• callyral [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Why does reading this wrong sound so poetic but so nonsensical?

    If you can’t stand

    Feel free to stand

    Behind our troops

    In front of my Ram

  • auzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 days ago

    I think people forget that conscription ended years ago, and military personnel do get paid.

    At least here in Australia, not one person I know joined to “serve their country”. It was literally for lots of other reasons

    They get paid well. They’re doing a job and people should respect everyone equally, including waiters or even people working in stores

    • KrankyKong@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Most people in the military feel the same. Everyone I knew when I was in hated being thanked for their service. Most didn’t join to serve their country, they joined for the benefits that come with it.

  • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    “If you use a wheelchair, then protect yourself by using a pair of crutches behind the soldiers I’m about to mow down.”

  • TallonMetroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    49·
    8 days ago

    I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this person has never once done anything that would actually help service members or veterans.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      141·
      8 days ago

      That’s because “Support our troops” has never been about supporting the actual humans in the military–it’s always been about supporting the wars those troops are fed into and the administrations that wage them.

      To be generous, some of it might also come from memories of shitty treatment of returning soldiers in the Vietnam era. But for all of my adult life, it has just been a rebuttal to people expressing anti-war sentiment. The exact same way that “Back the Blue” is a rebuttal to people protesting police violence.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    251·
    8 days ago

    I have personally helped two veterans out of a downward spiral. One I helped from homelessness all the way to being the foreman to a crew of dedicated home remodelers (he made $60k+ per year). I bailed them out, multiple times, and paid their legal costs because our system of “justice” is abusive and designed to prey on the poor. I NEVER thank a service member for their service and I never do any symbolic theatre like the dipshit on the photo who I guarantee you has never done a thing to help a vet in his life. People that really want to help, just do it. People like that asshole just talk and pretend.

    PS: After years of drug abuse, the vet I helped got clean and got his life together (the foreman), because life is a sadistic fucker, got diagnosed with chronic heart disease. It was because of his past drug abuse (meth). His heart slowly failed, so he had time to ponder and he knew it was coming. Please don’t judge me too harshly but I’ve never been able to help anyone else like that since. That just sucked too much. Rest in peace Tyler. You deserved better.

    • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      Thanks for helping when you could. (Not that you need the thanks). A lot of time the people that need help don’t get it because they don’t know how to ask. I know veterans like to keep quiet about shit, so that must have been tough for you to get him on the right track.

      His body might not have been able to recover for a longer life, but you helped him end his life on a more positive note. Addiction is rough and we all make dumb mistakes, but not everyone can get back on track. Any of his friends/family that talked to him after he got clean have more loving memories of him because of your help. That’s a good thing, but I understand the toll it takes on you as the helper.

      You rock! 🪨

  • FMT99@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    8 days ago

    Jesus Christ I’m so tired of having to take these absolute morons seriously. In their tiny pea brain they think they’re making a brilliant point here. “I are good guy, you am bad guy” Maybe democracy really is a mistake.

    • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      8 days ago

      You cannot have proper democracy without proper information channels, so do not disqualify democracy for something it hasn’t done.

    • Seleni@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      8 days ago

      The biggest argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

    • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      8 days ago

      plato knew that the majority of people are too fucking stupid to govern themselves thousands of years ago

  • Aa!@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    8 days ago

    Behind our troops

    In front of my Ram

    Is he planning to run down our troops?

  • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    8 days ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever met a single person who has something against any military personnel for being military personnel. Just the war machine they’re a part of. We ain’t in post Vietnam anymore

    • Droggelbecher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Im not in the US but I’ve heard many people argue that joining the military (beyond mandatory service) makes you right wing. My country’s military doesn’t even leave the country.