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by _Morley
Thu Aug 13, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

honorentheos wrote:
Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:11 pm
Learn to read. Both what he said and what you've been told about the process. It wasn't about the intimidating and bullying. It was about his eligibility for promotion being cut off.
by _Morley
Thu Aug 13, 2020 3:32 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

*I hereby give you permission to begin understanding it this way. You know, just like I originally wrote to begin with. Nope. What you originally suggested was that if Vindman had been tough like a Marine, instead of being a pansy Army officer, he'd have stayed. Pfft. If he'd been an enlisted Marin...
by _Morley
Thu Aug 13, 2020 2:13 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

Temp. Admin. wrote:
Thu Aug 13, 2020 4:58 am

*I hereby give you permission to begin understanding it this way. You know, just like I originally wrote to begin with.
If only your elaboration and subsequent addenda to your assertion gave the same gracious permission.
by _Morley
Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:36 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

Shades, your formulation, as I understand it:

career Army, Jump Wings, Ranger Tab, combat, Purple Heart = snowflake
any enlisted career Marine = never a snowflake

Based on your eight-and-a-half years in the Reserves, two of which you spent on your mission in Japan.
by _Morley
Wed Aug 12, 2020 3:16 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

Your own personal anecdotal evidence seems like pretty thin gruel to be basing such sweeping and damning snowflake assessments on. Here's what I wrote: "If he'd been an enlisted Marine, he'd have spent his entire 21 years, six months, and 10 days of active military service enduring nothing BUT a ca...
by _Morley
Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:49 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Trump's payroll tax deferment. What's the end game here?
Replies: 10
Views: 545

Re: Trump's payroll tax deferment. What's the end game here?

Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:32 pm
Thanks, Analytics! I really appreciate your input on the matter.
Indeed.
by _Morley
Wed Aug 12, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

Shades, I'm curious. How did you arrive at this opinion? Research? Experience? Gut feeling? I'd say it was probably research in the form of experience. I was in the Marine Reserves--infantry--for five and a half years, but for two of those years I was on a mission, so only three and a half of those...
by _Morley
Tue Aug 11, 2020 2:33 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

I said that if he had endured a career as an enlisted Marine, then a little bit of so-called "bullying"--in the form of Trump and his allies merely blocking his hopes for advancement, of all things, especially when Trump and his allies are soon to be gone anyway--wouldn't have intimidated him at al...
by _Morley
Tue Aug 11, 2020 3:41 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what?????s right matters.
Replies: 86
Views: 3786

Re: Alexander Vindman: Coming forward ended my career. I still believe doing what’s right matters.

I said that if he had endured a career as an enlisted Marine, then a little bit of so-called "bullying"--in the form of Trump and his allies merely blocking his hopes for advancement, of all things, especially when Trump and his allies are soon to be gone anyway--wouldn't have intimidated him at al...