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Tractor supply pisses me off because they have just enough farm stuff to be "ok" but never enough to be dependable. i need some spray... oh wait, yall dont carry that spray, just some other BS that no one uses. Oh you have a 2 foot section of hydro connector parts? yeah, not the ones i needed.

basically TS is what happens if a petsmart and a small town Ace Hardware merged but both have half the inventory and the people who work there know half as much.
100%. We had a badass hardware store in the next town over. Had everything I needed, staff was knowledgeable. Then lowes went in and my store closed in months. Fuck lowes.


most of their stuff is complete garbage.

they should change their name to "Ranchette Supply" because if i ever want tractor parts, i dont go there.
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I am all for gazillionaires to have megayatchs and fly everywhere in a fleet of private 747s (It's their money). But people who preach "save the planet" and all the other green agenda doing that, deserves mocking.
there's only so much mockery to go around, and there are targets far more deserving

you can guarantee "their" choice to use shitty straws was calculated to retain the patronage of those blue haired communist retardfaggots who pay $5 for a cup of coffee
 

I've said it before and I'll say it again: The only purpose of the nation's military is to find bad guys and revoke their birth certificates. When I was in Army basic training - they called it basic combat training in those days - they told us that, no matter what other military occupational specialty (MOS) we selected, we were all riflemen first, and that the mission of the soldier was to close with and destroy the enemy by fire, maneuver and shock effect.




But, as Bob Dylan famously observed, the times, they are a-changing. Recently released documents from the United States Air Force, obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation, describe an openly racist "Diversity, Equity, Inclusion" (DEI) practice for selecting candidates for an officers' training program, the goal of which is to reduce the number of white male applicants:

The Air Force finally handed over a trove of documents pertaining to its sweeping “goal” of reducing the number of white male applicants in a popular officer program after spending months stonewalling requests for their release.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman C.Q. Brown — at the time the highest-ranking member of the Air Force — issued a memorandum in 2022 that the branch was updating its racial and gender demographic goals for applicants seeking to become officers, in a bid to prioritize “diversity and inclusion.” Internal documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation include a slideshow from 2022 where the Air Force outlines racial and gender quotas and details how it hopes to “achieve” a reduced number of white males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) officer’s applicant program.
The obvious question is this: Why? In what way does this enhance the Air Force's effectiveness at war-fighting? Is there some innate attribute of white males that makes them less effective at un-aliving bad guys? There is not; these practices are actually racist - as in, basing the decision as to whether a candidate should or should not be accepted into the Air Force ROTC based at least in part on their melanin content. That's the very definition of racism.




Libs of TikTok provides a breakdown from the Air Force Academy's "Lines of Effort."

BREAKING: Leaked internal Air Force docs obtained by @DailyCaller outline DEI quotas and how they aimed for a reduced number of White males in its Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) applicant program and discriminated against White people. pic.twitter.com/Cnk98wPcJo
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) September 19, 2024
This isn't happening without some pushback, the DCNF added in its story (linked above):

“The American people are rightly concerned that, at a time when our country is facing dangerous and increasing threats throughout the world, the Air Force is focused on recruitment efforts based on arbitrary racial diversity goals — not merit or increasing the force’s lethality,” James Fitzpatrick, director of the Center To Advance Security In America (CASA), told the DCNF.

See Related: Coors Announces It's Ditching Everything DEI and Woke After Threatened With Exposure

Matt Walsh's 'Am I Racist' Uses Major DEI Figures to Expose and Lampoon It As the Racist Grift It Is



There's a good argument to be made that these racial diversity goals - institutional racism, in fact - decrease the force's capabilities in warfighting.

The military - be it Air Force, Army, Navy, or Coast Guard - is like no other institution in the United States. The nation's military forces are essential to the survival of the republic. Members of the military volunteer for duties and hazards that are just simply not a factor in almost any other line of work. Their purpose is to fulfill the ultimate role of government at any level, and that is to protect the liberty and property of the citizens.




Anything that helps the military in this is good. Anything that impedes it is bad. End of story. These DEI practices impede this mission. They should be - must be - reversed. If a beer brewer adopts DEI practices and their produce declines in quality, or their marketing department screws up by adopting some "diverse" screwball as a promotional "influencer," well, then they sell a lot less beer. But if a military operation is compromised by people put in a position of command, not because they were the very best at the job but because they check a "diversity" check box, then a whole lot of young servicemen can die.

This policy needs to be reversed immediately.






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Ward Clark hails from Alaska’s Susitna Valley, where he maintains his rural household in one of America’s last free places. Ward is a twelve-year veteran of the U.S. Army including service in Operation Desert Storm and (in Germany in support of) Operation Joint Endeavor, and today is a staunch minarchist libertarian, along with being an author, novelist, self-employed small businessman, woods bum, and semi-professional bad influence. You can see some of Ward's fiction writing here, and be sure to follow Ward on Rumble!
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You are forgetting the MOST important function of the university system.

People continue to give for one main reason.

SPORTS.

Everyone knows all the other shit is just offered to support the Basketball and Football programs.
 
You are forgetting the MOST important function of the university system.

People continue to give for one main reason.

SPORTS.

Everyone knows all the other shit is just offered to support the Basketball and Football programs.
Yup.


If colleges did not generate massive piles of cash, then they would not have the attendance they do.

The go of the college is not to educate.

Its to generate. Wealth. Extracted from students and their futures through "student loans," their parents, and anyone dumb enough to buy jerseys, tickets, etc to sportsball events.
 
My cousin went there. She also makes more money that anyone I know of my generation. I'm sure it's not 100% causal, but I'm pretty sure it has something to do with it.
Yeah, not a terrible school, just like Berkeley isn't either, but I'm sure they're on part with all the other Universities that are concerned with the whole touchy feel-y side of wokeness.
 
If you want a very interesting read about the wokeness of universities, "The Coddling of the American Mind" was really interesting and provides insight as I support my kids through an increasingly woke education system.

I keep thinking "my college (Cal Poly) wasn't that woke", but then I have to remind myself that I was in college ~2 decades ago.
 
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I graduated from one of the most conservative colleges in the country two decades ago and honestly I thought it felt pretty balanced and I'm not exactly a right winger. I can't even imagine how left leaning most college campuses are these days.
 
I graduated from one of the most conservative colleges in the country two decades ago and honestly I thought it felt pretty balanced and I'm not exactly a right winger. I can't even imagine how left leaning most college campuses are these days.
My CSU was real heavy-handed on the "white privilege" and "male privilege" BS even back when I was there. Probably hasn't got any better. My wife is teaching there now, but she's teaching biology and research technical writing classes, so there's not much wokeness to hear about in that regard.

I remember it came down to deciding if you REALLY felt like arguing with the dumb stuff out of the professor's mouth, or not saying anything and getting done early. Most of us preferred to get done early and the people that wanted to sit there and challenge all the dumb stuff out of a woke professor's mouth pretty much just made it harder for us to get our asses out of class fast each day while not changing the professor's mind one bit.

One time my grade dropped from a B+ to a D+ (need at least a C- to pass) on the last day of final presentations. The professor liked my presentation and said so, but then someone else presented and mentioned something along the lines of the black panthers being responsible for deaths. She immediately interrupted their presentation with a terse "thatwasneverproven!" I was young and dumb and called her out on it. "Woah woah! You mean to tell us that THE black panthers, who prided themselves on intimidation and bringing loaded guns to protests, NEVER killed anyone? Like.. ever? A couple of other students chimed in supporting me, and she repeated nothing was ever proven, and then brought up the next presenters. When final grades were posted a day or two later, I had a D-. I went to protest my grade with the department and they told me I couldn't.

"Why not?"
"The professor needs to be present to defend their decision on grading you."
"Great, set it up, I don't mind"
"We can't, she was fired."
"What?"
"We let her go, so she can't appear."
"..and that doesn't seem like a good reason to take a closer look at my complaint?"
"no"

From then on I hated the bureaucracy of that school. This was early in their founding, so supposedly they have changed, but they basically wasted a semester of my life with that BS.
 
My CSU was real heavy-handed on the "white privilege" and "male privilege" BS even back when I was there. Probably hasn't got any better. My wife is teaching there now, but she's teaching biology and research technical writing classes, so there's not much wokeness to hear about in that regard.

I remember it came down to deciding if you REALLY felt like arguing with the dumb stuff out of the professor's mouth, or not saying anything and getting done early. Most of us preferred to get done early and the people that wanted to sit there and challenge all the dumb stuff out of a woke professor's mouth pretty much just made it harder for us to get our asses out of class fast each day while not changing the professor's mind one bit.

One time my grade dropped from a B+ to a D+ (need at least a C- to pass) on the last day of final presentations. The professor liked my presentation and said so, but then someone else presented and mentioned something along the lines of the black panthers being responsible for deaths. She immediately interrupted their presentation with a terse "thatwasneverproven!" I was young and dumb and called her out on it. "Woah woah! You mean to tell us that THE black panthers, who prided themselves on intimidation and bringing loaded guns to protests, NEVER killed anyone? Like.. ever? A couple of other students chimed in supporting me, and she repeated nothing was ever proven, and then brought up the next presenters. When final grades were posted a day or two later, I had a D-. I went to protest my grade with the department and they told me I couldn't.

"Why not?"
"The professor needs to be present to defend their decision on grading you."
"Great, set it up, I don't mind"
"We can't, she was fired."
"What?"
"We let her go, so she can't appear."
"..and that doesn't seem like a good reason to take a closer look at my complaint?"
"no"

From then on I hated the bureaucracy of that school. This was early in their founding, so supposedly they have changed, but they basically wasted a semester of my life with that BS.

It’s almost ironic that you then became a liberal-leaning govt worker…. :flipoff2:
 
what happen
why steve dead
the fuck on?
The worst decision since …. Custer at Little Big Horn.

I guess you don’t know what you get in an employee until you hire them.


 
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