Someone was just telling me yesterday about how so many ROTC students get promised tuition paid for, only to find out later for some stupid reason they were disqualified. They made it seem like it’s a very common thing.
Wait, a military recruiter was a slimy lying bastard? Couldn’t be!
Unless you’re trans
Military recruiting continues to trend down in the U.S. but one area of growth against that was legal immigrants and children of illegal immigrants.
I’d wager we’ll have a lot fewer of those folks to recruit in the coming years.
Watching Total Forgiveness on dropout right now, this is very apropos lol
I mean, there are plenty of boring desk jobs in the military too.
Yep, you can sit behind your screen and click on the wedding where the drone should strike.
Or the humanitarian missions delivering food or supplies sometimes. Most of the time it’s sit around and look threatening enough that trade is protected. That’s not really a defense, it’s ultimately a tool protecting American capital and propping up a failing system, just saying that most of the expense doesn’t go to murdering brown people.
Yeah, but when you enlist do you get to pick?
It depends. You can generally choose a career field to specify in your contract, and you’re not directly shooting people for the vast majority of career fields. That’s not to say your actions won’t support killing people in some way, most career fields are there to support the ones that do, but there’s ones in cybersecurity for instance whose goal is generally more aligned to providing support to other nations or industries that might’ve been hacked. Outside of general areas though, it’s not like the mission is decided by anyone other than the U.S. President or Congress (or continuing obligations from prior agreements).
Most of the time it’s sit around and look threatening enough that trade is protected.
What? where would that be?
And in no way that is protecting trade the biggest part of their horrible activities.
Unless it’s drug trade like cocaine in the contra scandal or heroin from Afghanistan.Most of the expense/time (proportionately) is the Navy patrolling the various trade corridors and oceans with near routine exercises/drills from nearby nations against it, preventing disruptions and theoretically enabling the dying/dead “Pax Americana,” ultimately for US capital’s benefit (in tangent with the stability of the US dollar as the former de facto reserve currency). It’s the real reason the US is content with spending all the money on the military, not just a projection of power but a real return on investment (even more so now that taxes are getting more and more regressive and corps pay less than ever). The murder is almost secondary when it comes to that, a petty demonstration of what they’re capable of. Pretty gross tbh.
that may be so in the ‘normal’ state.
However that aggressive imperialist regime is more that often terrorising another country.
And that can be for many years and they can waste shitloads of money on wildly expensive missiles, bombs and bullets.
Barely kicked out of Afghanistan and they’re already mobilising to harrass Venezezuela, not coincidentally the country with the biggest oil reserves op the planet.
Was Adolf eichmann a murderer? He never pulled a trigger.
The ‘I joined bcs I needed an education’ was the first excuse.
This is the follow up.
They have to rationalise it to themselves.
As if there’s any reason to justify joining the worst and most prolific killing machine on the planet.To be fair it’s not the worst killing machine. Its nit like top 50% and itvus the most expensive, but it usually gets a pretty good amount of killing done.
What are you talking about?
No country even comes close.For pure numbers killed, i think russia wins. For efficiency per body dropped… When was the last time the Americans fully, like, won a war? Because it wasnt in my or my parents’ lifetime.
And they got their asses handed to them pretty badly by guys who didnt all have shoes a couple times since their last win.
Russia hasn’t got a death count near the US.
The US has lost everything after WW2, and there they played a small role despite the Hollywood fantasy depictions.
(I forgot the heroic victory against Grenada)russia hasn’t
Oh im counting deaths on voth sides.
*You would?
(sorry)
Or
You will!
I mean, it’s not like we see our intellectual best come from the military. Most of them become fucking pigs and abusers.
I don’t know if it’s still like this, but the national guard being called up currently, are probably paying out of their own pocket to be there. These local call-ups aren’t usually paid that well.
It would be better if they would kill the people making college tuition hard to get instead of killing people so their oppressors could gain even more power.
That would take effort and risk.
Bombing brown people from a distance is much easier.Okay, but, and hear me out; what if i just actively pursued the most abhorrent results and went full ‘cruelty squad’ here?
good deal
