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2025-05-25 -Great Cultural Revolution

Fury as top military schools are caught in secret underground plots to usurp Trump's orders

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-25 00:14|| || Front Page|| [300 views ] Top

#1 Donald Trump Delivers West Point Commencement Speech

Posted by Skidmark 2025-05-25 00:49|| 2025-05-25 00:49|| Front Page Top

#2 'They need to know what we have learned from our study of politics and history and literature and languages.

The difficulty is that so very many of them have learned the wrong things.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2025-05-25 06:48|| 2025-05-25 06:48|| Front Page Top

#3 There are plenty of retired officers available to fill the faculty. Has anyone asked?

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-25 07:51|| 2025-05-25 07:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Besoeker, can we have that West Point pic with sabers?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-25 07:56|| 2025-05-25 07:56|| Front Page Top

#5 In the 80s the faculty was fine. I’m not sure whether this creeped in slowly or they made a special effort after the 2000’s. Cleaning it up won’t be hard as the core curriculum includes so much STEM and weapons system stuff that doesn’t leave much room for indoctrination. The Leadership curriculum ought to be reviewed first. Political Science and History second.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-05-25 08:05|| 2025-05-25 08:05|| Front Page Top

#6 The change pretty much coincided with the establishment of liberal arts degrees and the end of the mandatory engineering curriculum.

You can draw you own conclusions, but yes, 'math be hard.'

Ref #3: That would be a... 'no thanks.'

Posted by Besoeker 2025-05-25 08:09|| 2025-05-25 08:09|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ yes, back to engineering. Engineering requires a certain mental orientation and practical skills.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-25 08:31|| 2025-05-25 08:31|| Front Page Top

#8 #4 Dankie

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-25 12:09|| 2025-05-25 12:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Cancer from the 60's rears its head thanks to Obama/Biden gardening of government ...

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-05-25 13:48|| 2025-05-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I was always taught that you do not have to obey an illegal order. However, you had better be sure that is actually illegal, and not just "I disagree with it" or "I don't like it ".

Posted by Rambler 2025-05-25 16:38|| 2025-05-25 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 My takeaway was that it is morally incumbent to disobey an illegal order, but living in the real world means accepting the consequences of that refusal, very likely a lost job and being shunned for it by those who chose to go along to get along. Or jail, concentration camp, or firing squad, depending on the order and those giving it.

Ditto for refusing to join in the fashionably vile/decadent social behaviors of the moment. Some people get nasty about that.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-25 17:30|| 2025-05-25 17:30|| Front Page Top

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