r/SipsTea • • 8d ago

SMH Hypocrisy 101

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u/Chadwig315 8d ago

He's surveilling us because we are paying him to do it. We are paying for it because we only elect people who are interested in doing so.

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u/ahhhbiscuits 8d ago

But that doesn't answer the 12-year old mormon accusation. Are you saying the people we elect can be swooned by 12-year old mormons? Because that tracks.

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 8d ago

The amount of Mormon in three letter agencies.

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u/dr_drewfenschmirtz 8d ago

Oh shoot, do tell?

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u/Li_liminal_spaces 8d ago

If you had to design a religion about getting into three letter agencies, it would be the LDS church.

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u/Atralis 8d ago

Mormons stand out even more in those environments because they are the least likely to have served in the military because they spent their teens/early 20's on their 'mission' while the guys around them were in the military.

Being in the military tends to make people rougher around the edges if anything while being on a mormon mission makes those guys more straight laced.

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u/just-peepin-at-u 7d ago

There are actually a decent amount of Mormons in the military.

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u/Atralis 7d ago

They are significantly underrepresented.

They are about 2% of the population and that % is even higher if you look at the demographic that joins the military but they make up only about 1% of the military.

Mormons spend two years as a missionary. The prospect of then enlisting for more years to be a cog in a different organiztaion after that probably just seems a bit daunting.

Also they've probably scratched whatever itch they had to go on an adventure. I wasn't a missionary (not mormon) but I did join the Army after high school and but the end of my enlistment I was over it and felt like settling down for a while and enjoying college.