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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It takes active recruitment if we want the military on the side of the people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

They should stop lying and using recruits as guinea pigs then

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

MAYBE that would have worked on the "I just want to go to college" Desert Storm kids.

We spent the better part of 20 years at continual war training an army to commit atrocities in the name of "peace keeping". Anybody joining under those circumstances either started out brainwashed ("My daddy and his daddy and his daddy were all marines!") or are basically cops who just want an excuse to wave a gun around.

At best? We are looking at the equivalent of trotting out liz cheney at the DNC. Sure there are "moderates" who might be won over. But the moment they hear that somebody doesn't like whatever "moderate" belief they have they'll go straight maga and then insist it is your fault for not winning their vote by slaughtering a few trans kids.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

"What makes the green grass grow?!”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

I'd say the vast majority of people in the military these days are poor kids looking for an escape to cyclical poverty.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

"These days" being the last 50+ years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

Yes, if they live through it, talking about everything from food, to housing, "vaccines", and God knows what else. I'm not antivax either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Even that is fading because the tendency to fuck over the VA is so known.

That said: the people whose entire existence depends on pulling the trigger ain't walking away because it might hurt the people who they kind of rightfully feel already abandoned them.