https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des … ce=twitteris this what dilbert and his dorky sister are complaining about when they rue the fact ‘no kids are good enough to join the air force’ anymore?
Brock was wearing several patches on his combat helmet and body armor, including one bearing a yellow fleur de lis, the insignia of the 706th Fighter Squadron. He also wore several symbols suggesting that he lived in Texas, including a vinyl tag of the Texas flag overlaid on the skull logo of the Punisher, the Marvel comic-book character. The Punisher has been adopted by police and Army groups and, more recently, by white supremacists and followers of QAnon. Scott-Railton also found a recently deleted Twitter account associated with Brock, with a Crusader as its avatar.
it’s fucking perfect. and yet dilbert still goes on about stereotypical ‘hipsters’. this guy above seems to have been designed like a bingo card.
Brock’s family members and his friend said that his service in the Air Force was central to his identity. Several of Brock’s e-mail addresses and social-media accounts featured his call sign and military nickname, Torch. One family member said that Brock derived “this weird sense of power” from his time as a military pilot, along with a Manichean world view. “He used to tell me that I only saw the world in shades of gray, and that the world was black and white,” the other family member said. “He doesn’t understand the fallout and the people he’s hurting. And I can’t imagine what he was doing there with zip ties, or what he thought he was going to accomplish.”
maybe dilbert is really onto something! those poor lost kids of today ... none of them will ever be good enough to be air force pilots :’)
dilbert's political trajectory and continual distancing of himself from trumpists, populists, the far-right, fascists, etc, is such a good show. it's like when jay slowly and inevitably morphed into the rabid republican complaining about tax and obama. 'oh, wait ... maybe i AM that thing i've been complaining about for so many years ... dam.'
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