If you were to ask for the personification of “The beatings will continue until morale improves” I’m not sure you could do much better than Pete’s dumbass face.

Send ICE to the Middle East. Their budget is big enough.

Have you considered the people doing this are fucking idiots?

Is morale lethality? No? Then it can go get fucked with logistics and strategy. Fucking nerd.

Sure it is. Gotta let the troops know what they're fighting for.

I have seen many posts on X (Twitter) like this one, and after reading the comments, I can confirm that the latter is true. It truly seems to me that conservatives are incapable of empathy.

conservatives aren't hearing stories like this very much, they certainly don't read the guardian

they have an alternate algorithm. when news like this come up, they perceive it as negative and it impacts whatever engagement they have. Similar to how we start to tune out of stuff that make us upset.

They went all in on and are double downing on "fake news" because they identify with their leader all too well.

edit: the jubilee videos are a good example of how they'll rush to debate a "lib", but they all can't agree with each other's facts its insane.

Cognitive dissonance isn’t a skill, it’s a bias. Generally the way it goes is that the worse things get, the tighter people hold on to their existing belief.

Think about it like this: people living in a prehistoric village are suffering from a famine. Under a lot of stress, people start arguing with each other about what the group should be doing. One person is suffering from cognitive dissonance because they believe the group has the wrong idea. Now, should that person abandon the group and go off on their own? Or should they stick it out and just try to survive?

Evolution favours sticking with the group. Hence cognitive dissonance resolves into status quo bias. Now you might say we’re no longer in that sort of situation. That doesn’t matter actually, because our brains are basically the same as they were 10,000 years ago! We have all the same biases, it’s our environment that has changed so much.

So why is it different for you or me? Simple. We’re part of different groups than they are.

Conservative don't go to platforms that have these kinds of stories.

It's an echo chamber remember?

doubtful they dont arnt fed these stories on places like FOX, conservative radio, or right wing media. its to keep these people ignorant.

They never hear about it. And if they do, they assume she did something to antagonize ice and it was his fault for not "controlling his woman".

And all the heroic men and women in The God Blessed United States Military will just talk about how this troubles them but they serve the flag, not the rapist giving them orders and that if people don't start properly respecting them then they don't see a reason to care.

1st the Latinos came for our jobs, now they have come for our soldiers!

Nope. Never going to be a bad enough dude to fuck the Mango Mussolini.

Save your wife and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

It's like training Batman and then constantly trying to piss him off by attacking his city and family.

"Total institutionalization."

the gop has pretty much are the abusers, and gaslights the veterans, and convince them that being using as cannon fodder is good. plus all the dinos that support this,

I understand the confusion, but this is an Army sergeant, not a Marine.

interesting if they marry citizens, how come they dont try to get the process rolling to become a permanent resident or a citizen? are they just weighing thier options?

I follow the news and even I am always a little shocked by this. A few years ago they would have helped her and then touted it as an example of how well we treat our military.

They think that because they voted for trump they're exempt from the consequences they've forced on others.

No? He turned 18 years old and enlisted 5.5 years ago, has now served over 5 years.

You can join the Army at 17 with parental consent. You can even go to boot camp between your junior and senior year then finish you senior year and go on to your job training.