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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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It's nice that you live in a country where you get to have opinions like that and vocalize them in public, isn't it?
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Don't kid yourself. You can do that in most other countries in the world too. America is not special. Furthermore, the American military hasn't done ANYTHING towards THOSE ENDS since we BEGRUDGINGLY fought in ww2. The VAST majority of the TOTAL funds applied to the US military has gone towards doomsday bombs / deployment, and killing civillians in foreign countries for the protection of monetary interests.
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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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Here's a 2010 pay chart. Obama just made the GI bill not completely suck again recently, so that compensation is worthwhile again. VA hospitals are still awful. |
You don't have to tell me about how the benefits are not that great. Ask me why I didn't join. Also, ask me what it's like trying to get my brain-damaged brother admitted to the VA hospital near me.
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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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Now tell me how much I'd have to pay you to put your life on the line.
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There is a number, but the US Military isn't willing to pay it. Blackwater.. That's probably another story. However, this is a very shaky argument because of the above debunking of the motives of the US Military, which have nothing to do with "putting your life on the line to protect the state." That is such a laughable premise that I am actually quite surprised you would even begin to stoop to it. It is patently false, and I defy you to support it with ANY form of evidence.
The fact is that YOU TOOK A JOB. You were offered a pay scale and a benefits package, and you TOOK IT. That was a decision on your part. Whether or not you were deluded into thinking that CHOICE was somehow patriotic or not is completely beside the point.
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Originally Posted by Alawen Everywhere
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Edit: Blaine just reminded me that we got taxed on our housing and all our benefits and those are valued way above market so we'd end up with a few hundred bucks a month. The only way you make much is if you're deployed to a war zone.
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See above. You were offered a job, you did a (probably quick and deluded) estimate, and you signed the contract. Whine somewhere else.
You are not a patriot just because you were brainwashed and are deluded, no matter how many flags you wave or how many bullets you've taken while killing brown children.