RE: The white privilege to terrorize
October 30, 2020 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: October 30, 2020 at 1:59 pm by onlinebiker.)
(October 30, 2020 at 12:47 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:(June 13, 2020 at 9:57 pm)Zepp Wrote: And Trumps supporters are mostly 60+ ...
I hope you don't believe this part of what you wrote because if you do you don't understand the makeup of Trump's base at all. Polls move around, but about a third of 18-34 year olds fall firmly in the Trump camp. It's 40% plus for 35 to 64 year olds and closer to 50% for 65 plus. So while older people may be more likely to support Trump than younger people, in raw numbers he has more supporters in the 18 to 59 group than he does in the 60 and up group.
(June 14, 2020 at 5:05 am)onlinebiker Wrote: appointing themselves battlefield comissions.
Maybe we can get @Gawdzilla Sama to chime in here on Wendell Fertig. If you aren't familiar with him he was an American army reserve colonel in the Philippines when the Japanese invaded. He refused to surrender, made his way to the island of Mindanao, then organized and led a resistance to the Japanese occupation.
Fertig spent a lot of time in the Philippines prior to the war and understood the people. He knew the local warlords that were going to be his best resource would never follow a colonel so he promoted himself to general. It worked, but it also pissed MacArthur and his staff off to no end. Not only did some lowly reserve colonel have the gall to promote himself to general, but he was able to run a successful resistance to the Japanese. Something which they had insisted was not possible without MacArthur himself there to lead it. So much so that they just about refused to provide him with much in the way of material support because they felt a successful guerilla operation by Fertig would make them look bad.
After the war Fertig would be instrumental in shaping the army's psychological operations strategy, and is considered to be one of the father's of our special forces.
Yup. An interesting story for sure - but he DID have a commission to start with.
Most of the bozos I met from the "Michigan Milita" that wanted to claim a rank - had never served.
Guys like myself - who had served - felt rather uncomfortable with some overweight mental midget calling himself "Major".
Our county - at least while I was involved -(almost 30 years ago) did not wear uniforms or claim rank. Dunno about now.
