• ceoofanarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    You know nothing about me I’ve been homeless for years at a time fuck off with that shit. What I mean by calling it a myth is that the average military recruit is slightly richer than the average American and that those in extreme poverty and the least likely to join only rivalved by the ultra rich. Soldiering is a middle class profession currently. How is anything you say an excuse youre excusing mass murderers and genocidal racist war criminals and presenting them as the primary victims of their own actions makes me throw up.

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      Soldiering is a middle class profession currently

      https://www.military-ranks.org/army-pay

      Starts at $24k per year. Not to worry, though, once you’re a sergeant with 14 years experience it caps out at $48k, and once you’ve reached literally the highest rank of enlisted man it is possible to achieve, of which there is only one in the entire army, it goes up to $118k!

      (You do get a signing bonus, too, which since you’re a middle-class person and not being taken advantage of, you’ll stick into an investment account to start saving up for your middle-class life, instead of buying a new Dodge Charger. All those new recruits with their investment accounts are practically a meme at this point.)

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        2 days ago

        Bless.

        Motherfuckers around here parrotting lies just because they mesh well with their pre-establushed hate boner.

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        Starts at $24k per year.

        Plus food, housing, medical. More bennies if you knock up one of the local strippers. Money for education, sweet home loan terms, preferential hiring…

        Meanwhile, full-time work at Federal minimum is $15k a year. Biggest benefit is that you get to keep your soul.

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          This also means more to lose if you try to disobey what you think is an unlawful order but when you get to the court martial it’s found to be lawful. Weird, it’s like we understand that these kind of imbalanced power dynamics make people feel like they just have to accept what they’re given and can’t say no in some contexts but not others…

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              Weird, it’s like we understand that these kind of imbalanced power dynamics make people feel like they just have to accept what they’re given and can’t say no in some contexts but not others…

              But it’s okay because these people “sold their souls” which I guess you say to mean they’ve forfeited their humanity?

    • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
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      2 days ago

      “They are victimized and exploited by the system too.”

      “How dare you present these mass murderers as the primary victims.”

      You win. You’re the better leftist than me honey. I can’t beat that shit.