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2021 Republican Coup (Practice Run)

I think that, aside from death, the worst part of being in the Military is the greater than 50% chance your wife is banging a bunch of dudes back at the house you pay the mortgage on.
 
i mean ... the meme is bad

there's an enormous cultural superstructure supporting a soldier's complete investment in the military persona -- the meme ignores that to lay the blame on individual soldiers -- tough to think of what you do as just a job when there are military discounts at most places and people salute you at sporting events and you get to board a plane first and and and and

attack the structure, not the individual
 
Resilient Deac said:
I think that, aside from death, the worst part of being in the Military is the greater than 50% chance your wife is banging a bunch of dudes back at the house you pay the mortgage on.
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The number of guys in my brother’s unit that came back to empty house and empty bank accounts was staggering. All their pay they earned while in Afghanistan gone.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
neither have the overwhelming majority of the people in the military
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And you don't have to have either to be psychologically impacted for life.

The fact that you are a keyboard warrior doesn't really give you any special insight here, sorry.
 
I mean sure it can and should be part of your identity, doesn't mean you should continue to dress the part and, in some cases, act out things you did during your days in the service
 
WakeBored said:
And you don't have to have either to be psychologically impacted for life.

The fact that you are a keyboard warrior doesn't really give you any special insight here, sorry.
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fortunately for us and our limited hero worshiping time only cops, firefighters and "veterans" have life experiences that impart psychological impacts for life
 
DeaconCav06 said:
The number of guys in my brother’s unit that came back to empty house and empty bank accounts was staggering. All their pay they earned while in Afghanistan gone.
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Oof...That's brutal. I couldn't imagine how pissed off I'd be and how I would react. But it would be ugly.
 
WakeBored said:
And you don't have to have either to be psychologically impacted for life.

The fact that you are a keyboard warrior doesn't really give you any special insight here, sorry.
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i love the idea that my cousin-in law served 4 years in japan and now works on a forklift in a depot a few miles away and drives around like he's GI Joe. On the other side, my MIL worked for the state handling child abuse cases for 30 years, interviewing kids and visiting the shitholes they lived in and no one gives a shit.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
Being proud of your military service is not a substitute for personality or identity. The American cultural hyper-reverence for military service is as a political propaganda tool.
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Did you know that our military was irreparably ruined during the Obama years and trump came in an fixed it overnight? A truly remarkable accomplishment!
 
Resilient Deac said:
I think that, aside from death, the worst part of being in the Military is the greater than 50% chance your wife is banging a bunch of dudes back at the house you pay the mortgage on.
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Her superhero origin story. I dig it.
 
TenaciousKory said:
i mean ... the meme is bad

there's an enormous cultural superstructure supporting a soldier's complete investment in the military persona -- the meme ignores that to lay the blame on individual soldiers -- tough to think of what you do as just a job when there are military discounts at most places and people salute you at sporting events and you get to board a plane first and and and and

attack the structure, not the individual
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Military discounts? The cultural impact is to ignore how shitty the rank and file soldiers are treated. Crowdsourcing back home for tennis shoes to wear off duty in a war zone. Family buying your own protective equipment. Poor pay. Poor support after endless deployments (think mental health care etc). Knowing your young family is home and going to food banks.
Not hard to understand how people in that situation become radicalized. Fostering an us against them "brotherhood" through shared experiences.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
The number of guys in my brother’s unit that came back to empty house and empty bank accounts was staggering. All their pay they earned while in Afghanistan gone.
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this was true going back to when i was in the military in the 90s. it's a sad thing but people get lonely and men in the military (from my experience) just don't care if they are married. as long as the husband is away it is fair game.

honestly, military bases and the surrounding is a rather morally dejected area. mostly strip clubs, liquor stores and bars.
 
DeaconCav06 said:
I’ve never had any jobs where I watched my friends get killed or that caused life changing physical damage.
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Speak for yourself. Those Tuesday morning USF sociology department meetings from 10:15am - 10:30am discussing the latest memes posted by Ph's friends on Facebook are real blood baths.
 
deaconson said:
Military discounts? The cultural impact is to ignore how shitty the rank and file soldiers are treated. Crowdsourcing back home for tennis shoes to wear off duty in a war zone. Family buying your own protective equipment. Poor pay. Poor support after endless deployments (think mental health care etc). Knowing your young family is home and going to food banks.
Not hard to understand how people in that situation become radicalized. Fostering an us against them "brotherhood" through shared experiences.
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I don't disagree. I guess I was listing the lighter parts of the superstructure. All that stuff is what the meme ignores to browbeat soldiers who hyper-invest in a military identity instead of considering how the structure incentivizes this behavior through both reward and suffering.
 
TenaciousKory said:
I don't disagree. I guess I was listing the lighter parts of the superstructure. All that stuff is what the meme ignores to browbeat soldiers who hyper-invest in a military identity instead of considering how the structure incentivizes this behavior through both reward and suffering.
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yeah, usually memes are really good at nuance
 
ImTheCaptain said:
yeah, usually memes are really good at nuance
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no shit. nobody presented the nuance. looked like several posters were actually using the lack of nuance as a jumping off point to bypass the structure and go after specific people like the meme intended lol.
 
Ex-Houston police officer claimed he only breached the Capitol during riots to see ‘historical art’

When federal agents asked Houston police Officer Tam Dinh Pham why he was in Washington during the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, he said he had traveled there on business and then attended the president’s rally on a whim. But most importantly, Pham told the agents, he did not go inside the Capitol during the attempted insurrection.

That’s when an FBI agent showed him his own deleted images and videos from inside the Rotunda on Jan. 6, according to court documents.

Faced with the photo evidence, Pham then allegedly admitted to climbing over torn-down fences to get inside. But still, he insisted his reasons were benign: He just wanted the rare opportunity to view “historical art,” investigators said.
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