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FMguru posted:LOL, LMAO - Kyle Rittenhouse was too dumb for the Marines Ok I have a former jarhead friend and a former chair force friend but I don't know enough about the recruiting practices of either organization. How does such a thing happen?
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DarklyDreaming posted:Ok I have a former jarhead friend and a former chair force friend but I don't know enough about the recruiting practices of either organization. How does such a thing happen? You have to be really really dumb.
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Apr 2, 2024 18:46
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Failure of basic math, english, and simple logical reasoning will get you that failure on ASVAB.
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DarklyDreaming posted:Ok I have a former jarhead friend and a former chair force friend but I don't know enough about the recruiting practices of either organization. How does such a thing happen? To join you have to take a test that does basic math, general sciences, language, some mechanical reasoning and electronics aptitude. All branches use the same test. That test then gives you a series of scores in specific fields that military jobs care about. For any job you want to join there is a minimum score in whatever fields that job cares about before you can even begin the process. Alternatively you can be dumber than a god drat box of rocks like little Rittenhouse here and get a score so low the service just says "Nah, pass. Forever. Don't come back."
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Apr 2, 2024 18:58
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I've met some colossally stupid motherfuckers in my time and they were able to land military employment. And I do mean colossally stupid - difficulty following basic orders due to lack of understanding, constant and costly fuckups, only barely able to function in a barracks because their bunkmates were always on their rear end steering them in the correct direction, the whole nine yards. And yet somehow, these guys not only got in, but some are STILL in. I cannot possibly imagine how badly you have to score to not even manage to get in, but also to be told that you can never try again.
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Apr 2, 2024 19:18
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Doing a bit of Googling about the Rittenhouse thing, and apparently there are ASVAB tutors. Wonders never cease.
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Apr 2, 2024 19:29
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Chaya Raichik making an rear end of herself once again. https://twitter.com/TheGreeneBJ/status/1774922002186350802?t=5SFyS5EfY0pH1EhYBurjIQ&s=19 I think this is the risk these reactionaries take when they crawl out of the sewer of anonymity in Twitter and let nornies hear them talk out loud. You'd think they'd be more prepared the last time some conservatives brain went all BSoD when asked to define wokeness lol.
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Apr 2, 2024 19:59
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It's weird. Everyone on both sides knows "woke" means "it's when there are gay or black people", but you get the sense that a prominent conservative just coming out and saying that would shatter the illusion and mean they couldn't use it anymore. Hence all the verbal diarrhea whenever someone asks one of them to define it.
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Apr 2, 2024 21:11
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:It's weird. Everyone on both sides knows "woke" means "it's when there are gay or black people", but you get the sense that a prominent conservative just coming out and saying that would shatter the illusion and mean they couldn't use it anymore. Hence all the verbal diarrhea whenever someone asks one of them to define it. Defining it would mean they couldn't just call everything woke.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:It's weird. Everyone on both sides knows "woke" means "it's when there are gay or black people", but you get the sense that a prominent conservative just coming out and saying that would shatter the illusion and mean they couldn't use it anymore. Hence all the verbal diarrhea whenever someone asks one of them to define it. You're overthinking the definition. It's just "bad thing that is bad." it's the same with the way socialist, communist, or a dozen other things have been used in the past.
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Apr 2, 2024 21:32
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It forces fascists out of their normal rhetorical style. Words don't have meaning to fascists they just have feelings. Woke is the bad people and bad things and bad stuff and bad places and bad times that they don't like and that makes them angry and is what they can yell at with their two minutes hate sessions. It was socialism last week, it'll be a different word next week and it will all have the same feeling to them. A definition makes them engage with something that is not purely tummyfeels and deal with an actual topic, where words have meaning that they would then have to reckon with. Bonus points for them usually tripping over the "quiet part out loud" rakes and just saying who it is they hate.
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Apr 2, 2024 21:35
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CRT woke DEI it's all the same; a stand in for a slur, basically
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bird food bathtub posted:It forces fascists out of their normal rhetorical style. Words don't have meaning to fascists they just have feelings. Woke is the bad people and bad things and bad stuff and bad places and bad times that they don't like and that makes them angry and is what they can yell at with their two minutes hate sessions. It was socialism last week, it'll be a different word next week and it will all have the same feeling to them. The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Scholtz posted:CRT woke DEI it's all the same; a stand in for a slur, basically Just as Politically Correct was in the 1990s, and 'hippie poo poo' in the 1960s and 70s.
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Scholtz posted:CRT woke DEI it's all the same; a stand in for a slur, basically every time i see someone try to DEI-shame online it is one hundred percent a sentence where they really want to use a different word and in each sentence it is used it is completely interchangeable
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Apr 2, 2024 22:23
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The "DEI" shift seems relatively recent, though. A change within the past few months, at least. Does anyone have an idea what may have caused it? I know it was something Elon Musk was (very poorly) complaining about in some interviews, but even considering his media purchase power, I also know he is not the most original thinker.
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Morroque posted:The "DEI" shift seems relatively recent, though. A change within the past few months, at least. Does anyone have an idea what may have caused it? Christopher Rufo is a thought leader in the fascist sphere and it was a pet project of his to make DEI another meaningless propaganda hate buzzword. It worked, because the right wing media took his idea and ran with it when they recognized they could transform another phrase into a racial slur.
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it's not even a novel transition, it's an identical pivot along the exact same lines as how they made "critical race theory" a culture war target it even has all of the same hallmarks of how the target audience - has no need to understand what the gently caress it even is - within a few months of it being traded around right wing media telephone-game antics, any truth of what CRT/DEI gets replaced in their minds with absurdist imaginings - they will use it as coded racism from beginning to end
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Morroque posted:The "DEI" shift seems relatively recent, though. A change within the past few months, at least. Does anyone have an idea what may have caused it? Boeing had some embarrassing safety lapses. People are seeing planes fall apart and instead of blaming capitalism they blame minorities; by their logic it must be due to under qualified minority hires that made careless mistakes. Same thing about that cargo ship that knocked down a bridge in Baltimore. They're trying to make the argument that well intentioned liberals are causing bigger problems by pushing in unqualified applicants in critical positions like airline pilots or doctors. When the president of Harvard got pressured into resigning over plagiarism allegations it opened the door to put any minority under the academic microscope.
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The point is that race and racism is the engine that drives right wing politics in America certainly since the civil war if not since the founding. Since the Civil Rights movement it’s been necessary to use euphemisms for BLACK PEOPLE so it’s been affirmative action, busing , woke, CRT and now DEI. But those are just different euphemisms for what amounts to the same thing.
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They've been complaining about DEI for about as long as it's been a thing. It's the one thing that actually exists in some real capacity and actually does what they're complaining about. They just invented other things to complain about most of the time because going after DEI directly was too brazenly racist/sexist.
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Kith posted:I've met some colossally stupid motherfuckers in my time and they were able to land military employment. And I do mean colossally stupid - difficulty following basic orders due to lack of understanding, constant and costly fuckups, only barely able to function in a barracks because their bunkmates were always on their rear end steering them in the correct direction, the whole nine yards. The way people get got in it is semi-literacy that not only kills their english score, but affect how well they can answer the arithmetic and other questions. I’ve seen stuff about Rittenhouse being barely literate and struggling with big words amd pronunciation, and it’d be similar to the other cases where people just bomb the ASVAB. Similar to lot of poorer middle school students demolishing all tests they take regardless of the subject, because their near-illiteracy robs them of the chance to really answer in any topic.
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I wonder if the GOP will start to care about public education when its failures start to deprive the state of cannon fodder.
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They care so much that they have a privatized virtual charter school ready and waiting* to teach everything and everyone, including awkward neurodivergents, bullied shut-ins, and bullies who beat the odds (and some classmates) and actually got expelled.
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I don't doubt that Kyle Rittenhouse is too dumb to serve in the military, but frankly I think absolutely no one in this country wants him anywhere near a lethal weapon, let alone a spork, and deal with the media circus of accepting Rittenhouse into their agency. It's the same reason no police department would ever take him. He got away with murder, but he's so absolutely toxic that he'll live the rest of his life as a pariah.
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Who needs workers when we've got AI to tide us over until the Rapture that is totally happening within our lifetime?
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At Trumps speech in Michigan he mentions a woman who was killed and left along a road. Says he talked to her family. But they claim he never talked to them and got most of it wrong anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kgknuQlzQw
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OgNar posted:At Trumps speech in Michigan he mentions a woman who was killed and left along a road. He talks about everybody like they really hit it off at a soiree last week. This isn't even the first time he's used a murder victim
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DarklyDreaming posted:He talks about everybody like they really hit it off at a soiree last week. This isn't even the first time he's used a murder victim At least he didn't toss them into the crowd afterwards.
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Panfilo posted:Boeing had some embarrassing safety lapses. People are seeing planes fall apart and instead of blaming capitalism they blame minorities; by their logic it must be due to under qualified minority hires that made careless mistakes. Same thing about that cargo ship that knocked down a bridge in Baltimore.
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Star Man posted:I don't doubt that Kyle Rittenhouse is too dumb to serve in the military, but frankly I think absolutely no one in this country wants him anywhere near a lethal weapon, let alone a spork, and deal with the media circus of accepting Rittenhouse into their agency. It's the same reason no police department would ever take him. He took the exam, allegedly, before his fifteen minutes of fame.
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so how did Rittenhouse get his highschool degree(did he grad HS??) also its hard to believe truely no one wants him, no cop academy of a small nowhere town, no Bible U diploma mill.
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Morrow posted:He took the exam, allegedly, before his fifteen minutes of fame. lol woops I don't know poo poo about enlisting. I can only imagine what his screening was like and if he said something to make them say absolutely not. Kid's still hosed for life for the reasons I stated.
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PhazonLink posted:so how did Rittenhouse get his highschool degree(did he grad HS??) Why would he settle for some small town police dept at this point? He's famous! Admired by the right far and wide for shooting a felon, a wife beater, and a pedophile. With that kind of background, he knows he deserves far more than getting paid $12/hr. There was a Twitter post I'm trying to find from one of his handlers (could have been an April fools prank but it sounded plausible) talking about all the time and money spent on curating a particular image of Kyle to the public, and how he had all this support and resources avaliable to get into/graduate college and start a career. And how he completely squandered those opportunities, because he's a dumb, violent teenager that can't think beyond the consequences of his impulses. That and I don't think he was really mentally ready for the fame. Becoming a darling of the right means that suddenly he has to speak on behalf of millions of fans. What would his life be like now had he not shot 3 people, and merely spent the evening in Kenosha looking like a tryhard in front of some car dealership? Probably not much more pathetic than he turned out with the fame and notoriety he got by shooting people. I imagine it will be similar for Daniel Penny.
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Panfilo posted:Why would he settle for some small town police dept at this point? He's famous! Admired by the right far and wide for shooting a felon, a wife beater, and a pedophile. With that kind of background, he knows he deserves far more than getting paid $12/hr. I was just reading through that Twitter thread. https://twitter.com/DaveHan06/status/1774751376889057282?t=irG-aFUAoNEXi0Tn4SXzWg
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how do you drop out of middle school. also arent there truancy laws ? granted the NPR bit I've recently heard was of course those laws being used against non whites. "your child isnt in school single parent, we're going to arrest you and impound your car." lol at america's racism and the brain drain of its precious white children.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I was just reading through that Twitter thread. The Islamic Shock fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Apr 3, 2024 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:I was just reading through that Twitter thread. i know we wanted details but assuming this is someone talking from an actual position of personal experience this looks like the hardest i've been served up the receipts on one of these dumb public figure motherfuckers in a while
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neongrey posted:feel a little bad for that lawyer, like not a ton, but that rear end in a top hat was entitled to legal representation and it seems like what he got was someone who actually had his well being in mind before he pissed it away I feel quite bad for him, to be honest. Even the worst assholes in society deserve a zealous defense within the limits of the law, I don't think you can blame a criminal defense attorney for having a client who has legitimately done terrible things, and I don't think you can blame them for taking every available legal avenue to provide a defense. You can, of course, be quite upset that this quality of representation is available on a very unequal basis, but that's a separate issue. I think this attorney quite rightly resents his former client for taking an unimaginable boon, a wealth of funds and effort spend first on his defense and then on providing the opportunity to move on with his life, and pissing it away because he's too loving dumb, and I get why he feels that way. I've seen similar things in my line of work, and if you are committed to the job you do, you don't like watching someone treat your efforts and expertise with utter contempt.
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