{"id":848,"date":"2016-11-29T12:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T17:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=848"},"modified":"2016-12-10T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T14:46:18","slug":"people-who-annoy-me-november-29-installment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"People who annoy me. November 29 installment&#8230;*"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_mby\" class=\"_5pbx userContent\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n<p>&lt;rant&gt;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>People who confuse the flag and the concepts the flag stands for.<\/li>\n<li>People who promote something close to worship of the American military.\n<ul>\n<li>There are MANY people who risk everything to help others. Why aren&#8217;t you in awe of those folks as well? If you can&#8217;t figure it out, you may want to contemplate whether you&#8217;ve been taken in by an elaborate marketing scheme. (Corollary: not all veterans are combat vets. I was in the Navy. I washed floors and managed storerooms. Probably most military jobs are at that level of &#8216;glamorous&#8230;&#8217; keeping things running so the small minority who are fighters can be ready to do their jobs. All of these jobs are important to keep the organization in a ready state, but don&#8217;t assume every person who was in the military had some deep combat experience)<\/li>\n<li>Any organization is made up of people. People who are given large amounts of money and power are at grave risk of being corrupted by the attractions of money and power. We should be as critical of the U.S. military as we are of any other organization, to make sure that they&#8217;re not falling into abuse of power or theft\/mismanagement of resources.<\/li>\n<li>Supporting the troops shouldn&#8217;t mean blindly supporting everything the military does. How about supporting the troops by not sending them into danger for stupid reasons? How about supporting them by taking care of them when they get home?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>People who think freedom of religion should only apply to their particular faith.<\/li>\n<li>People who assume that if you are religious you&#8217;re more moral than non-religious folks&#8230; against much evidence to the contrary.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&lt;\/rant&gt;<\/p>\n<p>*prompted by current threads I&#8217;m seeing on Twitter, of course<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>PS: Get off my lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;rant&gt; People who confuse the flag and the concepts the flag stands for. People who promote something close to worship of the American military. There are MANY people who risk everything to help others. Why aren&#8217;t you in awe of those folks as well? If you can&#8217;t figure it out, you may want to contemplate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;People who annoy me. November 29 installment&#8230;*&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgY3e-dG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1097,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?p=1097","url_meta":{"origin":848,"position":0},"title":"No tin pot dictators, please.","author":"Jorah","date":"December 5, 2017","format":"aside","excerpt":"If people want to honor military personnel, I've no issue with that. 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