• Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works
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    24 hours ago

    Two reasons.

    A. Kids don’t have a future here. The STEM craze all but died out and jobs are disappearing. Some see it as the only path to a career.

    or

    B. The kid in question is a fascist and wants to die for the 4th Reich due to propaganda.

    Awkward times in the bunks, I’d say.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      6 hours ago

      “I don’t have the money so I’m going to help murder innocent schoolchildren in a country we want to loot” is a shitty excuse.
      Some guy robbing a house and shooting the inhabitants is exactly the same, only not legalized by the fascist regime.

      • Alkali@lemmy.ml
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        13 minutes ago

        What country are you in that is so perfect, and what have you done to keep it that way?

      • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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        4 hours ago

        It’s more that their options are severely limited, and the military offers a paying job that could lead to a career, or at least pay for college, which could lead to a career. Getting the Hell out of bad living situation, either a terrible home town, or a rough family situation, is another good reason. Foster kids age out of the system at 18, and often go homeless. The military looks like a positive viable option from that perspective.

        There are a LOT of reasons that people join the military, and VERY few join the military to kill.

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          2 hours ago

          VERY few join the military to kill.

          Repeating the same mental gymnastics, as if these scumbags don’t know what that terrorist army does constantly.
          Those frequently heard apologetics are disgusting. They are vulgar hired murderers in a uniform.

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      5 hours ago

      stem was never stem anyway and they tried to do steam. math and engineering and science pays poor or is hit and miss. It was just T

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      6 hours ago

      A. Man I hear what you’re saying but what a stupid decision. I see vets on the street literally every day.

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      11 hours ago

      they specifically target poor and middle class neighborhoods to that end. they even know that some college campuses(the prospects of them finding a job is low) so they often are seen on campus trying to recruit people. STEM job prospects have been so bad for like 10+ years too, if your not going for programming/TECH, bio(health only), and maybe an engineer, dont expect something, if you dont have years of lab experience. they also never target wealthier neighborhoods.

      i seen recruiting offices for each branch in different locations. army for a well travelled mall area, and another in less taffic mall, conveniently both are located near public colleges. the only oddball one i saw was a recruiting office near a mall of asian supermarket near the highway.

      and then the ones for all the armed forced combined into one in a more obscure area in a financial district.

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        11 hours ago

        apparently not with top gun maverick propaganda, when the movie came out, more people wanted to join because of it. in general people cant get in because thier education is so dumb down they cant even pass the asvab(enlistment only), and apparently they also cant pass the weight limit/physical portion too. i suspect alot of the enlistment comes from red areas, destitute white people with little prospect of a future, joinj the military as away to escape poverty/ or to stroke thier racist egos.

        and yes economic downturn will drive more people to joining too, like the 08 crisis, and drumpfs manufactered distractions from the EPSTEIN FILES.