• Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    162·
    1 day ago

    So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      23 hours ago

      a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

      b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

      c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial marshall force, and that’s a good thing for us.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    Sometimes when you feel a way it’s because things are that way.

    For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

  • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

    (Yes I can infer what it’s about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for…)

    • Nikko882@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 day ago

      Non-American as well, but I believe GI means “General Infantry”, but in use GI means “Army Man/Soldier” so it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        1 day ago

        it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

        This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

        It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

        During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

        The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

  • Randomgal@lemmy.caEnglish
    511·
    1 day ago

    Oh no, they are sad about shooting and exploding civilians heads with their fists? :(

    Why did you join the army then?

    • pack_of_racoons@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      241·
      1 day ago

      So they could go to school? Have heathcare? Not starve? Most people in the military fall into two camps:

      1. Are a dumb shithead

      2. Are poor

      Many just joined as poor kids (<21) because that was the best or only option for them.

      • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.socialEnglish
        22·
        1 day ago

        The military is also very good at propagandizing to the youth.

        They primarily target young men who don’t know what they’re going to do with their life, then send them marketing materials (and even officers to their school) trying to tell them how much freedom and travel they’ll get if they join, and how it’ll build them into big strong well-respected men.

        So even for the people who I wouldn’t say are dumb or even economically struggling, they can get roped in with false promises of things like the ability to get stronger and do work to help their community be safe, then in actuality just get deployed later on to fight the same people in their community when they protest.

      • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
        42·
        22 hours ago

        I needed all those things and was a poor kid growing up, and I still didn’t sacrifice my integrity by signing up to join an oppressive military force.

        No excuses to justify the oppression of others just so you can avoid being oppressed yourself.

      • StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        41·
        1 day ago

        It’s really really easy to just say “yeah idiots just don’t do it” when you could get in very serious trouble for doing that

        • Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.netEnglish
          5·
          22 hours ago

          It’s called having the courage to do it anyway knowing you will face repercussions for doing it, because it is the right thing to do.

          Sadly, this basic concept seems to be a forgotten relic of the past. Too many people in this country are just fine with sacrificing others if it saves their own skin.