• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Tired of all these unfuckable troops in my military. I demand everyone have an ass I can bounce a quarter off of.

    #No-Homo

    • Shay20@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      You mean civilian leadership vs military leadership?

      FDR won WWII from a wheelchair, your comment makes no sense.

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        5 months ago

        Sorry, what’s the purported correlation between FDR’s paralysis and Trump’s general unhealthiness?

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            5 months ago

            Well, they obviously do need to be fit for the job, hence Trump’s mental decline being even more concerning than his original mental state. Given the lack of fit Americans interested in enlistment you might also think a bit of leading by example couldn’t hurt. And of course, I’d hate to be a National Guard member in an administrative role sent home for optics when I didn’t need to be physically fit to perform my job.

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    5 months ago

    The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

    The funniest example is 24M$ the national guard spent in 2012 on recruiting at nascar. This generated 24,800 prospective recruits. ~$1000 per interested recruit. Not bad. Of those, 20 were eligible to join. 99.92% unfit for service. Of those 20, all declined to join. There’s no evidence that the 88M$ spent on nascar between 2011-2013 generated a single recruit.

    This is part of why the exclusion of trans folks, women and others from the military is such an own goal for the fascists. Any potential recruiting pool that’s closed hastens the decline of our imperial supremacy.

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      5 months ago

      is such an own goal for the fascists

      I’m reminded of the bit from ur-fascism about how they are incapable of evaluating the world.

      They are stupid people living in an emotional fantasy.

    • Aeri@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Also if there was a draft they’d have to put me in jail or I’d leg it to canada. This has come up in conversation before and people are like “Erm nuh uh you’d totally go” like no bro you’ll actually die to an IED in something-istan.

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      5 months ago

      The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

      The largest standing military (outside of an active war) in the world has a recruiting crisis?

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    5 months ago

    I honestly hope Nazis continue to fuck with military personnel. These are volunteers trained to shoot a rifle and they’re supposedly willing to kill or be killed to defend our freedoms.

    For the love of god please open up multiple fronts in the war on America.

  • rosco385@lemmy.wtf
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    5 months ago

    Rude of Pete to expect soldiers to stay lean without the ozempic and cocaine he uses to stay trim.