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Carlos Slim’s New York Times has lately been on a tear openly promoting communism. So…. we will run with that.
Socialism is like a nude beach: sounds pretty good until you actually see it pic.twitter.com/YigBOkG8Lb
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 26, 2017
And, apparently, there’s a West Pointer who loves racist mass murderer Che Guevara and is rooting for the victory of Communism. (Or, just bucking to get kicked out.)
On the one hand, Communism butchered 100M people in the 20th Century, and in the 21st, made the country with the largest oil reserves in the world a place where people are eating their pets to keep from starving. He looks like the sort of douche-canoe who’d actually like that system.
I saw a picture from NYT with the following caption, ‘For All Its Flaws, The Communist Revolution Taught Chinese Women To Dream Big’. I think someone should publish a study titled, ‘For All Its Flaws, Colonialism Wasn’t Too Bad.’
Wait, that just happened and in the outcry the author withdrew it. I’m sure this article will have a similar response and NYT will apologize for it.
There’s a deserving kid somewhere that lost a spot to this moron.
Apparently military history is the only type of history now taught at the US Military Academy. But even just military history should cover enough facts to point out the failures of communism.
Even at prestigious institutions like West Point, every village has at-least one idiot. If this-one is a good infantry officer, at-least he can be a useful idiot. Otherwise there’s always a demand for forward artillery observers* when the balloon goes up.
[* – during the combat-phase of the Korean War, 2nd-Lieutenant forward artillery observers had a life-expectancy of 2-days.]
But is it real? The first thing I think of these days, is, wait a minute. Think.
This one sort of stinks of BS. But hey, I could be wrong.
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
SK
Don’t you have to take an oath against communism when you enter the military? Couldn’t he be court-martialed for this?
You take an oath to defend the constitution and the U.S. against enemies. You may view communists as “the enemy,” but you don’t take an oath against actual communism.
Less and less people care these days. They care more about what their reaction is.
Maybe the West Point kid is trying for a government paid for sex-change then get kicked out of the army. It worked for Manning.
I heard about this last night. This YouTube commentator, Styxhexenhammer666, also mentioned/ragged on the New York Times article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TMVrYpKiSw
Even if he’s a tool, at-least he’s smarter than senatorial candidate Roy Moore (Al-R). Once more Democracy embaresses itself, and proves that Alabama is still the stuupid state.
And as long as he’s a competent officer earning the confidence of his troops, I really don’t care about his eco-politics.
if you like socialism why do you have to outlaw capitalism? this is a free country, you can practice socialism if you like. people have been doing it since the founding of this country. there have always been communes and collectives in this country. but that just doesn’t suit the totalitarian nature of the liberal.
Um, fewer and fewer people care these days.
If it is a prank, the guy is pretty committed to the bit since his Twitter feed is very much pro-communist, pro-Antifa, and so on.
Children will do anything for attention. Communism is the brain child of arrested development and resentment.
@ V the K: I’m sure his fellow cadets are paying attention… and making sure that, if crap ever hits the fan, he’s marching in front of them.
Court-matrial and prison would be a waste. A more elegant solution of an earlier age would be to assign young Mr. Rapone to SecDef Mattis’ personal staff as a military aide. The height of the Sun Tzu is to turn one’s enemy’s agents against him. The Warrior Monk might enjoy a personal challenge, and Mr. Rapone seems to have a good military record, it’s his attitude that needs enlightenment. So why waste good money, manpower and PR when a a more tractable and creative method is at hand. And you avoid creating a political martyr…
Wrap him up in bow and deliver him to Mattis, with no questions to be asked….ever. Young Spenser might enjoy being on a leash.
Looks as though Mr. West Point has some ‘splaining to do: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/352625-army-investigating-west-point-graduates-pro-communist-social
Regards,
Peter H.
It’s easy to call a boss you never met an “evil, vile f***”, …try bringing him his coffee and mail, and holding the door open for him for the next 5-years.
And EVERYONE you’ll meet knows why…. **evil cackle**
I have a better idea; put him in Hillary’s security detail.