• Bloomcole
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    2 hours ago

    Fuck these dead invaders.
    No sympathy here

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      Israel is a proxy for Western capitalists. They are doing what their masters want: destabilize the region to prevent unified resistance against imperialism.

      Which is to say, yes blame Israel, but also American and European governments are just as culpable and must also be dismantled.

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    “Ain’t no war but class war” is a saying for a reason.

  • Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works
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    Two reasons.

    A. Kids don’t have a future here. The STEM craze all but died out and jobs are disappearing. Some see it as the only path to a career.

    or

    B. The kid in question is a fascist and wants to die for the 4th Reich due to propaganda.

    Awkward times in the bunks, I’d say.

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      stem was never stem anyway and they tried to do steam. math and engineering and science pays poor or is hit and miss. It was just T

    • Bloomcole
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      “I don’t have the money so I’m going to help murder innocent schoolchildren in a country we want to loot” is a shitty excuse.
      Some guy robbing a house and shooting the inhabitants is exactly the same, only not legalized by the fascist regime.

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      A. Man I hear what you’re saying but what a stupid decision. I see vets on the street literally every day.

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      they specifically target poor and middle class neighborhoods to that end. they even know that some college campuses(the prospects of them finding a job is low) so they often are seen on campus trying to recruit people. STEM job prospects have been so bad for like 10+ years too, if your not going for programming/TECH, bio(health only), and maybe an engineer, dont expect something, if you dont have years of lab experience. they also never target wealthier neighborhoods.

      i seen recruiting offices for each branch in different locations. army for a well travelled mall area, and another in less taffic mall, conveniently both are located near public colleges. the only oddball one i saw was a recruiting office near a mall of asian supermarket near the highway.

      and then the ones for all the armed forced combined into one in a more obscure area in a financial district.

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        apparently not with top gun maverick propaganda, when the movie came out, more people wanted to join because of it. in general people cant get in because thier education is so dumb down they cant even pass the asvab(enlistment only), and apparently they also cant pass the weight limit/physical portion too. i suspect alot of the enlistment comes from red areas, destitute white people with little prospect of a future, joinj the military as away to escape poverty/ or to stroke thier racist egos.

        and yes economic downturn will drive more people to joining too, like the 08 crisis, and drumpfs manufactered distractions from the EPSTEIN FILES.

  • H4RL3Y@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    send the whole trump aministration.

    only once they’ve passed the mandatory private and personal hegseth erection strength test.

  • TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club
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    I’m not from the USA, but am from a military family and when I see Trump saluting the dead soldiers coffins as they return to the US it genuinely makes my piss boil.

    The only reason many of his supporters support this war is becasue they’re racist, indoctrinated fools who don’t care if a few more “brown” people die.

    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      there is a video that went viral recently about a viet nam vet slapping a younger guy for not standing during the national anthem. He supposedly talked to the kid about his service and the friends he lost. seriously. you where in the cluster that was viet nam and you see the trump now and your not sitting down with the lad rather than supporting this bulltrump.

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        there is a video that went viral recently about a viet nam vet slapping a younger guy for not standing during the national anthem. He supposedly talked to the kid about his service and the friends he lost.

        Hell yeah. Fuck Vietnam for trying to take away our national anthem.

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      he also hates soldiers, and servicemembers, he calls them suckers and losers, whats in it for them. he also famously said he would disown ERIC/or JR if they ever joined the military, no more sweet cocaine money if they join.

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      That’s the funny part… they’re so fucking dumb that they don’t realize that Iran… is mainly Persian… they’re not even brown. They could literally pass for most white Americans skin color wise. But the magats are to fucking stupid to realize this.

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        pass for most white Americans skin color

        Even the Irish are not really white. White is not a color.

        The movie 300 made it clear that they don’t share our values.

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      when I see Trump saluting the dead soldiers coffins as they return to the US it genuinely makes my piss boil.

      You think your piss is boiling? Imagine how Trump feels, staring at all those losers.

      The only reason many of his supporters support this war is becasue they’re racist, indoctrinated fools who don’t care if a few more “brown” people die.

      They absolutely care. They are rabid for it.

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        They absolutely care. They are rabid for it.

        So long as they aren’t being sent overseas, anyway.

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          There’s people who go to war for the college degree or the debt relief or the career advancement. And a lot of them bounce as soon as the checks clear.

          There’s also people who go to war because its a place where you can go out and get roided up and coke-brained and commit atrocities and be rewarded for it. They tend to stick around, then hop into the private sector to keep the good times rolling.

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            Oh no, I wasn’t clear: I was referring to the non-military dipshits who are shouting crumb and spittle filled tirades at their TV over the idea that a brown person might exist and be happy.

            I was one of the first category.

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    Iran has been targeted for more than 20 years. Trump works as deception, because nobody asks why Iran is strategically important.

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    21 hours ago

    Because that’s what Trump wants.

  • Gork@sopuli.xyz
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    Trump prefers soldiers who haven’t been killed by missiles/drones.

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    0% chance that they’re sending the Department of War graphics designers onto Kharg Island.

    At least, not in the first wave.