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[Pete @WIPolack]

@__0HOUR1_ Power plants?

[Pete @WIPolack]

@DriveByGeek @__0HOUR1_ That’s good

[Pete @WIPolack]

@DataRepublican @CynicalPublius @jbyerly81 You are thinking ambidextrously. Your opinion is disallowed.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Mr. Byerly,

“publicly taking sides can make those who think differently question whether the institution still belongs to them” - that sums it all up. If criticism of the institutions aren’t allowed, then reform isn’t allowed, either.

But that’s not the complete story about you.

For readers who don't know you: you founded From the Green Notebook, a military-leadership blog you started in 2013 that grew into a podcast, a masthead, and one of the most-read professional-development platforms in the Army. West Point's Modern War Institute publishes you; you were an inaugural Harding Fellow under the Chief of Staff of the Army's writing initiative. When you talk about the profession, a lot of the profession listens.

(I have a lot of questions about your publication’s financial ties to AUSA and your alleged friendship with the Secretary of Army himself, Dan Driscoll. But that’s out of scope for this response.)

Above, you told active-duty leaders not to treat the press as the enemy. Don't be hostile. Don't insert yourself into the hot-button issues that divide Americans. Don't publicly take sides. Serve all of it, not one part of it.

It's a good rule. I'm not going to argue with a word of it.

I want to talk about the man giving it… YOU, Mr. Breyly… because the record you built in public says something your homily doesn't.

You didn't set out to have a platform. In 2015 your own About page said it plainly: "This blog represents only my personal views. I do not plan on using this space as a platform." (From the Green Notebook, 2015) By 2020 the same page read: "I created this site to provide a platform for leaders…" (From the Green Notebook, 2020) The exact word you disavowed at the founding became the mission. "About Me" became "About the Team." That's the whole arc in two lines, and you wrote both of them.

You've narrated what happened, too. On one of your podcasts: "I've gotten softer… because of my identity as an army officer I've adopted some of the things that our organization does… I'm the problem now." You said the thing out loud that @infantrydort is attempting to reform, and filed it under maturity.

Here's why the side you're on never feels like a side. You didn't build that reach alone. The Chief of Staff of the Army sat on your show and said junior officers no longer have to "sneak into Joe's office" to talk about writing. A Department of the Army senior enlisted leader thanked you, on your own podcast, "for helping the Army tell its story… super helpful." You announced that the site had "joined forces with the Harding Project, the Chief of Staff of the Army's initiative," and added: "The Chief is listening."

Your reach, your access, your standing… a great deal of it was issued by the institutions you’re lecturing @infantrydort on not criticising. That's not an accusation; it's the plainest reading of your own record. And when all of your capital comes from one place, defending that place feels like character, maturity, whatever.

Watch what you do with criticism, then. When a service secretary raised the problem of bad leaders, you turned it inward: "you have zero control over the leaders who are in charge of you but the aspect that you do have agency is the example that you seek out." A structural complaint about the institution comes back out as a lesson in personal development. The institution is never the thing that has to change; you are.

That is the tell in your post, too. Read what you actually flag as the danger. Not the institutions… the criticism of it. Hostility to the press. Partisanship. Taking sides. In your frame the transgression is always the questioning, never the thing being questioned. You've made deference to the institution sound like neutrality, and its critics sound like the ones with the character problem.

So this isn't really a call for restraint, Joe, it’s your immune response to the institutions who give you your living. When people press on the institution that made you, you write a homily explaining why they're the problem: too hostile, too partisan, too willing to take a side. You are taking a side. You always have. You just can't see the institution as a side, because it issued your platform, credentials your standing, and thanks you on tape for telling its story.

You're not the honest broker above the fray. You're the establishment's lapdog, and you’re too blind to see how far away from reform capability that you are. So instead, you attack those of us who are trying to bring about genuine reform.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@JustineBateman Nothing to see here. Move along.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@timeforwings77 @WISupremacist I dabble in human psychology. What they do? Who fucking knows.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@WISupremacist I put money on Tiffany. I gave him enough to know he better fucking stop the insanity.
He better.
I put money into Hagedorn. Shell shocked a bit.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@keefewerx @jsonlinemkebs Fully!

[Pete @WIPolack]

@wiz_political What’s Up Front? The one on Spectrum?

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

Here's something truly funny in the darkest possible manner.

The "unflattering" traits listed as characteristic of white culture—even white supremacy culture—by institutions such as the Smithsonian share one fundamental psychological feature in common:

They are all indications of—are you ready for it—the Big Five trait conscientiousness.

Conscientiousness is the best known personality predictor of life success after general cognitive ability (otherwise known as intelligence).

So this means that the idiot leftists who developed and promoted such material proclaim their antiracism by insisting that the very trait most associated with productivity, reliability, diligence, and success is a flaw, unique to white people.

Hard work is key to success.
Work before play.
Delayed gratification.
Future orientation.
Planning.
Punctuality.
Self-reliance.
Respect for authority.

Pure conscientiousness.

"Yo--those n-words shore are lazee..."
Sincerely,
The Democratic Socialists of America

You can't make this stuff up.

In truth, by the way, racial differences in the major personality traits are negligible.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

.@LeaderJohnThune, I hereby object to any effort to put the Senate into recess in August—at least until such time as the Senate has passed the SAVE America Act—and hereby request a roll call vote.

Do not assume you have my consent.

You do not.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@BasedMikeLee LFG!!!!

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

I’ll do it.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@mattvanswol To each his own man. She felt the Spirit.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@WISupremacist Jewish population is approx 60,000 across Milwaukee Ozaukee and Dane, they vote 75% Dem and they typically show up.
This little bloc could have a big impact, any right wing Jews want to chime in?

[Pete @WIPolack]

@abdulgoncrazy She said nigge* arrest her.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@Glinner Hollyweird is packed with perverts

[Pete @WIPolack]

@RobertZ_97 @jordanbpeterson These stats are the results of piss poor behavior and very important however personality traits don’t drive these numbers, decisions do.

[Pete @WIPolack]

@jordanbpeterson

[James Harris @RealJamesHarris]

This is a reminder to those that voted for a Muslim extremist for mayor of New York city - Everyone of you are disgusting fools.