These are not serious people.

Our best and brightest are not there. I could assemble a group from this board and do a better job.

leave it to the damn chair force...

Charlie Kirk's lack of education and service is showing

(03-27-2023 02:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  leave it to the damn chair force...

Chair force, oh, you mean the one service that can destroy the world all by themselves...from their chairs. I get it. Too bad the Marines are only good for cannon fodder.

But, I saw on the news that the military is having a hard time with recruitment. Is it any wonder why? Kids coming out of high school want to join a service where they're considered men, not one where pronouns are more important. It used to be that recruiting ads on television would push the narrative of be all you can be, Semper Fi, destroy the world from your chair, travel the world on a boat, etc. Now they want rainbow colored socks for their uniforms. I know I wouldn't join now, it's a stigma to wear a uniform unlike other eras.

...and China knows this. Stupid Miley and that Black dude, secretary of defense? The Demons on capitol hill are purveyors of immorality.

(03-27-2023 02:14 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Was the change more effective because of D-I-E, or more effective because the original idea came from a guy who is clearly an idiot?

(03-27-2023 02:56 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Charlie Kirk's lack of education and service is showing

So is yours

What a freakin' nerd.

I'm reminded of a series of events at the headquarters of the US Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV, the official name for the US forces in Vietnam) in the mid-1960s.

The Ho Chi Minh Trail, used by the North Vietnamese to supply the Viet Cong, ran through a mountainous highland area populated by people that the French had labelled Mountagnards. They were known as ferocious fighters, and thus someone determined that if we could get them to take our side, they could effectively shut down the flow of logistics to the south. So, here is a brief summary of efforts to win their hearts and minds.

Print leaflets explaining that we are their friends, and distribute them. But they don't have a written language
So, start radio broadcasts. But they don't have radios.
So, we got some cheap transistor radios set to one channel and dropped them in. But the Montagnards did not know how to operate the radios, and were found to be terrified by them.
So, we'll print instruction booklets.

That's an idea of the quality of thinking that goes on. Ethnocentrism is a mortar forker. Apparently this case was no exception.

For the record, I am a man who prefers ankle socks.

(03-27-2023 06:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 02:56 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Charlie Kirk's lack of education and service is showing

So is yours

I got both. A DD-214 and a degree. Sorry the boy scouts and a honorary doctorate doesn't cut it.

(03-27-2023 02:36 PM)shere khan Wrote:  These are not serious people.

Our best and brightest are not there. I could assemble a group from this board and do a better job.

Hell, I could do a better job on my own and I am by far the dullest knife in this drawer.

(03-28-2023 12:23 AM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 06:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 02:56 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Charlie Kirk's lack of education and service is showing

So is yours

I got both. A DD-214 and a degree. Sorry the boy scouts and a honorary doctorate doesn't cut it.

Thank you for your service but your degree only makes you an educated idiot. Don't feel too bad though, our country is chock full of them and your democrats are producing more every year, and as an added bonus they are dumber by the day.

I saw yesterday that some California university is considering doing away with grades - for freshmen if I recall correctly - because of the anxiety they create.

What’s more surprising is that anyone thought of socks. In this day and age at SXSW, I would think anyone who’s even familiar with what it is would automatically think of some some of genderless/gender bending logo pantyhose or some androgynous male satchel purse of some sort.

Seems like those would be the first thing our military or government officials would be into, depending on what they found in the luggage that week.

(03-27-2023 03:15 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 02:44 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  leave it to the damn chair force...

Chair force, oh, you mean the one service that can destroy the world all by themselves...from their chairs. I get it. Too bad the Marines are only good for cannon fodder.

But, I saw on the news that the military is having a hard time with recruitment. Is it any wonder why? Kids coming out of high school want to join a service where they're considered men, not one where pronouns are more important. It used to be that recruiting ads on television would push the narrative of be all you can be, Semper Fi, destroy the world from your chair, travel the world on a boat, etc. Now they want rainbow colored socks for their uniforms. I know I wouldn't join now, it's a stigma to wear a uniform unlike other eras.

...and China knows this. Stupid Miley and that Black dude, secretary of defense? The Demons on capitol hill are purveyors of immorality.

I heard a funny joke except that it was not really that funny once you think about it for a minute.

It basically referred to the "New Military" as an adult version of the Cub Scouts.

Cub scouts was kind of OK when i was a kid, you learned some really good stuff about surviving outdoors and some basic first aide stuff. Useful information.



My Nephew was in the scouts about 10 or so years back and the scouts now are a pretty nerdy group that seems to be consisting of the outcasts and fringe kids. All the Den leaders were kind of creepy too, like priest pedophiles or something. It just was not like I remember at all.

My Nephew was in it for about a month and just said this isn't for me, they don't do sports.... He told me after when his mom was out of earshot that it was weird and it did not feel right.

(03-28-2023 06:02 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(03-28-2023 12:23 AM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 06:41 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(03-27-2023 02:56 PM)Mr_XcentricK Wrote:  Charlie Kirk's lack of education and service is showing

So is yours

I got both. A DD-214 and a degree. Sorry the boy scouts and a honorary doctorate doesn't cut it.

Thank you for your service but your degree only makes you an educated idiot. Don't feel too bad though, our country is chock full of them and your democrats are producing more every year, and as an added bonus they are dumber by the day.

I saw yesterday that some California university is considering doing away with grades - for freshmen if I recall correctly - because of the anxiety they create.

Yes you only learn about 10% what you need to know in school. Maybe if more people got out of the country and experienced more than just America they would be better off. Travel does wonders.

(03-28-2023 06:02 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  I saw yesterday that some California university is considering doing away with grades - for freshmen if I recall correctly - because of the anxiety they create.

Everybody gets a trophy and everyone is exceptional.