• HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca
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      So what I read is that TPUSA enables useful idiots.

      Stop giving attention whores what they want, for fuck’s sake. It’s like getting mad at Facebook comments which I thought we’d all learned was useless a decade ago.

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            I work for a company that can be abbreviated TPUSA and they often do. A funny thing is that they had a big banner inside the building that said “Proud to be TP”

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      I believe he scored so low on the USMC entrance exam that he’s never allowed to pay again. Apparently it’s not easy to score so low

    • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Here is the full transcript of Hancock’s (@DaveHan06) post on X/Twitter:

      Is anyone surprised that Kyle’s far-right political handlers ensured this particular detail didn’t make it into his book? (Referring to photo of email detailing how Rittenhouse was banned from ever applying to the Marine Corp again due to failing the entrance exam so terribly)

      Regarding his online high school diploma, we had to force him to complete the four years of credits in just ten months, which he did using the “Google machine.”

      We invested significant effort to craft the image you witnessed during the trial. We outfitted him in new suits, arranged for his haircut every weekend during the trial, and dedicated over 200 hours to prepare him for direct and cross-examination. We employed the world’s leading jury consultant and conducted extensive research through three mock trials to identify the ideal jurors and the most effective approach for his testimony.

      Transforming a middle school dropout who was “angry at the world” with a history of violence and an unhealthy obsession with guns and killing into a respectable young man with a desire for higher education and a promising future was no easy feat.

      It was a meticulously crafted facade, which we sincerely hoped he would grow into. Instead, he squandered a full scholarship to study any subject at any university in the country to become a divisive douchebag and antagonize black Americans on college campuses. Kyle failed to learn a single thing. He remains the same uneducated, arrogant, and antagonistic individual, incapable of telling the truth.

      Now, he genuinely believes he is the show pony we created and has surrounded himself with sycophants who fuel his inflated ego because they prioritize their political agenda and Christian Nationalist worldview over his well-being.

      Despite my efforts to guide him toward a better path in life, the allure of notoriety triumphed over the prospect of putting in the hard work of pursuing an education. Kyle is ill-equipped to offer advice to young people. I regret my role in shaping him into whatever he has become. If I had known what I know now about Kyle’s history, I wouldn’t have been involved.

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        It was a meticulously crafted facade, which we sincerely hoped he would grow into.

        Kyle failed to learn a single thing.

        He doesn’t appear to be the only one.

    • telllos@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      What do you expect? He was defending the oppressed businesses during a riot.

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      What a boring fucking journalist. Imagine confidently typing “please make 8 words into 300” into chatGPT.

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    Is he gonna pay for the passport, flight ticket, housing, etc?

    I’m partly Native American, I’d like to know…

    Edit: Where am I going anyways?.. 🤔

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    Everyone who defended him during the trial or afterwards has signed a blood pact with the man and has to continue to defend everything he ever does or says forever.

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        I think people are misunderstanding this comment.

        I think he’s making fun of the idiots that continue to stick to a wrong opinion because they don’t want to say they are wrong.

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          I defended him during the trial, and I was not wrong. He was innocent. He’s still an absolute piece of shit and dumber than a sack of weights, but the shootings were absolutely in self defense.

          I still defend his innocense in the trial specifically, and nothing else this piece of shit does.

          That’s what the blood pact comment was getting at. You can hate everything he’s saying and still believe he shot in self defense. The two are not mutually exclusive.

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            I’ll be honest that I have only peripherally paid attention to the Rittenhouse trial, and maybe you can help me understand it a bit better.

            Didn’t he travel a good distance to “defend” a business, one he had no right or reason to defend with a deadly weapon? Was it really just that Washington is a “stand your ground” and not a “duty to retreat” state that made him innocent on that?

            If so, that’s definitely a good argument for a duty to retreat legal doctrine, because it’s one hell of a loophole to allow people to purposefully put themselves into a conflict, accelerate things with an open threat, and try to claim you did nothing wrong.

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      Dude may be a legit GOP Presidential contender one year, maybe we should stay on him?

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        4 months ago

        something about crosshairs?

        (beg pardon to the international audience, just trying to speak in terms that Americans will understand)

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    Dude is so dumb he got PERMANENTLY disqualified from joining the crayon eaters club. And this was during a time they were desperate for new recruits too lol

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        I’m pretty sure the minimum ASVAB score is like 30. I’m pretty sure you could get that by randomly guessing on most of it. I try not to be too harsh in my judgements of the less intelligent but holy fuck do you have to be dumb to be fully disqualified.

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          You can pass the ASVAB enough to join by answering C on every question. I know this to be true because I worked with multiple guys who said they did exactly that. That may not be true today but it was 15 years ago.

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          You can retest as much as needed, really, and if you can’t get your score up a recruiter can schedule you time with a nearby Ed Center if there is one for ASVAB classes to get your scores up because “some folks aren’t test takers!”

          I’m not saying that fuckstick Mcbangbang is by any means smart but a permanent disqual for low ASVAB? I ain’t seent it before.

    • BlitzKrieg2552@lemmy.world
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      Hate to break it to you, but it’s actually illegal to kill people and he got away with doing it twice. I’m not happy about it, but he’s not going to be touched for this comment, I promise you.

      He should be serving consecutive live sentences, but instead he was given a platform to speak on and became a poster child for conservative values.

      The American “justice” system is a joke and a farce.

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        Conservatives, they don’t send their best and brightest.

        Oh god, maybe they do.

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    But setting aside the fact that a descendant of colonizers has the caucasity to tell the descendants of the colonized that they should “leave” the land they rightfully pointed out was stolen from them…

    Oh, that’s good.

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        Nope. Hating the bigotry of people who have skin color or another trait in common with yourself does not equal hating yourself. Caucasity is not a trait inherent to all white people.

        Contrary to the fantasies of bigots, white people are not one big team united against everyone else.

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          It’s not really a word. Also it clearly implies something is inherent to “Caucasians” - I can’t be bothered to do any clever wordplay on the other supposed racial categories, but I suspect any equivalent puns might be considered a little problematic, what what?

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            It’s not really a word

            Since it’s used to convey meaning using letters and people understand that meaning, it by any definition that matters IS a word.

            Also it clearly implies something is inherent to “Caucasians”

            No. “Particularly Caucasians” ≠ “all Caucasians”.

            I can’t be bothered to do any clever wordplay on the other supposed racial categories

            Good, because that would likely be punching down, unlike pointing out how audacious some white people are with their privilege.

            but I suspect any equivalent puns might be considered a little problematic, what what?

            No, they wouldn’t be equivalent. Pointing out white privilege and criticizing those that wield it as both a sword and a shield is not the same as making fun of less privileged people or even white people who are aware of and don’t exploit their privilege.

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        I mean, he makes the rounds in the right wing grift-o-sphere somewhat regularly, has huge name recognition, and likely a very positive q score among maga types.

        He probably doesn’t need any leftist outrage to win a primary in the right district.

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      He’s echoing sentiments white nationalists have espoused for centuries.

      Pretty sure Christopher Columbus is on record telling a native to “Love it or Leave it”

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        Pretty sure Christopher Columbus is on record telling a native to “Love it or Leave it”

        No, he was too busy with murdering them.

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    Infamous stupid hick says hateful, willfully ignorant rage bait. Middle school was too much for this fucking mental invalid. He may never see prison for what he’s done, but he’s trapped in that idiot mind and will never know greater awareness, just like he deserves.

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      There are times those of us who aren’t total psychopaths are also a bit too lenient.

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      and will never know greater awareness, just like he deserves.

      You say he deserves blissfull ignorance.

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            Yes. The opposite of blissful ignorance is painful maximal understanding, right? Maybe he should be gifted a “Blessing of Unfathomable Empathy” by a great and powerful witch instead.

            Whichever is easiest. Or more painful emotionally.