The sub of a domreddit obviously

Cause some people are psychos. Like I understand if a poor kid has no other means to get out of their situation and thus joins the army. But there are many middle class families with several generations of high ranking service members. These people are just straight up psycho, they have all the inside knowledge of what the military actually does and they still force their kids to join the military academy.

Are my kids aiming at theirs at least?

That's my hobby, too. We need all the help we can get countering the Conservative Propaganda Machine.

Dude, I go back to Vietnam. Wait until Trump calls for a draft, with lots of loopholes for wealthy kids.

They are ride or die and so far he has done little they're not enjoying.

Who cares about raping kids? We're getting RICH!

Good, keep it that way.

I see skys of blue, red roses too, the drumpfs and Netanyafucks of the world being hunted for sport, by me and you, and I think to myself, what a wonderful woooooooorld.

But did they try having bone spurs? I hear that works

IME, unless it's for papers and whatnot, it's usually because your brain doesn't work so you have no options outside of it (and your brain is so atrophied that morality is not considered either).

The lower class always suffers the most during a war. The MAGA fucks are visiting their private doctors to get a bone spurs excuse.

I hate seeing this comforting fiction.

The truth is there are absolutely tens of millions of people who think Trump is fantastic and will bend over backwards to vocally support him for virtually anything he does. Some of those people have Reddit accounts. Most of those frequent /r/conservative.

Are there bots among them? Almost certainly. We do see slowdowns there whenever overseas propaganda mills go down. Then there's the Twitter fiasco where so many of their MAGA influencers turned out to be from Eurasia.

But patting each other on the back about how 80% of them are bots serves only to undermine the passion with which people should be opposing MAGA. I guarantee many would-be Clinton and Harris voters stayed home because they were sure MAGA was an extremely vocal minority almost entirely propped up by bots. Just look at the aftermath of those elections on Reddit and Lemmy; it's generally mass confusion.

That's fine and if the Israelis and US decide to invade Iran, the IDF can lead the charge with a an amphibious assault. Right? You know who else had a closely woven society between the military and society? The fucking Nazis and Bolsheviks!

I'm not comforting anyone, this is reality. How many Magas show up here? They can't talk to us because they get their asses handed to them. The bot to maga ratio also doesn't lend itself to helping them out. If you're talking truth social? Then yeah, maybe it's 80% real people.

MAGAs see that reading the Communist Manifesto is a requirement for entry and simply don't bother. They have X, Truth Social, Reddit, etc. to party on, and they're fine with the downsides of those platforms, i.e. supporting oligarchy/technocracy.

It's not that they "get their asses handed to them," they're just not here.

Compare your perception of reality with election results. Even if Trump cheated like he probably did, I doubt it was bigger than single digit percentages.

TL;DR: You simply don't witness enough MAGAs and you naturally assume they must not exist.

When the rich wage war it's the poor who die.

God, it always feels so weird to see people lying to themselves to have a circle-jerk about something they dislike.

"it ain't me, it ain't me. I'm no senator's son"

Imagine if we could all agree, every side of every conflict, that all the soldiers just turn around and point the guns at the people telling them to kill.

I don't think my kids are terrorist pedophile bootlickers

"Why don't princes fight in the wars? Why do they always send the poor?"

It has been the rich versus EVERYONE ELSE since time immemorial…. Even the fucking Pharaos back in Egypt

The vast majority join for the absolutely insane benefits that come along with service.

Many of them also join because it is basically their only/best option.

Unfortunately yes, and in some cases a whole people of a place send themselves to serve in exchange for those benefits, like American Samoans to recruiting stations as much as Nepalese to sign up hoping to become Gurkhas.

Yes but everybody will say to them "thank you for your service". Fucking killers for hire.

Saving this for later. So many fucking boot lickers loooove our country but will never have to worry about being drafted to fight ANOTHER pointless fucking war

No but they might be drafted in the pedophile autocrats decide so.

When will NATO do regime change for the U.S.

Help us please.

While in israel there's a draft, in the US it's voluntary.
Nitpicking but still an interesting distinction.

Me not having kids and ending my family line with me:

In a country with no universal healthcare it's a way to get free/cheap healthcare as well as other perks... until you get deployed, then that excuse no longer flies.

Soon enough they'll require military service to vote.

For example, GI Joe.

50% of Hollywood's content?

Starship Troopers vibes.

I don't know if that will be true for much longer. I think people's attitudes on american military worship might be beginning to change, starting yesterday. I'm already seeing a boatload of it.

It's a joke, Joyce.

Please change kids to sons.

Jokes are supposed to be funny.

Reddit hasn't been majority nerd for at least a decade now.

Lemmy, on the other hand...

In other words, people in glass houses probably shouldn't throw stones at people in brick houses.

Found the Redditor! I seem to have struck a nerve. Get off your high horse and go have a wank, mate. It might make you a bit less uptight.

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others, especially if the target is objectively higher up on the matter in question.

You can guffaw at your own assumptions about me based on who's defended by me telling you off for being dumb if you want. Doesn't really affect me and it appears to make your day better. At least that way you never have to work on self-improvement!

Spicy

¡caliente!

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others

Speaking of making assumptions...

defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb

You're not my mum!

All this over a silly off the cuff comment. Go find something better to do.

Doesn't really affect me

Haha. Sure.

I just have a thing for people who look down their nose at others

Speaking of making assumptions…

How is that an assumption? You were looking down on Redditors for having less sex than Lemmings, were you not? Or was that a different /u/Almacca?

defended [sic] by me telling you off for being dumb

Are you asserting I made a grammatical error? By all means, point it out. Don't be coy.

Haha [sic]. Sure [sic].

I mean, we're equally affected if you want to play that game. You've replied to every one of my comments.

Honestly I don't know why I didn't block you sooner. It's clear you take pleasure in shitting on and getting a rise out of people. Bye, Felicia!

Lol. What a fuckwit.

Yup making you sign up for it makes it automatic. They just have to call you up, which they haven't done in quite some time, but that's not much of a guarantee or comfort.