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Military members getting a random $1776 check is fucking retarded. Like... good job for sitting around in a foreign country working out and getting paid for it, here's a little bit of extra money so that you aren't as pissed when you get mobilized for Israel.
If we're going to send that money to anyone it should go to like ICE or something, but the idea that we have to pay extra to people people with public funds who are already being paid with public funds is retarded beyond the positions even existing in the first place.
Does anyone have any sort of good defense for this? It feels like it's a psychological thing to give to government drones for being good boys.
I used to thank anyone wearing a military uniform but I don't anymore. Vets too. Like the old dudes wearing Vietnam Vet hats trying to make that their whole personality or some shit. You want a fucking cookie? You want a fucking cookie for going to a foreign country doing shit we had no business getting into, seeing all of the friends you made in basic get slaughtered, and getting cancer from the government spraying agent orange on you? Congrats, here's your fucking cookie grandpa.
Most people these days who go into the military either A) have no idea what they want to do with their lives or B) think it is an easy launch pad to their dream career. They aren't defending shit, they aren't protecting shit, at most they're doing gay ops for other countries and at the least they check in to a base every now and then to work out and get free schooling on the side. They have lent their souls to the government with the hope that they won't be deployed into an actual warzone.
@beardalaxy I hate the whole "veteran" label. Even if you were just cooking in their cafeterias, and only joined because of the current state of the job market or something like that, that label will forever apply to you and society will look at you differently because of it. You will have strangers tell you "thank you for your service" and you got the other side who will treat you like shit for ever working with the military.