RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread
January 7, 2021 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2021 at 9:16 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I can't speak to that, but yes..the air force is full of fundies, just like the rest of the service is full of fundies. Not so much a mob of fundies as they are committed fundies with powerful backers in government writing legislation that favors their cause at every level of government.
As far as the army having a confederate problem - also well documented - though, anecdotally, it wasn't a thing in my unit back in the day. That was helped along by much the same sort of legal manouvering by exactly the same actors in government. The pentagon recently..as in 2020, banned confederate flags on base, and not for no reason. So, win some lose some, I guess. Our willingness to accept this sort of shit has alot to do with whether or not we think it's good - so..even though the christian bias of our armed forces is a cut and dry issue, our society thinks that christianity is good, therefore it can't get too worked up about it and at least some people think it's a good thing. The stars and bars isn't in quite as good a pr place as christianity at present.
No matter to those motherfuckers, though, since both things were just two paths to their ends - and it's good to have a spare.
(the 80's definitely had a different service than the 00's)
As far as the army having a confederate problem - also well documented - though, anecdotally, it wasn't a thing in my unit back in the day. That was helped along by much the same sort of legal manouvering by exactly the same actors in government. The pentagon recently..as in 2020, banned confederate flags on base, and not for no reason. So, win some lose some, I guess. Our willingness to accept this sort of shit has alot to do with whether or not we think it's good - so..even though the christian bias of our armed forces is a cut and dry issue, our society thinks that christianity is good, therefore it can't get too worked up about it and at least some people think it's a good thing. The stars and bars isn't in quite as good a pr place as christianity at present.
No matter to those motherfuckers, though, since both things were just two paths to their ends - and it's good to have a spare.
(the 80's definitely had a different service than the 00's)
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