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DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Out with the perfumed princes!
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Stuart Scheller @stuartscheller
To all the field grade officers: publishing in @WarOnTheRocks means you are essentially asking for a liberal filter.  It’s not worth it.
@EvansRyan202 personally denied me the ability to publish counter articles in War on The Rocks while simultaneously publishing articles about  about how stupid people were if they listened to me.  This was three years ago when I was at my lowest. I have the emails to prove it.  
What were my controversial views? 
Broken PME system
Nepotism in the senior military ranks
Overemphasis on ethics 
Overemphasis on credentials 
Lack of merit based testing in Warfighting 
Ironically, one of his podcasters just reached out and asked to have me on their show.  My response, “I will never do anything associated with the liberal publication War on the Rocks.”
Only responding now because I saw Ryan recently attacked @infantrydort and @cynicalpublius.  Did you block them both?  Not surprising, you have a habit of blocking views you disagree with.   
Ten minutes of action is worth more than ten of your credentials.  This is something you will never understand.
From: those with bubblegum for synapses
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Ryan Evans @EvansRyan202
There are a lot of people on this website with bubblegum for synapses who, not surprisingly, unable to understand this article (or simply not interested in understanding it). But I consider Patrick to be a serious person, which is why I find his take here so puzzling. The article argues close to the opposite of what Patrick describes. It's not about the ethics of killing. Its explicit target is the "exclusively academic track" of ethics instruction that "mistakes sophistication for utility," which it says is often just "an opportunity for an academic to show how well-versed they are in philosophical literature." Katolin's entire thesis is that ethics should be pulled out of the civilian-philosophy classroom and rebuilt as warfighting doctrine measured by combat output. 
As such, I was amused that so many self-described PME critics on this site didn't like it.  It makes the same criticism of civilian education they often do.
Anyway, the author, a combat veteran, argues that ethics is operational: trust, cohesion, tempo, policy alignment, and moral resilience under stress.
There is one part of Patrick's response that I agree with: his demand for harder examples. But that doesn't invalidate the article's argument, I wish he started from an accurate depiction of what the article actually says.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2060435078447342043

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - America250 can’t be completely dismantled because it’s technically a Congressional body. So Trump convened Freedom250 to supersede it. That’s my understanding.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2060435707861361097

DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican - Called it lol.
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@amuse @amuse
SABOTAGE: Epstein pal, Reid Hoffman is reportedly behind the paid effort to pressure artists to pull out of the Great American State Fair. The event was always part of Trump’s America 250 vision but Artists are being told they are participating in a fascist celebration of Trump and his family.  Democrats like Hoffman simply hate America and will do anything to prevent the American people from celebrating its existence.
https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/2060457720516649075
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