• Atomic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    361·
    7 days ago

    Gotta love people posting about hotlines and not including the number for the hotline.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    223·
    7 days ago

    So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
      401·
      7 days ago

      a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

      b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

      c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial marshall force, and that’s a good thing for us.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          18·
          7 days ago

          American boots are literally coming down on people’s necks and you simple minded fools still have to chime in with “BuT cHiNa BaD”

          • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            31·
            7 days ago

            The future post-balkanized nation’s Poland balls, covered in blood and wounds “Who’s next, we’re taking all comers for the old debt, and we’ll fight you for your share if you want to try”

        • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          52·
          7 days ago

          Seriously? I’d rather live in China than eb American in 2025.

          Kinda wild you can’t see that.

          • Woht24@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            6 days ago

            Kinda wild I can’t see what? Your opinion?

            For starters, it’s an Archer quote. Secondly I don’t live in America and never have. I would still gladly choose America over China any day of the week however.

            • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              21·
              5 days ago

              I don’t watch archer, so to me it’s just a mean thing to say about China.

              It’s kinda wild that you can’t see that America has become the embodiment of everything you dislike about China.

              • Woht24@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                5 days ago

                It’s kinda wild you keep saying things are kinda wild.

                It’s also kinda wild how you can’t accept people may have other opinions.

                I can absolutely see America is doing some of the things China does, still better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

                • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  5 days ago

                  I just re-stated the original “it’s kinda wild” statement which you had misrepresented as some kind of opinion.

                  Of course i understand people have opinions, but I’m entitled to think people are idiots for having ingredients stupid opinions.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    5 days ago

    Somewhat ironic that the draft dodges military policies, is causing people to not want to be in the military anymore.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16·
    7 days ago

    Sometimes when you feel a way it’s because things are that way.

    For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

  • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    13·
    7 days ago

    Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

    (Yes I can infer what it’s about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for…)

    • Nikko882@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      7 days ago

      Non-American as well, but I believe GI means “General Infantry”, but in use GI means “Army Man/Soldier” so it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
        201·
        7 days ago

        it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

        This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

        It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

        During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

        The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    59·
    5 days ago

    Why can’t they just go back to bombing weddings in far away countries so people will thank them for their service again.
    The libs would be happy again

  • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
    713·
    7 days ago

    Oh no, they are sad about shooting and exploding civilians heads with their fists? :(

    Why did you join the army then?

    • pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      292·
      7 days ago

      So they could go to school? Have heathcare? Not starve? Most people in the military fall into two camps:

      1. Are a dumb shithead

      2. Are poor

      Many just joined as poor kids (<21) because that was the best or only option for them.

      • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.socialEnglish
        26·
        7 days ago

        The military is also very good at propagandizing to the youth.

        They primarily target young men who don’t know what they’re going to do with their life, then send them marketing materials (and even officers to their school) trying to tell them how much freedom and travel they’ll get if they join, and how it’ll build them into big strong well-respected men.

        So even for the people who I wouldn’t say are dumb or even economically struggling, they can get roped in with false promises of things like the ability to get stronger and do work to help their community be safe, then in actuality just get deployed later on to fight the same people in their community when they protest.

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
        62·
        7 days ago

        I needed all those things and was a poor kid growing up, and I still didn’t sacrifice my integrity by signing up to join an oppressive military force.

        No excuses to justify the oppression of others just so you can avoid being oppressed yourself.

      • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        52·
        7 days ago

        It’s really really easy to just say “yeah idiots just don’t do it” when you could get in very serious trouble for doing that

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          6·
          7 days ago

          It’s called having the courage to do it anyway knowing you will face repercussions for doing it, because it is the right thing to do.

          Sadly, this basic concept seems to be a forgotten relic of the past. Too many people in this country are just fine with sacrificing others if it saves their own skin.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      They recruit high schoolers without other options.

      I worked in one of the worst high schools in the nation. There were recruiters in our cafeteria every day. They gave me periodic tables with National Guard branding (which you can be sure I used, because I only had 1000 prints a month, and 500 of those had to be on my own paper.)

      Imagine - you aren’t going to be able to get into or afford college. Your dad is in jail. Your mom is working three jobs, none of which provide your family with health insurance. The places that are hiring are McDonald’s and Walmart.

      The only people that you know in your community that have insurance and can afford a house - they are former military. You have already seen people go down extremely dark paths - you probably do know someone who joined a gang and you might have attended their funeral. Your pastor tells you that the military will teach you discipline and protect your from that fate.

      There are other reasons too. The military is really the only route you have for college if you don’t have the financial resources.

      I don’t think you imagine yourself killing people either. Most of what the military does isn’t directly related to combat.

      I think this video might be an interesting perspective too.