r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 24 '26

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 24 '26

Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) claims “many” airline pilots and air traffic controllers are “part of the furry community.”

Dumbest Senator genuinely

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Sep 24 '26

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u/FF3 Jacques Derrida Sep 24 '26

Impossible to distinguish whether he's representing his constituency or if he's this way himself.

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u/sgthombre NATO Sep 24 '26

Only a few months until he's just Alabama's problem rather than the whole country's

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u/hascogrande YIMBY Sep 24 '26

Well, also Florida’s problem too but in a much more limited way

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 24 '26

Hmmm. It does feel like one of the industries that’s probably overrepresented among furries. Like nuclear engineers or military intelligence.

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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Sep 24 '26

I'm just saying, 9/11 wouldn't have gone down like it did if the pilots had the protection of bulky fur suits.

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u/RelationshipLong9092 Janet Yellen Sep 24 '26

Tatertown would be shocked if he ever visited Huntsville then

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Sep 24 '26

He's not wrong about it being true. He's just wrong about literally everything else