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[–] 120 points 1 year ago* (56 children)

The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

The funniest example is 24M$ the national guard spent in 2012 on recruiting at nascar. This generated 24,800 prospective recruits. ~$1000 per interested recruit. Not bad. Of those, 20 were eligible to join. 99.92% unfit for service. Of those 20, all declined to join. There's no evidence that the 88M$ spent on nascar between 2011-2013 generated a single recruit.

This is part of why the exclusion of trans folks, women and others from the military is such an own goal for the fascists. Any potential recruiting pool that's closed hastens the decline of our imperial supremacy.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (43 children)

    So true! Are you currently getting help from a mental health professional?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    You want someone to argue with you about transphobia being wrong?

    r/conservative and maga.place would be the place for you. Not here.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Keep it coming. Ban coming soon.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Transphobes aren't welcome in non-fascist spaces

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    tRaNs PeOpLe ArE mEnTalLlY iLl.

    Cool bigotry though.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If you're a bot, self-destruct.

    If you're MAGA go fuck your sister wife.

    If you're a Russian troll, go become fertilizer.

    And if you're a surprise other option, go roll in piss.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    What argument, I'm agreeing with you.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (27 children)

    So how does that make you feel?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (25 children)

    Modern left is 1980's right wing, Overton window shifted and defenestrated true left

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    And the right has been nazis for a long time too.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    You sure make a lot of leftist points for a fascist. Glad to know we agree on your nazism

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  • [–] -3 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Right, so for literally no reason but disagreeing with you, I’m a “Nazi Fascist”.

    What should happen poeple you deem to be Nazi Fascists?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Nazi fascists are people who support fascist Nazis. You're here slobbering all over Trump knob. Pretty straightforward. This "disagree" line Republicans are spouting now is hilarious. Yes, technically I disagree with your desires to torture and kill minority groups, but that word is a huge fucking understatement. We know you're only using it to downplay your evils, you can give it up now.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    “Your desires”

    That’s a lot of projection based off of literally nothing.

    So what should happen to these “Fascist Nazi’s”?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    State your opinion on Democrats and Republicans, and don't lie.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    “Don’t lie”

    Buddy, my sheer existence has you calling me a Nazi Fascist Russian. It’s the hat trick and you’re still wigging out, following me around on this thread and slinging wild ass insults based off of nothing.

    And both parties suck, that’s easy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ah, so you've confirmed my assumptions. You don't see the difference. The explanations there are always one of these two: too stupid to see the difference in cartoon evil and basically regular human shit; or intentionally erasing the difference in order to cover for Repuglicans. Gonna go option two.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Much of the working class regularly votes against their own self interest by voting for face eating leopards. Well at least they owned the libs, so they have that going for them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Problem is they, like many others, are tricked into fighting about culture issues. The robber barons have returned while we fight amongst ourselves.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The problem is people don't read articles bigots post in comment threads? lol You make it impossible for yourself. You shouldn't be surprised people aren't interested in reading your recommendations when you openly spew hate. Trans people aren't hurting anyone by wanting to be their authentic selves, they aren't a problem. Bigotry is a problem, it hurts people while distracting from the robber barons exploiting the working class and the environment.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Nope, the problem is that you guys lost to a dumbass like Trump, twice, and learned nothing.

    All while actively chasing away the working class, which is pretty wild for a leftwing ideology.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That "Elitist Left" line really is some world-class propaganda. Kudos, right-guy, your teams propaganda is the best. It doesn't seem to be possible to construct a sound-byte-level counter to it. It takes at least a paragraph to deconstruct the argument. But a paragraph deconstructing an argument is exactly what an elitist would do. It plays right into the narrative. Even the fact that I think a sound-byte is needed only helps the narrative. It's really spectacularly good propaganda.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you have credentials and research data to back your opinion?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    20 years active duty military and 5 combat deployments in the Infantry. Good enough?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Gonna be hard to convince anyone you're not lying with your attitude ITT

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They should be banned from Lemmy. Luckily, they typically are.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    We'll find out. I've reported your transphobic comments and they got removed. Only a matter of time before you're banned. There is a reason every comment you make is downvoted by everyone who reads it, fascists are not welcome here. You won't last long. In the meantime I won't have to read your bigoted angry accusations because your ass is getting blocked.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    Also if there was a draft they'd have to put me in jail or I'd leg it to canada. This has come up in conversation before and people are like "Erm nuh uh you'd totally go" like no bro you'll actually die to an IED in something-istan.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

    The largest standing military (outside of an active war) in the world has a recruiting crisis?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, the military is overextended and “undermanned” in critical areas. I know for certain we are short about 2000 pilots and 3500 air traffic controllers in the USAF, but every branch and complex job is hurting for qualified people.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    hurting for qualified people.

    I'm sure having a completely unqualified commander in chief and secretary of defense will totally help recruiting...

     

    /s, if it wasn't obvious

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    This was actually the first time in about 8 years they made recruiting goals. The only issue is they had an abundance for the lower end jobs and much less for the higher intelect enlisted jobs. I think the one exception is the Marines, they usually make their metrics.

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