The following applies to the US Army as of 20+ years ago, but I doubt it has changed a whole lot since:

As far as I'm aware there are 3 main paths to becoming an officer: 1) West Point 2) ROTC and 3) OCS.

1. West Pointers are by far the most numerous, and they typically come from wealthier communities, especially in the NE. West Point is considered to be a top notch school, and the majority of people who go there to be upper crust types who later spend the minimum amount of time they need to be in, and then get out and go work on Wall Street or whatever. Some stay in and make it a career, of course, and these represent most of those above the rank of Captain.

2. ROTC - These are people who come from college ROTC programs and are more rare. I think they probably come from a range of different backgrounds.

3. OCS - Officer Candidate School - These are basically NCOs who became officers through the OCS program. These are also rare I think, but officers who go this route generally get more respect from enlisted ranks for obvious reasons.

Keffals recently helped get both Destiny and Laura Southern banned from Twitch. That seems pretty damn good.

EDIT: If you're spying on my profile, you should know I hearby renounce any comments I made on this topic 2 years ago.

Interesting… If true, I take back what I said about him.

I was just reading about her and watching some clips on her YouTube channel. Apparently she helped get Destiny AND Laura Southern booted from Twitch? That’s pretty fucking awesome.

Thanks!

Know of any grounded articles or videos that cover this well? By grounded I mean not wild Alex Jones-like stories of remote control planes and explosives planted by in the towers. I’ve always been suspicious of it and especially the Saudi role, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of evidence for some of these claims that certain 9-11 truthers have put forward.

The wall. All of them.

:stalin-gun-1::stalin-gun-2:

When he and Madonna were married in the 80s, he was physically abusive and once put her in the hospital by hitting her with a bat. He’s a performative piece of shit. May not be true. See below.

Kin-Dza-Dza! is an 80’s Soviet Russian dystopian sci-fi/comedy. I haven’t seen it yet, but it was recommended to me and looks good. Link is to the full movie on the Mosfilm YouTube channel.

That's a very apt comparison.

“Back in the day, like before the woke era, I actually got canceled for this,” she said in the interview, referring to the photo. “I was trying to be like, all integrity, and start my career, and it was like ‘Grimes Gone Wild’ or something, and it was just this like, super wack, mean story, and it was like this meme which was going all over the internet,” she says. She’d just released her breakout album Visions a few months prior, which won a bunch of awards.

She kinda reminds me of the doctor from Idiocracy.

I'm moving out of Texas in a few days and can't wait. Sure, the whole US sucks ass, but Texas basically has all the worst qualities of the US amplified.

Yep, that's according to his ex-wife I guess, so it seems solid. However, the backstory of Star Trek is just too similar to Posadism to be a coincidence imo. Nuclear war, aliens bringing communism, telepathic communication with dolphins and whales, etc. It's all there, so I'm thinking Roddenberry must have came across it at some point and thought it would make a good tv series.

Good post :rat-salute:

Also, I think maybe we do shit on trots a bit too much sometimes? I'm not one myself, but I do respect groups like :SAlt: and the various trot websites out there that collect and publish important stuff like marxists.org.

Also Posadas was a trot, and I'm like 99% sure Roddenberry based the lore of Star Trek on his ideas, so maybe we owe them a little credit for helping with that as well.

Critical support for L. Ron Hoyabembe

I think the morality of an action should be primarily determined by the expected real world material consequences of said action, either positive or negative. Doing anything just for the sake of purity is silly, and can often itself be immoral if the outcome would have likely had a positive impact otherwise. Related to your question, it depends. Would you be directly making someone's situation worse? In that case, it would obviously be bad. Would a specific act of participation in capitalism benefit you or people/groups you care about while having an inconsequential impact on the capitalist system as a whole? (making money from stocks might be an example of this) Then it might be worth it to take advantage. You'd have to look at each situation independently and weigh the benefits and drawbacks. Also, as far as the argument around class loyalty goes, I think it really will be socialism or barbarism no matter how financially secure you think you are, so you should support the overthrow of capitalism no matter what.

The initial reason is that they are rescuing some minister, but they were lied to by Dillon/the CIA who really brought them there because they were trying to stop a Soviet-backed invasion, or something.

I love his puppet videos, and I feel like it fills a need for leftist content that targets younger viewers. We really should unironically be indoctrinating kids with communist ideas every opportunity we have.

Reading Rainbow, while not explicitly leftist by any means, does have a lot of good themes and I think generally exposes kids to science, culture, etc. that they otherwise might not be exposed to. Also, LeVar Burton did participate in stuff like this in his younger days, which makes me wonder a bit if he's more left-leaning than he lets on.

The truly amazing part is being able to actually discuss things with people in good faith instead of constantly dealing with the shitstain debatelords on reddit. Interacting with this site actually makes me feel good instead of just angry.