• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world
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    To absolutely no one’s surprise, Senator Tim Sheehy is also credibly accused of a form of stolen valor: he discharged a gun in a National Park in 2015 and paid a fine for it, but then claimed in his later memoir that he got that bullet wound in Afghanistan. When challenged, he refused to release any of the medical records that would prove it.

    Sheehy also claims that he was discharged from the military because of injuries he sustained on duty, but then some reporter dug up the discharge records and nope, he actually just resigned.

    Oh, and he apparently plagiarized several sections of his memoir.

    Just another lying GOP coward.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    Huh, I was told that kneeling silently while a piece of cloth was displayed and a song was playing at a game - was “disrespecting the troops”. I was told that not supporting whatever elective war the conservatives wanted to wage on brown people was “disrespecting the troops”. Meanwhile, funding troops when they were back home and their service and/or the war(s) they were in were over…eh, fuhgeddaboutit.

    I don’t think the conservatives really understand the meanings of words. I guess breaking someone’s arm/hand is respecting the troops? As long as it is being done by a conservative?

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      Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

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    “Respect the troops” - Republicans

    “Don’t send us to die for Israel’s good for nothing war” - the troops

    Breaks hand of the troops - Republicans

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    Imagine telling congress that no one wants to fight for Israel when it’s all anyone in congress fights for.

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    Between Sheehy and Gianforte you start to wonder if Montana has any elected officials that aren’t violent pieces of shit.

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    No one wants to fight for israel, but everyone (excepts) governments wants to fight those fuckers.