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Trans Master Sgt describes being told she’s the “wrong kind of American” after 20 years of service
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Fuck anyone who shits on someone who served their country for 20 years. I'm not simping for the military, but public service is still something to be respected IMO.
Depends on their MOS and what they actually did in the military. Somebody who sits at a desk for 20 years isn't the same as somebody serving in combat arms.
Winning over the common soldier is an effective an important strategy in war.
Because, as reality would show, the moment people stop giving two craps about you is when you wake up with a primed grenade in your bunk and a pre-written report of your 'valiant death in the line of duty.'
Or if we're going old school, 27 stab wounds from the enemy, despite being kilometers away from the front.
Lol I don't disagree but it's funny to see the votes on Lemmy. Just yesterday someone was getting upvoted for generalising all SAS veterans because of 1 they met + 2 which made the news. But now we're talking about a trans woman so suddenly people agree we need to respect people who served
You are simping. What about wasting your taxes to commit war crimes to make the rich richer and keep them in power is serving the public?
If that's the approach you're going to take. You are aware that the US has a lot of its economy and position to thank of their global projection of power. The current above global average standards of living in the US is not possible without this mass exploitation of the world.
Which thanks to the orange baboon is falling apart, good luck amigos.
The economy and relative wealth being based on a lot of gunboat politics might be seen as part of the problem by those who can ask "are we the baddies." No one needs hundreds of bases all around the world for defense.
what "service" is she providing, other than murdering innocent people in the middle east to make your oil cheaper?
-20 votes... 0 reply. don't expect a rational argument here. The US military has been the world's biggest polluter entity and biggest contributer to death to humankind in the last century .
Seriously what service or what war was it? She defended her country from vietnam? From Afganistan? Iraq? Iran? Lybia? Syria? Bosnia? Sudan? Yemen? Somalia? Helped stealing Venzula's oil because they were not on israel side? Helped suffocating and embargoing Cuba with your service? You helped genociding starved enslaved besiged people in Gaza? Helped US imperlism and control of Asia and loot hosting country's resources? Helped toppling democrasies and installed Cuba's Batista, Iran's Shah, Philipine's Marcos, Eygpt's Sisi, and tens of nations throughout history that refused to enrich your warlord masters who own weapon manufactorers and oil companies? Helped install puppet pro-israel zionist governments in South America and Middleast? Worked in bases of US-ally dictatorships that kill their protestors with US weapons in the middleast and Africa?
I thank you for your service where or when? You never defended your country from a foreign invasion. You worked for death and launching metals into people's bodies all while polluting environment and destroying the planet, and helping episten-class get rich from wars.
You know they are about to draw their last anti-trans card now.. antisemitism maybe. Here comes my ban. But they will never reply to your question because they can not.
Do you think she was motivated by bloodlust for the innocent and cheap oil, or by a sense of duty?
Can you commend responding to a sense of duty at the same time as criticising what it achieved? I can.
Fucking, lol. Yeah, the recruiters are definitely looking for people with that.
Look, I understand and share your cynicism about the US military given all it has done. I don't think, though, that it's too much to ask that people understand that there can be different, positive attributes shown by its members.
I guess folks aren’t allowed to emotionally grow. What a twisted mindset to to push.
Extremist thinkers cannot accept subtlety of thought.