• juicy@lemmy.today
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    1 month ago

    And lots of people join, get messed up, and then are denied proper healthcare by the underfunded VA system.

    But even if the military was great for the people enlisting, it wouldn’t change the fact that they are joining one of the most rapacious, lawless, and brutal militaries in the world.

    In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. [wikipedia]

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      1 month ago

      I certainly wouldn’t say the US military is “one of the most rapacious, lawless, and brutal militaries in the world.” Never underestimate Russia, China, and North Korea. Then there’s the guys in Africa who create child soldiers. Look I know the USM could do better, but that statement is just begging a parade of the world’s uglies.