Guys, most people in the US military are there because they didn’t really have a choice. It might have been their only chance at an education or they were dirt poor and this was the only career available that didn’t involve dealing drugs.
It’s why the government likes to keep people destitute and keep higher education expensive. Fodder for the military.
It might have been their only chance at an education or they were dirt poor and this was the only career available that didn’t involve dealing drugs.
That’s really a myth. Most of the military come from middle and upper middle classes, and those growing up in lower income households are underrepresented compared to the general population.
The facts don’t support your feelings.
There are so many naive people in this thread. You think if those people didn’t join they wouldn’t just institute the draft again out of nessesity? Y’all sitting on your high horses looking down on regular ass people who join in an effort to improve their lives. The same people doing so your ass can sit there on lemmy and judge them. Be mad at how the Epstein class uses them not at the rank and file members themselves.
Be a draft dodger then and offer to help your neighbor leave, and if you can’t then go to jail over the military. These people aren’t cardboard boxes who have to do what they’re told, they have agency to quit. Improving your life isn’t an excuse to be complicit, unless you will literally be killed or starve otherwise, neither of which is the case here.
There are injustices happening right now that you can go to jail over. You have agency to stop it. What are you waiting for? Or is it just other people who can go to jail over your convictions?
Such as? If I take out an evil tech CEO now I’ve radicalized the right to violence more, and other evil guy #27589 is sitting there waiting to take his place, and I’ve ruined my life and my families lives. Everything that would land me in jail has positives and negatives for everyone. Sitting out a pointless war in jail has no negative consequence except on the individual.
At least they’re giving peas a chance
Ngl they kinda deserve it
And our kids school lunches…and prisons…
Play stupid games…
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Hasn’t changed much since I’ve been in.
Repost of an intentionally misleading post. Why are you doing that? The situation is shitty and bad, you don’t have to make manipulative posts to make it seem worse than it is.
