How the Universe Works

The nazi call is coming from inside the House!

They are not very accurate. You’re more likely to get yelled at by a NCO(non commissioned officer) than by an officer on a day to day basis. Most officers are like middle managers until you hit the O-5 to O-6 rank. Officers give out orders, NCOs carryout orders using junior enlisted personnel. Most harassment stops outside of basic/advanced training, unless someone in your unit gets in trouble and then they might do a mass punishment where everyone is cleaning the barracks on a Friday night or over the weekend. I’m white, so I can’t speak much to the discrimination part, other than it didn’t happen much in the jobs that I was in. I’m positive it happens, but it didn’t happen out in the open when I was in. Obviously the current administration for the US government is changing that a bit. I can’t speak for the person you asked the question to, but I had two combat deployments and two trips to South Korea, with a solid bit of PTSD from the deployments.

I live in central Florida and I’ve been out protesting quite a bit, a couple political events for democratic candidates, and volunteer for poll duty during elections. One of the least represented demographic in all of these places is young women. There are plenty of retiree women. I’ve even been to a couple women’s rights group meetings and there were more men there than women under 40.

I understand it’s going to take all of us to make any meaningful changes, but I am constantly surprised that one of the most impacted groups doesn’t seem to be too concerned to participate in the civil unrest part. Even the women I talk to in other social settings don’t seem too concerned or feel the need to do anything to halt the real life Handmaid’s Tale we’re about to find ourselves in.

All US military personnel are obligated to follow all lawful orders. Until the supreme courts rule that what he does is illegal and someone enforces that, what is a military person supposed to do? Unlike most jobs you can’t just quit and if you disobey a “lawful” order then you will likely be kicked out, lose your source of income and any benefits, and probably end up with a bad conduct or dishonorable discharge which is like a felony on your record.

As a veteran myself, I am also quite ashamed of what is going on. These people are stuck and have much more at stake than the general population if they disobey or quit. I’d be about as ashamed to work at a place like Tesla or SpaceX for another Nazi, but you don’t expect Tesla employees to stand up to musk and overthrow his regime.

It feels like a very aggressive title for this post.

This isn’t even conservatism. It’s regressive. They aren’t conserving anything, just trying to take everyone back to robber barons and Nazis.

Those peasants should be happy management thought about them at all

They should post this picture at every rural hospital they close.

More power to yah, my friend. I imagine you can only point to anecdotal evidence to support any of your claims. Let me know if you need me to do some research for you on all the studies that show unions have an overall positive effect for all it’s members, and non members who just complain. I get that some union leadership might suck, but I would point you back to the first post where maybe you should do something about it.

I won’t even make you pay dues for the first link

https://www.epi.org/publication/unions-and-well-being/

I can respect some aspects of that. Not everyone is meant to or even cut out to lead. Good on you for realizing that about yourself.

What I don’t understand is how you see the obvious benefits of a union, and how a small portion of your pay check could go a long way to making your own benefits better including increasing your overall pay so that union due are less of a burden on your budget. No one said you had to be in charge. Find one other person who agrees that unions can be/do better and get them to run, because not ever person out there wants to be a greedy mob boss style union leader. A union is about to be the only thing standing between you, and that CEO thinking you’re little more than slave labor, because this administration is dismantling as many consumer and worker protections as it can.

Be the change that you want to see. You point out all these things they are doing wrong, have you tried running for a union leadership position and changing the things you see they are doing wrong?

Sugar, water, purple!

What was Ronald Reagan’s famous line about “most terrifying words"? Something like “I’m the republican government, and if you need help you can go fuck yourself”.

I think you mean non secular state, secular means without respect to religion.

Edit: or are you saying the state should not be neutral to religion (definition of secular), but dismiss it entirely?

Behind the Bastards does a great podcast about that. Called “How Conservatism Won”.

It was an incredibly interesting piece about how Think Tanks are behind the shit show you see before us today. A literal playbook shadow written by a future supreme court justice nominated by Tricky Dick Nixon. It was well worth a listen much like most of BtB stuff is.

I was thinking the same thing about the blades. I don’t think there would be enough upflow of air to spin them fast enough for control.

There is a lot of actual control that goes into an autorotation as well as a lot of variables that have to be taken into account. It’s not like a plane where you can glide for a while before hitting the ground. You’re going in hot either way. Not sure it would slow a drone down that much even if they could.

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About as straightforward as DizqueTV