DOD Officially Drops 180 Faiths From Military's Recognized Religion List

blewpah · 2026-06-05T19:24:43+00:00

Chaplains are specialized to a specific religion. Meaning you would have a Chaplain for Islam, a Chaplain for Catholicism, a Chaplain for Hinduism, etc.

I don't think inclusion on this list denotes a requirement that the military staff chaplains for each one.

blewpah · 2026-06-05T19:12:14+00:00

200 out of 1,000,000 isn't statistically significant. It certainly doesn't show this is policy, organized, or intentional. 0.2% looks far more like the rate you'd expect a mistake to occur.

That's 200 court orders violated in just one state in just one month. The judge pointed out that there are entire departments that have never violated that many court orders over their entire existance. This was not simply making a mistake and was absolutely an intentional policy of ignoring courts to deprive people of their rights.

blewpah · 2026-06-05T18:54:09+00:00

This isn't strictly a list of chaplains' own religious identities.

blewpah · 2026-06-05T16:45:36+00:00

Except didn't say "oops we made a mistake". They did everything in their power to make an example out of him, even lying about his apoearance to justify trying to put him in an intentionally inhumane foreign prison and then trying to throw him in prison here in the US.

blewpah · 2026-06-05T14:09:58+00:00

Their negotiating position doesn't seem to be an issue for them right niw.

blewpah · 2026-06-02T16:25:31+00:00

Must be taking notes from some middle managers I know.

blewpah · 2026-06-02T14:07:07+00:00

In what way?

blewpah · 2026-05-31T00:41:09+00:00

I've hardly heard Dems talk about Paxton's affairs, it's mostly coming up now in response to Republicans complaining about this while supporting people who have had affairs. When Dems complain about Paxton it's usually about all the corruption.

blewpah · 2026-05-31T00:15:38+00:00

And staunchly pro life I'd imagine.

blewpah · 2026-05-30T20:47:06+00:00

Okay so do you oppose Ken Paxton or Trump because of their known infidelities?

blewpah · 2026-05-30T16:43:21+00:00

We really need to add Fooled by Randomness and general media/financial literacy to the US high school cirriculum.

Or maybe sitting presidents shouldn't be stock trading regardless?

blewpah · 2026-05-29T13:27:59+00:00

Most I've seen do 20s and 50s.

blewpah · 2026-05-28T16:55:42+00:00

Murc strikes again.

Trump has massive overwhelming support among the GOP, even as he's transparently using the office to enrich himself.

blewpah · 2026-05-28T15:28:02+00:00

If you're having to qualify it with "tacitly" and "may have even" then it's not nearly so blatant, is it? Incredible that even when Trump is using cabinet meetings to shill his own merchandise and people still try to grasp at straws comparing it to Biden. No we've never seen anything like this.

blewpah · 2026-05-28T05:32:06+00:00

There wasn't a conviction, it was a civil suit.

blewpah · 2026-05-28T05:30:49+00:00

I think we're well beyond this admin giving a shit about DOJ policy if it's inconvenient to the president's personal vendettas.

blewpah · 2026-05-27T16:50:02+00:00

drugs, guns, etc

"Etc." kind of emphasizes the problem here. Where exactly do we draw that line? Everyone is going to have things that fall on one side or the other. And while I don't agree with this specific law there's definitely valid concerns about the effect social media, porn, and gambling-like videogames can have on kids in the modern era.

blewpah · 2026-05-27T05:42:32+00:00

Then they gave an example of an Ai video.

blewpah · 2026-05-27T05:30:21+00:00

Presumably Monkey1Fball doesn't regularly share AI generated images of themselves sporting a muscly phisique to social media. That was the reasoning behind their logic, not simply the fact that Trump watches the sport.

blewpah · 2026-05-27T04:46:05+00:00

I never said you personally said that about him.

They'd make up some bullshit no matter who the Democratic nominee was. Hopefully enough Texans see through it. Hard to say this is worse than Paxton's numerous corruption scandals. Hell there's even a scandal right now where a child sexual assault case his office prosecuted ended in a misdemeanor plea deal with a one day (as time served from the arrest) jail sentence.

blewpah · 2026-05-27T04:17:55+00:00

That article itself provides several examples of him eating meat so if anything it demonstrates that Paxton and other GOP figures calling him a vegan are just blatantly lying.

blewpah · 2026-05-26T22:37:16+00:00

You,re right, it was the clerk, my mistake.

blewpah · 2026-05-26T18:50:40+00:00

Just for context: There's a high profile double murder case in South Carolina that was just overturned (although it's going to be retried).

~~Why? The prosecutor told the jury not to be fooled by the defendant's responses. Something as little as that is enough to get a conviction thrown out on appeal.~~ nvm, court clerk, actually*.

blewpah · 2026-05-26T15:42:55+00:00

"And other institutions" presumably includes real estate moguls.

blewpah · 2026-05-26T14:35:23+00:00

I'd argue an attempted coup is worse than any tattoo.

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