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« on: October 05, 2017, 02:08:31 AM »

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Screening troops for political ideology before they can serve is definitely a good and smart thing.
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« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2017, 02:25:58 AM »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.
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« Reply #2 on: October 05, 2017, 02:36:33 AM »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.

FWIW Rapone is an active DSA member. His Twitter is currently locked but you can read his (Very good) Medium post on white supremacy at West Point.
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« Reply #3 on: October 05, 2017, 03:06:39 AM »

Good to see that Marco Rubio got his priorities straight... NOT.
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« Reply #4 on: October 05, 2017, 03:42:04 AM »
« Edited: October 05, 2017, 03:45:32 AM by Jacobin American »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.

FWIW Rapone is an active DSA member. His Twitter is currently locked but you can read his (Very good) Medium post on white supremacy at West Point.

I'm really not sure why he chose to join the military if those are his political views. I mean, it's his choice and I strongly disagree with an ideology test for military recruits, but I just don't understand his motivations.
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« Reply #5 on: October 05, 2017, 04:21:22 AM »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.

FWIW Rapone is an active DSA member. His Twitter is currently locked but you can read his (Very good) Medium post on white supremacy at West Point.

I'm really not sure why he chose to join the military if those are his political views. I mean, it's his choice and I strongly disagree with an ideology test for military recruits, but I just don't understand his motivations.

Commies love military shtick, too. They are not pacifists.
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« Reply #6 on: October 05, 2017, 04:44:43 AM »

Color me shocked. A 20 something in the DSA has an ideology that isn't very well thought out.
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« Reply #7 on: October 05, 2017, 06:08:13 AM »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.

FWIW Rapone is an active DSA member. His Twitter is currently locked but you can read his (Very good) Medium post on white supremacy at West Point.

I'm really not sure why he chose to join the military if those are his political views. I mean, it's his choice and I strongly disagree with an ideology test for military recruits, but I just don't understand his motivations.

Commies love military shtick, too. They are not pacifists.

It's not even about the fact of joining a military, it's that he joined America's military, despite almost certainly believing the motivations underlying our wars is imperialism and corporate interests.
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« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2017, 07:37:58 AM »

I thought a bunch of 20-somethings shouting down Ann Coulter in California was the real threat to the First Amendment.
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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2017, 07:42:15 AM »

Screening troops for political ideology before they can serve is definitely a good and smart thing.

No, it absolutely is not.

Discharging soldiers who violate regulations is fine. Screening applicants based on ideology is possibly one of the most stupid, authoritarian, and anti-American things I have ever seen posted on this forum.
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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2017, 07:46:00 AM »

FF Grad.
Rubio confirmed anti-Constitution.
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« Reply #11 on: October 05, 2017, 07:49:04 AM »

He’s just doing it for attention.
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« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2017, 07:50:32 AM »

Color me shocked. A 20 something in the DSA has an ideology that isn't very well thought out.

What about those  30+ who are still enamored with Ayn Rand?
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« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2017, 07:58:02 AM »

Sounds like a tankie.

He could also be an infiltrator I guess.
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« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2017, 08:04:42 AM »

He could also be an infiltrator I guess.

You mean the U.S. military is attempting to infiltrate the Democratic Socialists of America?
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« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2017, 08:33:32 AM »

Is he even a real Communist?...
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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2017, 08:58:47 AM »

They shouldn't boot him, everyone is free to have a political affiliation, however this is the pressing issue: https://www.thebalance.com/military-folks-and-politics-3332818

If he does stay in, he's in for a rude awakening and plenty of "this fn guy" from his first duty assignment senior officers and SNCOs, NCOs.

He is doing it for the trending edginess!, spoiled academy type seeking attention. His Twitter bio says as much: "Troop Left🚩★☭🏴 Commie/space cowboy/straight edge insomniac @DSAVeterans Views my own, not DOD/Army"

He would be the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot JO

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« Reply #17 on: October 05, 2017, 12:02:53 PM »

Rubio confirmed anti-Constitution.
We already knew that though.
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« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2017, 12:16:14 PM »

Don't worry. He'll be a Republican soon enough Smiley. Anyway, communism hasn't been relevant since the 80s and it never will be relevant again so I don't think we should worry about it.
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« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2017, 12:29:12 PM »

Only capitalists are allowed in the military
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« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2017, 12:38:42 PM »

The article reads that Army "officials there said the division supports freedom of speech for soldiers."

But this is what they can get him, or any other soldier, with ...
“when our soldiers are in uniform, politics must be set aside. Our uniform represents every corner of our nation and it cannot be used to promote any single ideology.”
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« Reply #21 on: October 05, 2017, 01:59:38 PM »

     If he does this job then I don't really care what his beliefs are, though I agree with others here that it doesn't make sense for a Communist to be in the military.
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« Reply #22 on: October 05, 2017, 02:05:53 PM »

Go ahead and let him serve. Obviously his ideology is just a fashion statement and has nothing to do with the way he lives his life, if he went to damn West Point.

FWIW Rapone is an active DSA member. His Twitter is currently locked but you can read his (Very good) Medium post on white supremacy at West Point.

I'm really not sure why he chose to join the military if those are his political views. I mean, it's his choice and I strongly disagree with an ideology test for military recruits, but I just don't understand his motivations.

From what I've read he evolved after he joined.
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« Reply #23 on: October 05, 2017, 02:12:15 PM »

He'll grow out of it.
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« Reply #24 on: October 05, 2017, 02:23:41 PM »

Rubio is flawless, so if he says that Communists shouldn't be allowed in the military, they shouldn't be allowed in the military.

/sarcasm

I agree with this:

     If he does this job then I don't really care what his beliefs are, though I agree with others here that it doesn't make sense for a Communist to be in the military.
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