2 comments

  • austin-cheney 6 hours ago
    That article is silly. The defense secretary cannot arbitrarily fire people like this. He can have a 15-6 investigation opened though, but that is a long way from a firing. To arbitrarily fire an officer there has to be some immediate violation of law or gross harm with exigencies.

    Where these immediate firings occur for senior officers is typically a failure of performance in a command position that results in some other greater failure, but this is beyond rare, even in combat.

    • estimator7292 13 minutes ago
      Unfortunately, "can't" and "illegal" and even "unconstitutional" are really only nuisance words to today's government.
  • reify 4 hours ago
    I have probably been living under a rather large stone. I dont watch TV or have any social media and had no idea of pronouns.

    This article inspired me to find out what pronouns were/are.

    What are they/them, xe/xem, ze/zim, sie/hir, and other gender-neutral pronouns?

    Its so confusing.

    https://www.them.us/story/gender-neutral-pronouns-101-they-t...

    Due to the narcissistic nature of pronouns, I have decided that I am going to take an idea out of Freud's first book and steal it.

    (I/super I/It)

    that's me that is.

    • millzlane 1 hour ago
      It's only confusing if one is ignorant about pronouns. It's not hard in practice.

      Person 1: Where is emy?

      Person 2: Oh she, is over there. Points

      Person 3: hey person 1, emy doesn't refer to herself as she..

      Person 2: oh I'm sorry. I had no idea about Emy and their pronouns...Hey person 1, Emy is right over there.

      I find it easier if you refer to people by their names (preferred or otherwise) and just default to gender neutral terms like "they/them". Because it not a hard thing to do.