young people being increasingly hesitent to join the military is one of the things that gives me hope for the future
I don't buy it, I think it's propaganda to justify keeping our military at Iraq/Afghan war levels and spend more money.
In that case I hope the propaganda backfires and gets young men to think about it and conclude their lives are too valuable to sacrifice to the imperial machine
doesn't the data show the US military is becomingly increasingly aristocratic again? Like it used to be full of poor people but more and more the only people joining up are middle class military family children
Im skeptical of the data because it doesn't square with what you would see in real life. Maybe that's true for officer side of things but that just doesn't sound right for enlisted.
Also I havent seen the data in awhile, what does it consider middle class? Just because your family makes 100K a year doesnt mean youre going to college, had good formative education or are going to have any reasonable life prospects for yourself.
I think the understated thing as well in that data is how many poor people TRY to join and are disqualified from entering by things like, not being a US citizen, nonwaiverable low test scores(insanely common), crimes holding them back, weed. Like, sure they didn't join but it's not because of some collectivist thought, it's because the system failed so bad they cant even be the lowest most useless cog in the military.
oh no clue, that was some half remembered fact I have floating around in my head
I don’t buy it either, but I don’t think it’s for military spending. It’s to trick china and Russia in my opinion
When you don't have to pay for anything it goes decently far. It's why these guys all but hellcats and shit
Isn't the joke that they all buy muscle cars at 40% interest or some shit?
