spoiler: his take gets worse
this is kinda like the all soldiers are bastards struggle sesh we used to have
They were working like 10-20 hours a week right?
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Drag him for being a Marine too.
Ugh the Ana thing: no, it isnt ableism to be mad at someone who:
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Claims a position of moral superiority and works at Lockheed Martin
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Claimed to live entirely off of patron and donations from poor trans disabled folks while literally working at Lockheed Martin and owning a 400k home
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took part in justifying the harassment of Isabel Fall.. perhaps because her story was about the weaponization of queer identity by the military industrial complex
That people are comparing this to like... unreasonably canceling any other trans person kinda sickens me. There is a difference between being fucked up and doing fucked up shit (or not actually, just people making shit up about you) and being a collaborator in weapons manufacturing
There is always a choice.
New incredibly annoying asinine take we're never gonna hear the end of just dropped
You can literally work store security, also not ideal, but still better than a weapons manufacturer.
I'm curious as to what skills would get you hired at Lockheed which couldn't get you a job anywhere else
There isn't, but the idea that they have to become cops or work for a military contractor when they get out is drilled into troops' heads while they're in so it doesn't come from nowhere.
Familiarity with one of their systems or airframes. Knowing how the avionics systems on an F-16 is sort of transferrable to civilian aviation, but not really because of all the specialized systems involved that you wouldn't find on, say, a 747. On the other hand, having that knowledge when you're going to do field work as an electrical engineer doing shit like overseeing block upgrades means there's a lot of training that they don't have to put you through, especially if you have a secret or top secret clearance that hasn't lapsed. The clearance alone is worth a million or so USD to one of these companies.
If you're a troop (or ex-troop) who hasn't had that come-to-Jesus "are we the baddies?" moment yet, it's pretty damned tempting just by virtue of inertia. Keep in mind that American troops aren't exactly renowned for seeing the big picture or the consequences of their actions, especially in non-combat roles.
Once I was offered a job out of college at a defense contractor. I did not take it because guess what I'm not a ghoul. Even then when I was 99% lib I was like nah don't wanna make weapons seems gross.
Why work for a defense contractor when you can be just as evil and get paid more working in finance or tech?
I'll have you know I turned down big money at the defense contractor. They offered me $.76 more than the job I took instead.
private sector companies won't even look at you
Dumbass you submitted a resume that consisted of "They made me a killing machine" misspelled and in crayon.
Also this is demonstrably untrue, lots of companies like hiring vets.
he might have applied a few places and got blanked but that's just what applying for jobs is like
Lol like he's applying on easy mode which means that instead of hearing silence for 100 applications and then getting an interview, you hear nothing from your first 10 and then get the job from a "vet-friendly" company. I guess it's difficult to see that if you only apply to 3-5 places though lol
Our mighty troops must be made car dealership owners immediately after bootcamp!
And sell the overpriced Camaros and mustangs to the new recruits, so the cycle can continue
Dodge Challengers are hot right now.
Every manager I've worked for thinks being in the military means you're the best employee ever, lol.
It kinda is because it implies you're either desperate or stupid.
accustomed to following orders
Then he ate the crayons
this is kinda like the all soldiers are bastards struggle sesh we used to have
Struggle sesh? All (imperialist) soldiers absolutely are bastards tho... :confusion:
someone called me transphobic because i said getting gender affirming care isn't a good enough reason to join the army
Lift the ban on trans people in the US military
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Apply a ban on people in the US military across the board without discrimination
:party-sicko:
fuck the troops
I hope the guilt eats him alive.
It's like the Portrait of Dorian Gray
Unless you work there specifically to conduct internal sabotage you are complicit with every dead brown kid.
If we are dragging people for working for Lockheed, go ahead and hook me up to the truck
:xibe-check:
One of the crazy parts about this is implying it's impossible for vets to get hired outside of military contractors. Sorry, but I live in Canada where we have a lot less veneration for the troops, and still every manager I've had has this idea that sleeping in a bunk bed and getting woken up to go for a jog gives you unlimited work ethic. We have far fewer vets, and I've yet to work anywhere where the dumbest guy in the office wasn't the first remotely qualified vet that sent in a resume.
it's privileged that you have a choice of becoming a cog in the imperialist killing machine and not one of its victims. That carrot of becoming a mindless comfortable consumer drone is so tempting, just have to keep the image of crying brown children because their entire village and family were vaporized by a US missile, out of your mind.
Criticizing people for working for the MIC: privileged
Having a good job lined up at 23 and no debt because you hung around military bases for two years to serve the empire: bootstraps
But what if you do a shitty job on purpose?
fun fact, the guy who this all started over, ana mardoll, posted a lot about how malicious compliance is cool on his blog. in his defense of why he worked in the military industrial complex, he didn't say anything about trying it.