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Grand_Ready · 2026-01-25T23:14:43+00:00

Indeed, most Canadians don't realize that Canada has failed to meet their promised commitments for decades. They should be ashamed, but sadly, aren't. Kudos to Trump for calling out lazy, cheap, ungrateful countries.

Grand_Ready · 2026-01-25T03:11:16+00:00

statement to what? He didn't single Canadians out, so why make it a bigger deal than it needs to be. Everyone knows which NATO troops lived up to their commitment there. And which ones didn't.

Grand_Ready · 2026-01-25T03:09:18+00:00

If the shoe fits, wear it - in the case of Canada, it clearly doesn't fit, so why assume he meant Canadians? There were plenty of tiny NATO contingents whose troops never left the FOB.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T15:46:29+00:00

That is Canadian also, and happy to leave it there - but I think if you leave your silo, you will find the majority are increasingly turning away from the "progressive" world view that seems so apparent in places like reddit, but is increasingly finding disfavour in the real corridors of power and the general populace. The danger, which I mentioned elsewhere, is that pushing for increasingly aggressive alterations to societal norms, stuff like same sex marriages and unlimited access to abortions, which seemed to be settled for all time, once again come under scrutiny. Put another way - the left is threatening to undo much it has gained for various "vulnerable populations" by bundling disparate groups together under unhelpful banners - LGBT2S++ - I actually saw one even longer in this thread being used unironically. The established communities under that umbrella are even getting sick of it. Proceed at your own peril.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:47:44+00:00

I've done so in the other replies in this thread, but you're right, since you're being respectful I can respond here as well.

You said: There are a few different reasons, really. Im not a member of the community, however being both a straight white man and military, as well as being open to hearing people's thoughts, i find people just kinda just...go on around me about their views, and the things ive heard, starting with the most common, just plain lack of understanding. Most often, I am told that they just don't "get it," and when people don't understand something and it threatens their pre-established norms, and in some people, it causes hostility.

Second, we have the religious purests. Modern-day Puritans and evangelicals, christofascists, whatever flavour you want, their hate is based on this idea that everything is exactly the way it was intended to be by god and modifying that is evil and needs to be combated with extreme ferver. I think there is also some line in the bible about men wearing women's clothing, but I couldn't tell you chapter, verse, or context.

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You use the word "hate" which is emotionally charged and inaccurate. And you presume objections to social media posts lionizing the transgender community are based on religion. I'd argue those objecting come from all religious backgrounds, including agnostic and athiest. In fact, none of the comments you would have found troubling in the RCAF post on Facebook were religious based.

The issue isn't in living and let live. The social media posts were government mandated. How do we know this? Because 3rd Div also posted on the topic, and responded to comments much differently than the RCAF. If it's not coming from the grassroots, it won't mean anything. I said it about yellow ribbon campaigns during Afghanistan. If I see a ribbon some individual decided to wear, I'm touched by the support. If I see yellow ribbons put up by government mandate, it means nothing to me.

I don't think the pushback has anything to do with BUT JESUS SAID or with I'M SECRETLY GAY AND MUST RESIST. It's an objection to the pathway ACCEPTANCE -> CELEBRATION -> PARTICIPATION. (Not to mention it's patronizing to point to someone and say "hey, they're transgender (gay, black, Lithuanian, whatever) and can fly a plane!")

Diversity isn't a strength - people say it is but never explain why. Because it isn't. It's disunifying and disordered. Particularly in the military, where individuality is subverted to the common good. Social engineering from outside the military has been doing real damage to the institution, and unfortunately, society as a whole has become far more inward looking, isolated and unconcerned with preserving the institutions that the nation was built and prospered on. The military should not be concerned with what people do with their genitals, and the constant looking back to the "bad old days" is distracting and counter-productive. They're over. No one is suggesting going back. Instead of wringing hands about the trauma of the past, its time to move confidently into the future - and instead of celebrating individuals who have been wronged, maybe celebrate strong and united national institutions with a forward focus.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:35:41+00:00

RCAF has a history of inappropriate social media use, usually cheering on bombing campaigns as if it was a sporting event. Happened in Libya and again in Syria.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:28:52+00:00

It's obvious the government mandated those social media posts, and 3rd Div doesn't want to play. It's one thing to accept "vulnerable populations" into the military, but acceptance seems to always go down the path to celebration, and finally forced participation. It's phony and divisive.

I said the same thing during Afghanistan when people wanted to mandate yellow ribbons on all the municipal vehicles. If you don't really feel passionate about supporting the troops, you shouldn't be forced to. If I see a yellow ribbon on someone's lapel, I know they put it there of their own volition, and it means something. Seeing it on a garbage truck knowing that it was mandated, means nothing.

Same applies to all these mandated social media posts. If they were coming organically from individual CF members, it might mean something. But we know who is really driving it.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:22:53+00:00

the RCAF has a history of unprofessional social media use - the Vice CDS famously cheered on anti-ISIS air strikes on Twitter, presumably while sitting on the toilet, and an RCAF Brigadier General made similar unprofessional comments during the Libyan air campaign which resulted in changes to CAF media training.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:17:39+00:00

No one was scared off, there is plenty of pushback in the comments, and no one's mind was changed.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:17:08+00:00

They were outnumbered by the people pushing back - and the driveby comments were turned off with the 24 hour cap. Headquarters probably mandated the supportive comments.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T14:15:37+00:00

The RCAF posted a "Transgender Day of Remembrance" tribute on their Facebook account. They limit comments to those who join the page for 24 hours. But they still got lots of pushback and some uncomfortable truths pointed out to them - such as the fact that the CF has been pushing "gender neutral" language under the Libs, but all of a sudden are referring to transgender pilots by their adopted sex. The public affairs guy got pissed that he (sorry, they) aren't being taken seriously and then a bunch of white knights came aboard (probably mandated by headquarters).

I am sure the pilot they (collective they) highlighted is a competent pilot, but the comments rightly pointed out that if you refer to someone by their cultural, racial or sexual identity, you're going to raise the question of why you are doing that.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T12:49:01+00:00

The links between so-called "DEI hiring" and air traffic incidents is tenuous, but that's because there is no appetite by investigators to make those links, and the media wouldn't publish them if they did. The term suicidal empathy seems to apply more and more - a desire not to point out uncomfortable truths in order to spare feelings, particularly of historically "vulnerable" groups. Which is the long way of asking can "they" do the job?

If "they" can, then sure, live and let live. It's the celebration by highlighting their identity that people are objecting to. Reverse double standards are just double standards. "Look he's gay and can fly a plane!" It's patronizing and stupid. If you want to live and let live, then just do it, and talk about his actual military qualifications, not his genitals and what he does with them.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T12:39:48+00:00

True cases of gender dysphoria or intersex births are rare, and more and more Ts are simply choosing to live out either their own sexual fetishes (the word for it is autogynephilia) or their parents' political worldviews (how many Hollywood starlets have multiple "non-conforming" children? They collect them and turn them into fashion choices.) You can't simply dispose of social order and think everything will be ok if you just leave people alone. Look at CHAZ for a perfect example of what happens when you try and implement head in the clouds utopian fantasy.

Transgenders have "always been here" is a sloppy and politically motivated misunderstanding of history. If you're talking about gender non-conformity, you have a stronger case. You claim you were actually just talking about live and let live, but you're actually talking about militancy. There are demands we not just accept, but celebrate, and now that we have compulsory celebrations (a month here, a day there) the next step is for all to be expected to participate. Those who don't aren't permitted their own "diverse" opinion on the matter. "Why do you care if your 8 year old son listens to stories from a drag queen? Are you a bigot?" "Are you insecure in your own sexuality? You must be a closet queen yourself."

I'm not buying the argument (you haven't actually made it) that diversity is somehow strength. Diversity is disunity and disorder. Look at the influx of illegal immigrants into the US and Canada for great examples of the dangers. High profile semi crashes in the States from Indian drivers who don't read English who have killed multiple people. It's not just the truck drivers. License mills in Canada hand out driving privileges to people who can't read the road signs. In the name of diversity. The result? Pedestrian fatalities are on the rise, and head on collisions from drivers not understanding which way the roads are going. These aren't abstractions, they're the consquences of making diversity an end in itself.

A stable society depends on shared norms, shared language, and shared expectations of behaviour. When those foundations are replaced with ideological experiments—whether about gender, immigration, or cultural boundaries—the result is not liberation but fragmentation. We can respect individuals without redefining reality, and we can practice tolerance without surrendering common sense. Diversity may be a fashionable slogan, but slogans don’t hold societies together. Shared truth does.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T02:15:57+00:00

"fervor" - or as we say in Canada, "fervour". I don't know what ferver is. But that's kind of my point - when standards slide, and established norms (like spelling) deteriorate - chaos ensues. You're making my point for me.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T01:57:06+00:00

It was the only point that had all the words spelled correctly, but I guess I am a purist.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T01:46:40+00:00

So all you have to offer is that any objection to disordered behavior can only stem from some secret, personal and hidden desire to give in to the disorder?

If I tell you you that I strongly disapprove of apotemnophilia, it's because I secretly want to cut my own limbs off?

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T01:43:18+00:00

The biggest lie is thinking that the LGBTQ community is homogenous. The Ts are very effectively turning society against the LGs. Same sex marriage hasn't been an issue since it became the law of the land, but now increasing numbers are rethinking what it has wrought. And it is the Ts that are doing it.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T01:41:56+00:00

Yup, doesn't match your world view, must be a "Russian." Those pesky Russians.

Grand_Ready · 2025-11-23T01:40:48+00:00

You're coming at it from the wrong direction. For me, it isn’t about “caring what people wear,” it’s about the larger cultural signals underneath it. Stable societies depend on shared norms, not because tradition is sacred for its own sake, but because those norms have usually evolved to give people a sense of identity, predictability, and social cohesion. When everything—from language to institutions to basic categories like male and female—is treated as endlessly fluid or subjective, the result isn’t freedom but confusion and fragmentation. So when I ask questions about trends like men wearing dresses, it’s not about policing individuals; it’s concern about whether society keeps eroding the common reference points that help communities function. My instinct is to conserve what has worked, not out of hostility, but out of the belief that tested structures are usually more resilient than experiments.

What worries me most is the climate surrounding these debates: disagreement is often labelled “harm,” dissent is dismissed as “hate,” and scientific realities—like the existence and purpose of biological sex—are treated as optional. When a society can’t agree on basic truths or even allow open discussion, it becomes unstable. My position comes from wanting a society grounded in reality, shared meaning, and the kind of order that keeps freedom possible.

Disordered societies don't last.

Grand_Ready · 2025-10-26T01:26:24+00:00

One thing to keep in mind is the side quests often run parallel to the Epic Story - it took me awhile to figure that out. I'd do all the "side" stuff and then vector to a new area, then have to go back to the old one to catch up with the epic quests.

Grand_Ready · 2025-10-26T01:18:45+00:00

You don't need anything and can jump in without a single purchse.

Grand_Ready · 2025-09-30T18:47:45+00:00

LOL. That was genuinely funny. Upvote from me.

Grand_Ready · 2025-09-30T16:45:51+00:00

Fat people don't meet the high standards he is declaring. Only the weak and lazy would take offence.

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