• Hegar@fedia.io
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    17 hours ago

    The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

    The funniest example is 24M$ the national guard spent in 2012 on recruiting at nascar. This generated 24,800 prospective recruits. ~$1000 per interested recruit. Not bad. Of those, 20 were eligible to join. 99.92% unfit for service. Of those 20, all declined to join. There’s no evidence that the 88M$ spent on nascar between 2011-2013 generated a single recruit.

    This is part of why the exclusion of trans folks, women and others from the military is such an own goal for the fascists. Any potential recruiting pool that’s closed hastens the decline of our imperial supremacy.

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      The recruiting crisis in the US military is pretty bad.

      The largest standing military (outside of an active war) in the world has a recruiting crisis?

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        Yes, the military is overextended and “undermanned” in critical areas. I know for certain we are short about 2000 pilots and 3500 air traffic controllers in the USAF, but every branch and complex job is hurting for qualified people.

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      Also if there was a draft they’d have to put me in jail or I’d leg it to canada. This has come up in conversation before and people are like “Erm nuh uh you’d totally go” like no bro you’ll actually die to an IED in something-istan.

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      We need to remember the fact that those currently in power don’t want things to work or be fixed. They’re actively breaking everything that they can get their hands on, for their foreign dictator handlers.

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      is such an own goal for the fascists

      I’m reminded of the bit from ur-fascism about how they are incapable of evaluating the world.

      They are stupid people living in an emotional fantasy.

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            You want someone to argue with you about transphobia being wrong?

            r/conservative and maga.place would be the place for you. Not here.

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                How does a trans person operating in the 80% of the military that isn’t a direct combat role prevent those in direct combat roles from being lethal? Not everyone is the tip of the spear.

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                  You just made the same rationale that could applied to any of a host of different reasons people aren’t allowed to join the military, like flat feet.

                  Joining the military isn’t a right.

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                  14 hours ago

                  For what exactly?

                  And why would you want to get someone banned just because you don’t agree with their opinion?

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                  I don’t care? It just confirms what I think about the modern left.

                  And why it’s always comical when I see them thinking the military would support them in some conflict.

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          20 years active duty military and 5 combat deployments in the Infantry. Good enough?

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                    We’ll find out. I’ve reported your transphobic comments and they got removed. Only a matter of time before you’re banned. There is a reason every comment you make is downvoted by everyone who reads it, fascists are not welcome here. You won’t last long. In the meantime I won’t have to read your bigoted angry accusations because your ass is getting blocked.