RedditIsALostCause

Was the Lemmy dev DaveL or Davel or something?

Damn, tf did you do? I’m only banned from .ml bc when O first joined Lemmy, I selected them as my instance not knowing any better. Then I did what any sane person would do and told tankies they were insane and a curse upon the workd. The Davel, a mod there, got butthurt as hell and here I am.

I mean, it’s not prejudiced. It’s in the Quran and discussed amongst Imams/Islamic scholars. Sure, the watered-down Twelvers aren’t going around beheading people in the US, but it’s still a principle of Twelver belief to amass/promote all Islamic growth, including the sects of Islam that do want Sharia law.

Look at Dearborn, Michigan and how the majority Muslim community and city council and mayor are treating non-Muslim citizens, particularly those who are LGBTQ+ immediately upon gaining political/administrative power.

With Islam, the issue is both ideological and based in leadership at the moment. The same goes for Mormons and Hassidics, but the more general and basic versions of those religions don’t promote or encourage the growth of the more “extreme” sects quite like Islam does. Christianity certainly has a chokehold on the US and it’s being wielded in an awful way by the admin. Yet at the root of it the life and teachings of Mohammed and Jesus are RADICALLY and I mean INSANELY RADICALLY different to the point of moral disgust at Mohammed and a passive indifference towards Jesus.

At no point have I said violence solves anything here. I agree that it creates only more radicals/gives them reason for retaliation — justified or not.

Getting downvoted for this is insane and shows you’re just getting barraged by Russian symps.

I recommend using iCloud for sync instead if you’re on Apple.

As a preface, I think this admin, and this whole meeting including the part about fitness, is/was monumentally stupid and I hate where this is going.

However, I do subscribe to the healthy mind leads to a healthy body and healthy body leads to a healthy mind. I don’t think it’s unreasonable at all to have an expectation that our military leadership be fit/healthy/in-shape and not beer-bellied pencil pushers lol. Hard to lead when you’re worried about your failing heart y’know? It is, however, SO STUPID, that they included this in the meeting and had Pete “The Alcoholic” Hegseth lecture them about health.

Beyond just the health of the leaders for their own performance, the military certainly does have a degree of “lead by example” and “respect for appearance” by the lower ranks of the upper ranks.

So while this whole thing is stupid and should’ve been an internal memo/order and, Hegseth and Trump are fascist cronnies — I don’t think it’s unreasonable for their to be a basic expectation that military leadership keep their weight in check (not ripped and huge with muscle, just lean and not overly fat).