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[-] ATPA9@feddit.org 12 points 1 day ago

The US has cold soft fanatics that find honor in death (as long as some one else is doing all the fighting and dying)

[-] DevDave@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

That's why the US military is mostly people without better prospects or any prospects. Most of the people I served with came from two core demographics: trapped without hope of escape in the ghetto or trapped without hope of escape from rural bumble fuck. The somewhat literal fear of going back to where you came from vs obliterating a bunch of "bad people" is an easy math problem.

[-] kerryh8er04@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

I didn’t serve, but nearly every male in the high school class before mine, mine and the class after mine did. We were one of those bum fuck areas where you couldn’t get a job unless you traveled 3 hours a day.

[-] DevDave@piefed.social 1 points 16 hours ago

It was funny to watch the city and the country kids figure out that shit was fucked no matter where you came from.

When the factory and mill jobs left, nothing was there to replace that security.

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