• Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Somewhat ironic that the draft dodges military policies, is causing people to not want to be in the military anymore.

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldBanned from communityEnglish
    56·
    9 hours ago

    Why can’t they just go back to bombing weddings in far away countries so people will thank them for their service again.
    The libs would be happy again

      • P00ptart@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        His dominatrix: “fuck yeah they will!”

        Edit: came up with better joke quick enough to edit.

        Edit: edit: I see that yours was 13 hrs old already, so I guess I wasn’t exactly in a rush.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    212·
    2 days ago

    So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
      381·
      2 days ago

      a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

      b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

      c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial marshall force, and that’s a good thing for us.

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          17·
          2 days ago

          American boots are literally coming down on people’s necks and you simple minded fools still have to chime in with “BuT cHiNa BaD”

          • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            The future post-balkanized nation’s Poland balls, covered in blood and wounds “Who’s next, we’re taking all comers for the old debt, and we’ll fight you for your share if you want to try”

          • Woht24@lemmy.worldEnglish
            41·
            15 hours ago

            Kinda wild I can’t see what? Your opinion?

            For starters, it’s an Archer quote. Secondly I don’t live in America and never have. I would still gladly choose America over China any day of the week however.

            • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              11·
              10 hours ago

              I don’t watch archer, so to me it’s just a mean thing to say about China.

              It’s kinda wild that you can’t see that America has become the embodiment of everything you dislike about China.

              • Woht24@lemmy.worldEnglish
                3·
                8 hours ago

                It’s kinda wild you keep saying things are kinda wild.

                It’s also kinda wild how you can’t accept people may have other opinions.

                I can absolutely see America is doing some of the things China does, still better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

                • null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  1·
                  1 hour ago

                  I just re-stated the original “it’s kinda wild” statement which you had misrepresented as some kind of opinion.

                  Of course i understand people have opinions, but I’m entitled to think people are idiots for having ingredients stupid opinions.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    2 days ago

    Sometimes when you feel a way it’s because things are that way.

    For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

  • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

    (Yes I can infer what it’s about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for…)

    • Nikko882@lemmy.world
      English
      16·
      2 days ago

      Non-American as well, but I believe GI means “General Infantry”, but in use GI means “Army Man/Soldier” so it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
        191·
        2 days ago

        it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

        This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

        It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

        During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

        The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    268·
    2 days ago

    Sadly this will leave the ranks filled with sycophants, so we’ll be worse off