older generation kit I got cheap. You can tell the molds had seen better days. I got it to about 80% then lost a part while air brushing. This kit took a lot of extra work to make parts like the gun fit the turret. It’s in bad shape, fenders broken off detail parts broken, a few suspension arms too. The only tracks it came with are the ones that you make out of each link and I think I still have them in a baggy. Those are such a pain in the ass to make though.
     
     
    Hobbyboss M26. I got this kit right when it hit the market. It had some very nice details like a motor and transmission included in the kit. This kit was also in the 80% range and getting its first paint coatings when it got packed. It’s now in bad shape, and I’m not sure if I have all the engine grates and other detail parts.
     
     

    Dragon Tiger 1 late production smart kit with zimmeritt. This kit was an impulse buy because I had never seen so many photo etch parts in a kit before. It came with a huge number of fiddly little bits you needed tweezers and a magnifying glass to build. Like the clamps that held all the tools down. The were made out of the three very small photo etch bras parts like, well, think of a three part brass latch to hold down tools on a 1/35 Tiger. Honestly, I gave up on them, and only used the easy to install fiddly bits, then I watched the BBCs Holocaust documentary and felt bad for building it in the first place. I decided to finish it as a captured museum tank so I wouldn’t need all the detail shit that’s always missing on those tanks anyway.
     
     
    I have some plane kits that are unbuilt and came through well, and a dragon 1/72 Tiger kit, (it was 3.99 on clearance) that’s in good shape.
     
     
    I don’t think the M26s are going to make it in a traditional way, but I think I could take the three kits and make them into a diorama of the three M26s sitting together in the back lot of a tank museum rusting away, I have tons of pics of three M26s doing just that, most of the detail parts that are broken and missing wouldn’t mater then, and two out of three were missing tracks, so many issues solved, and doing really rusty weathered tanks behind a chain link fence would be a fun little project. 
     
    I hoping to find some DS tracks online to fix the Sherman kits. 
     
    All photos are old, I'll post more current ones at some point. 
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Donward in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    Reading the previous 24 hours of comments, the clear answer is for God Emperor Trump to train these refugee kids as the cadre of his new Space Marine force.
     
     
    Win-Win.
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Jeeps_Guns_Tanks in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    The same one staffed with leaders from Shithole countries from around the world where human rights are not really a thing?
     
     
    I hope dropping out of NATO and the fucking UN is next. 
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to T___A in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    I believe the top is the air filtration system the bottom is the engine cooling system.
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in The Soviet Tank Thread: Transversely Mounted 1000hp Engines   
    More footage of Iraqi T-90S.
    The Iraqi 35th Brigade of the 9th Division is rearmed from the M1A1M Abrams tanks to the T-90S tanks
     

     
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Sturgeon in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    We should coin a fallacy called "whataboutismism" where when anyone points out a comparison in how two sides were handled they get accused of whataboutism, and then compared to Soviet propagandists for some reason.
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in The Saudi Arabia is a Backwards, Laughable Shithole Thread   
    At football world cup, part of which is held here, in St.Petersburg (thanks for problems with subway and station closing, assholes) Saudi Arabia lost to Russia 5:0. I want to point out that Russian footbal team is made 50% out of fail and 50% out of hack frauds, currently it is number 70 ranked football team, which is fucking terrible (below Saudi Arabia, Côte d'Ivoire, Honduras, etc). 

     
    Joke pics:

     
    After the match

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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in Syrian tanks at war. Some pictures and words between them.   
    T-72 Adra with Sarab-2 jammer (on the background)

     
    Probably same T-72 is in this fresh ANNA news video about Yarmouk operation (you can see Sarab-2 on the right when they show GoPro footage from the tank)
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to LoooSeR in Syrian conflict.   
    ANNA news footage about whole operation to clear militants pockets near Damascus.
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect in The terrible movies and reviews thread   
    "We have to stop London before it destroys us!"
     
    Hear that, @Sgt.Squarehead? HEAR THAT?
     
    Also, I unapologetic ally love this trailer and think this movie will be dumb as all hell and I still want to watch it.
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    Sgt.Squarehead got a reaction from Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect in The UK Brave Space For Shitposting and Other Opinions Thread   
    & there's more:
     
     
    https://therealnews.com/stories/max-blumenthal-reveals-surveillance-program-in-yemen-run-by-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-scl-group
     
    https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/23/scl-group-yemen-surveillance-cambridge-analytica/
     
    https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/05/30/internal-cambridge-analytica-documents-reveal-private-intelligence-links-to-mass-surveillance-program/
     
    Looks like these people have been in bed with our mutual elites for some time.....They are IMHO, the very definition of a non-state intelligence agency, deniable but oh so conveniently connected.
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Walter_Sobchak in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    I don't even know where to begin with this paragraph.  Bush Jr. was most certainly a patriot in the traditional sense of the word.  He was the last president we had who actually served in the US Military in a war.  
     
    Your dividing line is awfully convenient for your own pro-trump stance.  You claim that the last four presidents are un-patriotic or unamerican or something.  I suspect that this has less to do with anything their administrations actually did, but rather because all of them have voiced their dislike for Trump.  Then you claim, without a shred of evidence, that all the dead presidents are awesome patriots and would surely support Trump.  Obviously, this is not a provable statement, since these men are all dead.  
     
    It's a bit like Trump claiming all dead US servicemen would be happy he is president.  
     
    Most people consider putting words into the mouths of dead people to be disrespectful.  
     
     
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    Sgt.Squarehead reacted to Donward in Post Election Thread: Democracy Dies In Darkness And You Can Help   
    I think one of the personality traits about Trump that is widely overlooked and not reported is that he is an unabashed patriot. And not in the way academics or bureaucrats feel they're the guardians of the keys of wisdom because they went to the right schools. I'm talking men standing around the 1967 mustang, tinkering with the carburetor, listening to the ballgame, while hotdogs are cooking on the barbecue kind of patriotism. It's the sort of patriotism where steelworkers and pipe-fitters put a sticker of an American flag on the hardhat they wear at work each day. I'm talking the kind of patriotism they used to teach in elementary schools where you stand up every morning to say the Pledge of Allegiance. It's the type of patriotism Trump's grandfather must have felt when he saw the Statue of Liberty for the first time immigrating (legally) from the shithole that was - and is - Europe on his way to the land of opportunity. It's the type of patriotism where Trump was unironically singing along with Lee Greenwood's "Proud to be and American" on Inauguration Day.
     
    It's not intellectual. It's an emotional bond to his country. 
     
    Hillary Clinton was not a patriot. Neither was Barack Obama. And I don't say that as a knuckle-scraping Republican. It's just that it's blatantly obvious that the previous Administration saw themselves as global citizens, ushering mankind away from the idea of nation states to a Utopian future with no borders. 
     
    Trump is against all of that. As a patriot, he wants to put America first. It was part of his campaign you know. Now Trump is happy to work with other countries of the world, but it is under the auspices that we're the foreman of the construction crew. And this isn't some new phenomenon. For over two centuries, America's guiding principle was that we would be the leading player on the world stage, the "Shining City on the Hill". This was a bi-partisan idea. Harry Truman and Calvin Coolidge would both recognize the spirit that motivates the current Administration and support it. Hell, JFK and Eisenhower would and certainly Reagan. The issue is that we've had four Administrations since the end of the Cold War that have been aberrations to the notion of Americanism and unapologetic patriotism. Bush Sr, Clinton, Bush Jr, and Obama seemed more focused on creating a post-American society where this country was no better than Portugal or Bangladesh or Zimbabwe. 
     
    Couple this with what @Collimatrix has described about how Trump portrays himself to the world, identifying with working class people. Throw in the fact that Trump has four decades of executive experience running a multi-billion dollar corporation with 22,500 employees spread across the US and the World. Add his natural charisma and showmanship and you have a US President who is a patriotic Chief Executive who is confident in his own skin when dealing with actors on the domestic and foreign stage but who has empathy for the little guy.
     
    Contrast this with the Obama Administration rich was run like a faculty lounge filled with Ivy League academics who view the world through a policy paper. Worse, foreign leaders regarded them the same way.
     
    Contrast this with either of the Bush Administrations who ran the White House like a CIA spook house/ think tank.
     
    Or the Clinton's who ran the White House like a Southern politician who was out to line his own pockets but who also felt your pain. 
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