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- trump_watch@lemmy.world
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- trump_watch@lemmy.world
Donald Trump was unhappy with his sparsely attended military parade over the weekend and blamed it on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, biographer Michael Wolff revealed.
Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast that Trump wanted a “menacing” show of force to celebrate the Army’s 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday on Saturday—but got a “festive” parade instead.
“He’s p—ed off at the soldiers,” Wolff said. “He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face.”
I’m not attacking people that join. I’m critizing people that have joined, served, and still advocate for it because it “pays for college”. Like, serving a military that causes the deaths countless innocents and disrupts the stability of entire nations is somehow ok because of that?
No. I respect those that served, learned, and advocate against it wholeheartedly.
You are seriously underestimating cyclical poverty. It’s not just about “paying for college”. There are a lot of places in this country where you’ll struggle your whole life and will then statistically die much younger than your better off peers.
We as a society have generally failed to provide solutions to this kind of poverty. For many the military is the only choice. For many it’s not even about college, it’s about having a meal tomorrow.
You speak as someone that’s never expirenced the worst of poverty.
I can agree it’s not the best solution, but people will take it because our society offers little else. I won’t critize them for taking it.
We should focus on the systematic issues that lead to this type of poverty and maybe adress all the other problems surrounding the military industrial complex before we critize poor kids
I guess the only people in poverty are in the west. I guess all the people in the poorest countries in the world are ok with getting bombed for decades so we can have a jobs program.
We can have a jobs program without bombing poor and impoverished countries mate.
The irony of saying I’m disconnected from poverty. I’m literally advocating to stop murdering the poorest countries and people on our planet.
It’s amazing how you get so close to the issue and then push the blame down to the impoverished.
The reason not to address poverty is to make people desperate so they then join the military. Therefore they are now volunteers and “chose” this path. So “we” don’t have to feel bad for them, instead the American people are generally thankful for their service or in your case angry with them. This is all intentional. Their deaths now becomes acceptable.
If the US government addressed cyclical poverty they would lose military recruitment. Then they could turn to conscription, but that would make their conflicts less tolerable to the general public.
So they dont address these issues. It’s intentional, and by pushing blame down instead if up where it belongs you’re just playing into their plan
Do you have reading comprehension problems? I don’t disagree with that. I put the blame on the ruling class of our country. That’s literally what my original comment was explaining. Doesn’t mean I’m not going to point out the class traitors along the way. Police and military are welcome when they step down from their positions of violence on the working class of this world. Until then. They actively work to hurt the most impoverished people in the world and I will always call them out for it.
The vast vast majority of poor people in this world do not make a conscious decision to hurt others even if it would benefit them. But you seem to be focused on defending the police and military of the US that actively cause harm to those in poverty.
You’re advocating for the continuing of the very systems of violence that keep people in poverty in the first place.