This means that if another country's military is capable of ending a person's life, the USA must find a way to one-up that somehow. Otherwise both fighting forces are equally lethal.

What does she have planned? Do they have a weapon that can destroy the eternal soul?

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    I mean, I'm a millennial and in my high school we had:

    • Recruiters constantly present in the cafeteria
    • A well funded JROTC program
    • The army bringing portable tents where we skipped gym to play their CoD clone America's Army
    • Similar visits from the army's climbing wall
    • Visits from the Navy's "cover band" where they did that one Green Day song about doing nothing but sitting on the couch and masturbating all day

    So the propaganda flood has been at a high water mark for at least 20 years at this point.

    • DragonBallZinn [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      frothingfash: “Heh heh, no poets on the commune!”

      porky-happy: “Hey kiddo, guess what you get to do? Die to steal oil! We thought about letting the wealth trickle down in the form of jobs, but I thought….nah! We have boomers happily working those pesky jobs for you well into their 80s, and AI takes care of the rest. Come on kiddo, it’ll be like those video games!”

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      for sure. pre-9/11 it was already a full court press for military recruitment in high school, and probably half the guys I knew did it because they didn't have the scores / grades for a scholarship and their parents were too broke to help.

      back then it was all about getting free college and OK pay with out going to go get your dome rattled by an IED somewhere the thermostat hits 120°F. most I knew from high school got out before the Iraq invasion, said "that sucked" and set about going to school on a full ride, but one younger, late enlisted guy was in his last year when he got sent over. everybody prior to that was like stationed in places like Germany or San Diego and doing nonsense like checking boxes, handing out socks, or guarding a warehouse of toilet parts. the work was described as mind numbing, but they liked the places they got to visit when on leave.

      he went over to iraq kinda dumb and cameback fully dumb but full of confidence and started carrying a handgun literally everywhere. didn't use the GI bill at all, and was pretty much the nail in the coffin for anybody I knew from high school believing the military opened doors anymore.

      • egg1918 [she/her]
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        4 months ago

        didn't use the GI bill at all,

        What an unbelievable sucker

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          1000% it's crazy how much that benefit covers. tuition, expenses, housing, food, living. I knew this clown that did 4 in the Chair Force and legit just hung the fuck out in college, like how people dream college years should be. bikeable/walkable housing off campus, plenty of money for restaurants, nice clothes, weed/booze, spring/summer trips, no need to have a job. and he had more money in savings after finishing than when he started. basically, how it should be for anyone.

          my cousin, on the other hand, is one of the dipshits that went "career" and will never use the GI bill. barely literate, new trucks/jet skis all the time, upside down on every asset. the poster child for credit counseling and car title/payday loan strip malls right off base. I went to his second wedding (he was like 26) and it was obvious crazy expensive.

          I legit cannot even imagine what he would do with himself if someone wasn't standing over him telling him which pile of socks to hand out. probably illegally drag racing mustangs on public roads.