“A state needs a faith,”
Our constitution forbids that, though. And we’ve been tripping right along without one.
“and an army needs a faith.”
The whole time i was enlisted, people kept trying to insist that. It’s not true, and it’s not legal. And as an atheist, it’s not even needed.
“There is always a state faith.”
Only if you accept a really low-density definition of ‘faith.’
"And starting with Obama, the faith of woke is currently being imposed on the army — a faith incompatible with the army’s core function”
Gotta wonder how you define faith, and how you define ‘woke.’
“It is also incompatible with war production, or production of anything, as recently became apparent in the Ukraine war”
We’re not at war in Ukraine, though. And Ukraine is doing marvelously here on day 400 or so of the 3 day war Putin was promised.
“And the last place where the old faith of the Republic lived was the army."
No. The service has always been the leading edge of progress. We had equal opportunity in the service well before blacks had the vote in the nation.
“Obama decided to stamp that out”
No, that would have been redundant.
“[…]Pete Hegseth intends to restore the old faith of the Republic in the army”
He can plan it all he wants. But it’s kind of counter to the good order and discipline of the service.
“The trouble with the old faith of the Republic is that it only worked because of unprincipled exceptions. And if you remove all the unprincipled exceptions you get woke”
Sounds like word salad. You need to be an asshat for the Army to work?
“If all men are created equal, blacks are equal, women are equal.”
Yes, legally.
“If men and women are equal, they are interchangeable,”
Legally, yes. If there’s no physical need for a dick in a cockpit, then women should have the same opportunities as men.
“and you get sodomite marriage, trannies in the army, and you have to mind your pronouns”
Oh, shucks, darn, you have to respect people that you, personally, do not respect. Kinda like how we had to salute idiots for 20 years, just because the law said they outranked me.
That’s how the military WORKS, dumbass.
“Pete wants to restore the recently removed unprincipled exceptions.”
Well, the Right wants to remove that from the military, from society, from Congress…
“Men will no longer have an inherent universal human right to be women, nor vice versa. But he does not want the old unprincipled exceptions restored. Sodomy will remain, women will remain, provided they can make the physical, which of course they cannot, and he is going to make sure they cannot[…]”
So…. He’s going to cheat to get his way. What a surprise.
“A faith that does not need unprincipled exceptions to meet reality is more viable."
You JUST SAID that you cannot depend on reality, Pete has to cheat to get the reality he wants rather than the reality he’d get from reality.