• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well, what did you expect? McNamara sent in the marching morons.

    Instead of upping the draft, calling on more young men to go to Vietnam, he lowered the standards for induction to the Armed Services, recalling many young men who had previously been excused from the service for physical and mental disabilities.

    The majority of these men were illiterate or even had below average IQs. Many would have been likely classified as “mentally disabled” in a future generation.

    Remember Bubba from Forest Gump? He wasn’t some random stupid guy, he was one of “McNamara’s morons”.

    I work with a guy like that, probably autistic and not “lemmy autistic”. “LOL, I’m so quirky and have totally typical human traits! Don’t call me the R word! I have legit mental problems!”

    Nah. This guy couldn’t hang working at a hardware store, moving mulch and rocks from point A to B, so they made him the “cart boy”. All he has to do is bring the shopping carts and sleds in from the parking lot. First day, he took the carts from inside and put them back in the parking lot.

    Imagine going into combat with this guy, the most unforgiving quarter in human experience, and you must cooperate or die. I’d frag him to save myself and my buddies.

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      “lemmy autistic”. “LOL, I’m so quirky and have totally typical human traits! Don’t call me the R word! I have legit mental problems!”

      you do realize high functioning autistic people actually exist, right?

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        Look at the posts on the autism and ADHD comms. They’re all about typical human foibles.

        I suspect it’s a bunch of young people who want to feel special, stand out. The way GenZ’s education went, treating them like identical little prisoners and taking their agency, probably has them screaming to stand out from the crowd. And that’s not getting into social media forcing conformity.

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        4 months ago

        Almost deleted it, but it does hit hard and explains how many of those men likely died.

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        It’s fan fiction I think. Being elitist with mental handicap because they have “overcome” theirs with intellect and willpower, most likely. Probably scared they are the one that would get fragged. In dire need of human companionship if I was to take a gander.

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          Obviously we need to support everyone and ableism is bad, but I wouldn’t want to get drafted which is basically a death sentence and then a guy who gets bring from A to B mixed up with bring from B to A is beside me with a loaded gun. I definitely wouldn’t want him behind me with that gun. To say that’s elitist is intentionally naive.

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            Nah, I hate that they did that. But in their comment they belittled every autistic person on lenmy, and it’s not hard to see through why someone would be angry after willingly engaging with anonymous autistic spaces out of curiosity

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          4 months ago

          The hell you on about? Read every post I’ve ever written, find me one where I say anything like that. While you’re at it, you’ll find plenty of posts about my awesome wife.

          This take reeks of projection. Hate to say that because we throw that accusation a little too freely around here, but damn are you pulling fiction out your ass.

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            So what you are saying is “spot on”? Or why are you angry like a child that didn’t grow up yet?