Have you ever been in an armed conflict?
No, but I serve in the Armed Forces. I was just never deployed before releasing.
Have you? I feel like you're speaking as someone who've never spent one second serving your country.
Because I have and I suspect that you have no idea what it is you’re demanding people do
Being a space cadet isn't service your country. I'm demanding a country that masturbates over having guns, that watches children get gunned down in classrooms and their fellow citizens executed on the streets to stand up against a totalitarian regime that is actively trying to take away your way of life.
I also suspect that you would not be willing to do that were you in our shoes.
If my country ever succumbed to what America has, you better believe me and my fellow citizens would defend what is right. But I don't live somewhere where armed police are abducting citizens and our government is killing people in our own streets. But if it were you better believe if I'm going to die I'm taking at least someone with me.
Militarizing the police was never put up to a vote here either.
I know the American education system is bad, but come on, this is low hanging fruit...
An analysis of budgets for more than 100 law enforcement agencies across the country uncovered the opposite. Ninety percent of cities and counties increased spending for police between the fiscal years 2018-19 and 2021-22. None of the North Carolina cities the team analyzed reported an increase in law enforcement budgets. https://abc11.com/post/defund-the-police-budgets-crime-safety/12324529/
Yet, the city’s police department budget for 2021 is 10 times greater than the Houston Health Department’s budget, with the police allotted nearly $1 billion and the health department $100 million. https://abc11.com/post/defund-the-police-budgets-crime-safety/12324529/
Missouri voters once again approved a ballot measure that requires Kansas City to increase its minimum police funding – but by a much narrower margin than in 2022. https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2024-08-06/missouri-amendment-4-results-election-2024-kansas-city-police
Police budgets are set year by year. And the people who decide these budgets are elected officials. If money is not spend on the service, it doesn't roll over. So all that money needs to get spent, so they generally purchase military surplus supplies. They'll buy things like APCs, military grade weapons, munitions, hire more and more officers for a smaller and smaller population... These are real things that exist in America. And the people making these decisions are voted on my the community.
I was willing to die for my country. Fortunately for myself and a lot of others, we never needed to since my country doesn't go to war over a sneeze. But I certainly did serve it, and I am still more than willing to die for protecting it, both foreign and domestic.
Are you? Because it certainly seems like you and the majority of your fellow countrymen are a bunch of gun toting, nationalistic pussies.