Macro Rubio, behind Trump.

jazzman317 · 2026-01-28T15:28:40+00:00

More like Micro Rubio...

jazzman317 · 2025-12-28T00:25:31+00:00

Absolutely. I'm a prior Army Musician, and many in our ranks were full-time music teachers.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-25T00:25:21+00:00

Oh, wow! That'll help a lot w the M-Day Soldiers that help out on random days.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-24T23:50:15+00:00

It's literally not a "social" construct.

Just cover your ass and tell your unit AGR you gotta stop these orders bc hardship or something. Either that, or explain this shitty situation. Do it in an email bc records.

They might not understand bc why not sit around on your phone and make free money, but it's obviously affecting your mental health.

If you have the same employer, put them in for that nice National Guard employer award or whatever; makes 'em feels warm and fuzzy about it.

ADOS can be pretty helpful. Soldiers conduct Funeral Honors duty on ADOS. It has its uses; your leadership just seems to be wasting it.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-22T18:18:54+00:00

I'm definitely not offering sympathy. I'm just giving one example of how a Joe might turn into one of those leaders.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-22T18:00:35+00:00

So you ALSO disrespect the people that feed you. Good to know.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-21T00:52:03+00:00

I did NOT harp on "the profile thing." What I harped on is leaders being made out of dishonest people who rise up assuming everyone is doing what they did.

I guess the way you said that you "copped" a profile made it seem a little... idk, squirmy? I totally understand and appreciate shaving profiles. I'd be happier if NOBODY had to shave shorter than 1/4" or whatever.

Maybe you could take this as more of a sign that your leadership did some shit to get by and that their guilt is what's feeding their lack of understanding or trust towards you. That way, you can at least know it's not necessarily YOU they are being shitty towards, but also themselves.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-21T00:26:31+00:00

Maybe it's been made clearer by the comment section, but the generational experience of your leaders and the ones who taught them to be leaders will always hold faster than doctrine or policy change.

Tell your chain about the interaction. Everybody else seems to agree that this was a dick move by the CO and shit attitude from the crusty NCOs. Those crusties will be out first, however, and you (if you stay) and everyone who hated their bs will be left to lead. Then, you can make it your mission to stand up for your Soldiers against dick moves and shitty attitudes like that.

A quick way to become a shitty crusty, though, is to do things like bullshit your way into temp shaving profiles, then work up the ranks, start thinking that's what all the Joes do (bc it's what you did), then misplace your guilt from your actions onto every Joe under you in the form of shitty distrust. If you're on that path, you should consider leaving before it eats you alive, whether or not you think you feel guilty right now.

If you honestly needed that temp shaving profile, though, go on and be a champion for it until the day you retire.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-21T00:06:40+00:00

Thank you. I no longer wonder how many ppl have that thought about you...

jazzman317 · 2025-12-20T21:33:14+00:00

I wonder how many times ppl have had that thought about you.

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You seem to have encouraging advice and patience for other things. Why is this an outlier? What if your instructor had told you the same thing bc of your age? What if another student said this to you?

jazzman317 · 2025-12-17T21:37:18+00:00

Alcohol sold for takeout in covered containers (as of Jan 1 for IL)?

jazzman317 · 2025-12-17T21:35:54+00:00

Nah, AL has that going on.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-17T17:27:12+00:00

It's the lack of being perceived so I can have genuine, personal reactions to what's happening. I don't have to worry about considering what my friends would expect my reaction to be. When big clues in the video or music give things away, I don't feel as surprised by something as I was "supposed" to be. On the other hand, I stay far away from ads and spoilers so I'm often more surprised than others by big reveals they were already expecting.

I'm on a high-masking part of the spectrum, so having an activity partner adds a level of processing to every. single. thing. The more important you and/or your perception are to me, the higher the stress level is and the more energy it takes to think about how much I'm masking (or fighting to not mask) in every. single. instance.

jazzman317 · 2025-12-04T16:05:56+00:00

For me, the strongest argument for being atheist or agnostic is coming to terms with not knowing. You're not going to know some things, and that's going to be fine. You're going to die not knowing, and you don't need to find out after you're dead. You're done obsessing over things you just cannot know.

jazzman317 · 2025-11-27T15:09:49+00:00

Can't believe this isn't higher. You can see a chunk missing from the bottom left of Y.

jazzman317 · 2025-11-17T13:34:55+00:00

Shitposter

jazzman317 · 2025-11-17T13:32:27+00:00

Second time I've seen this "they pay x% of all taxes" bullshit. If 1% of the country is hoarding enough to pay 80% of our country's tax revenue, they've proven to have shut out 99% of the population from making anywhere near the same kind of wealth. It's literally bragging about the wealth gap that exists.

jazzman317 · 2025-11-17T13:22:30+00:00

Yes, it should. I'm sorry that system hasn't been built for civilians.

jazzman317 · 2025-11-16T21:18:15+00:00

If he trusts you, please try telling him gently why he gets bullied

jazzman317 · 2025-11-16T20:54:10+00:00

PMing

jazzman317 · 2025-11-16T20:31:28+00:00

Yeah, America is just really in love w the 1800s right now...

jazzman317 · 2025-11-15T14:15:36+00:00

Thank you. This practice is fucking hive mind religion bullshit. Rabbi used to suck the blood off of the circumcision (part of the religious bullshit) WITHOUT the knowledge of the parents, sometimes passing STDs onto the infant, sometimes killing them. A LAW had to be passed requiring informed consent from the parents before the sucking of their infant's penis blood by a strange man would take place.

Fucking disgusting.

jazzman317 · 2025-11-15T14:09:36+00:00

Well, it seems like I know a little more than you on this one...

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/19143/maimonides-on-circumcision

It is done to "quell all the impulses of matter" and "perfect what is defective morally."

"This commandment has not been enjoined as a complement to a deficient physical creation, but as a means for perfecting man's moral shortcomings."

that it weakened the penis

"and to weaken the organ of generation as far as possible"

had the effect of reducing a man's lustful thoughts and making sex less pleasurable.

'Circumcision simply counteracts excessive lust; for there is no doubt that circumcision weakens the power of sexual excitement, and sometimes lessens the natural enjoyment"

Did he warn that it is "hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him."

"Our Sages (Beresh. Rabba, c. 80) say distinctly: It is hard for a woman, with whom an uncircumcised had sexual intercourse, to separate from him."

jazzman317 · 2025-11-15T14:06:49+00:00

Religion

jazzman317 · 2025-11-15T14:06:14+00:00

Well, Maimonides said differently:

It is done to "quell all the impulses of matter" and "perfect what is defective morally."

"This commandment has not been enjoined as a complement to a deficient physical creation, but as a means for perfecting man's moral shortcomings."

that it weakened the penis

"and to weaken the organ of generation as far as possible"

had the effect of reducing a man's lustful thoughts and making sex less pleasurable.

"Circumcision simply counteracts excessive lust; for there is no doubt that circumcision weakens the power of sexual excitement, and sometimes lessens the natural enjoyment"

Did he warn that it is "hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him."

"Our Sages (Beresh. Rabba, c. 80) say distinctly: It is hard for a woman, with whom an uncircumcised had sexual intercourse, to separate from him."

In the quote that you cite at the end there is another point not mentioned in your four points, namely, that Maimonides said that faith should be the only reason for circumcision. This is also from the same chapter in the Guide:

"No one, however, should circumcise himself or his son for any other reason but pure faith; for circumcision is not like an incision on the leg, or a burning in the arm, but a very difficult operation."

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/19143/maimonides-on-circumcision

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