#military-quote

[thepersonalwords]

Truth is after you've put out all the INFO to your Soldiers in formation they'll soon forget what you said but will never forget what you did behind those words.

Donavan Nelson Butler

[nocternalrandomness]

[moonage-daydreamy]

watching taehyung de-twinkified from the military and so buff in his sdt uniform and looking so fatal did something to me. like, sir, you were literally a fruit? also makes me fear what I will witness as jeonghan goes into the military. bros an immovable object against the unstoppable force.

[eiraeths]

soap: not trying to flirt or anything but i’d share my crayons with you if you were hungry

ghost: that is flirting

soap: i am flirting, eat these crayons with me

[omgellendean]

It’s been like this since before 1948. Consider what it takes to build a society that recognizes the cessation of genocide as an unmitigable loss. Consider what it takes to sustain such a society. Consider that if you’re reading this from the United States, you live in such a place. Israel’s existence, like that of all settler states, relies on its ability to act without consequences—that is, to massacre and dispossess a native who cannot meaningfully fight back. While this was largely true for a couple of decades, a different reality has emerged in recent years—especially since 2000—where Israel’s accumulated aggressions elicit a response that Israelis feel. The ongoing genocide in Gaza reflects Israel’s refusal to accept this new reality. The thing about reality is that it’s there whether one accepts it or not.

Israel’s Reality Principle, by MARY TURFAH

[incquotesx]

taehyung : did you've your dinner?

jungkook : ofc i did. I had salad for dinner.

jungkook : a fruit salad, actually.

jungkook : it was mostly grapes.

jungkook : fermented grapes.

taehyung :

jungkook : wine. I had wine for dinner.

[acosmic]

the popularity of clothing in fixed sizes encountered “multiple cultural resistance[s]” because “they were established for ‘dominated’ people and colonial subjects who usually were part of administrations: children, prisoners, boarders, or soldiers.”

from "Body Doubles: The Origins of the Fashion Mannequin" by Alison Matthews David, quoting Manuel Charpy; available here

[until-mourning]

[cod-dump]

*in a meeting*

Price: Alright, let’s get something straight-

Ghost: *immediately puts his hand up*

Price: … yes, Ghost?

Ghost: Can I leave since I’m not straight?

Price: No because then all of you would leave

Ghost, looking around him: Point taken

Alex: Then can we leave if we’re straight?

Farah: You’re not straight, Alex

Alex: I’m not?!

Farah, looking him dead in the eye: The Christmas party, 2020

Alex: … okay, Price, let’s get this show on the road-

[draco-glacialis]

Billy: I just found out from Alice today that when Jen died and the service did the 21-gun salute at their funeral, Agatha said, “They should aim at the coffin to be sure.”

[corpusdiem-seizethedead]

Niffty: Alastor! There's a monster under my bed, and it's really ugly!

Husk: *from the bottom bunk* Honestly, fuck you.

[singgibanggipoongpoongbanggi]

me: i am a fucking 22 year old adult you think a song can make me cry? *plays 'me' by scoups* me: you're absolutely right i will sob like a loser

[clarissaweasley-10]

Sophie : What the fuck? People actually tell their crushes they like them??

Keefe: What the hell do you do?

Sophie : I die? What kinda question...

[deadpresidents]

"Everyone was calling everyone. I was honored to call one of the family members of the 9/11 victims; I called the House Homeland Security Committee and [Secretary of Homeland Security] Janet Napolitano. While I was in the Situation Room, I overheard one of the White House operations, saying [on the phone], 'Oh, I'm so sorry -- I didn't know you didn't work for President Clinton anymore. Do you know where I can reach him?' President Obama was calling his predecessors, George W. Bush and President Clinton. The operator is trying to find President Clinton. I looked at him and I said, 'Hold on one minute.' And I stepped back into the main room, [Secretary of State] Hillary [Clinton] was there, and I said, 'Madam Secretary, I'm really sorry to bother you, but do you have your husband's phone number?'

-- Mike Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, on the immediate aftermath of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden on May 2, 2011. President Obama was trying to get in touch with his immediate predecessors to notify them about the successful special forces operation and bin Laden's death, but there was some trouble finding contact information for former President Bill Clinton until Leiter realized he could simply ask Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the former President's phone number.

[aeshnacyanea2000]

He believed, along with General Tacticus, that courage, bravery and the indomitable human spirit were fine things which nevertheless tended to take second place to the combination of courage, bravery, the indomitable human spirit and a six-to-one superiority of numbers.

-- Terry Pratchett - Jingo

[thinkingsmart]

16757 Michael 📡 @yourchocolatemichael