• altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 months ago

    Easy Pete: You won’t get any TNT unless you know what side of it to torch.

    Pentagon Pete: Well you look like a pro, but what about that belly?

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    If you’re working maintenance, then you absolutely want a 300 pound guy on the other of a lever while you’re working on a suspension.

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      At least the newly unemployed soldiers will have a nice well-paying paramilitary to join, so they can keep supporting their wives and their wives’ boyfriends.

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        Just casually trashing the military and then being shocked when the military doesn’t support you.

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          How’s that leather taste?

          If the military willingly follows illegal, unconstitutional orders, why would I want to support them?

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          One of the freedoms the American military purportedly protects is the freedom to talk shit about the American military.

          • Shay20@lemmy.world
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            Ok? So what? You’re legally allowed to but don’t expect people to like your for it.

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                  Fair point, I personally couldn’t care less if the U.S. Military supported me or not if I can’t exercise my free speech then I don’t think it even matters. Again that’s my personal beliefs.

                  They need to be held to a higher standard of behavior by the people. So they must be critiqued it is crucial in a functional democracy.

                  Is that what’s happen in reality? Not really, it’s very politically motivated right now.

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                  Ah so you don’t support freedom of speech just speech you agree with for it.

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          Honestly, I don’t think you’ve been around many military people. One of the great things about most enlisted people is they have to have a sense of humor or they probably wouldn’t make it. They’re constantly joking on each other. They’ve heard the “… and their wive’s boyfriend” thing hundreds of times probably, including from other military people.

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              Cool, then you know this is really fucking common. You’re holding other people to a standard you almost certainly don’t hold.

  • mhague@lemmy.world
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    I honestly hope Nazis continue to fuck with military personnel. These are volunteers trained to shoot a rifle and they’re supposedly willing to kill or be killed to defend our freedoms.

    For the love of god please open up multiple fronts in the war on America.

    • Shay20@lemmy.world
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      You’re hoping for a military coup?

      Sorry to tell you but the military, particularly combat arms, are more conservative than not. And they usually have opinions that you’d label “Nazi”.

  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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    May he experience sudden hypothyroidism.

    Like honestly I think struggling with his weight is something he is less capable of handling than even prison

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    The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

    The funniest example is 24M$ the national guard spent in 2012 on recruiting at nascar. This generated 24,800 prospective recruits. ~$1000 per interested recruit. Not bad. Of those, 20 were eligible to join. 99.92% unfit for service. Of those 20, all declined to join. There’s no evidence that the 88M$ spent on nascar between 2011-2013 generated a single recruit.

    This is part of why the exclusion of trans folks, women and others from the military is such an own goal for the fascists. Any potential recruiting pool that’s closed hastens the decline of our imperial supremacy.

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      The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

      The largest standing military (outside of an active war) in the world has a recruiting crisis?

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        Yes, the military is overextended and “undermanned” in critical areas. I know for certain we are short about 2000 pilots and 3500 air traffic controllers in the USAF, but every branch and complex job is hurting for qualified people.

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          hurting for qualified people.

          I’m sure having a completely unqualified commander in chief and secretary of defense will totally help recruiting…

           

          /s, if it wasn’t obvious

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            This was actually the first time in about 8 years they made recruiting goals. The only issue is they had an abundance for the lower end jobs and much less for the higher intelect enlisted jobs. I think the one exception is the Marines, they usually make their metrics.

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      Just wait for the takeover of Tik Tok to happen.

      It’ll be 24/7 military recruitment propaganda.

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      is such an own goal for the fascists

      I’m reminded of the bit from ur-fascism about how they are incapable of evaluating the world.

      They are stupid people living in an emotional fantasy.

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      Also if there was a draft they’d have to put me in jail or I’d leg it to canada. This has come up in conversation before and people are like “Erm nuh uh you’d totally go” like no bro you’ll actually die to an IED in something-istan.

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    Tired of all these unfuckable troops in my military. I demand everyone have an ass I can bounce a quarter off of.

    #No-Homo