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[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 129 points 1 month ago

Shout out to all the Nat Guard and Marines currently 'defending our freedom' in LA!

... and of course their famously faithful wives they married 3 months before their first deployment!

[-] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago

Someone's gotta drive the Dodge Hellcat before it gets repo'd...

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Its always a fucking Hellcat lol.

I mean, not literally always... but ... there are so many car dealerships right outside of so many bases... gotta spend that signing bonus on something, apparently, and that something is almost always a Hellcat.

[-] EmptySlime 19 points 1 month ago

It makes perfect sense. They prey on poor people to fill out that "voluntary" recruitment. When you've been poor all your life and suddenly you get that signing bonus no matter how responsible you are there's no way you're not going to buy something at least a little fun for yourself. You've likely had a shitty car all your life if you had one at all. You put all that together and it's really easy to see why so many of them do it.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Yep, you got it.

I always find it funny when people think these stereotypical behaviors of young military dudes are... just rude stereotypes.

Some of them, sure, but a lot of them, nope, generally actually true, sorry buddies, capitalism figured out another way to exploit your poverty and lack of education, with mathematical precision, and you fell for it, again.

[-] msage@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Uncle Sam fucking you at every corner straight into the ass.

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 5 points 1 month ago

Just like hotmeat89 does to their wives

[-] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 7 points 1 month ago

I’m in Hawai’i and I basically assume all Hellcats and Corvettes are military. So when they cut me off in traffic or whatever, instead of getting angry I just say a little “easy there recruit” or “settle down Private” to myself. It makes me chuckle and keeps me from sin.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

More interestingly, it's also pretty common for girls who wanna leave their man to push him into service so she doesn't have to deal with him after. In boot we had a wall of dear John's 2 weeks in

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago

Yup yup yup.

On one level, I genuinely empathize with guys going through that... probably totally emotionally and mentally devastating for the vast majority of them.

On the other hand... its so common, and usually so many people in their lives will tell them that.... that is probably gonna happen to them, and they don't listen.

Shit sucks man, I've never been in any military service, but I've known guys its happened to.

Oh and then you've got this: Hrm, could this phenomenon maybe play a role in female service members getting SA'd and raped?

You know, just maybe?

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Whilst I knew them empathizing was what came naturally but thinking back on some of those cases, those dudes were not the greatest folks. Like of course they were basically kids being like 19 on average but I'd bet money some of those girls were doing it cuz these dudes were aggro

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean generally yeah, asshole aggro dudebros is anecdotally most of what I've seen as well.

But, I have seen it happen to a few genuinely good natured and well intentioned, but just colossally naive and/or astoundingly brainwashed/gaslit guys as well.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Oh and then you’ve got this: Hrm, could this phenomenon maybe play a role in female service members getting SA’d and raped?

What the fuck

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

see my reply to prettybunnys

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Nah, it's just the macho dudebro attitude that pervades a lot of the military with a side helping of good old boys club, not jilted husbands.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

The macho asshole dudebro culture is certainly the main and biggest part of the problem.

I am just saying that maybe the jilted lover thing is also another part of the problem.

[-] itslilith 1 points 1 month ago

Holy shit, that's some next level victim blaming. Ewww

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

see my reply to prettybunnys

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

I hope this guy or someone like him visits all those National Guard's wives. This deployment will involve orders that should not be followed. We need the constitution amended so the national guard cannot be deployed into a state without that states governors permission.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Brings another layer of meaning to 'Fascist Cuck.'

[-] Headofthebored@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well, that is a double edge sword right there. Maybe we end up with a sane federal government ~~again~~ for once, and let's say some freeloading red state decides to go full 1921 Tulsa on whatever the scapegoat of the week is and the national guard really does need to go in, but their nazi governor just says no and that's that? There simply needs to be some workaround.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the courts or congress ordering it. That's how the schools got integrated

[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Damn. I forgot about the governor fighting integration. The complexity just moved beyond my narrow understanding of politics.

[-] Machinist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah, President can totally send National Guard but he has to have governor or congressional approval.

Also, fuck Wallace, may he rest in piss.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

That's always the crux here in the fight between states and federal rights. Some states will fight the federal government for things you believe in and some against things you believe in. When we demand exercises of power or set in stone rights we need to be prepared for it to be used in situations we don't agree with.

That's really one of the difficulties of politics in general. Anyone can say "we should have all these rights" and not consider the implications or they can say "law enforcement and the executive should be able to do all this without interference so they can stop the bad guys" without realizing that the interference is protecting them too.

What we're seeing in fascism is one of the bypasses of all of it. "We will enforce the rules arbitrarily so you can feel safe both from us and from the 'bad guys' who we'll stop." But in addition to having actually no protection and the rampant evil of it all, it also bears the cost of arbitrary rules are impossible to be sure you're following.

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