Now imagine if she got the same benefits from, idk, joining Jobs Corps to build out renewable microgrids or something
Seriously. The US just dumps money into the military to have failkids sit around and do nothing at bases all over the world. The same money could be spent to have the same failkids build bridges that don't fall down. Hell Raytheon could make a bulldozer and the job corps could buy it at an insane markup and the same exact people would still get rich.
But then who would man the sword of damocles hanging over periphery states? Without the constant terror of the possibility of genocidal bombing campaigns launched with impunity from floating fortresses those subjugated peoples might start to want silly things like "living wages" or "safety regulation" or "agency over their own natural resources" and then where would the treats be?
That's right: in the hands of foreigners instead of sitting backlogged on a container ship or in a warehouse that can't be unloaded in a timely fashion because the imperial core did a democide on itself by doing fuckall about covid. But once the treats get moving, well then some suburbanite kid's gonna be mildly sated for a few hours.
The Job Corps could even have uniforms and march around and stuff to keep chuds sexually satisfied.
to keep chuds sexually satisfied
I think they'd have to shoot brown people for that
Saying you should join the military for free college is like the Hunger Games, except instead of fame and fortune for winning, you maybe get a shitty office job.
TBF she joined the chair force of the biggest empire, so she never actually risked her life.
Pretty sure during Iraq they eventually did the DIG THE FIGHTING POSITION meme to chair force recruits
I seem to remember people getting pulled out of desk jockey positions and shoved onto the front lines of that shit because they couldn't hit their recruiting targets for years after the war started.
Incidentally, the hot job market and the absolute dogshit pay/benefits of enlisted military is only furthering the strain on recruitment and retention. I fully expect the Pentagon to capitalize on the coming rate hikes and subsequent induced recession in order to restaff for the next quagmire war. Shit like this is going to be deluging social media in a few years.
Ate from a garden
this is supposed to indicate poverty? somehow I bet this means the garden of her suburban home, because this is a weird way to phrase hopping fences to steal food
One of the most obnoxious things about well off mayos is they’re always bargaining with themselves and reality to excuse that comfort bc there’s always someone somewhere who’s even wealthier
The most egregious of this was I knew a guy in the oil and gas industry who would take a private jet to festivals, literally flew his kids to other countries across the Atlantic for concerts and would say with a straight face “we’re not even that rich, now this guy I know pff they have real money” and I’m like “lol you make more money in one year than I’ve probably ever earned in my life”
I went to a private school and this happens all the fuckin time. People's parents will have six figure incomes and they'll be like "we aren't rich, we're well off". As if there's any difference. Because saying you're rich forces you to acknowledge your privilege, which is to hard for a lot of selfish people.
I'm privileged, I recognize that. My parents are upper middle class petit bourgeois. It's not that hard to admit
I'll give you this, YOU are not responsible for my student debt.
But some lazy people who happened to have money beforehand that found out a way to make money without lifting a finger are. Why is it that business owners get to be hapless victims of market forces yet all the responsibility is placed on me? Some irrelevant loser?
We can't "just clap our hands and trust the private sector" and then claim they have no responsibility whatsoever.
That's what a few tours through the Air Force does to a motherfucker. Just hollows you out.
Probably some pretty depressing reasons for that given what women in the US military have told me :agony-shivering:
