• arrow74@lemm.ee
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    14 hours ago

    I’d say the vast majority of people in the military these days are poor kids looking for an escape to cyclical poverty.

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      13 hours ago

      Even that is fading because the tendency to fuck over the VA is so known.

      That said: the people whose entire existence depends on pulling the trigger ain’t walking away because it might hurt the people who they kind of rightfully feel already abandoned them.

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      12 hours ago

      Yes, if they live through it, talking about everything from food, to housing, “vaccines”, and God knows what else. I’m not antivax either.