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        I don’t think it is. I looked it up and couldn’t find anything further in the thread from them. Their account has been deactivated, so (I think) the original is gone and we just have reblogs. Wayback Machine doesn’t have it either.

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    It’s all fun and games until he bangs the wife of someone who graduated top class of Navy Seals and has been involved in numerous secret raids against Al-Qaeda, with over 300 confirmed kills, is trained in gorilla warfare and is the best sniper of the army

    edit: I see the downvoters don’t know about this classic 🤣

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    Shout out to all the Nat Guard and Marines currently ‘defending our freedom’ in LA!

    … and of course their famously faithful wives they married 3 months before their first deployment!

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      More interestingly, it’s also pretty common for girls who wanna leave their man to push him into service so she doesn’t have to deal with him after. In boot we had a wall of dear John’s 2 weeks in

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        Yup yup yup.

        On one level, I genuinely empathize with guys going through that… probably totally emotionally and mentally devastating for the vast majority of them.

        On the other hand… its so common, and usually so many people in their lives will tell them that… that is probably gonna happen to them, and they don’t listen.

        Shit sucks man, I’ve never been in any military service, but I’ve known guys its happened to.

        Oh and then you’ve got this: Hrm, could this phenomenon maybe play a role in female service members getting SA’d and raped?

        You know, just maybe?

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          Oh and then you’ve got this: Hrm, could this phenomenon maybe play a role in female service members getting SA’d and raped?

          What the fuck

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          Whilst I knew them empathizing was what came naturally but thinking back on some of those cases, those dudes were not the greatest folks. Like of course they were basically kids being like 19 on average but I’d bet money some of those girls were doing it cuz these dudes were aggro

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            I mean generally yeah, asshole aggro dudebros is anecdotally most of what I’ve seen as well.

            But, I have seen it happen to a few genuinely good natured and well intentioned, but just colossally naive and/or astoundingly brainwashed/gaslit guys as well.

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          Nah, it’s just the macho dudebro attitude that pervades a lot of the military with a side helping of good old boys club, not jilted husbands.

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        I’m in Hawai’i and I basically assume all Hellcats and Corvettes are military. So when they cut me off in traffic or whatever, instead of getting angry I just say a little “easy there recruit” or “settle down Private” to myself. It makes me chuckle and keeps me from sin.

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        Its always a fucking Hellcat lol.

        I mean, not literally always… but … there are so many car dealerships right outside of so many bases… gotta spend that signing bonus on something, apparently, and that something is almost always a Hellcat.

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          It makes perfect sense. They prey on poor people to fill out that “voluntary” recruitment. When you’ve been poor all your life and suddenly you get that signing bonus no matter how responsible you are there’s no way you’re not going to buy something at least a little fun for yourself. You’ve likely had a shitty car all your life if you had one at all. You put all that together and it’s really easy to see why so many of them do it.

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            Yep, you got it.

            I always find it funny when people think these stereotypical behaviors of young military dudes are… just rude stereotypes.

            Some of them, sure, but a lot of them, nope, generally actually true, sorry buddies, capitalism figured out another way to exploit your poverty and lack of education, with mathematical precision, and you fell for it, again.

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      I hope this guy or someone like him visits all those National Guard’s wives. This deployment will involve orders that should not be followed. We need the constitution amended so the national guard cannot be deployed into a state without that states governors permission.

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        Well, that is a double edge sword right there. Maybe we end up with a sane federal government again for once, and let’s say some freeloading red state decides to go full 1921 Tulsa on whatever the scapegoat of the week is and the national guard really does need to go in, but their nazi governor just says no and that’s that? There simply needs to be some workaround.

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    I’ve lived in a region where ethical non-monogamy is so normalized that I look at the photo and think “ok…?”

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    with 3 confirmed kills

    Yeah, 2 of them where kids and one was a pregnant woman he thought was carrying a bomb.

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      Yeah, 2 of them where kids and one was a pregnant woman he thought was carrying a bomb.

      Wouldn’t that be four confirmed kills by Republican standards?

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    Am I supposed to think the guy is funny, clever, or not a complete douchebag?

    That bumper sticker is kind of funny though.

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      On one hand, the US military is terrible and anything that causes people to not go to it is good.

      On the other hand, most people who join the military join out of desperation due to poverty and wanting better opportunities, so I kinda empathize with them without approving of their actions.

      Basically, I would say to this guy “You’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole.”

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          Not to give them too much credit for just posting, but if even a single person on the fence about signing on saw his posts and got anxious that their SO would cheat on them while they’re gone, then they’ve saved that person from making a terrible decision and, more importantly, saved the people who would’ve been personally harmed by their actions.

          To defeat an enemy without firing a shot (except into their wife, heyoo) is the best form of victory. And it’s effective. It’s hard to combat enemy propaganda telling soldiers they’re the good guys because the enemy generally has a stronger signal and a captive audience - but remind them of home while playing on their existing anxieties, and they’ll be demoralized and less willing to continue the fight.

          In case my perspective wasn’t clear, I hate the US military and generally consider doing things to hurt or demoralize the troops to be not only morally permissable, but morally commendable.

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      You’re not meant to think well of the troll. It’s not really a person as much as a role. You’re supposed to laugh at the idiots replying to it.

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          You are not meant to think well of the troll. It’s not really a person as much as a role. Don’t answer the post; don’t rise to the bait. The troll does not care, it just wants you irate. No matter the subject, the topic, the polls. Just let it go. Don’t feed the trolls.

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            Now that my son
            is how the internet works
            It can be really good
            or make your life easily worse.
            Pay no heed
            to crazy shit too good to believe.
            Many times they tell
            a lie an hoax just sell.
            Here an there a scam
            for your wallet to ram.