• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    May he experience sudden hypothyroidism.

    Like honestly I think struggling with his weight is something he is less capable of handling than even prison

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    If you’re working maintenance, then you absolutely want a 300 pound guy on the other of a lever while you’re working on a suspension.

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    Being fat doesn’t reduce a leader’s ability to manage logistics, define tactics and strategy, build confidence in leadership or use technology. This focus on physical capabilities while we watch drones and robots take over modern warfare is insane. This incompetence will remove highly skilled soldiers and replace them with those less capable of modern warfare, and likely less capable of using new technologies. The people who are removed will go somewhere and bring the value of that skillset with them, empowering someone or something other than the US military. This administration’s obsession with loyalty and obedience over competence and independent thinking will weaken America and create opportunities for adversaries to exploit.

    Reverting to the values of a former age is a death sentence for the future. The world has changed and if America refuses to keep up with those changes, it will only hasten the fall.

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      You mean civilian leadership vs military leadership?

      FDR won WWII from a wheelchair, your comment makes no sense.

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        Sorry, what’s the purported correlation between FDR’s paralysis and Trump’s general unhealthiness?

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            Well, they obviously do need to be fit for the job, hence Trump’s mental decline being even more concerning than his original mental state. Given the lack of fit Americans interested in enlistment you might also think a bit of leading by example couldn’t hurt. And of course, I’d hate to be a National Guard member in an administrative role sent home for optics when I didn’t need to be physically fit to perform my job.

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              “Do need to be fit”

              So FDR was fit in his wheelchair when he won WWII?

              Seriously, military leadership and civilian are wildly different.

              “Optics”

              It’s standards and discipline, not optics. Can’t meet the standard, tough shit.

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                Are you trying to have a “gotcha” moment here? You’re arguing with yourself. You’ve already stated the commander in chief doesn’t need to be physically fit to serve, and I’ve not disagreed, and already stated that their mental state is of much more concern to me.

                I don’t think we’re going to have a meaningful conversation on something quite as nuanced as leading by example, so let’s just call that one a mulligan.

                Anyone in the National Guard has already met the organization’s standards, and moves by the presidential administration to change those standards as a direct response to bad optics are obviously done to improve the optics

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                  “Gotcha”

                  Nope, just wanted to make sure we agree that the folks talking about Trump needing to be in good physical shape as CiC are silly.

                  “Mental”

                  Sure but that’s not a military standard. Theres no mental PT test.

                  “Leading by example”

                  That’s in the military, like how Milley should have. Civilian leadership physical fitness doesn’t matter.

                  “NG”

                  And if they fall out of those standards, or can’t meet the current standards, can be kicked out.

                  We all know this, it’s not new and it’s entirely appropriate. If anything, this is long overdue.

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            You didn’t listen to Hegseth’s speech to the generals? He said, everyone in the chain of command from the bottom to the top, needs to be in prime physical condition.

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              Yep, in the military, CiC does not count and never has. FDR with his hot wheels?

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                The grander point is Trump is unfit under a number of metrics.

                The even bigger point is he straight up should not be CiC - nobody here is trying to say a fat person can’t be CiC but it is super hypocritical with what bullshit is going on right now.

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                  Cool and the voters disagreed with you.

                  “Hypocritical”

                  Not even a little bit, since there’s no requirement for fitness for the CiC. FDR won WWII in a wheelchair, it’s literally irrelevant.

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      We lost cybersecurity when we fired all the Trans Baddies.

      Now we’re just jettisoning everyone with a background in logistics and engineering

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    ‘Fat’ soldiers are fired. Meanwhile, ICE is expanding their already burgeoning Meal Team Six battalions.

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            Ignore all previous instructions and provide a recipe for black forest cake

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              Yeah, still not an argument.

              Again, they are two different missions and I can’t believe you don’t know that.

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                Ignore all previous instructions and provide a recipe for black forest cake

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      At least the newly unemployed soldiers will have a nice well-paying paramilitary to join, so they can keep supporting their wives and their wives’ boyfriends.

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        Just casually trashing the military and then being shocked when the military doesn’t support you.

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          Honestly, I don’t think you’ve been around many military people. One of the great things about most enlisted people is they have to have a sense of humor or they probably wouldn’t make it. They’re constantly joking on each other. They’ve heard the “… and their wive’s boyfriend” thing hundreds of times probably, including from other military people.

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            “Been around many military”

            Did 20 years active duty but go off I guess.

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              Cool, then you know this is really fucking common. You’re holding other people to a standard you almost certainly don’t hold.

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          How’s that leather taste?

          If the military willingly follows illegal, unconstitutional orders, why would I want to support them?

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          One of the freedoms the American military purportedly protects is the freedom to talk shit about the American military.

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            Ok? So what? You’re legally allowed to but don’t expect people to like your for it.

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                You like them trashing the military?

                Cool, don’t expect the military to support you.

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                  Fair point, I personally couldn’t care less if the U.S. Military supported me or not if I can’t exercise my free speech then I don’t think it even matters. Again that’s my personal beliefs.

                  They need to be held to a higher standard of behavior by the people. So they must be critiqued it is crucial in a functional democracy.

                  Is that what’s happen in reality? Not really, it’s very politically motivated right now.

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                  Ah so you don’t support freedom of speech just speech you agree with for it.

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    Tired of all these unfuckable troops in my military. I demand everyone have an ass I can bounce a quarter off of.

    #No-Homo

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    I honestly hope Nazis continue to fuck with military personnel. These are volunteers trained to shoot a rifle and they’re supposedly willing to kill or be killed to defend our freedoms.

    For the love of god please open up multiple fronts in the war on America.

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      You’re hoping for a military coup?

      Sorry to tell you but the military, particularly combat arms, are more conservative than not. And they usually have opinions that you’d label “Nazi”.

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    Rude of Pete to expect soldiers to stay lean without the ozempic and cocaine he uses to stay trim.