There’s 2 main categories of troops: those who join due to poverty/lack of opportunities

A very tiny category. There is quite a few people on here that act like a majority or even half of the U.S armed forces are from poverty or tough conditions. Most soldiers give up class and wealth to join the military, a large chunk of that most likely being “tradition”/military families.

https://archive.ph/2x19K

“This has been documented by the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation in their study on the recruitment demographics of the united $tates military, which found that only about 10-11% of the united $tates military recruits come from the poorest quintile (defined as making less than $33,000 annually), with a fourth of the military coming from areas whose median income is more than $65,000 annually.”

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no no you see we need to spend a record-breaking billion dollars in federal funds on condos in a city with an average income of 30k and then retire as a casino executive. (actually fucking happened)

there was also the Canal also a nearby asbestos factory remediated into a nuclear waste storage that ended up in obvious environmental disaster. The area is riddled with them.

In my opinion the city is still a unique shithole and it’s gotten SIGNIFICANTLY better (due to migration, much to the chud’s chagrin) but it’s got one of the lowest income rates out of any major city in the U.S with some areas still entirely abandoned/demunincipalized with rampant drug-use, alcoholism and violence. Average income is 30k.

I don’t like to make much information about myself available online, but I will say that you can find a lot of those where I used to live as a young child. Most of the city lived in the shadow of the economic collapse of Bethlehem and some parts still do. It was a rusty, salty shithole.

Seeing the skeleton of the industry that was the very economic foundation of the Rust-belt and the city laid out in a display for a corpo-festival (looks like) is quite hollowing in a way that can’t be described. Imagine the greatest pieces of Soviet industry laid out at a rave for rich, older adults, best comparison and I don’t even think that’s quite apt as much of Soviet industry survived. That era is long-gone in the U.S.

I can’t say I mourn it either. Bethlehem piled slag feet deep on the bottom of Lake Erie, near-irreparably destroying the environment as any mediation efforts will disturb the literal tons of slag and toxic materials at the bottom of the lake. They also hung thousands of people out to dry with nearly no warning, all for greed as well.

In the wake of one of America’s greatest steel industries it left nothing but ruin.

young people with jobs can barely afford your slop-bowl. I honestly swear to good more “well-off” people use it for their dogs rather than their own food. I have seen this a few times.

I could spend hours devving provinces, microing trade, buildings/sector creation and playing with my civics/society modifiers; it does depend on the game/faction but I generally love to play tall unless I’m doing a hivemind in Stellaris that requires constant growth to survive. I’ve had many hours on Eu4 as a tiny german bumfuck city-state that use that strategy especially

as a war-gamer I play tall and I have to care about my logistics/soldiers or else my entire run is fucked and hinging on rng in each single division push.

Please, I need a photo of this. I really need a photo of a mall-strip filled with Charlie Kirk memorial fronts leading down to a rifle store. That’s some fucking divine irony especially because HE PROBABLY WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT.

posting hog and calling it “My Pete”

Lowest-bidder earthquake-proofing springs in Cheyenne Mountain causing immediate foundation damage leading to entombing the entire upper echelon of the core

expand the fuhrerbunker, get ready to deploy the I.C.E and guard from southern states, double them right near election season, insurrection act/martial law. Worst comes to worst, 40 billion in Argentina sitting there waiting for them. DOJ wants to send election monitors to each “blue” state.

Or? Nothing happens and the guy has a heart-attack leading to a fickle J.D Vance presidency with the next democratic presidency turning down the boil and letting out the biggest vent you ever seen while they continue on as normal; basically polymorphing into another republican presidency.

not that laws matter because, ya know, it’s all bougie bullshit but this is a straight-up violation of the anti-deficiency act.

https://budgetcounsel.com/cyclopedia-budgetica/cb-antideficiency-act-violation

He’s the commander in chief. The best, from what he tells me.

I don’t even think it’s a “fancier ballroom”. Most likely just an excuse so they can expand the Fuhrerbunker. 40 billion to Argentina I feel like is going to be a life-line incase the plan they have doesn’t work.

Yeah, that’s why I just started blocking instead. Not too much else to say.

It’s tougher and tougher to keep it. I think the part of the reason I was so emotional is because genuinely it’s absurd what I’m hearing. It’s saddening and depressing.

Indeed.

I think they genuinely don’t give a shit ngl

I think this is becoming the western left in a nutshell.

Agreed. Go ahead and check my history too.

Yeah what the actual fuck is happening here.