Random Stuff

[hagiomoto]

Every US news agency is Fox News nowadays

[luulapants]

If you're in the US, now is a great time to talk to the young people in your life about the US military:

The recruiter is not your friend. The military employs child psychologists to learn how to make you think the recruiter is your friend.

The recruiter is allowed to lie to you and makes more money if they do.

The recruiter is paid a commission to groom children into cannon fodder.

The recruiter will tell you you're special and will go into special smart soldier programs instead of combat. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you they can tell if someone can get PTSD or not and only recruit people like you, who won't. They're lying.

The recruiter may tell you you'll be too busy attending free college (!!) to go overseas. They're lying.

The recruiter may ask what countries you want to travel to and promise you bougie placements on military bases in those countries. They're lying.

Even "It's just four years!" is a lie - the government is allowed to hold you past your enlistment period with a stop-loss order.

The recruiter actually has zero power to decide anything that happens to you after you enlist and they more importantly don't care what happens to you.

If you enlist, you will be brainwashed to make you willing to do things to other humans that you would never be willing to do today.

You will be ordered to do things that will kill children. And you'll do them.

The military is not the only way or even the best way for you to go to college or start a career.

Military brainwashing will actually make you into a terrible university student because it degrades your ability to think critically and question your sources.

Having PTSD and/or a TBI will make it harder to be a student and keep a job.

Veterans' benefits suck these days.

Being a veteran drastically increases your risk of homelessness, suicide, alcohol and drug dependence, prison time, and becoming an abuser to your loved ones.

The military will expose you to chemicals that will drastically increase your chances of developing cancer.

The military will withhold information about your rights to conscientiously object after enlisting.

A lot can change in four years.

[c4bl3fl4m3]

All of this!

If you want an organization who WILL tell you the truth about your rights to conscientiously object, how to legally get out of the DEP (Delayed Entry Program) or about any of your other rights in the military (whether you’re enlisted, thinking about enlisting, or a family member or friend of someone enlisted (or thinking about enlisting)), who will do it confidentially & for free, you want the

GI Rights Hotline

run by NGOs & non-profits, which has been counseling folks for DECADES now:

Are you in the military or thinking about joining? Are you unsure of where to get reliable answers? Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-

Or by phone:

1-877-447-4487

[ms-demeanor]

Even if all the person you're speaking to cares about is the money, the money sucks.

Minimum wage in California just went up to $16.90. You need to be rank E4 or be E3 with at least 3 years of service before you're making more than the CA minimum wage in the military.

You will literally get better pay and benefits working at a costco. (And that's not even accounting for the fact that the military isn't a 40 hour work week, your entire life is on the clock)

I cannot emphasize this enough, if you're a desperate young queer person you will make better money, get better healthcare, and have more affordable options for school if you move to California, get a job at costco, live with roommates, and go to community college than you will have if you join the US military.

[neinsev]

I said what I said

[pissedoffman]

[skyinide]

[afronerdism]

This might be the funniest reply I’ve ever seen in my life

[thepioden]

[fozmeadows]

I AM WHEEZING

[skyinide]

PLEASE STOP REBLOGGING THIS OMFG

[fellator]

doesn't it piss you off that you have to find something to eat every single day. every one of them. just every day. you gotta eat something

[futileexercise]

[glowbhead]

"Some of those that work forces...."

[liberalsarecool]

Finland has a goal to improve the lives of its citizens, not just the shareholders.

Working three jobs is to survive is exactly how capitalism creates billionaires.

End homelessness by providing housing.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

And end rent price gouging for those who are barely staying housed!!

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[madgastronomer]

The USPS does not lose or spend billions a year. It was making a profit until a Republican Congress tried to sabotage it by forcing it to fund pensions for 80 years out. Now it's struggling to do that, of course. But that money doesn't evaporate, it goes into pension funds. Of course, the Republicans' ultimate goal is to eliminate the USPS so only private industry will deliver mail, so they keep on going after it, even though a postal service is specifically dictated in the Constitution. But that's what this claim is about.

[my-midlife-crisis]

He even tucks the thumb

oh boy

Welcome to the Fourth Reich dickheads. This is what you wanted. This is what you get.

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

🖕

His father is an undocumented Cuban. His mother denounced her U.S. citizenship and became a Canadian citizen, she still uses a Canadian passport for ID and travel. Neither parent registered Rafael Jr as a U.S. citizen at a U.S. consulate or embassy. Ted is an undocumented migrant and his father (a leader of the Domionists) has brought over a boatload of chain migrant relatives from Cuba.

The fucking nerve of this prick to try and end birthright citizenship while deporting tens of thousands of undocumented migrants is beyond astonishing. I guess he forgot about how Trump “birthered” him in 2016. Trump married two migrants who violated their visas and four out of five of his kids are anchor babies.

[depsidase]

[madgastronomer]

The USPS does not lose or spend billions a year. It was making a profit until a Republican Congress tried to sabotage it by forcing it to fund pensions for 80 years out. Now it's struggling to do that, of course. But that money doesn't evaporate, it goes into pension funds. Of course, the Republicans' ultimate goal is to eliminate the USPS so only private industry will deliver mail, so they keep on going after it, even though a postal service is specifically dictated in the Constitution. But that's what this claim is about.

[glowbhead]

And the service is so expensive because Congressional Republicans have been trying to enshitify and destroy the USPS by burdening it with excessive and ridiculous financial requirements.

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

[qwiddit]

[angel-bruises]

Look, I'm not a big fan of kids but can we PLEASE stop calling them things like "crotch goblins" and "spawn", it's fucking weird and ageist. Children are people too and they deserve respect. You can be childless by choice or annoyed by entitled parents and not be a dickhed about anything to do with children

[angel-bruises]

it's also not cute to comment things like "my anger issues could never" on videos of kids being gross/annoying/misbehaving. It's their first time on earth and they're new to everything. Most of the time it's about something developmentally appropriate. They need guidance and empathy

[mckitterick]

they're just learning how to human

we can either help them become better, happier people or we can perpetuate the worst of what people can become. I believe practicing kindness, empathy, and love is how we make the future better, especially when interacting with the still-forming people who'll shape that future

and guess what? treating folks well helps make us better, too

[glowbhead]

And stop with the "kiddos" as if they were human puppies.

[depsidase]