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Female pilot in crash Trump blamed on DEI was top 20% Army cadet (www.thedailybeast.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Summary

Army Capt. Rebecca M. Lobach, a highly accomplished pilot and top 20% ROTC cadet, was among 67 killed when her Black Hawk helicopter collided with an American Airlines jet near Washington, D.C.

Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth blamed "DEI" for the crash despite no official cause being determined.

Lobach had 450+ flight hours and numerous military honors.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

It just so happens I've been reading the book The Invisible Gorilla, and shortly before this accident, I read the part about flight simulators and how they would insert planes turning onto a runway that the simulated plane is trying to land on. Some of the people in the simulator never even saw it.

This is a rather common event IRL - called a "runway incursion". The book says in 2007, the FAA recorded 370 at American airports. Most of these don't end up in collisions.

But I couldn't help but wonder if something like this was in play here...humans are not as attentive as we would like to think we are - in other words, "looking is not really seeing". I wonder what will come of a longer, less politically-charged investigation into all factors here. I doubt it's going to be "DEI", but I also don't know if donvict and fElon's actions played a role either - although they probably are not meant to help the situation.

(And I recommend the book, even though I've not finished it. It's quite good)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Then we're free to say white DEI (aka plain old racism) hires up till the 60s allowed unqualified people to mess up systems in the US.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Reminder: The wording of the trans military ban made no reference to medical issues caused by transition, and outright claimed we were "Without honor, discipline, or an obligation to truth."

The point is to claim the accomplishments of the "other" are unearned

[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

Are women considered "diversity" in the US now? At this point only undereducated-white-trash will have the right to work. Good luck lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Indeed they are, there's a place for the woman and it's not considered the workforce by these backwards psychotics.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Trump clearly wants to go back to the 1900s where women weren't allowed to served, especially colored people

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Yes and they always have. It just marks the success of the programs that women working in top roles has become so normalized that people don't even realize it was different.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, white women were the single demographic group to benefit most from affirmative action, despite racists preferring to paint it as a program that only benefited African Americans in their reverse racism arguments, so yeah, they count in my book. Especially when you consider that a large portion of far-right white men want them to occupy the trad wife role and not been seen outside the home and church again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

In America, no.

In Trumpistan, yes.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Has he even heard of the concept of dignity? How can someone be so loathsome and lack such awareness of it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe this is what he was trying to draw with his sharpie.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He says the Military has gotten weak and mocks them. Lloyd Austin whom Trump replaced with a FOX entertainment anchor served in the military from 1975-2016 as a 4 star general holding several high ranking positions working his way up to Secretary of Defense. So that would point to me that he believes the military has been weak for 50 years. Then again when he was called to service he said his little footsies hurt and dodged the draft. So what he really knows of the interworking and what our soilders go through for training is nothing.

Or, he simply doesn't want any competent military members to stand in his way while he's breaking laws.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Lloyd Austin would not have deployed troops on US soil. That's a major Trump goal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I might not know much about the military other than having lots of ex-military family, but I know enough about flying and in particular, helicopters to know you don’t get to fly that sort of kit without a LOT of hard work and skill. ‘Rotary wing’ pilots are absolutely batshit crazy. This sinister DEI dogwhistle is abhorrent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You don't fly a helicopter, you constantly avoid crashing one.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

RIP Captain Lobach and all those who perished. Mango Mussolini and his side kick Hegseth are shitstains that belong in a broken Russian toilet.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 2 weeks ago

He's literally blaming it on a woman driver, what a geriatric sexist prick

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