Why would you ever join the military? Especially after the Epstein files came out what kinda idiots are these people

Let's be fair that some people do it for personal honour, their family's honour and/or they like doing it, or any other reason, doesn't necessarily have to be for the country or the leaders. I don't work because I love my CEO, I do it to make a living and at least I make a living doing something I don't hate. My CEO just happens to benefit from it and likewise, the country's leaders also benefit

"For Epstein!" The soldiers shout, as they charge into battle.

Hey now. Current recruiting practices probably mean a lot of them declare for 'der fuhrer'.

If only you knew the truth of what is rly going down between Oceana, Eurasia, and East Asia.

From the historical records:

https://youtu.be/7PnVNd32ikk?is=TEXpnudkr7n10dCy

And their sacrifices will be remembered for brief periods two days a year, maybe more if its an election cycle.

Or whenever pornhub is down but liveleak isn't.

Their sacrifice to trump

They died for his freedumb

Oh no, thats so sad.

The number is too low :(

Fuck colonizers.

Which ones? Surely not the US as they have been invited to most of the places in the ME by their indigenous populations.

It'd be like saying the Swiss colonised Rome just because they have some soldiers in the Vatican...

You might want to do a quick google on what a military occupation is, Champ.

Injured Nazis are always funny.

So sad. Anyway party's at my house once they hit 1000.

i’ll bring the coffee and dessert!

I'll bring a novelty dish and jello shots!

👎

Aw poor baby wants to suck off imperialist baby mass murderers who blow up desalination plants at Israeli orders. Those brave herpes. How dare we suggest their harm is a good thing.

Edit: that was autocorrect, and I'm keeping it.

😂 🤔 😱

Don’t start wars and it won’t happen.

More like, if you start pointless wars for no reason, at least send your own sons and daughters to die for your vain pursuit of power, instead of the sons and daughters of the poor who only signed up to escape the poverty trap or because their entire world growing up was designed to dupe them into believing that's what heros do...

If you're in america and you're willing to fight a war to escape poverty, but it's NOT class war, you're a piece of shit racist Nazi bitch. You telling me to cry over Nazis getting their balls blown off?

Because I will if you get the timing and music right. That sounds hilarious.

You sound like you don't realize how many black and brown people there are in the US military. You make it sound like it's a bunch of white supremacists. Maybe those types exist, but they're not the norm.

Also, you seem to be forgetting that the failures of the american education system especially apply in impoverished areas, and that recruiters systematically groom and poach students before they even turn 18, using every psychological trick in the book and filling them full of as many promises as they think they want to hear.

Chances are, most people who enlist at 17 or 18 don't know enough about the US's "foreign wars" to realize how deeply unjust those wars have been.

Calling them all nazis is fucking ignorant. It's not like they're ICE, who signed up specifically to violently round up and deport brown people while enjoying impunity for all their crimes up to and including extrajudicial public executions.

Good luck winning your class war if you're going around calling every veteran a fascist though. Most of them are getting fucked over by this regime as hard as anyone else. You wouldn't last a fucking day in a real war.

Historically there have been many people in the us military!

They're trying to change that. Have been for a while, and the biden admin didn't revert.

More black and brown Nazis than you'd expect. Have you heard if 'Argentina' or 'nick Fuentes'?

every

Oh wow you're chewing crayons pretty hard, aren't you, little Nazi?

Now you're acting like a petulant child

Good job iran

Most have experienced traumatic brain injuries and returned to duty, according to public statements from military officials.

I suppose we'll see how true that is - it wouldn't be exactly surprising for them to be sending wounded personnel back to work when they're still recovering, it's not like they care about their own troops any more than they do Iran's...

The brain is the least important organ to have in working order for this military

"Return to duty" can mean anything from peeling potatoes in the canteen to light paperwork.

Have you ever tried to peel potatoes with a concussion?

The Los Angeles D line is about to get a new western terminus at the VA hospital. The day it opens I'm gonna go there (on the D train) and make fun of the young guys until one tries to punch me with an arm he doesn't have anymore.

What the hell is wrong with you?

Plenty, but currently a lack of the right train station.

I have 0 sympathy for the US Armed Forces, and a small part of me can't help but feel that people that volunteer for the imperial war machine deserve what they get. But please remember that these are human beings, and all humans deserve dignity. When you forget that, you aren't really better than the worst of them.

They signed up to fight trump wars. They knew what they were getting into.

I'm not going to fuck with the old guys. When you can't tell the difference between an asshole and a monster, you're not really any different than the worst of them, shitlib.

Teenagers signed up with adults telling them it was honorable.

Yeah, that's why I'm not going after the old guys. I'm going after the ones who haven't adjusted to not having the arm they try to punch me with. Those fuckers got no excuse.

I remember being a teenager. I clocked that the bush admincs wars weren't honorable. I was smarter than most, but this is fucking trump.

Edit: also, they're actively recruiting Nazis right now, and if you want to kill to get out of poverty but won't kill a billionaire at home, you're probably a Nazi.

Remember that those are helping killing innocent civilians. The iranians deserve dignity, their killers deserve none. The more casualities the usa get inflicted thr more innocent iranians lives will be saved

The irgc is also pretty bad. I wouldn't say they're better than the Americans, but the irgc isn't blowing up schools and fighting on side with zios.

The Americans knew what they were signing up for; contracts aren't that long.

The usa tried to create a failed state, a failed state kill millions and they already killed millions from vietnam to afghanistan to iraq, to syria, to libya so yeah the usa is a lot worse than the irgc.

I'm not going to pretend any of the militaries here are the good guys, I'm just here to mock the crippled bitches from one who come back missing limbs and make them cry or crave a 9mm sandwich.

You dont have the balls

I bet a lot of them don't either!

Everything is in context. The context we are talking about is the war of aggression on iran so in that context the Iranian army is the good side and the usa army the bad side. It similar to how the allies was the good guy in the world war 2 and the axis the bad guys despite the allies having colonies and killing resistance in the colonized countries

No. The irgc (dunno about their regular army) are the shitty assholes who were killing their own civilians for water riots. That's not good guys. Not under any conditions.

Then the Americans decided that was their job, and also blew up all the desalination plants, and also school children. There are no good guys here. Just pieces of absolute subhuman shit killing each other and innocent people who are so fucked.

I'm here to mock the pieces of shit who end up in my city when they come back missing pieces.

The irony of your comment is that by dehumanising them you are showing the exact same impulse that drives wars of aggression.

The moment you decide certain human beings are completely stripped of dignity and fair game for abuse, you are using the exact same psychological justification that warmongers use.

Gonna gp to Iran, dig through battlefield wreckage, find their balls, and choke on em?

But you're the dignified here?

“Fascists use hammers to build houses, so if you use hammers to build houses then you’re a fascist!”

See also, “Hitler was a vegetarian, so all vegetarians are Hitler!”

Learn to apply context and intentions.

Seriously. Liberals just like their buddies; look back and find the shiy they say about protestors.

Nice strawman you got there.

The main difference is that dehumanisation is the very core of fascism. The moment you defend human dignity is conditional you accept their main premise.

No, authoritarianism is the core of fascism. Anyone attempting to force their will onto others by force can fuck themselves to death, they don’t deserve the considerations they actively refuse to others, I will not treat them as people, I did not strip that from them, they actively gave up their humanity. Stop blaming others for that behavior, blame the fucking perpetrators.

Your faux humanitarianism rhetoric is just the propaganda of pacifism, which is something these specific fucking nazis specifically added to the social programming. You are delivering a rhetoric made by these fucks to protect these fucks from you. Wake up. I’m not the one arguing a straw man.

I did not dehumanize them but they willfully decided to kill iranians and them getting killed or injured prevent them from killing more civilians

The US political and economic system is also designed to entrap people in the military.

Cant afford a education. Military will pay for it.

Can't afford a place to live. Military will provide.

Unable to escape violence and gangs, military.

I would rather struggle in life then kill

For some, its death they are escaping. Either from crime, or economic depression. Also only 1 in 10 military personel become a "shooter" the majority go into logistics, technical or administrative roles.

Anybody who participate in a war of agression deserve to be targetted from logistic to technical to administrative personels.

They also provide health care to vets, and vets are given discounts everywhere.

Allegedly they provide healthcare to vets. Ask any vet their opinion on VA hospitals, though.

when you volunteer for this, you’re either already a victim or a sociopath piece of shit. the former gets help getting out and recovering. the latter gets to be reminded they are a nazi forever.

When you forget that, you aren't really better than the worst of them.

Uh they are unless they've committed mass murder before.

Many of them are brainwashed by parents and are ignorant of world affairs. The recruiters get to them when they are 17. Many regret it later, and that's why the suicide rates in the military are high. Teenagers make incredibly poor decisions. I get what you're saying, but have some compassion. The enemy are the folks who own media and profit from it, not the ignorant masses.

I inconvenience them too, when I can!

tends to be the most accessible way out of that poor small-town hellscape so common across america too.

part of me wonders if one of the main reasons we dont have universal healthcare/education is it would effectively crater DoD's ability to recruit anyone. already struggle to hit their quota as is...

17? Many schools have recruiters walking the halls long before that. Plenty of these kids were getting talked up in the hallway at 15 and had recruiters calling their cellphones unprovoked or stalking them to their homes using personal information they got from the schools.

Also, Transformers and COD games are hitting eyeballs as soon as kids are old enough to watch TV unsupervised. Beer commercials, certain coffee establishments, etc etc. The wrong unsupervised media environment readily delivers poor kids to the armed forces as an aspirational goal.

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