• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    How bizarre, considering immigrants are famously more likely to fight FOR our country and not against it. Why do conservatives hate our military servicemen and women?

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      10 months ago

      Because being in the military shows you how much dumb bullshit you have to inject into day-to-day life for free1 housing, food and medical care (not to mention the clothing reimbursement every couple years or however that works now) to be unappealing.

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      Government-provided, taxpayer-funded but free to consumer at the time the benefit is received. You know what I mean.

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        10 months ago

        The bureaucracy of the military is not at all representative of what would be necessary to ensure people’s basic needs are met.