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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.
Actually, it seems that for most service members joining the military is one of several potential choices, and they simply weighed it as the best one for a handful of top reasons: Opportunity for career advancement, financial stability, having a family member already in the military, student financial support incentives, and moral / patriotic reasons. It’s a popular myth that a large portion service members are there for lack of any practical alternative, in fact very few are. The DoD recruitment budget (Marketing campaign) is over $4 Billion annually last I checked, for the good reason that most recruits have to be convinced.
https://worldmetrics.org/reasons-for-joining-the-military-statistics/#b-7-data-sources
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0095327X251399177
https://docs.opa.mil/opa.mil-production1/reports/futures_surveys/YP60Fall2024PUBLICRELEASEPropensityUpdate_20250623_Briefing.pdfUnless I’m mistaken, didn’t a significant percentage of military personnel vote for Trump?
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.
You always really have a choice to join the military or not. When you don’t have a choice at all it’s called a draft.
Sometimes it seems like an easy choice to get out of a bad situation, and it appeals to people who don’t understand that consequences can happen to them.
That’s why it’s often referred to as a “poverty draft”
61% of the military voted for Trump. So this is my idgaf face.
and the 39% who didn’t?
they joined the military. they knew enough about what they were getting into.
if they joined because it was that or starve, well, they’re not starving, so there’s no problem
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.
^ +1
They enlisted.
At least they’re giving peas a chance
Ngl they kinda deserve it
Good luck trying to get them to provide something better on USS Shitshow.
Also you are just a diversion from the Epstein files, have fun eating that.
You knew the deal in 2003. You signed up for this.
Prime leopards eating faces material.
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I fear whenever someone who’s somehow worse successfully whips them into a frenzy. Then we spiral into our “Barracks Emperors” era
What would it take to be worse than Trump?
Competence.
Thank you for risking life and limb, now eat Single Large Bean™️
Those $3M PAC missiles aren’t going to pay for themselves you know.
Wow looks like someone forgot that an army runs on its stomach. Now who would be clueless enough to do such a thing, I wonder
But, friend, these colors don’t run.
Are they rationing the cook time too? Those bacons and tortillas could have used a minute or two to make it a tiny bit more edible…
My god.
A Banquet brand TV dinner would be more appetizing and filling. And those are the cheapest, absolute worst garbage microwaved food there is.
