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CJCS responds to Rep. Gaetz
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I bet that about sums up what many non-slave owning white folks said before the civil war, or the Germans who stood by and watched the Jews get rounded up with indifference. Guess many people really have learned nothing from out past.
I grew up a minority in the southern San Jouaquin Valley. Over 70% Hispanic, my pale face was definitely the exception to the rule. It didn’t give me an excuse to blame everyone else for any of my deficiencies as a student or human being, I refused to let the color of my skin define my existence. What a weird concept.
Happy to let you Google the statistics working against a successful outcome being raised in the area between Fresno and Bakersfield, they are worse than anywhere you lived, unless you lived there.
I don’t claim to have worked “ten times harder” than anyone, I did what I had to do to escape (pay attention in class, show up to school, a couple extracurricular activities, working a job from the age of 13) got accepted into a couple affordable colleges, picked one that suited my needs, went there, succeeded.
It really IS that easy in the USA. Anyone claiming otherwise is speaking disingenuously.
I think this is how to not be an anti-racist. Good to see you say the quiet part out loud.
When did you move?
“I live in Kauai like @Treetop Flyer guessed. It is mostly sunny year round. Gets rainy sometimes but enough sunlight to power the place.”
Maybe he considers himself a resident of the Kingdom of Hawai'i. ?
At least the Principality of Sealand has issued passports from time to time.
SELRES_AMDO
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I was stationed in Hawaii for years. The people there seemed to be the nicest people on the planet. My neighbors were born and raised and would give you the shirt off their back. I never had any issues. My coworkers did though. But, my coworkers were also the types who had no respect for the culture.
The passports issued by the Iroquois Confederacy haven't worked so well post 9/11. In 2010 the Iroquois men's lacrosse team was not allowed to travel to the UK for the World Championship. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/17/sports/17lacrosse.html I was there, and seeing the Iroquois Nationals play was highly anticipated by my boys. Since then both men's and women's teams with Confederacy passport have on other occasions been prohibited from international travel to play. The men's team made an appearance in the Denver for the Worlds some years ago and went to Israel as well. But what the EU calls "fantasy passports" don't hack it. Sealandians are not welcome in Davos.
nodropinufaka
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A few weeks ago when I my work offered me telework full time.
I still got my place there though.
I wish I could say I moved to Austin like all the other telework tech bros but I didnt. Think I’ll just bounce freely between west coast and kauai for now.
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nodropinufaka
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Don’t you find it a problem that the only chance a lot of people in lower socioeconomic background have to be successful is to enlist in the military?
The Black Sabbath song War Pigs talked about this 51 years ago-
“Politicians hide themselves away
They only started the war
Why should they go out to fight?
They leave that role to the poor, yeah”
Military loves to prey on poor people from all races to enlist.
nodropinufaka
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It’s funny you mention that.
There is a kingdom of Ataooi on the west side of Kauai. They started issuing their own license plates and stuff. Consider themselves an independent nation. Got their own government IDs too. It’s insane.
To make it even more weird. They announced they got a foreign minister a few years ago.
No other then a former F-14 pilot who was CAG for one of the air wings but then got himself arrested on his staff tour the year after for DTS fraud. So he works now for their kingdom. It’s so weird. He’s even the current director of tailhook foundation.
Do you have to keep a list of your various victim statuses?
nodropinufaka
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That isn’t really related to the post I made about how a big percentage of the enlisted military is made up of poor people who get sent off to die on behalf of stupid politicians and flag officers.