I've been looking into this recently because The Algorithm wanted me to (I don't always do what The Algorithm wants, but sometimes it's really fucking spot-on so maybe I'm just institutionalized) and I simply don't see why this is really any different from anything else available.
Is it really that much better? Is it the same thing just with better execution? As we've seen time and again, popular doesn't always mean good.
Opportunity as a way to reframe a bad situation is a good argument. "Is English your first language" is a very poor argument. Merriam-Webster shows it as positive, Cambridge says between positive and neutral, and Oxford just says neutral. As a native English speaker I feel comfortable saying that the connotation of opportunity is generally positive.
Lol, they didn't discover shit, they're trying to correlate data to fit some kind of fucked up narrative in a campaign against... I don't know, but it's probably going to include lists of the "sick" who need to be "taken care of"
Knowing very little about the national guard in particular, I would argue that the standards are there but the enforcement isn't.
In the Navy, at least, physical training was never a serious priority except for more specialized commands. The standards were identical, but the commands where PT was emphasized were the only places where a majority of people were fit. There's way more to it than just standards.
Some beautiful turns of phrase throughout. Maybe I should revisit these now that I'm less worried about missing out on something, so I can just browse and skip around.
You mean to tell me that the machine that turned him into Stephan wasn't real?