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Bryce Mitchell, the UFC's resident Nazi, once got shut down by a punch so perfect it could’ve been divine intervention.
The absolute craziest thing just happened right now at a thrift store in the town near my farm.
I was at a local church thrift store with my mom looking for some spring shirts.
We were about to leave when something told me to wander over to a part of the store I don’t normally go in.
I walked up to the jacket rack and one of the jackets rea…
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I admire JK Rowling enormously. Why? Because having attained professional success and wealth beyond the imagination of most of us, she could have taken the easy option and kept her head down. Instead, she put herself on the frontline to defend her fellow women, knowing that she would become a hate figure in the eyes of many. That takes guts and principles. Give her the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square.
To understand DeSantis' pivot on Ukraine, you must first understand MAGA's pivot on wars we get involved in that don't start with us being attacked, and even then, after Afghanistan, MAGA is very skeptical of wars we get into because we got attacked. We're coming up on the 20-year anniversary of the Iraq War, a war that was mostly fought by and for old school republicans. It turned out that the leaders they had faith in (the Bush admin) were not only wrong about why we went into Iraq, they were…
Whenever I hear Charlie/Will say we need to give Zelensky everything he asks for in order to win, I remember that most of The Bulwark came from The Weekly Standard.
I don't mind sending everything we can get to the Ukrainians, I just understand that if this ever escalates to a world war in a year or two, it's mostly going to be poor kids on active duty getting recycled to a conflict that mostly-liberals risked us getting into, while many of said liberals would never put their own lives or the lives of their children on the line. They'll just say "oops, it's a world war and we're involved now, better go recycle those poor conservative kids again while putti…
“Low income/patriotic MAGA kids.” Do…do you know who makes up about 50% of the military?
Do... do you know who makes up about 80% of combat arms jobs? There's a big difference between the military at large and the people who hold combat arms jobs. In fact, there are *strict* differences in physical requirements between the two types of jobs, which is why the Navy/AF are allowed to be fat in uniform while the Army/Marine ground combat jobs are not. A bulk fuel specialist and an infantryman have VERY different standards of living in the military, and they often come from very different walks of life.
48% of 11Bs are minority men.
Cool. So we're in agreement that the majority of infantrymen are non-minority then yes? Now breakdown the minority men bracket and you'll probably see that the vast majority are latino.
And you’d be wrong in that assumption.
Really? https://www.zippia.com/infantry-jobs/demographics/
Should we do the math together? Or should we look up the meaning of the phrase “vast majority”? And all this still has nothing to do with who would be going off and fighting which as you suggested would be patriotic MAGA kids
I just showed you that the majority of infantry representation is white/latino. I don't know what else you're looking for.... and again, when you're actually serving alongside or in the infantry, you're not going to see a lot of liberals there. Maybe I should have used "conservative" instead of MAGA, but most of the kids in the infantry are too young to have formed solid political opinions yet, they're just not who we would consider liberals by modern standards when you compare them to liberal counterparts of the same age cohort via social/cultural lines. Latinos do not auto-default to liberal. Most latinos I know are conservatives.