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Aphrael 17 points ago +17 / -0

It's been cucked for way longer, woke-ism is just a symptom of a much worse disease.

The goal of many officers that enter the Army is to serve 20 years so they can earn a retirement. That means you have to make O-5 (unless you were prior-enlisted, which means you can retire at O-4), because the latest you can promote to O-5 is at 18 years.

Only 20% of all officers that enter the Army make O-5. Twenty. Percent. There's a decent amount of attrition after junior officers complete their initial contracts, and again at about 8 years by O-3s that can market their experience as a company commander to become a mid-level manager in the civilian sector. After that, it gets very cutthroat.

Promotions are determined by your officer evaluation reports (OERs). If you aren't "top block" on at least the evaluations for your time in leadership, don't expect to make O-4. If you aren't "top block" for the majority of your positions, don't expect to make O-5.

What this ends up causing is disgusting levels of brown-nosing. The only thing an individual officer is incentivized to care about is the opinion of their rater and senior rater. It can be made into a functional system if people in positions of authority genuinely believe in their mission and care about their subordinates, but if you allow a few shitbirds to rise through the ranks, the rest of it quickly topples.

My experience is relatively recent, so I don't know how far along the dominos were when I started to see it, but I can't help feeling it's quickly coming to a climax.

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Aphrael 19 points ago +19 / -0

He's such a lovable edgy boi.

Remember, they could have just let him be a space pirate. He just wanted to play games!

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Aphrael 11 points ago +11 / -0

Is it a threat when they do it to themselves?

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Aphrael 14 points ago +14 / -0

The ride is free too, all you have to pay for is the landing.

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Aphrael 1 point ago +1 / -0

He forgot the most important question of all.

Are disabled traps gay?

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Aphrael 3 points ago +3 / -0

steer then away from the workplace and back to home and hearth

The last thing I want from the spiteful mutants is for them to reproduce. Let self-deselection pressures do their work.

In all seriousness though, we need to address the fact that our reproductive strategies have changed significantly since the start of the industrial revolution. I'm not an advocate for eugenics, but we have to at least acknowledge that radically reduced child mortality rates are going to have a dramatic effect on the genetic health of the population.

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Aphrael 6 points ago +6 / -0

It's a term I came up with (I think). Local governments are going to get more and more fed-up with fascist mandates from their states, and so they're going to start to just ignore them. Once a few do that, more will follow.

It'll be good in the long term, but having an uncontrolled increase in autonomy like that is likely to cause some really nasty conflict in the short-term.

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Aphrael 1 point ago +2 / -1

Is that from the laptop dump? I'll still hold a bit of reservation since it's just a screenshot, but paired with Tucker's recent remarks regarding Hunter, that's a big yikes from me.

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Aphrael 2 points ago +2 / -0

I just say that Hanlon's Razor cuts both ways. I guess it's a double sided razor?

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Aphrael 0 points ago +1 / -1

Source on the recommendation letter? Couldn't find anything with a cursory search.

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Aphrael 2 points ago +2 / -0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg1G6bPJxNE

Fuck these people. They'd be part of the SS or KGB in a fucking heartbeat.

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Aphrael 10 points ago +10 / -0

The main thing that concerns me is Alex would have presumably contacted Tim in private regarding this prior to making this video. If Tim realized his mistake and agreed to publish a retraction, the nature of this video would have been just a clarification for Alex's own fans. But he calls Tim out. I'm not 100% positive, but that seems to imply that Alex contacted him and the response he got from Tim was less than positive.

That concerns me. That concerns me deeply.

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Aphrael -1 points ago +4 / -5

That's why we have the moral high ground.

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Aphrael 2 points ago +2 / -0

Things are only easier to see for those that bother to look, and I don't have one iota of confidence in the population of the US to actually bother to look.

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Aphrael 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't think balkanization is the right answer, but we do need to allow for areas to reorganize themselves if they're not being represented properly. It might even take reform into regional centers of power that then participate in a national government, but as of right now constituencies are not being accurately represented.

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Aphrael 2 points ago +2 / -0

The question isn't whether Obama knew, the question is whether it can be proven that he knew. Anyone with half a brain realizes exactly what you're talking about, but there's about half the US that worship the ground Saint Obama walks on and cannot handle the cognitive dissonance. They still won't believe he was corrupt even if he is sentenced to federal prison.

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Aphrael 9 points ago +10 / -1

EntilZha, please stop replying to AbleistSL.

He's talking to you, dumbass

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