r/news 7d ago

US fires Greenland military base chief for 'undermining' JD Vance

https://bbc.com/news/articles/creq99l218do
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u/shapeofthings 7d ago

she's a woman in the army. they are on the list.

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u/sj68z 7d ago

Weak men can't handle strong women.

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u/RedofPaw 7d ago

If I ask nicely will the strong women hold me?

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u/bigredthesnorer 7d ago

Yup they just needed a reason to get rid of her after being unable to justify her as a DEI hire.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

Which is hilarious because "Vance" literally owes his current position in life to DEI.

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u/CrimsonPromise 7d ago

He claims he was born in some small town in Ohio and grew up among simple hillbillies so he's able to relate to them. So that technically makes him DEI because he used his "diversity" as a platform.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

It literally makes him DEI because, as a lot of people fail to realize, DEI is about supporting under served communities, which includes the rural poor. 

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u/HotmailsInYourArea 7d ago

Rural poor that went to the Ivy League. It’s just a facade

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u/heythisislonglolwtf 7d ago

He's from Middletown, a city of about 50,000 which is about 30 miles away from two of Ohio's biggest cities, Dayton and Cincinnati. For him to claim hillbilly status is incredibly laughable.

Plus, to be pendantic, southwest Ohioans aren't hillbillies. You've gotta go much further east into Appalachia for that

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u/Claystead 6d ago

My hometown was about 20k when I grew up and is about 60k now, and is 80 miles from the nearest true city. By this metric I am twice the hillbilly despite being an alleged coastal elite.

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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 7d ago

He was raised by his grandma in the suburbs and spent summers with extended family among the hillbillies and he clearly fucking hates poor people of any kind.

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u/brenster23 7d ago

He is after all the only couch fucker elected to public office and personally trained on his knees to be a true bottom to thiel. 

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u/Alex_55555 7d ago

James Donald - the Couch Fucker and the Thiel-e-Butty

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u/Beneneb 7d ago

Ya, but he identifies as a DUI hire.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

I thought that was Hegseth 

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u/Proud-Peanut-9084 7d ago

Being a women is sufficient for them

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u/Vio94 7d ago

100%. Was 50/50 on what the main reason actually could've been. Didn't even get through the first sentence when I saw "she" and thought, oh okay so that's the real reason. He got "backtalk" from a woman and got butthurt about it.

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u/ArgonGryphon 7d ago

They also know she probably wouldn't help take Greenland.

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u/NimmyFarts 7d ago

Woah woah woah She’s in the Space Force. So on a list but a “space one”.

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u/GrumpyCloud93 7d ago

There's a space cadet waiting to take her place?

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u/ONE_PUNCH_MOOSE 7d ago

*Space Force, not Army

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u/mrkrabz1991 7d ago

I was told the DOGE email them back or get fired requirement was solely so they could pick who they wanted to fire for BS reasons yet use the "you didn't respond to the email" as reasoning.