Millennial Curmudgeon

Yes

A bunch of the commenters in this thread are about to drop the Melanie Mac on this dude, and it's spectacular.

@ShitpostRock2 I bet you think this post has merit, but that's not intrapersonal DEI, that's just you being an idiot.

But this is objectively true, DEI puts merit last and virtue signaling first, which ends up undermining real performance and talent

@thelivingvote @jpearcejourno @shanaka86 Oh, look: a British alcoholic commenting on US affairs. Go sway in front of a dartboard at a pub and see if the players can throw around you.

@jpearcejourno @shanaka86 I'm afraid you are are simply an ignorant fool. Do try to educate yourself a little before advertising your stupidity.

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next. Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades. George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks. The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order. No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide. A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute. The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no. The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@CedarAndWood @barbarismcrit Performative and accelerationist dribble with no actual revolutionary potential. You are a child.

@barbarismcrit And? If the 3rd world killed me I wouldn’t even blame them.

We do not care

@deathraceUSA I feel as though I've lost all favor with my creator

@lawn_destroya Holy shit you were untainted. I’m sorry you had to be exposed

I somehow made it 17 years without ever hearing this song, and this post just ruined that for me

@khrisody @GeraldBourguet JG was our top scorer. Everyone else played lazy and sloppy.

@GeraldBourguet I'm sorry but Jalen Green doesn't fit this team at all

@RyB_311 Regardless, it's unacceptable to barely play Rasheer, Dunn, or Man-man, especially when everyone else out there were doing impressions of a traffic cone.

A fully healthy version of this team was always going to need time to sort through, there’s so many guys we want to play and a ton of our best players are in 1 position group (guards) It just sucks that figuring that all out starts with a week until an elimination tournament

The Dow Jones should stay at 50,000 out of respect

@guyhanginout @posting_forever @tinylittlehomie Straddle me daddy 😋

@posting_forever @tinylittlehomie The spreads are crazy rn

@UsingLyft @ReinhardtGaming You don't understand the process of how an empire falls. It has nothing to do with "illegals" and everything to do with the shit you're cheering on, so please shut your ignorant ass up.

@ReinhardtGaming If you want to become a 3rd world country why don’t you just move to one?

Gas could be $8/gallon and we could go to war for 3 years I’m still voting against the infinity immigrants party who want to turn America into Hondurastan.

@SlurricaneH Being groomed for the position 😬

Problematic age gap between me and my interviewee

@BisqueBoi Trying to explain to my mom what "Rape Me" was about was about as unsuccessful

@lawn_destroya When I was 16 my first band had a cover of Down By The River and my mom told me “You know that song is about a man killing his girlfriend” and I replied “No, it’s about a man doing heroin” which did not help my case

Listening to a wildly problematic BB King song and shaking my head the whole time so my wife knows I disagree

Imagine a burger (because you can no longer afford one)

@ModerateInSEA @MalwareJake Shut the fuck up

@MalwareJake Here’a a tip - don’t mouth off to law enforcement. Ever.

ICE was checking IDs at the Atlanta airport today. The.guy said "your DL photo is super light, so facial recognition might not work." I snapped back "that's so you know not to illegally deport me." His buddy said "we can find a reason" and NOTHING could be more on-brand for an encounter with ICE.

@Mik311 Imagine a burger

Explain commodities to an American

@Mik311 Heartwarming: Klay + Bob Myers reunion

Are we getting Prime Steph Curry, too?

Bryon Noem with a French sex worker: SW: "Mon cheri 😘." BN: "HELL YEAH, I'll be your cherry!"

@WallStreetU308 @GriffinsMayo @unusual_whales

@lawn_destroya @GriffinsMayo @unusual_whales That guy doesn’t look Jewish at all

The U.S. unemployment insurance system is not prepared for a recession, per CNBC