Tommy Tuberville Says US Wouldn’t Be Able to Take on China Because of ‘Wokeness’: ‘We’ve Got People Doing Poems on Aircraft Carriers’
Tommy Tuberville Says US Wouldn’t Be Able to Take on China Because of ‘Wokeness’: ‘We’ve Got People Doing Poems on Aircraft Carriers’
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Fox News that the United States would not be able to confidently take on China due to "wokeness" in the military.
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What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
— Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons...
-- Wilfred Owen
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Reminds me of the quote by Thucydides: “The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."
121 0 ReplyThis is mis-attributed.
40 0 ReplyTuberville is neither, though.
23 0 ReplyHe neither thinks nor fights (he coaches!), but is both a coward and a fool.
17 0 ReplyYou sure he's not a coward and a fool?
10 0 ReplyEither a warrior nor scholar. He’s definitely both a coward and fool
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He's not thinking or fighting either. So I guess we're good?
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The GOP plan
2 0 ReplyYeah, fuck specialists! If you aren't good at everything, you're worthless!
2 0 ReplyA human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
10 0 ReplyHow many brain sugeries did he perform? How many spaceflight trajectories did he calculate? How many high speed computer processors did he engineer?
12 0 ReplyI don't know, I'll go ask the dead man about his immortal fictional character.
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Heinlein was a pompous ass and this quote is exhibit A.
10 0 ReplyI'm doubtful Heinlein ever designed a building or set a bone.
7 0 ReplyHe was a notorious Minecraft streamer.
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I think you overcorrected there a bit
5 0 ReplyThinking isn't a specialty, nor is strength
They are qualities that can be possessed by the same person
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