After Mr. Prince sold the company, the new owners named it Academi. In early June, it merged with Triple Canopy, one of its rivals for government and commercial contracts to provide private security. The new firm is called Constellis Holdings.

I was aware of the change to Academi, but I wasn't aware of the merger and change to Constellis Holdings.

I guess that's all that matters. Rebranding. Think it'd be possible to change "private military/security company" back to "mercenary"?

Weren't they also Xe or Zii or something along those lines for a while?

Fucking creepy shit, if there is an "illuminati" it's probably just PMCs applying pressure to keep their drug/gun/murder plots running smoothly.

Yes, they were. They go through a complete name change and marketing redesign every couple of years or so, while remaining the exact same bunch of murdering scum they always have been.

If we can call a government organization that primarily invades other countries the 'Department of Defense', anything is possible.

There is no justice anymore.

I wasn't aware there was a time when there was justice.

If I remember correctly, it was on a Thursday.

If only Thor would manifest on Earth every week and smite some random twat with his big fucking hammer.

As an American service member who did tour in Afghanistan, fuck you. Those assholes have only made our job harder. We have Law of War & rules of conduct to follow, rules written to try and make for the best relations with the local people. That's because that's the only way to deal with a guerrilla war, by not looking like an asshole. These thugs you love to jack off to go where they want, kill normal people commuting to work, and get off without even a slap on the wrist. Those normal commuters going to work who survived the Blackwater assault? Their friends, families, countrymen? All justifiably now furious at the US. And I'm looking at chickenhawks like you who want to keep doing dumb shit, making things worse for us. You assholes think you're patriots, but all you is drag our country through the mud while chanting "Murica!"

Former military man here, with my two cents. Fuck you. You don't get to speak for us, you don't get to use us as your political dildo. You love to put us on some sort of pedestal, saying that people's opinions are invalid unless they made the same sacrifices we did. And then you proceed to tell those people what our opinions are, as if everyone in the military is part of some homogeneous group think and you have some special insight into what every single one of us believes. You have some warped belief that going into battle somehow gives you the authority to silence all opposition, like you become some sort of noble god -- and then you co-op that mistaken belief and use it as a tool to stifle discussion. So again, fuck you.

If by 'bleeding heart liberals' you mean Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney then I suppose you have a point.

Meanwhile, if you did happen to be an actual US soldier in Iraq, good for you for defending these guys who got paid many times more than you and ended up making your job more dangerous. Very charitable of you indeed.

"Asshole" is the strangest spelling of "cock holster" I've ever seen.

See, I'm reading this in a sarcastic voice. Because otherwise you are a douche-whistle.

Still not gonna mod it back up, as you need to use the sarcasm font or sarcasm tags when it is not easily discernable that you aren't being a douche-whistle, just sarcastic.

Wow, didn't know that was really a thing.

Nah, douche-whistle was the right call.

It seems sarcastic to me.

Two posts in their entire user history isn't much to go on.

You don't remember him from the old site? He'd crawl out a few times a year, spew a couple lines of ridiculous conservative trolley, and then slink back into the shadows. I don't recall him ever actually interacting with another user, not even so much as a "Fuck you!" "No, fuck YOU!" exchange.

Fuck you, phone, "trollery" is TOO a word!

Is a trolley an old-timey rape train?

rabbiddawg regularly commented on the old SE. Always seemed more trollish than sarcastic to me, usually some kind of kneejerk, barely literate right-wing rant, like this one.

Jinx!