Social Justice Dirtbag

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  • OH DANG, so you mean to say, when I clocked it around 33% were poor and needed a job I was almost spot on with a study you found… crazy…

    it’s almost like… My lived experience means that I probably know wtf I’m talking about vs some terminally online, privileged, teenagers.

    You can be mad, you can downvote me in protest… but… you see the numbers, right? The same numbers I’ve just shown and you just linked to… You can’t downvote the facts and numbers. And the fact is, that you have a bias, a privilege, that blinds you. That tells you it’s justifiable to punch down at millions of people (active and veteran) who are victims of the same shitty system of opportunistic capitalism.

    I’m not making excuses for the military as a whole, or its actions. But I’m not going to lump the cook as the same kind of monster as the general. And again, you’re a crazy person if you do.


  • Most people do have other choices than the military

    THIS, is your privilege showing.

    This is your normalized worldview because, to you, you had other options. Most people do, right? Meanwhile ignoring the minority of hundreds millions…

    Lets do some math real quick.


    What percent of households make less than $30k net?

    It’s about 23.5% of America…


    23.5% of 350milllion people. Actually, lets be fair here and only use that adult populate of 205.7million and round it down

    23.5% of 200million?

    47million people a struggling.


    How many of them do you think have better options?

    Most of them, right? Lets say 95% of them have better options, so, of 5% of 47million?

    That’s 2.35 million people that don’t have better options…


    what’s the size of the US active duty military?

    US has 1.33 million active duty military… Obviously, not everyone in the military is some empoverished slave. The gungho yipee types do exist too.


    But, just guess, what ratio do you think of those two types of people exist in 1.33 million? I’ll do you a solid, I’ll say that the gunghos outweigh 2:1…

    That’s ~400,000 people who were poor, likely with no other options.


    NONE of this excuses the actions of the American imperalist military. This is the system working as intended. Keep the people poor, and dangle socialism through military service.

    If you didn’t have to choose between military and homeless, or Amazon and homeless… if you had other options, I’m happy for you, I am, really. It’s a privilege to have the opportunity and luck to do something else… but you’re using that privilege to punch down by ignoring the millions who didn’t have your opportunities.






  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldtopics@lemmy.world•Food served to US service men & women.
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    Apples and oranges, an amazingly flawed and poorly thought out example.

    You’re comparing 100s (sometimes thousands) to a crew of 3-5 people… as if that’s even nearly the same thing.

    Plus you’re ignoring the whole motopool behind the tankcrew too, and the supply team with them. The mechanics and logisticians, cooks and even water boys…

    And even those two things aren’t comparable. Wheras a “waterboy” in a motopool might have to worry about being directly attacked (and be prepared to defend themselves). Ship maintainers will never have that happen… there’s no scenario where suddenly the ship’s water engineer is picking up a gun to murder people; even in defense…


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    I don’t give a shit what you believe. I am telling you from first hand experience (not “belief”) the truth.

    You want to do a whole “guilt by association” thing, but you haven’t put ANY thought into what that means. Is the cook a “killer”? Is the IT guy a murder? How about the guy who does fuel maintenance? Yeoman?

    What about those serving on ship tenders? They don’t even have weapons, they’re supply ships. Are they all killers by association too?

    Why not blame farmers too? I mean, they did give the ship tender food… and that tender did give that food to a destroyer… and that destroyer has a cook, so we know he’s a bloodthirsty baby killer… and that food was eaten by hundreds of people… one of them might clean/maintain a weapon system… and someone else might shoot it… so they’re all murders now too… right? Especially that water guy from before…

    Where’s the line? Or maybe, we should just judge the person who pulls the trigger, instead of engaging in blind group punishment?








  • SailorFuzz@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•change my mind
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    5 months ago

    “The Amazing Digital Circus”, an indie animation show on youtube.

    I have a 13 year old daughter, which is how I know. Trying to appreciate what shes into has us watching it as a family.

    But, ngl, its pretty dogshit. It is this generations version of “lol so random, cheeze” entertainment with a healthy dose of “im14andthisisdeep” edgyness. The kind of writing that only a 13 year old, or someone with the mental maturity of a 13 year old could appreciate.

    Animation is pretty solid though, especially for a small indie team, so, I’ll give it praises for that.

    And the fandom is fucking insufferable. Exactly the kind of fandom you’d expect full of 13 year old quirky edgelords.