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More explicit pictures of female Armed Forces personnel have been shared online without their permission. The scandal comes just one year after the alarming trend among all branches of the military was first discovered.
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55 Marines have been punished for their involvement in a 'Marines United' Facebook group, which boasted 30,000 serving and retired members of the military before being shut down. The scandal
extended to all branches of the military and involved some 131,000 photos of women,
some explicit and taken without their permission, spread across 168 social media sites via Google Drive.
Undeterred, the group's administrators and 400 dedicated members have since moved to smaller photo-sharing websites and forums where they can leer at their comrades. Two weeks ago photos once again emerged on a new Facebook group called "Blame Marines United (Non-Butthurt Edition),"
reports Vice News.
Comment: There's a relatively simple solution to this problem, but it's very un-PC: make the military all-male again. The decision to allow women into all branches of the military has been a disaster by pretty much any measure: lowered fitness standards, lowered combat efficiency, increasing resentment, increasing fraternization, converting the military into a welfare department for single mothers, and, of course, a predictable increase in sexual misconduct. Maybe it's finally time to admit the military made a big mistake? Who are we kidding, that'll never happen. (For more on the topic see Stephen Baskerville's
The New Politics of Sex).
Comment: Yet another example of the police acting sociopathically towards the citizenry. No crime justifies a subdued suspect being shot and killed.
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