https://dailynews.co.tz/new-zealand-loses-first-naval-ship-to-sea-since-ww2/
https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?story_fbid=917537986907920&id=100059551808655&_rdr
https://von.gov.ng/new-zealand-loses-first-naval-ship-since-wwii/
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/07/world/new-zealand-navy-ship-sinks-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.ar15.com/forums/general/NZ-Navy-ship-with-lesbian-captain-goes-down-in-Samoa/5-2752309/
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/10/new-zealands-lesbian-navy-captain-loses-100m-naval/
"The New Zealand Defence Force stated that the cause of the grounding is currently unknown and will require further investigation." 
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"this is what happens when you put MUFF Divers in command" 
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Do they intentionally look for unqualified hires when it's a diversity hire? Like how do you frick up this badly
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Meme countries like New Zealand don't need to actually try that hard since realistically the US and Australia would actually be the ones defending them and doing most of the heavy lifting.
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IMO Australia is the unironic greatest US ally but that's still not saying much.
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Their largest ship is a bloated amphibious assault carrier which is usually broken, has almost no air defence, and can't stray more than like 2000 miles from Australia because they can't refuel it at range. The US has like 13 of these and 7 fleet carriers. I don't think Australia is doing much, especially when China turns off all their Huawei routers
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Australia is too busy gorging itself on Chinese slop.
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TIL Australia's Westpoint is called Dun
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They never really tried to begin with. Case in point, the hideous creation known as the Bob Semple
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The Male Desire to die in a gloriously pathetic last stand with the boys fighting the IJN landing forces from the inside of a tractor covered in roofing material and Lewis guns
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But I wouldn't expect a Bob Semple hater to be well spoken.
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Im gonna fricking murder you
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It's pretty easy, have you never worked for a large company?
How is it hard to understand that this is how it works?
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That, and how many times do you think competent people can get passed over before they check out and/or leave.
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If the most diverse candidate is the 28th most qualified, and only the top 3 most qualified actually have the skills to fill the role, well...
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Theres currently an Apache foid pilot who failed the Apache gunship school 3 times before just being hand-waved into graduating on the 4th attempt.
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They did this with a firefighter foid who was passed despite failing the tests and ended up dying during a fire because she wasn't strong enough.
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link
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Not the one I was looking at but this is another.
https://nypost.com/2015/12/27/unfireable-female-firefighter-returns-to-the-fdny/
https://www.iwf.org/2015/11/30/woman-firefighter-who-failed-physical-tests-suffers-disabling-injury-10-days-into-the-job/
All the google results are spammed with the FDNY lady.
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they can't because they've misremembered something in order to c*m to it lmao
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When my buddy went through ranger school they were complaining they needed more black graduates from there and they found a batch of 6'4" Wakandans to get some tabs. This was about 10 years ago⦠I figured they could find someone unless they were literally minority maxxing
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I'm picturing a Ranger school instructor practicing deep concealment techniques in the gym by hiding under a pile of yoga mats for 36 hours taking notes on who screams the loudest and dry scoops pre workout to identify ideal candidates
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I knew a black female drill sergeant who who kept getting bounced around batteries based on their minority quotas. It probably sucked because she was rarely in the same battery for more than one cycle.
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The patriarchy was already scary enough
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We need to accept the very real possibility that this is the best and most qualified person they could find for the job.
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Half of our ship crews are Australians.lmao
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New Zealand has absolutely gutted their military. They literally never have owned a supersonic jet, and they should have kept the A4 Skyhawks because it's the Chaddest little jet the west ever made
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If you were a kiwi and wanted to be in the navy why wouldn't you join the British navy as a commonwealth recruit? I feel like they aren't getting the best recruits in new Zealand.
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They're Kiwis. They're effeminate strags, but not that straggy.
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If they want to actually see the world, be on a real ship, and be involved in military ops they don't really have another choice.
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vanishingly unlikely if their political climate has any memes like gender-pay-gap or feminism
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The rot goes to the bottom because of the credential crisis at school and laxing of standards. These people are often qualified and are in the dark about how bad they actually are. Then once they're in they can't be fired, because HR is fretting about the ratios and knows firing someone high up the pyramid looks bad.
You can't really filter out irresponsibility with DEI shit because of that. What you eventually get is how it is in South Africa, with black managers who can barely read and write overseeing white engineers who do their job for them, the former being paid significantly more than the latter.
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Kaamrev is punching the air rn
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Sounds like India but the current generation is equally r-slurred so there are no hard feelings.
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Why doesn't the conversation go like this?
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