austin-cheney 9 hours ago

That article is silly. The defense secretary cannot arbitrarily fire people like this. He can have a 15-6 investigation opened though, but that is a long way from a firing. To arbitrarily fire an officer there has to be some immediate violation of law or gross harm with exigencies.

Where these immediate firings occur for senior officers is typically a failure of performance in a command position that results in some other greater failure, but this is beyond rare, even in combat.

  • estimator7292 3 hours ago

    Unfortunately, "can't" and "illegal" and even "unconstitutional" are really only nuisance words to today's government.

reify 8 hours ago

I have probably been living under a rather large stone. I dont watch TV or have any social media and had no idea of pronouns.

This article inspired me to find out what pronouns were/are.

What are they/them, xe/xem, ze/zim, sie/hir, and other gender-neutral pronouns?

Its so confusing.

https://www.them.us/story/gender-neutral-pronouns-101-they-t...

Due to the narcissistic nature of pronouns, I have decided that I am going to take an idea out of Freud's first book and steal it.

(I/super I/It)

that's me that is.

  • millzlane 4 hours ago

    It's only confusing if one is ignorant about pronouns. It's not hard in practice.

    Person 1: Where is emy?

    Person 2: Oh she, is over there. Points

    Person 3: hey person 1, emy doesn't refer to herself as she..

    Person 2: oh I'm sorry. I had no idea about Emy and their pronouns...Hey person 1, Emy is right over there.

    I find it easier if you refer to people by their names (preferred or otherwise) and just default to gender neutral terms like "they/them". Because it not a hard thing to do.

    • whatevaa 2 hours ago

      This is how you get people hating you. Expecting special treatment from others.

      • saubeidl 2 hours ago

        What special treatment? Why are you so hateful over a little word? Is there nothing more important going on in your life? Nothing else to be upset about?

        • whatevaa an hour ago

          Corecting others. I'm not hateful, I don't like nitpicking and searching for problems when there aren't any. Yes, I believe pronouns are invented problem, and thus will dismiss this as not important. If you think is is hate, you haven't experienced hate.

          A lot of people think the same, even if they don't express that online. The only person who hates anything here is you.

          • kelseyfrog 22 minutes ago

            Why choose that pronouns are the problem and not your reaction to them? It costs nothing to refer to someone how they want to be.

            • whatevaa 16 minutes ago

              The example given contains an example of interrupting and correcting another person. You need to keep track of it, it cannot be inferred. I does cost something, even if a little.

          • saubeidl an hour ago

            You literally talked about hating people over their pronouns in your previous post.

            • whatevaa 18 minutes ago

              My bad, I expressed myself badly. I don't hate anybody, just indifferent. I usually refer to unfamiliar people more officially anyway, so this doesn't even affect me.

              But I remember widespread cancel culture over issues like this, and I can't help but feel that it helped stoke the fire of hate which other people are expressing.