• SalamiDommie@lemmus.org
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    2 days ago

    Non-combative point. Could you address that point to the military? Per the original post?

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      2 days ago

      The original point is : look at all these good things the government offers to military recruits, to entice them to join.

      The same people then decry the government offering those good things to everyone. Then they’re bad things, suddenly.

      The military requires desperate people feed their recruitment quotas.

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        2 days ago

        I believe that the justification is that they have served the military so they have more than paid for those benefits and it’s the least that could do since they have given up years of their life and possibly mental health that will set them back when they exit the military.

        I have more than a few friends that served only to find out that if you’re not an officer then rest of the world treats that time as a gap in work history.

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        23 hours ago

        Their response to the military - Axolotl’s replay had some decent points. But I was hoping they could apply them to the military in context of the original post.