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    kohlenklau got a reaction from TheFriendlyFelon in new CMBS Flavor Object   
    ok, we got it to work. portapotty on the way
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from TheFriendlyFelon in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. 
    BFC SUBWAY
    I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please.
    It will be a while.
    Can I maybe add some radicchio?
    Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio!
    Can I have a cookie while I wait?
    I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you.
    Any updates on my sub?
    <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...>
    <1 hour later>
    Here is your sandwich...
    I see a bug in it.
    We do fix the bugs!
    No, an actual bug, walking in the bread.
    We can quit and make more elsewhere!
    I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from TheFriendlyFelon in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    Years ago I tried a GoFundMe here. For that operational level game. I tried to prime the pump with $1000 of my own. It fizzled quick. No interest.  
    Edit: my own mods help me bridge the gaps where BFC will never go. Imperfect as these mods are, I really enjoy them. The latest Korea 1950 has been tons of fun. Steve has written that he depends on modders to take the game where BFC will never take it. He gave an example of where he would never take it, he said Crete, so I made a mod for that the very next month. He never mentioned my name. BFC has never ever contacted me. All my requests or ideas for help from BFC to allow my mods to be better, like a special module with stuff, have been ignored.
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Aragorn2002 in Creating Maps with CMAutoEditor   
    https://data.nextgis.com/en/region/UA/dem/
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Sequoia in CMFI FRANCE 1940 BRONZE PACK IS RELEASED!!!   
    Swing by the other thread lads to grab the dropbox link and to have a look at the readme!
    Or use this wormhole...
    https://community.battlefront.com/topic/142292-how-to-make-a-big-mod-test-dummy-log/?do=findComment&comment=1988156
     
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Damian45 in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    One last post before I voluntarily depart the CM forums.
    OUT IN A BALL OF FIRE
    1. "Piss in the cornflakes" is an expression I know to mean some type of accidental angering of someone. I respect Steve and if he wants me banned or whatever because of the above posts, ok, I accept it. I have tried to be a contributing member of this community. I admit I have an odd sense of humor and maybe I am risque. Steve didn't like my years ago Kate Upton scantily clad post. OK. I got the schwimmwagen and I thank whoever made that happen. 
    2. "SAME GAME WITH A DIFFERENT NAME" I have made a post long ago and didn't get banned for saying it. I have no idea where it is. BASICALLY, THE GAMES ARE ALL THE SAME. I will only comment on the WW2 titles. A building is an Italian restaurant with some decor, menu, music and wait persons. Snap your fingers and it is Chinese restaurant. Snap again...it is Somali restaurant. Buy your game. Click on the icon and the game fires up to show you the splashscreen, hear the intro music, pick the forces, pick a scenario, hear the languages, see the uniforms, see the vehicles, the ranks, branches, portraits, fight the battle, see the results. Deep down it is all the same. I think Italians cannot break into teams. How different are the other sides? Team A, B and C. One game has the spreadsheet info and 3D model for a certain vehicle. Different weapon physics. Is it available in another game? Maybe. Maybe not. Copy and paste. 
    3. "FAKE LOBSTER" I have done my 2 cents to change the game to amuse myself. Some are rough apples to apples. Some are not too shabby. I have only so much ability to stick my hand into the game. Me by myself or with a few other kind friends in a few weekends or months have done stuff that these pros couldn't seem to get to. Steve said without specifically mentioning me that he was glad that modders took the game where he wouldn't. Something like that. I feel that the CMX2 engine could have been milked better to BFC's profit venturing into other A versus B clones of the main game. Now it is getting aged and old I guess. This was when they went off to various nations to sell CM as a military training project I THINK. No longer any of my worry.
    4. "CODING" I already said I only took Basic in college in 1982. Got a B? I salute Charles and have no clue what his super-brain does. I cannot ever criticize him but only wondered as an outsider if he was making the big bucks elsewhere. What have we had as dramatic changes since CMBN? I now understand that it takes him years to make these changes. Engine upgrades. OK.   
    5. "STEVE SAID HE DOESN'T PLAY THE GAME ANYMORE" I think that was where I realized it was not a love of the game for him. He is a business man. Do what you gotta do. In his early 60's. Today mention quitting? Go ahead and quit. Attack me because I said go ahead and quit if that is best. Oh my gosh.
    6. "GREAT GUYS I HAVE MET"   I am blessed to have worked or rubbed elbows with so many awesome folks. Inside BFC I have had so much gracious help from Ben Parks. Elvis is an awesome guy. I have tried to be a good helpful forumite and vector folks toward the helpdesk tickets. Hovering in the forums to answer questions if I could. Other awesome forumites are too numerous to mention. I have been a tiny battery among the dynamos. Thanks for the help, support and all that.
    Best wishes to everybody! 
     
     
     
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Artkin in HOW TO MAKE A BIG MOD (TEST DUMMY LOG)   
    work in progress

     
  8. Thanks
    kohlenklau reacted to Mr.X in Locking my BattlePack topic   
    I will leave this madhouse 🤪
    Sorry guys, but these ridiculous things are a waste of my time. 
    I wanna say thank you for many interesting conversations with many kind guys. 
    And thank you for your support with the [forbidden word 😂].
     
    Of course, I will send my content to everyone of you, who asked me for 👍🏻 There is a last small delay of the release date - so I think in mid February, my mail will arrive you🙏🏼
    And for the last time: you will not have to pay anything for it 👍🏻
     
    Finally, I wish you much fun in the future but be careful of Agent @JoMac. He will investigate all of your dark machinations … sooner or later 👽
     
    Best regards 
    Mr.X
     
     
     
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from ehbuh in CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD scenario creation thread (and later with PBEM DAR)   
    HAHAHA, yes. I love the content creation but I do see a point where I will hang up this CM modding hobby and shift to a different way to get my WW2 fix.
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from ehbuh in CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD scenario creation thread (and later with PBEM DAR)   
    The North Korean soldiers swam and waded across the Kum River with their equipment kept dry up on their heads. They went through the rice paddy area very quickly and headed for the highground. The ASL scenario has victory conditions of victor holding 2 of 3 options. The 3 options are (1) the highground designated hexes, (2) a multi-hex building - which I now dubbed as "The Temple", or (3) at least 5 of the 9 houses in the village.

     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from fry30 in CMFI KOREA 1950 MOD PBEM DAR "Patton's Ghost"   
    We will pick up the action later today unless postponed by TV sports...
    Meanwhile, here are some more screenies.
    A face I did from a Korean actor. He played the bad guy in "71 - Into the Fire".
    You can also see my "stick grenade pouch"...


    The Maxim MG team hunkers down in turn 1. These guys are now ex-parrots, singing with the choir invisible.

    Some more guys in that team wearing their "Keds hightops"...

    This guy is a warrant officer in command of the company group. He had served in the Red Army during dubya dubya two.
    I had a cool idea for the "stick grenade pouch"...each texture for the grenades can be randomly plucked from the data.
    Some are transparent so a guy can have 0, 1 or 2 grenades in the pouch.
    GRAVEYARD: I googled a little to try and see what a circa 1950 Korean graveyard might look like. I had no luck really. So I just deleted the Italian names off of these CMFI gravestones. Mi dispiace!

     
     
     
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from quakerparrot67 in Any news on the upcoming module?   
    Hey buddy. It is hard to resist I know. Forum SOP: Don't feed trolls.
    I suggest to block people like him. I use the blocking option now for over 20 people on the forum. It just saves stress.
    By the way, BFC UKRAINE THREAD needs no defense. It is of course a mixed bag but all the posts could be lashed together for a damn PhD thesis.
    "Changing views on the Ukraine-Russia conflict of 2022~202X."
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from PEB14 in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. 
    BFC SUBWAY
    I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please.
    It will be a while.
    Can I maybe add some radicchio?
    Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio!
    Can I have a cookie while I wait?
    I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you.
    Any updates on my sub?
    <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...>
    <1 hour later>
    Here is your sandwich...
    I see a bug in it.
    We do fix the bugs!
    No, an actual bug, walking in the bread.
    We can quit and make more elsewhere!
    I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Commanderski in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. 
    BFC SUBWAY
    I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please.
    It will be a while.
    Can I maybe add some radicchio?
    Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio!
    Can I have a cookie while I wait?
    I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you.
    Any updates on my sub?
    <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...>
    <1 hour later>
    Here is your sandwich...
    I see a bug in it.
    We do fix the bugs!
    No, an actual bug, walking in the bread.
    We can quit and make more elsewhere!
    I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
     
  15. Like
    kohlenklau got a reaction from pulemet_maxim in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. 
    BFC SUBWAY
    I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please.
    It will be a while.
    Can I maybe add some radicchio?
    Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio!
    Can I have a cookie while I wait?
    I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you.
    Any updates on my sub?
    <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...>
    <1 hour later>
    Here is your sandwich...
    I see a bug in it.
    We do fix the bugs!
    No, an actual bug, walking in the bread.
    We can quit and make more elsewhere!
    I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
     
  16. Like
    kohlenklau got a reaction from Bulletpoint in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    He brought up quitting. I agreed and ultimately it is his call. I honestly see more passion at my local Subway. 
    BFC SUBWAY
    I would like the Italian herb footlong with turkey and monterey jack. Toasted please.
    It will be a while.
    Can I maybe add some radicchio?
    Listen buddy, we've been making sandwiches a long time. No radicchio!
    Can I have a cookie while I wait?
    I can do that - but I will charge you for the cookie, your sandwich and WHAT I COULD HAVE SOLD while I just helped you.
    Any updates on my sub?
    <2 hours later, Charles is back and only he knows how to bake the bread...>
    <1 hour later>
    Here is your sandwich...
    I see a bug in it.
    We do fix the bugs!
    No, an actual bug, walking in the bread.
    We can quit and make more elsewhere!
    I love you guys. Thanks for the games and especially the "modability". I wish you the best! Go out on top while you can. Come back in 5 years for a revival maybe.
     
  17. Like
    kohlenklau got a reaction from Bulletpoint in Annual look at the year to come - 2023   
    I had always thought you guys had other jobs and BFC was just a side hustle due to my perception of a slow production rate. Especially Charles. I had asked you respectfully (in my patented corny humor way) if he was just part-time for BFC and was a mastermind programmer making his big bucks elsewhere. I had thought (always dangerous) he is the bottleneck because he can barely spare you a few man-hours every weekend? You did answer me and said "No, he is full-time for BFC about 60 hours per week". I gotta find those posts. 
    Can you make money off of advertising in the BFC forums?
    I think you should quit. Fold it up and move on. Get the residuals or whatever. Go get the bucks you deserve elsewhere.
    It is Freudian. You brought it up.
     
     
     
     
  18. Like
    kohlenklau got a reaction from Suchy in HOW TO MAKE A BIG MOD (TEST DUMMY LOG)   
    @Suchy Well Tommy. Here it is as a raw form as a folder for the CMRT BEF1940 mod. It is "fake lobster" the best I can make it. The scenario has no AI plan.
    https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/snv799wfi1ucaw9qrtlcc/h?rlkey=vjwvourec881ol5pzy51ib44m&dl=0
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Suchy in HOW TO MAKE A BIG MOD (TEST DUMMY LOG)   
    Hi Tommy. I will try and get it out this next week or so. 
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Lethaface in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    I did check it out. Thanks. 
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Lethaface in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    Yes indeed. I have also been fortunate to travel around. 52 countries visited so far. I hope to do a few more before I hang it up. I enjoyed a night in the Netherlands. I think Arnhem. 
    I have naivety to think or hope that Gaza strip could have become a Singapore. {According to the internet the population and area of Singapore is about double that of Gaza. So, the population density is nominally the same.} Maybe it will eventually. 
    ~~~~~~~
    I now recall an old Star Trek episode. (TOS, the original series baby!) It was the one where the 2 warring planets had a system where they had to eliminate people by computer simulation. A 500-year long war. "A Taste of Armageddon"
     
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Anthony P. in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    So, support the allies in 1944 but also the axis? But I forgot, we can never use WW2 as an example anymore. A war where we supposedly did defeat the enemy and tried to eradicate the philosophy of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The wars since then have all been lost or partially won. Call me stupid all you want but I HAVE picked 1 side in this case. You equate it to supporting mass killings of civilians. I don't. Israel can answer in the ICJ. maybe you have already rendered a verdict. Also, should our own soldiers not support only one side, our own side? In a future conflict.    
    @The_Capt I met a wonderful Canadian couple about 20 years ago. She was a teacher in Saskatoon. Unprompted she somehow brought up the (new?) direction of the curriculum of her elementary school. Government directed curriculum. "First Nations". Maybe I am all wrong but it seems to be about instilling in white people from as early an age as possible some type of guilt for the past. 
    I know you were Canadian Forces active duty in Afghanistan.  I don't know for sure but maybe now you are a civilian employee academic type professor/instructor of the Canadian Forces in some type of war college or armed forces type university? Did that require you to go to a civilian school to get a degree? I had started an online degree, a masters in social work, I was disgusted by the intro course to diversity and all the same trappings of white guilt/blame it tries to instill/teach/indoctrinate.
    A comment was made about "North American voters". Now I suspect you meant white voters. Or maybe it was a general comment about the current low level of intelligence/intellect/IQ in people. Low Information voters is the term maybe? If the mantra to whites is to feel guilty and ashamed of the past to understand how non-whites feel...then the same low information/intellect/IQ people of non-white voters just pick-up the corollary. "I am not responsible for my feelings. It is someone else's fault based on the past. I am owed something. I can't be held responsible for my actions. I am oppressed." I have seen a press conference by native American groups openly praising the 7 October attack by Hamas with aspirations of how this might help them get "their" land back. Another video I saw showed an African American watching a pro-Palestine protest and he was asked what he thought. He said he felt a kinship to them as he was also living in occupied land. 
    I am here today as the first day of the future. white, yellow, black, brown, red, whatever. Move forward to achieve prosperity and security. Don't have an agenda of restorative justice or whatever for the past. The US Armed Forces has gone more woke than ever. Meritocracy is apparently out the window. Both the US Armed Forces and many airlines now have a goal to get more non-white pilots. Them being non-white is the number one aspect of the application process. Will it help us win a war? We used to be told to be color blind. Now they instruct us to see the color of the other guys skin and make certain changes in how we treat them. 
    I thought this was a good thread and some folks here were very smart. I could learn. I still feel the same way but I also see now that the current pathology of wokeness and "identity politics" is very widespread.   
    The image in my signature is just a modern take on an old flag used in the early 1800's. 
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    kohlenklau reacted to Lethaface in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    Without trying to give Elvis more work, my comment about sides was about choosing between Palestinian vs Israeli people.
    I don't know why you bring the woke stuff in this, but fwiw I'm white and I don't feel guilty or ashamed for things other people did in the past; whatever their skin colour was. I wasn't there.
    That isn't to say that being informed about the less rosey colored parts of our history is a bad thing. This isn't a zero sum game. In fact one or my grandfathers participated in a colonial war, I don't think he did 'bad' stuff but I wasn't there. Not everything my country did there was bad, but according to todays standards (which I mostly endorse in this case) it was not a 'good' war. I don't feel guilty of it, but I like to see it for what it was.
    I don't want to call anyone stupid, just my opinion that it is a stupid position to grant 'things' or 'humanity' to one people but not to another people. I grant Jewish/Israeli people the same right to live as I grant it to Muslim/Palestinian people. I don't support Hamas or the Israeli regime.
    The perspectives we all hold come forth from our experience in life. I was granted the fortune of having travelled many parts of the world and get to know various peoples and cultures. It has provided me, at least I like to believe so, with an open mind towards other perspectives. 
    I wish the same for everyone and hope one day the people in 'the holy land' can also live in peace together.
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    kohlenklau got a reaction from Brille in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    So, support the allies in 1944 but also the axis? But I forgot, we can never use WW2 as an example anymore. A war where we supposedly did defeat the enemy and tried to eradicate the philosophy of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The wars since then have all been lost or partially won. Call me stupid all you want but I HAVE picked 1 side in this case. You equate it to supporting mass killings of civilians. I don't. Israel can answer in the ICJ. maybe you have already rendered a verdict. Also, should our own soldiers not support only one side, our own side? In a future conflict.    
    @The_Capt I met a wonderful Canadian couple about 20 years ago. She was a teacher in Saskatoon. Unprompted she somehow brought up the (new?) direction of the curriculum of her elementary school. Government directed curriculum. "First Nations". Maybe I am all wrong but it seems to be about instilling in white people from as early an age as possible some type of guilt for the past. 
    I know you were Canadian Forces active duty in Afghanistan.  I don't know for sure but maybe now you are a civilian employee academic type professor/instructor of the Canadian Forces in some type of war college or armed forces type university? Did that require you to go to a civilian school to get a degree? I had started an online degree, a masters in social work, I was disgusted by the intro course to diversity and all the same trappings of white guilt/blame it tries to instill/teach/indoctrinate.
    A comment was made about "North American voters". Now I suspect you meant white voters. Or maybe it was a general comment about the current low level of intelligence/intellect/IQ in people. Low Information voters is the term maybe? If the mantra to whites is to feel guilty and ashamed of the past to understand how non-whites feel...then the same low information/intellect/IQ people of non-white voters just pick-up the corollary. "I am not responsible for my feelings. It is someone else's fault based on the past. I am owed something. I can't be held responsible for my actions. I am oppressed." I have seen a press conference by native American groups openly praising the 7 October attack by Hamas with aspirations of how this might help them get "their" land back. Another video I saw showed an African American watching a pro-Palestine protest and he was asked what he thought. He said he felt a kinship to them as he was also living in occupied land. 
    I am here today as the first day of the future. white, yellow, black, brown, red, whatever. Move forward to achieve prosperity and security. Don't have an agenda of restorative justice or whatever for the past. The US Armed Forces has gone more woke than ever. Meritocracy is apparently out the window. Both the US Armed Forces and many airlines now have a goal to get more non-white pilots. Them being non-white is the number one aspect of the application process. Will it help us win a war? We used to be told to be color blind. Now they instruct us to see the color of the other guys skin and make certain changes in how we treat them. 
    I thought this was a good thread and some folks here were very smart. I could learn. I still feel the same way but I also see now that the current pathology of wokeness and "identity politics" is very widespread.   
    The image in my signature is just a modern take on an old flag used in the early 1800's. 
  25. Upvote
    kohlenklau got a reaction from Carolus in How Hot is Israel Gonna Get?   
    So, support the allies in 1944 but also the axis? But I forgot, we can never use WW2 as an example anymore. A war where we supposedly did defeat the enemy and tried to eradicate the philosophy of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. The wars since then have all been lost or partially won. Call me stupid all you want but I HAVE picked 1 side in this case. You equate it to supporting mass killings of civilians. I don't. Israel can answer in the ICJ. maybe you have already rendered a verdict. Also, should our own soldiers not support only one side, our own side? In a future conflict.    
    @The_Capt I met a wonderful Canadian couple about 20 years ago. She was a teacher in Saskatoon. Unprompted she somehow brought up the (new?) direction of the curriculum of her elementary school. Government directed curriculum. "First Nations". Maybe I am all wrong but it seems to be about instilling in white people from as early an age as possible some type of guilt for the past. 
    I know you were Canadian Forces active duty in Afghanistan.  I don't know for sure but maybe now you are a civilian employee academic type professor/instructor of the Canadian Forces in some type of war college or armed forces type university? Did that require you to go to a civilian school to get a degree? I had started an online degree, a masters in social work, I was disgusted by the intro course to diversity and all the same trappings of white guilt/blame it tries to instill/teach/indoctrinate.
    A comment was made about "North American voters". Now I suspect you meant white voters. Or maybe it was a general comment about the current low level of intelligence/intellect/IQ in people. Low Information voters is the term maybe? If the mantra to whites is to feel guilty and ashamed of the past to understand how non-whites feel...then the same low information/intellect/IQ people of non-white voters just pick-up the corollary. "I am not responsible for my feelings. It is someone else's fault based on the past. I am owed something. I can't be held responsible for my actions. I am oppressed." I have seen a press conference by native American groups openly praising the 7 October attack by Hamas with aspirations of how this might help them get "their" land back. Another video I saw showed an African American watching a pro-Palestine protest and he was asked what he thought. He said he felt a kinship to them as he was also living in occupied land. 
    I am here today as the first day of the future. white, yellow, black, brown, red, whatever. Move forward to achieve prosperity and security. Don't have an agenda of restorative justice or whatever for the past. The US Armed Forces has gone more woke than ever. Meritocracy is apparently out the window. Both the US Armed Forces and many airlines now have a goal to get more non-white pilots. Them being non-white is the number one aspect of the application process. Will it help us win a war? We used to be told to be color blind. Now they instruct us to see the color of the other guys skin and make certain changes in how we treat them. 
    I thought this was a good thread and some folks here were very smart. I could learn. I still feel the same way but I also see now that the current pathology of wokeness and "identity politics" is very widespread.   
    The image in my signature is just a modern take on an old flag used in the early 1800's. 
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