• ThePowerOfGeek
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    704 months ago

    Hesgeth to the Marines: “The beatings will continue until morale improves! hic

      • haui
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        -254 months ago

        Yeah they should just *ill the protesters more humanely /s

        • Obinice
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          154 months ago

          Why are you censoring the word kill? Are you a child?

          We can use big boy words on the internet, this isn’t the classroom.

          • haui
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            -104 months ago

            No need to be this consescending.

  • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    194 months ago

    So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

    • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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      a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

      b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

      c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial marshall force, and that’s a good thing for us.

        • @Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net
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          American boots are literally coming down on people’s necks and you simple minded fools still have to chime in with “BuT cHiNa BaD”

          • @Woht24@lemmy.world
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            24 months ago

            Kinda wild I can’t see what? Your opinion?

            For starters, it’s an Archer quote. Secondly I don’t live in America and never have. I would still gladly choose America over China any day of the week however.

            • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              14 months ago

              I don’t watch archer, so to me it’s just a mean thing to say about China.

              It’s kinda wild that you can’t see that America has become the embodiment of everything you dislike about China.

              • @Woht24@lemmy.world
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                34 months ago

                It’s kinda wild you keep saying things are kinda wild.

                It’s also kinda wild how you can’t accept people may have other opinions.

                I can absolutely see America is doing some of the things China does, still better to go with the devil you know than the devil you don’t.

                • @null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                  14 months ago

                  I just re-stated the original “it’s kinda wild” statement which you had misrepresented as some kind of opinion.

                  Of course i understand people have opinions, but I’m entitled to think people are idiots for having ingredients stupid opinions.

  • @Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    164 months ago

    Sometimes when you feel a way it’s because things are that way.

    For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

  • @thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz
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    134 months ago

    Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

    (Yes I can infer what it’s about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for…)

    • @Nikko882@lemmy.world
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      174 months ago

      Non-American as well, but I believe GI means “General Infantry”, but in use GI means “Army Man/Soldier” so it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

      • @gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
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        it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

        This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

        It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

        During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

        The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

    • Tomassci
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      24 months ago

      I deman my right to a correct bowel movement!

    • Echo Dot
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      24 months ago

      A man who’s caught a big fish wouldn’t lie about such a thing.

  • Echo Dot
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    54 months ago

    Somewhat ironic that the draft dodges military policies, is causing people to not want to be in the military anymore.