Non USAin here, hard to understand why being in the US military somehow equates to being for human rights?
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Okay, great. All anti-vaxxers go ahead and resign from everything, please.
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If he thought the army was tough, wait till he sees the job market.
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If perhaps in a perfect world our military was used solely for self-defense purposes (ours and those who needed it), but it really isn’t. This is just a by-product of the marketing tactic used to recruit voluntary enlistment.
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of course, since he will need to rely on the strong support of said right-wing assholes for his future endeavors when his separation is complete.
I’d ask them what part of Marxist theory is taking over the military, but I have a good idea what they actually mean
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Intentions shouldn’t actually be relevant to the actual, real-world effects of specific actions in most cases, including this one. You’re absolutely right about state and local governments vs federal, and about foreign borrowing and investment. Although frankly I tend to see foreign countries giving us real resources in exchange for an IOU denominated in a currency we control as being similar to tribute, with them trusting their success to our future decisions, and not the other way around.
None of that changes the fact that this (former?) army officer is an idiot, and that a very large supermajority of people arguing against vaccines or vaccine mandates are just flat out lying, both about the facts and about their beliefs and intentions.
Personally I’m not in favor of most vaccine or testing mandates, despite understanding that essentially everyone should get vaccinated. But, that’s because I think an actually sane society would be able to get better mileage, near-term and long-term, with other methods like extensive community outreach programs, honest and consistent communication from public institutions, and incentive programs so people can share in the positive externalities their actions create as well as suffer from the negative ones. I see mandates as, in most cases, a stop-gap measure at best that erodes long-term social trust and cohesion, and as a sign of our sustained failure to bother trying to fix out deeper societal problems.
Intentions are important insomuch as they can be useful to find out what went wrong/right, and make corrections to improve a situation. (I’m looking at you, tax cuts for the rich!)
But taxation and budgets are way off topic!
I agree with you on both the officer, vaccines and testing, and social cohesion.
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In my time in the military I had the opportunity to work with members of all services except the Coast Guard reaching the conclusion that idiots are distributed more-or-less equally among the military and civilian world. I would call out certain branches as being more burdened by idiocy than others but that would be seen as bias by some readers. Besides, when the Colonel gets out he will have a very good shot at election in some red state where his idiocy will not be seen as detrimental.
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A fucking Colonel knows better. He is thinking that he could make General in is own army. This will be one of the guys, i we let him, who will be leading the wrong side if a civil war erupts, We are seeing it now has he sets the stage.
He is a fucking traitor
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We used to joke that the US Army was the largest socialist organization in the States.
There are a few cases where you do need an idiot officer, so long as they are also lazy. If you need a signature to get something done and you don’t want questions asked, that’s the guy you go to.
The Von Manstein matrix:
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