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Why can't they just go back to bombing weddings in far away countries so people will thank them for their service again.
The libs would be happy again
Where was this post about following orders going against the constitution being unlawful...
Gotta love people posting about hotlines and not including the number for the hotline.
Call 1-877-447-4487
So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don't have any moral objection to it? How reassuring..
a) Those moral objections aren't going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you're just following orders because everything happened so fast
b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump's army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.
c) If enough people leave, it's going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to ~~martial~~ marshall force, and that's a good thing for us.
Yeah until you've got little Chinese boots on your necks
Seriously? I'd rather live in China than eb American in 2025.
Kinda wild you can't see that.
Kinda wild I can't see what? Your opinion?
For starters, it's an Archer quote. Secondly I don't live in America and never have. I would still gladly choose America over China any day of the week however.
I don't watch archer, so to me it's just a mean thing to say about China.
It's kinda wild that you can't see that America has become the embodiment of everything you dislike about China.
It's kinda wild you keep saying things are kinda wild.
It's also kinda wild how you can't accept people may have other opinions.
I can absolutely see America is doing some of the things China does, still better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don't.
I just re-stated the original "it's kinda wild" statement which you had misrepresented as some kind of opinion.
Of course i understand people have opinions, but I'm entitled to think people are idiots for having ingredients stupid opinions.
Okay mate, good luck to you.
American boots are literally coming down on people's necks and you simple minded fools still have to chime in with "BuT cHiNa BaD"
I mean fair, but I guess we gotta deal with hostile governments in order of proximity here
Very true
The future post-balkanized nation's Poland balls, covered in blood and wounds "Who's next, we're taking all comers for the old debt, and we'll fight you for your share if you want to try"
I'm more concerned with the Russian and Israeli yokes around the necks of members of congress.
All equally concerning, true.
Sometimes when you feel a way it's because things are that way.
For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.
Gastrointestinal rights hotline?
(Yes I can infer what it's about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for..)
Non-American as well, but I believe GI means "General Infantry", but in use GI means "Army Man/Soldier" so it doesn't really matter what the letters stand for.
it doesn't really matter what the letters stand for.
This is American English we're talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right
It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]
During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as "G.I. cans".[2][3] During the same war, "G.I.", reinterpreted as "government issue"[2] or "general issue",[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., "G.I. soap".[3] Other reinterpretations of "G.I." include "garrison issue" and "general infantry".[3]
The earliest known recorded instances of "G.I." being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of "G.I. Joe" it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that "G.I. Joe" encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term "G.I. Joe," who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.
That website though, kept reading Giri Ghost Hotline
I see GI and I think of the NAZI killing robot. We could do with that RN
Oh no, they are sad about shooting and exploding civilians heads with their fists? :(
Why did you join the army then?
So they could go to school? Have heathcare? Not starve? Most people in the military fall into two camps:
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Are a dumb shithead
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Are poor
Many just joined as poor kids (<21) because that was the best or only option for them.
I needed all those things and was a poor kid growing up, and I still didn't sacrifice my integrity by signing up to join an oppressive military force.
No excuses to justify the oppression of others just so you can avoid being oppressed yourself.
It's really really easy to just say "yeah idiots just don't do it" when you could get in very serious trouble for doing that
It's called having the courage to do it anyway knowing you will face repercussions for doing it, because it is the right thing to do.
Sadly, this basic concept seems to be a forgotten relic of the past. Too many people in this country are just fine with sacrificing others if it saves their own skin.
I bet you my life savings in the exact same situation you would fold immediately
Don't project your own flaws onto me. Just because you would be a coward who will allow themselves to be controlled by petty authority doesn't mean everyone would.
Spoken like a true keyboard warrior, often those with the biggest mouths do the least
Again buddy, don't project your own insecurities onto me just because you have no real argument
The military is also very good at propagandizing to the youth.
They primarily target young men who don't know what they're going to do with their life, then send them marketing materials (and even officers to their school) trying to tell them how much freedom and travel they'll get if they join, and how it'll build them into big strong well-respected men.
So even for the people who I wouldn't say are dumb or even economically struggling, they can get roped in with false promises of things like the ability to get stronger and do work to help their community be safe, then in actuality just get deployed later on to fight the same people in their community when they protest.
Hesgeth to the Marines: "The beatings will continue until morale improves! hic"
Sadly this will leave the ranks filled with sycophants, so we'll be worse off
Yeah they should just stay in and protect the protesters
Yeah they should just *ill the protesters more humanely /s
Why are you censoring the word kill? Are you a child?
We can use big boy words on the internet, this isn't the classroom.
No need to be this consescending.