i can’t understand why anyone, knowing what america does in this day and age would join unless they are already assholes. how is that confusing to you?
if someone, knowing how bad america is, joins … what impression should that make?
I don’t know what to tell ya, the majority of enlisted are ignorant kids. 90% or so of the total military has never shot at another human. Combat roles only account for 10-20% of the military. But keep on generalizing, that’s the way to a more perfect union for sure.
This is a wild take. I don’t want to understate how ignorant and/or malicious this is. I sure hope you’re not American.
It’s important to contextualize what America’s military is. They’re a 100% volunteer military. Sure you’ll say it’s 100% killers that sign up, but that’s far from the truth. If you’ve grown up with little options, no mobility, or a reason to put your whole town in your rearview, the military is enticing. Young impressionable women and men jump at that opportunity. Also again, they’re kids. They’ve barely figured out their genitals let alone how the world works.
I’ve been in their shoes as a young dumb bum with no options looking down the barrel of an economic system/situation stacked against me.
Don’t you see the irony in your position? You too are actively participating in a system that aids and abets imperialism and misery. Probably not best to throw stones while in a glass house.
I am american. I am old enough to have watched two invasions of iraq, afghanistan, cuban military crisis, blowback from choices in vietnam, and current support of genocide and countless other nonsense.
That we are 100% volunteer is my EXACT point. People with the access to the same knowledge I have still join because why? I can only assume it’s because they are still children. A deplorable thing our nation relies on: youth’s unfinished brain development.
I spend more time in my community helping in ways I can such as being a first responder, working in healthcare, feeding people, etc.
None of which kills brown children across the globe. All of which helps local people.
I truly, honestly, cannot see why anyone would stay in as an adult let alone join the military.
i can’t understand why anyone, knowing what america does in this day and age would join unless they are already assholes. how is that confusing to you?
if someone, knowing how bad america is, joins … what impression should that make?
I don’t know what to tell ya, the majority of enlisted are ignorant kids. 90% or so of the total military has never shot at another human. Combat roles only account for 10-20% of the military. But keep on generalizing, that’s the way to a more perfect union for sure.
well generally speaking, they are all working toward a deplorable goal, even the folks cleaning the toilets.
ALL COPS MEANS ALL.
Why are you ok bootlicking for a military that supports breaking peoples constitutional rights, genocide, and war?
This is a wild take. I don’t want to understate how ignorant and/or malicious this is. I sure hope you’re not American.
It’s important to contextualize what America’s military is. They’re a 100% volunteer military. Sure you’ll say it’s 100% killers that sign up, but that’s far from the truth. If you’ve grown up with little options, no mobility, or a reason to put your whole town in your rearview, the military is enticing. Young impressionable women and men jump at that opportunity. Also again, they’re kids. They’ve barely figured out their genitals let alone how the world works.
I’ve been in their shoes as a young dumb bum with no options looking down the barrel of an economic system/situation stacked against me.
Don’t you see the irony in your position? You too are actively participating in a system that aids and abets imperialism and misery. Probably not best to throw stones while in a glass house.
like look at this. why is anyone ok with THIS enough to say “oh hey that’s how i’ll pay for college and get on service related hearing disability”
https://lemmy.world/post/34887488
I am american. I am old enough to have watched two invasions of iraq, afghanistan, cuban military crisis, blowback from choices in vietnam, and current support of genocide and countless other nonsense.
That we are 100% volunteer is my EXACT point. People with the access to the same knowledge I have still join because why? I can only assume it’s because they are still children. A deplorable thing our nation relies on: youth’s unfinished brain development.
I spend more time in my community helping in ways I can such as being a first responder, working in healthcare, feeding people, etc.
None of which kills brown children across the globe. All of which helps local people.
I truly, honestly, cannot see why anyone would stay in as an adult let alone join the military.
If you’re as old as you say you are and have forgotten what you were as a youth, shame. You’ve lost your barometer and I can’t help you recalibrate.
oh no. I mean to say I understand the formula and how. I guess my rhetorical argument is more sarcastic “could i beeee any more obtuse?”
I just … ugh. I hate the system that has been built. I hope the ways to help people OUT of it improve!
Well good luck gaining any real momentum without the people’s army at least sympathetic to your cause. Seems like a futile endeavor to me.