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I thought that you couldn't run for office if you were still in? Or does that only apply today active duty?
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SimonCat posted:Must be for active duty only, there are a quite a few politicians who are in the Guard or Reserves. How the gently caress can you be in the Guard for one state, where you'd have to have residency to serve, and be in congress for another state, where you'd also have to have residency?
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Aug 1, 2019 18:10
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Casimir Radon posted:You don't need residency to serve in the guard. Lots of people live outside the state where they drill. That seems like it shouldn't be the way that works, but I suppose the same could be said about most of the ways things are done in the military.
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Aug 1, 2019 18:17
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OK, I admit that it's a lot more prevalent than I thought. I don't think that's how it should be, but whatever.
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Aug 1, 2019 21:41
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One hell of a conflict of interest if they ever had to do their job and actually vote to declare war. But, I guess most of them would duck out of their obligations since I'm guessing that most of the people that situation applies to only signed up for political points like that scum gently caress Reince Priebus.
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Aug 1, 2019 22:55
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Nystral posted:And if you get deployed while in office do you go? Do you get a waiver? LBJ is a good case study for this. He got activated after Pearl Harbor while he was a member of the House.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:05
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McNally posted:He really isn't. He used his political clout to get a commission, insisted on seeing combat, and flew a single combat mission as an observer on a bomber that turned back with mechanical issues before reaching its target. Johnson was awarded the Silver Star, the only person in the aircraft to even be recommended for a medal at all. Exactly why he's a good case study. That's what most reserve politicians would do.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:11
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Where'd Sean Spicer get shipped off to after turmp fired him. Greenland? Fox News?
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Aug 1, 2019 23:29
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Sounds like "being a federally elected official" is a qualifier for non-deployability, so I guess under that new DoD mandate they'll all be getting the boot.
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Aug 1, 2019 23:46
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:It was a Sgt Bilko reference. Stripes 
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Aug 2, 2019 00:04
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As long as we all agree that Pentagon Wars is the best military movie ever made, I think we can all get along.
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Aug 2, 2019 00:44
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That blended retirement thing seemed like a scam to get people off the old, actually good, retirement program. "Hey instead of this guaranteed check that we'll have to give you every month for the rest of your life when you hit your 20 years, how about you let us gamble your money on the stock market instead, but you can cash out at 15 years!" I may be wrong, but that's what it seemed like it was to me. I didn't really pay much attention since I had no plans of ever retiring and I had about a year left before I got out when they started bringing it up.
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Aug 2, 2019 15:50
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Vasudus posted:I mean that's literally how it works. OK, good. If I could grasp how dumb it was as an E4 who had no vested interest in it, then I won't feel bad for the people who got fleeced by it.
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Aug 2, 2019 16:42
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Well, now I have a good moral reason not to order Domino's. Thanks, you corporate slime.
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Aug 2, 2019 17:19
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What's the waiver situation looking like for recruits who smoke weed? If the feds don't let go of that sooner rather than later, just lol at them trying to hit their numbers.
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Aug 2, 2019 19:24
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I like asking climate deniers when the last time they saw a lightning bug was, that usually shuts them up for a few seconds.
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Aug 3, 2019 18:43
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^^^ Oh good, another one this week  I got into an argument with a guy, and his post-climate collapse plan is to buy a bunch of land in Kamchatka and build a compound with an electrified fence surrounding it. I didn't even begin asking him how he plans to power that, what he planned to eat and drink, and what he would do about the billions of people who would come knocking at his door. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 19:56 on Aug 3, 2019 |
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Aug 3, 2019 19:52
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:hey bigdave you're good imo
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Aug 4, 2019 00:49
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Deathy McDeath posted:They try this literally after every mass shooting. Ever since Las Vegas. It’s always a right wing shithead! You’d think they would learn by now Nobody likes it when they can see so much of themselves in what society calls a villain.
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Aug 4, 2019 01:03
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Casimir Radon posted:Use the excavator to destroy some exec's house. Use it to destroy the mine. Hurts the boss's bottom line, and creates more work for your co-workers.
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Aug 4, 2019 02:21
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maffew buildings posted:At this point I just assume the 2nd amendment "we the people" crowd is psyched every shooting This is my experience. They use it as justification to get more guns, because more guns = more safe.
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Aug 4, 2019 04:24
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Godholio posted:You hang out with sick people. I keep them at an arm's length, I only keep an eye on them because you can't fight an enemy without knowing what they're doing and thinking.
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Aug 4, 2019 06:13
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Chiwie posted:https://abcnews.go.com/US/active-shooter-incident-investigated-dayton-ohio-police/story?id=64763090&cid=social_twitter_abcn Because there's a bunch of lunatics with enormous arsenals saying that if we do they'll kill everyone, and there's a very well funded propaganda machine keeping it going.
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Aug 4, 2019 08:53
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Professor Bling posted:On top of that there are well over 300 million guns in this country and most people won't be turning them in if a confiscation law is passed. That's the point where the government would have to give them a practical demonstration of the phrase "live by the gun, die by the gun". The problem wouldn't be the people that just have a pistol or a rifle, it would be the people who have spent their entire lives stockpiling arsenals. Before we'd even get to that point, we need to start shaming the poo poo out of gun ownership. Edit: it's going to take a major shift in the national conscience, or a civil war. I hope it's a peaceful process. A Bad Poster fucked around with this message at 09:05 on Aug 4, 2019 |
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Aug 4, 2019 09:03
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One side of my family can be traced back to pre-Revolutionary War America, on the other I'm the first generation born in the US after my grandparents fled Spain. All of my grandparents were/are fairly conservative, but the political range of all of my aunts and uncles goes from socialist to working for Barack Obama and Hillary's presidential campaigns, so we sorted it out.
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Aug 5, 2019 22:59
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My favorite unpopular opinion amongst certain circles is that had the Persians beaten the Greeks in the Greco-Persian wars, the world would be substantially less hosed up than it is now.
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Aug 6, 2019 06:05
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Incels can be anyone, not getting laid isn't necessarily tied to a political ideology. I didn't know that he killed his sister. What the gently caress.
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Aug 6, 2019 08:43
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Do you think they gave/give a poo poo?
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Aug 6, 2019 19:50
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Stravag posted:So someone i know was saying that the ohio shooter was super far left and signed up to antifa and antigun groups and poo poo. Any proof of that or is that just their wistful thinking so they can say see its both sides? Supposedly his Twitter had a bunch of stuff, but it was got pulled down almost immediately so nobody can take a good look at it.
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Aug 6, 2019 23:03
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Acebuckeye13 posted:ahaha holy poo poo From that thread: the council was legally required to hold the vote, and those two did not speak during the time for public comment. It's like a little baby Laura Loomer.
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Aug 7, 2019 20:38
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Stravag posted:Does that mean she got pressured out by members of his staff or she just can't stand working there anymore? Guessing a bit of column A, bit of column B.
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Aug 9, 2019 02:14
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Hey remember that time the the US government sent us to war so poorly equipped that this very forum had to crowdfund body armor for them? Good times.
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Aug 9, 2019 18:27
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I was talking to someone less than 12 hours ago about Epstein, and how his trial wasn't set to start until next summer, and how there was a 0% chance of him living until then. He said he wouldn't make it to New Year's, and I countered that he wouldn't make it to Canadian Thanksgiving. Mother fucker.
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Aug 10, 2019 16:37
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Stepping over the line from victim to oppressor doesn't make you not a victim anymore, but it doesn't remove culpability for your actions. With stuff like this you can't throw an equal blanket of shame on them all though, you really have to take it on a case by case basis. People who have been abused their whole lives that then do awful things themselves is a really tough thing to judge.
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Aug 10, 2019 23:37
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Didn't someone say that he wasn't actually on suicide watch anymore? Pretty sure I saw someone trustworthy saying that, I don't know what to believe anymore
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Aug 11, 2019 01:52
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joat mon posted:What would be the most 2019 thing that could happen? That Epstein actually committed suicide. That they misidentified another inmate who committed suicide as Epstein due to a clerical error.
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Aug 11, 2019 02:17
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EBB posted:I'll say it. Christianity has to go away. Religion has to go away. Sky wizard is not coming to save us. Unfortunately, until you have something better than the sky wizard's offer of "eternal paradise", the rubes are going to keep believing in them. This is where my pet would go, if I had one 
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Aug 11, 2019 06:26
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Dinesh seems like the kind of guy who would be confused as to why an air conditioner would get hot.
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Aug 12, 2019 19:59
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"Unfortunately, your honor, we can't release any of the evidence from our case to the public because it is basically the microfilm that Sean Connery stole in The Rock."
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Internet Wizard posted:In case anybody forgot since it happened many many decades ago, that's what kicked off the second Bundy standoff, the one at the wildlife sanctuary that Tarp Ghost died at. Obama should have dropped a JDAM on those guys.
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