TIL I could still join the army if I were so inclined.
I am having a surprisingly complex mix of feelings about being too old even for the revised age.
TIL I guess I’m becoming a junkie.
Weird thing is, marijuana is one of the few illicit drugs that stays in your system long enough to detect… Not an expert but I think you have to do maybe prescription drugs that will be detectable longer than a few hours or a day
Perfect time to get very big into poppyseed bagels
Poppyseed bagel? Bah humbug!
Try some central/south European and even Turkish deserts. To make a batch you usually start with at leas a pound of poppy seeds!
Some use more poopy than flour. I miss those sweets!Even better!
Try some central/south European and even Turkish deserts
May I interest you in a nice babka in these trying times? 🥐🫓
Some use more poopy than flour. I miss those sweets!
Shitty sweets
They are more bitter than sweet, but they are so healthy!
After reading the article…meh. I wonder if my brother and nephew get another shot after getting discharged for the same thing.
No fucking way I’m ever taking orders from someone who doesn’t think for them self.
Never worked a job before? Sounds like every manager I’ve ever had
there is a reason the large majority of a military is generally low 20’s. Good luck with squads of thirty somethings.
Raised from 35 to 42, which is a big jump. At 35, the physical downward spiral is just beginning. At 42, it is typically well underway, especially in the U.S., where obesity runs rampant. They must be anticipating a slog similar to that when Russia invaded Ukraine.
At 35, the physical downward spiral is just beginning
I just woke up, don’t need to be attacked like this lol
Not just in Iran, Lindsey Graham seems to think we’re also gonna invade Cuba, probably parts of Latin America, and who knows, maybe Canada or Mexico to top it off. Multi-front wars aren’t a bad idea right? We have the logistics to fight two separate long-term wars, so what’s a third or a fifth?
You forgot Greenland.
Removing the restrictions seems 10x what raising the age is!
Remember, when in doubt pull pin and throw at nearest officers tent.
Could be hearsay, but I saw someone say even mentioning knowing what Fragging is during your interview is enough to get you disqualified.
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“When I say jump, you say how high!”
“No, not like that!”
Lmaoooooo that’s crazy
Good luck.
If they’re that hard up for soldiers I vote we send ICE over to do the fighting for us.
Hear me out, we could just send them over and leave them there with no weapons and no ports… de-port them, if you will.
Let them fully live out their COD fantasies
Elsewhere in this thread you’re literally talking about wanting to kill people with drones.
You’re making up a narrative to create a punching bag. You can attack buildings and infrastructure. Never said anything about killing people.
You literally fantasized about killing Russians lmao
Do you just forget you say these things or are you a bot
I never said I had an urge to kill people. That commenter did. Your’re making assumptions and drawing conclusions worse than AI. Yikes.
The only yikes here is you and your fantasies
At the same time we should not give up diplomatic options. We should send Iran the entire cabinet as a gesture of good will.
But who’s going to oppress the PoC and lefties if ICE leaves?
The cops and the FBI
If the Wehrmacht is lacking we should send in the SS
Do you not listen to yourself or? Look up Volkssturm to see whats coming
Okay? Soooooo don’t send ICE?
Yeeees stop murdering altogether
no more war but we can send ice to your region to live permanently. you can be nice to them while they terrorize and kill your people.
While a great sentiment, it’s unbelievably unrealistic. There will always be things people will die for. Likewise, there will always be things people will kill for.
Yankees bombing schoolchildren is not just “a fact of life” good lord. Your army is the single most murderous force in the last 100 years or so. Death to Amerikkka.
Same kinda shit has been happening since the Ubaid period 10,000 BC so it kind of is a fact of life.
It doesn’t matter what country we’re talking about. People on a fundamental level will never stop killing eachother. Downvote me all you like. It will never stop. We will always find some reason to kill other people. Whether they’re poor, or a different color than us, or because your government tells you they’re a threat to you, or whether they’re building bombs to use on you, or they’re raping and pillaging your home. You act like there’s some magic light switch you can just flip and turn off all the violence. It must be nice to live in fairytale land. You yourself are a contradiction to yourself “oh stop all murder! Except amerikkka! Kill all Americans!”
lmao your yankee propaganda has you convinced that everyone is just as murderous as your stromtroops, they’re just faster and better equipped, but I can assure you that neither is true. You’re so deep in your propaganda that you can’t separate a population from it’s government either. Do you realise that your life isn’t magically tethered to the yankee government and people won’t just flop to the ground all over your occupied areas as soon as the white house is bombed?
Death to Amerikkka != Kill all Americans
Me: Hey, stop that!
Guy who broke into my house: What a great sentiment, but it’s unbelievably unrealistic throws my stuff into a giant bag there will always be things people will want to steal.
When criticism is levied against the empire, it gets framed as “stopping all violence forever.” The same framing is not used when it comes to criticism of enemies of the empire. Nobody talks about Iran in terms of “We can’t do anything about them because violence will always exists.” Why? Because they framed as being somehow uniquely beligerant, while the empire is framed as being “the normal amount” of beligerant - even though the empire is much more violent, beligerant, and aggressive than Iran or any other country.
You can want the most murderous regime on the planet to stop attacking countries without the expectation that all violence will end forever.
There will always be things people will die for. Likewise, there will always be things people will kill for.
Sure, but it’s our job to disincentivize the killing and dying as a solution to whatever problem those people are trying to solve.
We should start getting rid of the people who actively want that. Dangerous line of thinking i guess, but nobody can tell me that the wold wouldnt be net positive for removing trump, putin, xi, weidel, etc.
Edit: counts for everyone next in line as well so long as they try to keep the idiology/insanity up
What did Xi do to you lmao
Nothing, but go ask that same question to a Uyghur. Generally speaking, lifelong dictators tend to be not so great people.
Shouldve added kim instead? I guess i didnt pay attention which instance i commented on but “lmao” indeed
I mean they have a larger budget than the Marine’s… What could go wrong?
Literally nothing. That’s why I suggested it haha.
Deploy ICE
So you need a harder drug to get kicked out
After watching Russian soldiers getting blown to bits by drones for the last 3-4 years, I am good on ever joining the army.
They can recruit those gen-z maga true believers focused on looksmaxxing though. Army uniform looks cool. Makes you Chad.
A very small part of me fantasizes about being forced to fight and surprising everybody with my drone/quad skills.
we should stomp that small part of you until the big part of you dies
Are you saying you want to kill me?
Aren’t you saying you want to kill other people while showing off your drone skills?
I never said that. All kinds of non-human targets.
“Colonel please, I only want to bomb none human targets, like orphanages without actual orphans in them”
“SHUT UP MAGGOT, GO BOMB ANOTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOR EPSTEIN”
It seems like your intrusive thoughts are getting taken very seriously here.
What murderer was lemmy simping for?
Luigi
Hmmmm it’s almost like there’s a difference between invading and terrorizing another country vs killing one of the richest most immoral people who have blood in their hands
I never said I wanted to invade and terrorize a country. Lemmy AI hallucinating again. Regardless, you support murder. Yikes.
Killing someone who put profits before humans to the point they doomed thousands to excruciating slow agonizing death is good actually. In the same way that killing fascists is good.
So you support killing Iranian and Russian leaders? Pretty sure their governments would fall under your definition of fascism.
Yeah, thats why I asked. There is a big difference between being empathetic to someone fighting against Americas monolithic and broken Healthcare industry vs killing random people in a war America started.
The american urge to kill brown people
Pretty sure Russian people aren’t brown
“Ha ha, idiots! You thought I wanted to murder X people with my drones, but it’s actually Y people. Bet you feel dumb now!”
I never said anything about killing people. You did. And don’t pretend you weren’t jerking it to Luigi for murder.
Are there lots of Russian people in iran?
Who said Iran?
Back in the pokeball you go
took less than that. I understood its the idea of signing a piece of paper saying you will kill who you are told to kill going forward.
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It doesn’t matter, because we’re never going. Even if they try to implement the draft, myself and millions of other will cause disorder.
I’ll die over here first long before I go overseas.
Below 45
I.E. eligible for the draft until your 45th birthday.
EDIT: The special skills draft for health care professionals is up to 54.
Whatever it is now doesn’t matter, because they will completely rewrite the laws if they ever actually do a draft
There is no draft.
Yet.
I’m 40. I haven’t found full time work in a year. I might have to join. I don’t want to lose my house. Nobody will miss me if I die overseas.
At least you get a chance to frag officers
I don’t have any advice but I’m sorry to hear that
I will miss you, buddy
Dude start a bakery, become an internet lolcow, anything is better than getting ripped by a drone for Epstein
You wouldn’t consider it without your media-induced sense of invulnerability. Nobody actually wants to die from shrapnel, or get a TBI. That’s the reality of missile and drone warfare. You’re not kicking down families’ doors in Baghdad, Kyle. You either collect debtbux or perish. If you were serious, you wouldn’t be hoping the AoR takes care of it for you. Stop being melodramatic when other people’s lives are at stake. It’s a genocide, not a “dangerous job”. Solipsistic nonsense
yes, please come murder us in the global south for the fascist empire so you don’t have to deal with your own government.
I don’t want to hurt anyone. I’m hungry and I may be homeless soon. What’s the point of being moral if nobody will help me when I’m at rock bottom?
I’m hungry and I may be homeless soon.
“Sorry I killed your parents Iranian/Cuban/Venezuelan kid, but hey, at least I’m fed and housed! Why are you crying? This is the good outcome for me!”
that’s no excuse to hurt innocents.
People die on the streets everyday in America. It’s a brutal death and your mental health deteriorates fast. Our country is cruel. If you don’t understand that you come from privilege
the priviliged brown people you want to murder
Like it or not these huge issues with inequality in our country force people to make these decisions. These are the facts. Lack of healthcare, job opportunities and engineered poverty force people into the military. I don’t know your situation but I do know a lot of people from deeply impoverished areas join. For example a lot of Puerto Rican’s join because poverty has been engineered in their colony partially for this purpose. These are just cold hard facts
Some cold hard facts, most of the recruits are middle class and the majority are white.
Being completely passive and cold and ignoring the suffering of those around you is still better than actively inflicting suffering.
SHUT THE FUCK UP about privilege when you’re literally trying to justify slaughtering people in much, much poorer countries. You don’t get to kill other people to feed yourself. Jesus fucking Christ.
I’m telling you the reasons people join. These are the facts. Triggered or not these are the facts.
what the fuck. and some of you guys are surprised when we hate you so much.
I want to hurt someone, but they are at Mar-A-Lago, not Iran.
I hope you can find something, man. No money’s worth dying in a war for this regime but that’s easy to say. Maybe something entry level in business or something? Most of them train on the job and just having any degree or experience at all can help. I’m sorry the tech industry’s so awful
I’ve been applying to entry level jobs for months. I was a frontend developer and designer with ten years experience. I now have a PMP, PMI-ACP, and PSM I certifications. I have a resume with a high ATS score. I’ve only been met with silence from jobs. The only work I’ve found is working for a grocery store part time. It’s not covering my bills.
That’s so unbelievably fucked 🫂 honestly if you straight up have to turn to crime that’s valid absolute fucking lunacy people with this much exp can’t find any work I know I’m just a internet random but I hope things look up for you
My son graduated with a perfect 4.0 in a 5 year accelerated masters degree program in computer science. He got out just in time for the AI bullshit and has gotten exactly one interview and no offers in two years of applying everywhere. I’m so proud of the work he put in and so pissed that he got royally fucked over. If the job market even comes back I’m afraid he won’t be able to compete with fresh graduates with nothing but a big gap in his resume.
I’m in a similar situation as someone about to leave university (also in an accelerated ~5 year Master’s program and just got my Bachelor’s last semester but decided not to continue next semester for financial reasons) and the disconnect between the education system and job market is so bad, I almost feel like college made me stupider. (Might look into PhD programs more though.)
Other concern is that in my current area of specialization I’m now struggling to find jobs that aren’t associated with the MIC or some three-letter agency and I’m starting to wonder if pursuing my interests is digging myself into a trap (or maybe the city I live in just sucks).
Good lord
That totally justifies you coming to rape and pillage the periphery. (Sarcastic)
Death to amerikkka.
There’s quite a few non-murdering job roles in the military. You could ask a recruiter about those opportunities.
non-murdering jobs = helping others murder people/make the murderers comfortable
Did the same thing but I was 25. Now that Im in my forties I couldnt possibly have done the training that was asked of me. I was in Basic with a guy that was 40ish, he only kept up cause he was in phenomenal shape. Just know Ill miss you MisterNeon, good luck.
I’m not in shape. I don’t think I could survive basic training. I’m running out of options.
The most important thing is to just keep going. Always keep trying, even when you think you can’t.
I’m feeling really old. It’s hard to keep trying and failing at my age. There are no jobs and I don’t have anyone to lean on for financial support.
Can’t the US government and their enablers just calm down about waging wars? They’re quite literally one of the biggest issues of this world, and they think that they’re not the problem…
They really shouldn’t want disgruntled millennials. I would be a truly catastrophic draftee, and not because I’d be incompetent.
I think I’m a competent person, but I definitely wouldn’t be a competent soldier.
I’d throw wrenches in every gear I could find.
Literally and metaphorically
