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Old 07-15-2017, 01:22 PM   #174 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
Minorities are also overrepresented in the military

then I bet if you check the gap between whites that enlist as an officer vs. whatever you call your "bout to get shipped to the dessert" enlistment it ain't pretty
Non-officers are just called "enlisted".

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Originally Posted by djchameleon View Post
Yeah it is a thing. Even if they don't create a big scene. I have personally experienced the heavy sighs and bs but you are right that it is possible to be against the discounts but not make a big deal about it because you don't care enough.
It's not just that I don't care (though I don't), I just see no reason to be a dick to someone who hasn't necessarily done anything to earn it over something so irrelevant. I also don't want to get fired .
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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