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just as i suspected. thanx.

s back in the early '60s, i would agree. now, no way in hell that was an accident. think about it. they came up with the whitespace in the fedex logo forming an arrow. nothing is left to the imagination in the day of subliminal messaging and influence. we are bombarded with propaganda from the time we open our eyes until the time we close them, and even then it doesn't stop if you listen to a radio or leave the tv on like some do. no, i'm sure you're right, the guy that incited an insurrection (if you have any doubts, all he had to do was say the election wasn't stolen at any point even now), and whipped up white supremacists (look at the former cpac keynote) just happened to have a stage made of the symbol a major white supremacist group (forgot the name) changed their logo to from the swastika in 2016. yeah, that sounds exactly like what happened.

sadly, that is your best option temporarily in order to stop the withdrawal. if you haven't noticed, we are a society of knee jerk reaction and feel good legislation rather than finding and solving problems. more money in selling a pill, and making everyone feel like they need them than cure the reason for the pain and encourage their responsible use. they call it capitalism, but it is really nothing more than greed.

now they're not even trying to hide what they're doing...an excerpt: " Once Joe Biden became president, he undid Trump’s critical race theory ban, but lawmakers in several states have proposed their own prohibitions. An Arkansas legislator introduced a pair of bills, one banning the teaching of The Times’s 1619 Project curriculum, and the other nixing classes, events and activities that encourage “division between, resentment of, or social justice for” specific groups of people. “What is not appropriate is being able to theorize, use, specifically, critical race theory,” the bills’ sponsor told The Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Republicans in West Virginia and Oklahoma have introduced bills banning schools and, in West Virginia’s case, state contractors from promoting “divisive concepts,” including claims that “the United States is fundamentally racist or sexist.” A New Hampshire Republican also proposed a “divisive concepts” ban, saying in a hearing, “This bill addresses something called critical race theory.” "

we'll see what happens there. i will bet that it gets overturned. hard to say with the traitors in such high positions now.

only marine and naval retirees can be called back for a court martial, if the reserve commitment has been finished. i thought they could not in a discussion and found out differently.

for anyone curious i added a more appropriate picture... the one in the tweet doesn't do it justice.

what is your agenda? it clearly isn't talking about the issue in this thread, since all you've done after denying it even exists is try to show how something else is THE problem, when it has been stated numerous times that is ANOTHER problem but not the topic of this discussion. you are now trying very hard to use the racist tactics i usually call out but will refrain from in this instance since i am not certain you are not trolling, hence the question. of course, you could be a passive racist, but so are about 50 or so million americans, but i am trying to understand your thought process so that i can better address it in the future. you can send the answer in a dm if you don't want anyone to know you're trolling, i get them sometimes and never speak of them in order to maintain privacy. why are you trying so hard to divert the discussion from the topic stated? just because one issue is not our only problem does not mean that makes it non-existent. we have multiple problems in this country, most of them which are rooted deeply in the racist beginnings of our nation, and exacerbated by the continued oppression of a certain race of folks for over 150 years after slavery was "abolished". that is also a racist tactic, but is a tactic also used by misogynists and abusers, so means nothing by itself. i don't care enough about it to correlate it with any of your previous comments to see if i can figure it out, i would rather ask. this question i prefer you to answer in the thread if you don't mind, as it pertains to the topic. of course, none of this matters one bit, just an fyi to myself, but inquiring minds want to know, so to speak.

if said tandem instructor was 20, and it takes 3 years being a skydiver to get a tandem rating (it does in the us), then most definitely at least one rule was broken since you can't start skydiving until age 18. i want to know just what kind of connections i have to have for a rating. not really since i don't want one that i didn't earn, but i do want some answers as to why this happened. that kid had no business being in that situation and it may now hurt our sport and bring more rules down on me. fuck that noise.

when one race built racism into the constitution of the nation we can.

i almost used that but in some places, like third world countries, some places in wv, flint mi, etc they don't have enough water to go around.

this is what so many people refuse to acknowledge. they see it like a pie. give a slice to someone who doesn't have one means to take it away from them to do so. it's more like air. there is plenty for everyone. giving air to one does not mean you take it away from another. or we could just bake more pies.

you're stretching it there, as we all know (or at least should) that just because you can find an exception it does not mean that nullifies the statement. i grew up and lived in appalachia most of my life. i have also traveled to some sketchy areas in multiple cities. you forgot the age old question, why not both? it is classism, and racism has caused staggering inequalities. nothing is black and white, ever. i can find an exception to anything, yet that does not disprove anything, just like it doesn't confirm it. i will try to get some links from some friends who do this more than me, they know how to successfully debate racists and have all the supporting evidence on hand. it would take me way too long to find it.

not in the context of the comment i was replying to. take driving a race car, for example. you can't learn where the limits are until you exceed them. same thing with the skid pad. it was fun as hell, and taught me what to do and not to do when skidding out of control, but is another thing that couldn't be learned from someone else. when i was doing the canopy drills to get my b, i was warned not to let go of the toggles when the canopy stalled and that it was scary. no amount of preparation could have let me know how scary, and my first instinct was to let them fly up. fortunately i knew it was coming, but had i not done it on purpose first, i may have been in trouble had i had a canopy stall on accident.

ok, i will second the same thoughts adrenadict put forth. we all deserve to know for whom and why the bsrs are being waived, and if this is the case, action needs to be taken. this happened a long time ago and i have yet to hear from anyone involved, or even that it happened at all formally. if this involved the vice president of the uspa, we need to know the details now, not later. i am all about waiting for an investigation, but it needs to happen. do i need to file a formal complaint? if so, how do i do that?

sounds like this black privilege is gonna get the road fixed. the white privilege is folks looking to see if he gets out of it because of his money.

you don't know where the limits are until you find them. you can't find them if you don't push them.

i went through a skid pad once. that was a blast. almost as good as the real thing when i topped a hill once and encountered some ice. i saw a landair trailer in my mirror and it took a second to realize it was mine.

i don't know any of that for certain, just repeating what was on the other thread. just fyi.

damn, i worked on ibm mainframes back in the day. tacfire systems for the artillery fire direction. i loved that, but it was mostly hardware, not software. they didn't really have an output, just a bank of lights. had to have a secret clearance to go to school.

yep, and on that thread, it said she was the vice president and that he had his ti rating for about 3 months. said the producers asked for a scary looking landing or something like that. they got it.

seems to some sort of pattern for a particular group of people, always blaming others, attacking instead of helping, deregulating things to make more money, etc, etc. must be a gop thing.

there is a thread on reddit that said on of his parents is on the uspa board. dude should have his rating revoked permanently for that. that's a whole lotta negative press for skydiving. not to mention pretty stupid, or at least it looked that way, i'm not a ti.

interesting article, says that extremists have trouble with complex mental tasks. small sample size, but it appears that some people actually DO see in just black and white, ideologically at least.

but it isn't wrong, it's just viewed from a different perspective. just like your views are not necessarily wrong, even with no personal experience to add. your views are based on others' opinions and words, which could just as well be as biased as anything else. his views from his part of the military showed him that racism was not a problem. i didn't see it either, until i came back in, almost 10 years after i got out. it also isn't based just on his personal experience if i recall correctly, as he has talked with many others, and i believe he mentioned once that it was a topic of discussion he had in the past. some of my information is based on talking with vets, and soldiers, just to confirm what i saw or the extent. i even had one friend who was very much race tolerant who said that his years in the 82d turned him into a racist, based on his experiences with blacks in his unit and on bragg.