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    with South Carolina plates

    As a South Carolinian that’s unsurprising.

    “South Carolina is too small for a republic and too large for an insane asylum.” - James L. Petigru

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      Born and raised in Georgia and can confirm, y’all are better than the neighbors to the south though

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        I was also born in Georgia and don’t know that we have much room to talk. But I live in Utah now and these people are by far the worst.

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          We ain’t got much room, but Atlanta helps and southern states are always petty against one another, which is why we all collectively decided Mississippi is the worst, so I’ll take all we can get

          I’m in the PNW now, and it’s mostly better but Idaho is something fucking else. That whole state gives off the feel of a sundown town at 5 pm

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            As a non-Mormon in Utah, you nailed it. Next-level creepy, to the point that it inspired my first book. Still haven’t made it to the PNW and want to.

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      “Submarine Technician” with SC plates?

      Fuckin’ Nukes.

      (Context: The Navy nuclear power training center is in Goose Creek, just north of Charleston, and the people in nuclear power are all weirdos)

      Although in a link in the linked article, he’s described as a Marine veteran?

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    A former Navy submarine technician…

    On what’s believed to be Bolling’s Facebook account, there were various posts related to anti-vaccine memes as well.

    Frankly, I’d be a little grouchy if I were a submariner – someone forced to live in close proximity for extended periods of time with other people in an environment in which zero ventilation to the outside is possible – and they were hell-bent on not being vaccinated. I mean, it was bad enough on surface ships.

    Of all the fields that you could possibly have chosen to work in if you can’t stand vaccines, nuclear submarine crew has got to be just about the worst. You go underwater and don’t come up again for months. I’d say “astronaut” might win, because they have more-limited options in terms of surfacing and putting people ashore in a life-critical situation, but submarines have more people aboard than spacecraft do.

    EDIT: It looks like he did three attack subs and a ballistic missile sub:

    https://www.columbian.com/news/2024/apr/02/what-we-know-about-man-accused-of-breaching-fbi-gate-in-atlanta/

    Bolling is a U.S. Navy veteran who served as an enlisted submarine warfare specialist for more than 20 years, according to military records. Between 1993 and 2017, he served on four submarines: USS Columbia, USS Albany, USS North Carolina and USS Alaska.

    The USS Alaska is the ballistic missile sub.

    I thought that ballistic missile subs had longer deployments than attack subs, but apparently I have it backwards:

    https://www.usna.edu/SubmarineForce/where/deployment.php

    A typical submarine deployment is:

    • 6 month deployment for a fast-attack or guided missile submarine (SSN/SSGN)
    • 3 month patrol for a ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)
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      Eating canned food.

      They go noseblind to the farts inside of a week.

      They hot bunk to save space so when somebody is crawling out, you’re crawling in. Better hope they don’t sweat. Or that they don’t forget to use a sock or something.

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    I can’t even imagine what happens to these qultists when they finally are faced with reality that all their conspiracy theory stuff is garbage. How foolish they must feel trying to defend themselves “…but the internet said…” when faced with the consequences of their actions.

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      Historically, they just deflect, whatabout, move the goal posts, strawman, etc their way out of the conversation / into a comfy place where they’re totally right and the rest of the world is in on the conspiracy.

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        The the guy in the article, they do that in prison? As in, even after being arrested, convicted, sentenced they still hold to their crazy?

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          Pleased to say I haven’t had the opportunity to assess what people are doing inside prison.

          I haven’t heard anything about the political subculture there, but I do know it’s extremely race-driven and now-a-days that’s pretty much synonymous with right-wing.

          So, sending the dude to Hogwarts school of racism and criminal behavior, yeah I’d assume his current shittiness is about to be amplified.

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    Of course he was into Q. A huge portion of the ones who a truly off the deep end are. It confirms everything they already believe. They aren’t able to see capitalism as the thing that failed them because it’s been such a shock that their heads are spinning. It has to be someone who hijacked the system (those pesky Jewish liberals, ultimately) or things would be great. And so naturally the answer is to topple them not the system itself. Unless they’re looking forward to a race war and then everything has to topple.