Damn straight i created poems on my aircraft carrier.
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Never been on an aircraft carrier, but I wrote many a snarky poem while in the desert.
Does this guy just think that every Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine operates in battlefield mode 100% of the time?!
I have a lot friends and family who served. I think its hilarious the way everyone but people who have been in service hold up the image pushed by recruitment efforts and Call of Duty and the like.
From everything I've been able to tell it's one of those "it's boring and sucks until its very very very NOT boring and then it can REALLY suck."
And I hope that doesn't come across as dismissive or something. It's meant to be the opposite. It seems absolutely more brutal to me and probably why it's not the part that makes the movies. Sit around in difficult conditions until some horrible fucking shit breaks the monotony... that sounds insane.
I have a friend whos a firefighter. Usually they're doing cooking, cleaning the truck, whatever... until they're watching a kid fucking die or something.
Fucking write poems, do some coloring books, fucking whatever gets your through it lmfao.
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Tommy Tuberville is a complete idiot
This guy doesn't know what the term woke even means. It's a catch all for anything he disagrees with.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
Should have audited a freshman Lit class.
Look how the woke free Russian military is doing against a smaller, imperfect, more diverse one and ask yourself if that's really true.
"You seem like the kind of guy who would write poetry on an aircraft carrier" is my new go-to insult.
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Doing poems is dangerous. All it takes is one line to get you hooked.
True, I wrote a limerick when I was a kid and now I'm begging for sonnets on skid row.
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Imagine being a politician and going out and saying anything other than “our military is the greatest in the world.” Political discourse on the right is completely off the rails.
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there was an amazing trump speech where he said the military was paying people $500k to "teach the military how to be woke"
I don't want my military asleep at the wheel. Wake the fuck up! You're on guard duty.
Funny how the politicians who say these things were never in the military themselves. Cowardly CCP/Russia shills
We wouldn't take China and China wouldn't take us because of highly interdependent economies and nukes. It would be suicide for both of us.
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How was the star spangled banner written?
Oh I know this one! Francis Scott Key was the badass sitting in jail watching the battle from his cell window and wrote it as the world exploded around him.
(Thank you Jimmy Williams of the 4th grade who got me into detention - teacher made me write an essay on Francis Scott Key. Jimmy thought it was funny, little did he know of the 2 Lemmy points I would eventually get for my endeavors 30 years later - oh ho ho - who is laughing now, Jimmy!?!)
Pretty sure those old timer GOPers are just afraid of people who read and understand art because they are barely literate and slightly insane from lead poisoning. That 5G and it's Wuhan Virus...... (angrily shakes arthritic fist).. will get you every time.
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Like how a dude penned "In Flanders' Fields" in WW1, and Canada lost every war since. /s
Diverse teams are more effective and deliver better results. A group of people with different backgrounds and experiences will come up with different solutions to a problem than a heterogeneous group. This is a well researched topic. It is why corporate America and the military are pushing for more DE&I.
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Doesn't West Point have creative writing and English classes like most universities?
We are all just feeding the rage machine right now. An entire class of people who just say snarky know-it-all things with no skillset making bank out of their ability to troll.