Social media is not your friend
Jarhead sends us a link to the story of a couple of San Diego Marines who sent the photo above to one of their Facebook Groups, Camp MENdleton resale;
First Lt. Thomas Gray, a spokesman for I MEF, told Marine Corps Times that the command has identified the Marine in the picture and the one who posted it on Facebook.
“We cannot discuss details of an ongoing investigation, but I can tell you the command is taking this incident seriously,” Gray said.
Marine officials have vowed to take “appropriate action” in response to the social media post, according to a statement released by I MEF.
Yeah, social media is a sewer and just because something strikes you as funny, odds are that no one else will. The corporal in the photo may not have known that someone taking the picture would post that caption on it (that’s the defense I’d use) and some Blue Falcon screwed him. i have to have heart-to-heart talks all of the time with folks who post to our Facebook page, but, threatening to attack nightclubs only days after an attack on a night club is pretty damn stupid.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
Actions that 20 years ago would have been blown off by those who saw/heard of them now get world-wide visibility.
So glad I made most of my screw-ups before social media could record them…
DITTO!
Stupid. Silly. Ridiculous. No, not the pic but this, from the USMC’s official statement:”The Marine Corps does not tolerate discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender or religion.”
”The Marine Corps does not tolerate discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender or religion.”
What is wrong with that statement in of itself? Besides the fact that the Marine Corps has not been consistent in complying with it.
I am not speaking for 2/17, but what I think he is saying is not that discrimination is ok, but that everyone should be a little more “thick-skinned” and quit being victims all of the time.
If you don’t like the way something looks, look away. If you don’t like what is being said, don’t listen. Etc.
It gets old when this is going on everyday. And before anyone says that it’s the USA, I can tell you that it’s better here than anywhere else in the world (yes, even Europe).
When it comes to the fly, you may respond for me. I developed a best-practices approach to the buzzing sound when it nears me: I ignore it. It has no teeth. It has no stinger. It’s just an annoyance.
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Comrade Poodle Dik…who the hell are you to be questioning anything any branch of service deems as proper behavior? Of all people, you the know-it-all who wrote on this site in your infinite wisdom, “People who are afraid of Communism are foolish”
There’s NOTHING wrong with the Marine Corps’ statement; it’s just that you know so much about everything that you are now attempting to correct an entire branch of service. Why don’t you write USMC H Q and point out their great mistake….according to you.
You suggest the Corps has not been consistent in complying with their policy….how many times have you NOT been consistent with your policy of …”Bwaah, I’m not coming back on this site again”?
What ever the Marine Corps does with their policy is their business..not yours in the least. However, I do wish you’d practice what you preach. Come to think of it, there have been others on this site who have wondered the same thing.
“Comrade Poodle Dick”….I must find a reason to use this.
Civilwarrior…Just a short history and use as/if you wish. Actually it was Ex-PH2 who came up with the name Poodle Dik, if I am correct. Someone please advise if this is not fact. A while back Lars wrote on this site: “People who are afraid of Communists are foolish” Enough time in RVN finds me at odd with that statement. Far more important was the response by one of the T A H regulars whose father-in-law had personally lived a hell enduring what the Commies foisted upon him. It’s a story that you can not read without having pains and damned near tears as a result. After that, in spite of Lars ALWAYS wanting to argue with everyone and demand his is the only right when it comes to thinking issues..I took the liberty to call him Comrade Poodle Dik. He has just about pissed off every one who comments on T A H at one time or another. Do yourself a favor and go back reading every page between today and Jan. 1 of this year. Take note of the many he has pissed off with his argumentative style of conversation. Not long ago I posted directly to him he was a bit of a masochist merely wanting to come on this site every so often to get shot down and told to get the hell away. Read back months of archives and form your own opinion. No one will think less of you if you happen to agree with all he says. Now if you not only support him, but also disrespect other opinions just because we don’t agree with him..that’s a problem. He’s not a stupid person, no, he just likes to bring superficial info to the table and push his beliefs constantly to the point of intentionally pissing people off. Almost as if he has a need to be abused intellectually. Must be something in that Berkeley water he drinks. Bottom line IMHO, other than POSERS who end up on this web site by unwanted recognition; we All really would defend one another through thick and… Read more »
I came up with Poodle, and someone else added Dik. Might have been on of the AirCavs or maybe a jarhead, but it works for me.
Ex..thanks for clearing that up. Naturally I thought Comrade Lars had sent you maybe a picture of his one inch Commie Salami just to calm your fears should you ever meet up with him in a dark alley by chance.
Yes, people still afraid of communists are foolish.
It is an irrational fear. Ridiculous fear. It shows a complete lack of intellectual growth in decades.
Communism itself is not a threat to the US.
You lost you mind over the fact that I dismiss it as a threat. When it is empirically not a threat to the US. There is no communist movement, there is not communist conspiracy.
Communism is not a threat.
There are a few remnant communist regimes. All are in transition away from communism, except North Korea which is barely stable and the regime is not likely to last more than 5-10 more years.
As for having a right to comment on behavior in the military branches of service? I earned that right through more years of service than most, likely you included.
Really, Lars? Again? Okay, fucker, how about an answer this time?
Remember how you said it’s “foolish” to fear communists? I challenge you to repeat that shit to my father-in-law. I’ll have the camera rolling as you get your ass stomped flat by a quiet 61-year-old 5’5″ slim-statured southeast Asian gentleman with diabetes.
He fought the Cong, NVA, and Khmer Rouge. He got better at fighting after he received training from Americans. He killed communists to defend his hearth, home, and kin. In the end, it wasn’t enough, as the superpower helping him, his countrymen, and their neighbors to the north and east to resist the communists decided to abandon them.
The communists who took over sent him and his family to a “reeducation facility” (known internationally as the Killing Fields) as “enemies of the people,” not because he had fought against them, but because he’s half-Chinese and could read and write in two languages (Khmer and French). The communists made him watch while they gang-raped his wife. They made him watch when they shot his 4-year-old son in the back of the head. He eventually escaped with the help of a communist who got a little too careless and wound up a little too dead to need his AK anymore, broke his wife out, and made it across the Thai border, where my wife was born. A few months later, they got off a plane in San Diego, and stayed here ever since, becoming naturalized US citizens along the way.
Come on, asshole. Tell that man that he’s “foolish” to fear communists. You’ll survive, but only because he considers you not worth killing.
Hey, Lars! Sometime this century, asshole!
Fucking coward.
Oh Laaaaaars! Kinda hard to hear you over the crickets!
Coward.
Foolish to fear communism, huh? It seems the non-resident non-expert who puffs himself off as the know-it-all doesn’t keep up on current events.
Venezuela has a communist government, started by Chavez who bought diamonds for his daughters but was stupid enough to count on the inflated price of oil lasting forever. A complete lack of understanding of commodities markets on now-dead Chavez’s part, and the incompetent COMMIE asshole Maduro who took his place, have almost completely destroyed the economy of Venezuela and put it on the brink of civil war.
And if that moronic POODLE DICK Commissar says that Venezuela’s government is not a COMMIE government, or that Cuba’s is not a COMMIE government, it clearly demonstrates his ignorance.
Anyone who truly believes an ideology that has given rise in the past century to totalitarian regimes which murdered 140+M of their own citizens as a matter of policy is “not a threat” is a damn fool, and deserves any contempt thrown his way.
ANY form of totalitarian regime is a threat. Communism historically has given rise to the worst such regimes mankind has ever known. Even the Nazis never killed 1/4 of their own country’s citizens; the Khmer Rouge did.
It is not the length of your service, but knowing how to use it. Rather doubt the total years you spent in uniform ever affected a U. S. military strike orgasm.
Lars,. keep your mouth off my Corps.
Fuck off. I asked a legitimate question. I saw nothing wrong with the statement by the Marine Corps and wanted to know why 2/17 had a problem with it.
Like I said, keep your mouth off my Corps. Keep it occupied with hobo-dick. That will keep yopu happy and you wont be able to say stupid shit.
You don’t know how sensitive I am to things like that… you never will because I AM A SPECIAL SNOWFLAKE!!!
Someone go get me a tube of Vagicil and a dozen Midol…
“Besides the fact that the Marine Corps has not been consistent in complying with it.”
Lars, that is a very broad statement to say the least. Apparently the radical Islamic Terrorists are not complying with our laws either. However, I absolutely agree that this picture and tagline is distasteful.
What if the tagline said “Coming to the nearest Islamic Terrorist training camp near you”? Would you be supporting these Marines who are protecting the freedoms we enjoy?
“What if the tagline said “Coming to the nearest Islamic Terrorist training camp near you”? Would you be supporting these Marines who are protecting the freedoms we enjoy?”
Why wouldn’t I?
Because right-wing Christian self-loathing homophobes kill more people?
And the same clowns flock to my post as usual.
And Lars displays the same behavior pattern – waiting until he thinks everyone has gone to bed to show up and post more self-centered comments and pinching and eye-gouging, so he thinks he’s in a ‘safe’ space.
The Poodle doesn’t like it when he has to face the Rottweilers and GSDs, does he?
I’d guess he’s sleeping all day and doing the cyber cafe thing at one of those all-night cyberjoints. Note the time on each of his posts. 2AM EDT is 11PM Califorkyou time.
Isn’t that clever of him? The sneaky Pete attack in the dark of the night means he doesn’t have to actually face any of you.
What a twit.
Yeah, caught his shit at 2am here in SoCal. I was awake at the time because my 5-month-old decided that was the time for his midnight snack. And Lars the Coward still won’t give me an answer.
Lars works ballsacks behind the food co-op in Berkley… I know!
Comrade Poodle Dik…What a time to find out my “shit alarm” clock failed me one night!!!!! Should have known, last night I was having nightmares about teensy weensy spiders crawling around my rectum. Then again, I should have known better to post anything even remotely complimentary defending your ignoramus thoughts which you demand all listen to because you are always right. Looks like you returned the favor by goose-stepping into a pile of crap. You can’t win Lars, just do us a favor and follow through with your pledge to stay off here. Nobody wants to listen to a know-it-all. Here’s a little something to remember your post this time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q BTW, you failed to mention the jokers who also “flock”. Flock you Lars!
Lest I forget and suffer the bane of Hondo; You, Lars, the one who said on this web site, “Those afraid of Communism are foolish.”
For someone that has such “worldly knowledge” about the military and the private sector, you’re real clueless.
There are assholes and idiots that don’t utilize the common sense that God gave a goose to not do stupid shit like what these two Marines did. Remember the idiot gal out of Massachusetts that showed her IQ at Arlington (to include a pic “yelling” at the sign)? What happened to her – she lost her job because she gave her company some really bad PR.
You’re so damn clueless, Lars, that it must really be painful to be you. Just stay in your little “special snowflake, safe space, onesie wearing, cocoa sipping” world that is UC Berkley…
Score one for us “no Facebook sociopaths”!
Preach it, Brother!!
As my dad told me, several times, “just because you can, that doesn’t mean you should”. Case in point, right here.
I wonder which broke, the table or the knee.
(facepalm)
Ditto
Ditto X2
What was that yo’ daddy said?
DON’T DO STOOPID THINGS?
Something like that?
What ever happened to good manners and common courtesy?
And just common sense. Just because you think it doesn’t mean everyone will think it’s funny. And considering the climate, are these morons too stupid to know that someone will get sissy-pissed about such a comment?
[Facepalm]
What these two morons don’t realize is that ANY place that is a popular public gathering spot, including bars and night spots frequented by AD military, is a target for these wankers with a hair up their backsides.
The grocery stores I go to are just as vulnerable and open. The fact that it was a gay bar means less than that it was popular.
I’d make a list but I don’t want to give the crapweasels any ideas.
Corporal soon to be lance corporal or PFC, if I had to hazard a guess.
It’s somewhat amazing to me that people still haven’t figured out how this social media thing works. A simple rule: do not put anything on social media that you would not want seen by your parents, your teachers, your potential future employers and love interests, etc… Because once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever.
That’s a little optimistic, I’m thinking full-blown E-1.
If his Command had any balls al he would get would be a page 11 entry at most.
Stupidity and tastelessness on the part of a Jr Marine is no excuse for overreaction by the command.
But you know they are going to pretty much crucify the Devil Dog. If not every liberal politician in the country is goinf to have thier uterus shoot out their fucking nose.
Yup… E-1 again!
They’re gonna get eaten alive at Office Hours… everyone in the chain of command is gonna get their pound of flesh and then some.
I don’t disagree, but these are not the days of “hey stupid, don’t do that again. Now go paint all the rocks in the battalion!”, those are at the least, on hold.
Never write when you can speak, never speak when you can nod, and never nod when you can wink….
The internet is forever morons…and shit that’s funny in the squad bay doesn’t always play well to the masses….try talking to some of your female colleagues the way you did to your infantry brothers and see how that goes for you…especially when you tell them to press down on their shoulders and pop their fucking head free of their stupid ass…somehow that’s frowned out here in the civilian world…
Poking fun at gays is one thing, poking fun at the murder of gays is so fucking unbelievably beyond the pale and in such disgustingly poor taste I’m surprised it has to be pointed out…
*sigh*
I remember the Challenger jokes. My friends were impressed that it took three whole days for them to surface.
Tasteless jokes are part of the mourning process.
Yeah, gallows humor is also not uncommon in the medical field. If there is no outlet, some of that stuff can eat one alive. And also part of the grieving process. Think it’s called survival.
Right after the Challenger incident we had a family day. As a part of it we had the families go out to the bleachers on the OP and watch one of the guys firing.
Part of the show was an air-burst of a WP round.
As it was streaming through the sky my wife said rather loudly ” OOOhhh the space shuttle”…
Saw this on the local news this morning.
It was obviously a joke, and the two Marines involved are obviously morons. I expect their gunny is already busy seeing to it that they fully comprehend the magnitude of their fuck-up.
Not for long, I would imagine. I’m guessing that the heat will get turned up to the point that the two Marine doofi will shortly be made civilians.
I’m fairly certain those two shitbirds had a significant emotional event today
The dumbfuckery is strong with those two.
I’m glad I’m the last hold out and do not have a Facebook account.
I watched a CSM get fired in Afghanistan and sent home 3-4 months early for having stupid shot on his Facebook page. He was an F’n idiot though and an embarrassment to the NCO Corps prior to this incident. I think that the incident just gave the BDE and BN CDRs a reason
You are not the last holdout, Blaster. I do not have Facebook, and don’t want it. I have enough to do.
Nor do I. FB is nothing more than a chance to get into trouble, as far as I can determine.
No facebook here either. I like my life private.
I’m one that doesn’t have a FB account… see no value in having one. Too many people seem to live their lives via FB and Twitter that they act so dysfunctional when they have to interact with someone face to face.
What is this face book you guys keep talking about?
My wife says I have a facebook profile that she apparently made for me, but I’ve never seen it.
I have a Facebook profile. My kids were on it, so I started nosing around, and the only way to get to it was to open up something …the questions started getting really personal, and I exited, thinking that there would be nothing left.
Facebook saves stuff, whether you want them to, or not.
I made an “official” page because I was required to have one (voluntold).
I have a private FB page, but not under my real name and I don’t add anyone to it from my current unit. All my pics are sterilized of my name and I tell my friends as much. My B-day is wrong on it, etc etc.
Its not a necessity of my life like for some people, I can go days without checking it and not even realize. But I do chat with friends through it at times.
But, it is just that, even with a private account I temper my comments on other pages and discussions because, I’m not stupid.
I’ll bet a lot of military folks wish they too would have been more carful.
I.e.The ones ditching reveille and/or retreat, pissing on dead enemy bodies and anyone in or around 1SG Moerk’s unit(s), etc.
Hey, be careful what you say here buddy. Or, she might get another ARCOM.
I think that the post falls into the category, “Well Gunny, it seemed like a good idea at the time …”
soon to be seen on at least one liberal web site …
THE MARINES ARE FULL OF RACIST !!! REMOVE ASSAULT WEAPONS FROM THE MILITARY !!!
in 3 … 2 … 1
This kind of stoopidity can be used to attack the military and veterans. Other than that, the backwards corporal needs to do some yard work.
Moron.
Well that is a selfie using the Snapchat app. You can tell by the right (his right) arms position.
So HE took the picture and HE posted the tagline.
I gotta wonder if the caption was less of a homophobic threat and more of a “this guy is gay” comment?
Quite possible. Either way, it’s Sean Penn-level stupidity.
That was my take at first.
If the barracks lawyer has any sense, he will tell his “client” to say that in defense.
Ban pictures of rifles. Don’t wanna melt snowflakes!
Do you wanna build a snowman?
First off, stupid fucker gonna learn what it’s like to get out of the Corps a couple stripes, a lot of money, and a whole lot more free time taken away from him.
Second, GET THAT FUCKING BOOGER HOOK OFF THE BANG SWITCH!
That kinda stuff is why I refused to even let my picture be taken by PAO or the Marine Corps Times.Once it’s out there, you don’t know what somebody will do with it.
Remember, people, Anything you write on the internet can be screen shot, saved, and submitted to authorities…including the VA using the MyHealthEVet secure message system, which has capabilities to attach jpeg and pdf uploads.
I thought facebook was reserved for teenage girls.
You’re confusing it with NY Daily News journalist positions.
Before I retired 2 years ago, I watched the whole FB at work thing go full circle. It started out that we could look at it during break time, then it came out that we weren’t to be using Government computers for Social Media, then all of a sudden we were allowed to use FB during breaks again. Most of us that had been around the block more than once decided that it just wasn’t worth the risk because the computers themselves were monitored. I use it, but with extreme caution because you never know for sure who all is seeing whatever you post, which can bite you in the butt without any effort. Hopefully his command can slap them on the wrists and find something else to focus on instead (but I have my doubts).
Let’s see if the Marine SNCO who reported this gets a Navy Com… or is that just an Army thing.
Obama will probably give him a court martial and send him to levenworth for hard labor. You would get into less trouble for smoking a joint on facebook.