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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #75 on: October 18, 2021, 08:57:28 PM »
I know a trans person who thinks that they are a mechanic.
 
Not. Even. Close.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #76 on: October 18, 2021, 09:02:53 PM »
I know a trans person who thinks that they are a mechanic.
 
Not. Even. Close.

We had a crossdresser mechanic working at the main branch. I say had because he got sent to company paid training for our OEM and decided it was a fine opportunity to come down the hotel elevator in his “I’m feeling pretty” outfit. He got a quick lesson in the fact that when on company time or company trips you are one of the faces of the company when he was fired immediately upon his return to work. You don’t do that *expletive deleted*it in blue collar work.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #77 on: October 19, 2021, 01:20:53 AM »
I know a trans person who thinks that they are a mechanic.
 
Not. Even. Close.

But they identify as a mechanic.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #78 on: October 19, 2021, 08:58:16 AM »
1.  That is some serious mental illness.  How thin skinned do you have to be that you are bothered that someone might be around who is different from you?  I wonder if it is deliberate since they know they might just find out the "different" person is an okay person and not some oppressive monster. 

2.  The one comment noted that this person has set up things in their own mind such that the blue collar working man is the oppressor and the spoiled rich kid is the oppressed.  I wonder if that is part of the mental illness.  The oppressed are the good guys in their mind so they have to define things so they are in one of those groups.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #79 on: October 19, 2021, 10:01:24 AM »
Barking mad
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‘Angry, scared, and confused’: Oberlin student’s anxiety compounded by fact that radiator installers might be cisgendered men
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2021/10/18/angry-scared-and-confused-oberlin-students-anxiety-compounded-by-fact-that-radiator-installers-might-be-cisgendered-men/
Uh oh - they think the installers MIGHT be cisgendered men? Without even meeting the workers, aren't they applying racist/genderist stereotypes to other people based on the work they do? This is an odious mindset, and calls for mandatory remedial diversity & inclusion training.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #80 on: October 19, 2021, 05:13:51 PM »
I know a trans person who thinks that they are a mechanic.
 
Not. Even. Close.

Does he/she work on trannies?

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #81 on: October 19, 2021, 06:48:51 PM »
Every time I see this thread title, I think of Gomez's police station rant =)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ7RB3fQAA0&t=40s
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #82 on: October 20, 2021, 11:05:23 AM »
I know a trans person who thinks that they are a mechanic.
 
Not. Even. Close.

Does he/she work on trannies?

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #83 on: October 20, 2021, 11:15:42 AM »
China - flies hypersonic craft around the world

USA -  Oh yea, watch this,  makes a tranny a four star general
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #84 on: October 20, 2021, 11:20:09 AM »
China - flies hypersonic craft around the world

USA -  Oh yea, watch this,  makes a tranny a four star general

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #85 on: October 20, 2021, 11:27:24 AM »
China - flies hypersonic craft around the world

USA -  Oh yea, watch this,  makes a tranny a four star general

Yeah, I don't get why an assistant secretary needs to be a four star. Or part of that uniformed service at all. I think the Surgeon General is normally just a three star. An assistant secretary is likely higher than the surgeon general (I didn't look at their org chart), but it should be a civilian position, IMO.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #86 on: October 20, 2021, 02:30:10 PM »
In the next war the side with the most woke points wins loses.

Fixed that for you.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #87 on: October 20, 2021, 02:55:04 PM »
Fixed that for you.

It was sarcasm as we see it but unquestionable scientific fact as they see it.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #88 on: October 20, 2021, 03:13:06 PM »
China - flies hypersonic craft around the world

USA -  Oh yea, watch this,  makes a tranny a four star general
On a rational front, I know we have hypersonic missiles.  We have tested them and Trump bragged about them at one point.  I have no idea how many or what their readiness is.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #89 on: October 20, 2021, 03:15:26 PM »
On a rational front, I know we have hypersonic missiles.  We have tested them and Trump bragged about them at one point.  I have no idea how many or what their readiness is.

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2021/10/12/thurgood-hypersonic-missile-program-demonstrates-how-fast-army-can-move/

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #90 on: October 20, 2021, 03:59:24 PM »
Yeah, I don't get why an assistant secretary needs to be a four star. Or part of that uniformed service at all. I think the Surgeon General is normally just a three star. An assistant secretary is likely higher than the surgeon general (I didn't look at their org chart), but it should be a civilian position, IMO.

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[quote[ If the appointee is also a serving uniformed officer of the commissioned corps, by statute, he or she is appointed as a four-star admiral and is the highest ranking officer in the commissioned corps,[1][2] as no other position in the Public Health Service is designated as a four-star office. The president may also nominate a civilian appointee to also be appointed a direct commission in the commissioned corps if the nominee so chooses.[/quote]

I don't know if he was already in the USPHS but it doesn't seem to matter, the President can give a direct appointment for guy. To me this smacks of posturing by the new Admiral and the Administration, like in look at how woke we are the other side would never allow this.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #91 on: October 20, 2021, 04:03:35 PM »
From the Wiki Universe.

I don't know if he was already in the USPHS but it doesn't seem to matter, the President can give a direct appointment for guy. To me this smacks of posturing by the new Admiral and the Administration, like in look at how woke we are the other side would never allow this.

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He probably chose to be commissioned just to get the uniform to wear for perv role play stuff.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #92 on: October 20, 2021, 07:01:13 PM »
On a rational front, I know we have hypersonic missiles.  We have tested them and Trump bragged about them at one point.  I have no idea how many or what their readiness is.

But what are we going to do with them? Use them on the country we get most of our crap from? Or one of their allies?

We are no threat. Especially wi this weak administration in charge.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #93 on: October 20, 2021, 07:30:47 PM »
But what are we going to do with them? Use them on the country we get most of our crap from? Or one of their allies?

We are no threat. Especially wi this weak administration in charge.

"They" have more or less threatened to nuke gun owners and other right wing domestic terrorists AKA-"insurgents". Might need to make a surgical strike on some terrorist that dared to challenge a school board policy as a lesson pour encourager les autres.
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #94 on: October 20, 2021, 10:57:23 PM »
But what are we going to do with them? Use them on the country we get most of our crap from? Or one of their allies?

We are no threat. Especially wi this weak administration in charge.
We are no more threat than China is.  They don't want to nuke their biggest customer who owes them money. 
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #95 on: October 21, 2021, 07:04:04 AM »
"They" have more or less threatened to nuke gun owners and other right wing domestic terrorists AKA-"insurgents". Might need to make a surgical strike on some terrorist that dared to challenge a school board policy as a lesson pour encourager les autres.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #96 on: October 21, 2021, 06:30:29 PM »
Instant Regret! Math Teachers INSANE Lesson Goes Viral & Outrage Is Absurd! SOH CAH TOA Backfire!
https://youtu.be/rwLg7CUAc2E

This just looks insane.

The Quartering said he doesn't think he should be fired.  I am not sure about that.  The pure stupidity of it should justify that.

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #97 on: October 21, 2021, 06:44:22 PM »
Instant Regret! Math Teachers INSANE Lesson Goes Viral & Outrage Is Absurd! SOH CAH TOA Backfire!
https://youtu.be/rwLg7CUAc2E

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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #98 on: October 22, 2021, 09:07:40 AM »
Where the hell is SMOD?!
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Re: Maybe we should just start a The World Has Gone Mad thread
« Reply #99 on: October 22, 2021, 06:10:14 PM »
Didn't she know non-white cultures must be treated with the utmost reverence at all times?  :facepalm:
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