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Not all of us are fascists, and not all joined because we wanted to blow up brown people. I wanted to be an engineer but couldn't afford college when I was 17, and was offered a pretty good salary with benefits out the gate, plus the opportunity to have my degree paid for. Even during the Iraq invasion when i joined, I had no interest in actually doing anything related to warfare.

But a lot of the guys I work with, whether they've always been like that from the start, because they think it's funny, or because they're willfully ignorant, don't think the same way. There's also huge disparities between thoughts in the branches as a whole, as well as intellectual stratification in the branches. For example, it's a lot more likely that you'll find fascist ideals in the Army and Marines than the Air Force and Navy, but you'll still find free thinkers in the more educated parts of the "fighting" branches and idiots in the ones focused on tech. The smart ones are worried, the dumbasses think it's lulz.

I do find it funny (in a sad, sad way), though, that a lot of the people who have been openly supportive of the Fascists' policies in the past now say things like "I don't really pay attention to politics lol" or claim/admit that they don't vote. Now that it's clear that their ineptitude has led us to a place where the country's soft power is nil, the benefits every servicemember enjoys are at risk, and they're probably going to go up against China within the next couple of years, they're suddenly not as vocal about their position. I can't wait to retire and put this all behind me so I can focus on more important things. One more year and I'm done.

All that said, politicians really like to prop the military up as a huge, monolithic entity that always thinks, acts, and votes identically (and conservative to boot), and this simply isn't true. Anyone smart enough to think past "brown people bad/MURICA FUCK YEAH" realizes that the military benefits program is the most successful socialist movement America has ever had.

I have to go to work so I need to cut it off here, but that's the start of my rant. Thank you for attending my TedTalk.

Legal disclaimer: I do not speak for the military, the government, or anyone working in either. There's your disclaimer, Whiskey Pete. I'm compliant with the words on your DODI now.

The only one I can't get onboard with is Leavitt's. That's no way to talk about whores, comparing them to her. Have a little decency!

Man this statement, while already sour, aged like fucking milk.

This is Ohio, for anyone else that didn't get that from anything on the article or anywhere you'd expect to see it on the website.

Short answer: no. Long answer: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.

Well of course they did/do. They're the ones in charge right now.

As others have mentioned, Debian stable and Xubuntu are my default recommendations for anyone who wants a simple "just works" kind of system. Debian if they want it to be as clean as possible, Xubuntu if they want some creature comfort right out of the box.

Caveat: I'm not a statistician, but my job requires that I interpret large pools of raw data to interpolate outcomes for even larger systems. Think using 30 respondents and a week of observation/collection to represent 2500-10,000 respondents over the course of a year. The way I collect, analyze, interpret, and present my data is scrutinized heavily from every angle (as it should be) but still very susceptible to biases. Fortunately, I'm super autistic and it's basically impossible for me to lie so I'm considered really good at what I do.

These surveys are typically done via methods that are prone to significant statistical errors. For the most part they use phone calls, Facebook ads, emails that most people under the age of 65 just delete (or never even see because it's caught by spam filters). This, combined with the fact that the type of people who will reply to these sort of questionaires are always more right-leaning skews the data even further.

If someone approached you on the street asking you to take a survey, about Pervert Hoover what would you do? Uncle Jerry, who's known for providing his unsolicited opinions about librulz and the gays, and Aunt Elaine who doesn't want to get backhanded at home so she just stands there usually count as two respondents.

That's not even touching the bias almost always introduced by the question and answer formats. "Do you agree with the President's policy of deporting people with legal residency status due to excercising their First Amendment Rights? (Y/N)" is a totally different outcome to "Do you agree with the President's national security policies? (Y/N)"

These articles are always written to imply they've surveyed everyone in the country, done the math to adjust for selection bias, and written the survey questions to be fair, but time and time again that's proven to be untrue, or at least inaccurate. The interesting (and honestly the only good news we hear anymore) is that even with all of the cards literally and figuratively stacked in the orange skidmark's favor, he's only getting as positive an outcome as he is.

And there's also the need for clicks and ad revenue.

TL; DR: these things are bullshit and always produce wildly inaccurate results skewed in favor of the dumbest outcomes.

As Kylo Ren, the late great Kylo Ren--we love Kylo, don't we folks? Ky-lo. As he said to me, he said it. He said, "Sir," he said, "MORE," and we all have to agree, don't we?

Nah, this is from her team. At best, she's furrowing her brow.