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user-inactivated  ·  3697 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Look At This: What Do Homeless Vets Look Like?

    clearly we can infer that I am not saying they are people one shouldn't associate with

Easier to infer that one shouldn't associate with them when you say stuff like

    He is seriously probably the most sexist person I've consciously ever known.

between a list of other negatives. But point taken.

    But I do think that the people who serve are probably not the kind of people pabs is used to spending time with, and that he would experience some culture shock.

Y'know, this probably encourages him more, considering his other posts in this thread.





_refugee_  ·  3697 days ago  ·  link  ·  

to the latter statement - It very well might.

to the first statement - I at no point was attempting to say that two people I know are indicative of everyone who serves in the military. I even, when describing this same person, stated that he was probably crazy before he went into the military. My point was more to describe the impact that serving on active duty has had in their lives. I'm allowed to be honest in my description of the people who I know who have served in the military. At no point did I even come close to implying that the military had made this man sexist. This specific person? Yes, he shouldn't be associated with, and I choose not to associate with him. But you're hyperfocusing on half of my provided example. It's true. I know a bad man who was in the military. You know what? I bet he's not the only bad man who was in it, either. Doesn't in any way or at any time in my comment mean that I am saying they are all bad guys. But Pabst should be fucking prepared for the bad ones.

I mean, I could get into the stories I've heard of soldiers burning dogs alive in Afghanistan, from people who have been there, but that's certainly not indicative of the entire military population either.