ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5
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General guidelines:
Your explanation should be friendly and straightforward, but not condescending.
- 1.1. Above all, you're here to answer questions concisely. Don't get needlessly hostile or complicated in your response.
- 1.2. We aren't literally 5 year olds. Well, most of us aren't. We can handle big words and long sentences. There's no need to dumb down an explanation unless specifically asked to do so by the asker.
- 1.3. If specified by the asker, responses to particular levels of expertise are encouraged.
/v/ELI5 is a place to get simple explanations of complex topics.
- 2.1. Yes/no answer questions, and questions pursuing an answer without an explanation of that answer, are not allowed.
- 2.2: If it doesn't have an explanation, it isn't an explain like I'm five question.
- 2.3. Refrain from posing hypothetical or personal questions. Ideally, every question should have a factually based, reasonable explanation.
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- 3.1. Don't ask for personal opinions (and don't ask potentially loaded questions)
- 3.2. Don't present a biased response
Top-level comments should be on-topic.
- 4.1. Self-explanatory, really.
- 4.2. Jokes are allowed and appreciated if they're on topic and not a whole top-level comment.
Someone came here for an answer, don't send them somewhere else.
- 5.1. Your response should not consist wholly of a redirection link within a sentence.
- 5.2. It is acceptable to link to outside sources for singular words or concepts. This can be done to save you explaining concepts that are non-central (yet still important) to your response.
- 5.3. Don't copy+paste from outside sources without paraphrasing. Outside sources don't always explain concepts in layman's terms.
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- 6.1. If you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to teach someone else about it.
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[–] [deleted] 1 point 10 points 11 points (+11|-1) ago (edited ago)
[–] dontqueefonmebro [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I'm satisfied with this answer. Thank you for your input and knowledge :)
[–] TrojanGoat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I really enjoyed that thanks :D
[–] Folkwayz 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
It would be nice if someone gave an actual answer to the question.
[–] Frank_Castle 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
The military is doing a 3 month long drill that will pretend that Texas and Utah and San Diego are rebelling insurgencies, and the military is putting down the insurgencies with the rest of California, Nevada, Colorado are loyal and Arizona is unknown while New Mexico is considering joining the insurgency.
The goal of the training is to practice for insurgencies in the middle east, but the military's drill concerns a number of people who believe that one day the military may be called to do something similar in the US.
The conspiracy theory arose because Texas, Utah, and San Diego are famously states/regions that vote Republican.
[–] TalkingAnimal 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Simple answer: Military maneuvering on the ground in the United States. Probably for training.
Why people are concerned: Because the military COULD start using force to police you and overthrow your local government. They're not going to, but they're there and they have superior firepower.
[–] frankqux 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
If people like Ted Cruz and Rick Perry are worried about something that should be indication enough there's nothing to worry about.
Alternatively, see Fox News for more info.
[–] dontqueefonmebro [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
This was the first thing I said as soon as someone told me that "There is a secret operation to take over the sate of Texas!"
[–] Ratfink ago
Well Russia said they were on training maneuvers and surprise they invaded Crimea. Training maneuvers are sometimes training maneuvers. Other times they say training maneuvers so nobody knows what they're actually doing.
[–] MarkTheFather ago
I don't know why, but this comment reminded me of the time when a Russian jet flow over a US Navy Ship