People can still make choices even within a particular system. Plenty of other people chose not to become nazi storm troopers living in the same material conditions.

What kind of apologist bullshit is this? Just following orders is not an excuse.

Education is unattainable now for kids who grow up in poverty. You go from the prospect of living at home while working at Walmart and having no future, to a promise of getting job training, health care (such as it is), room and board, and a pension. Where the fuck else are you getting a pension as a kid who grew up in poverty? Maybe as a cop. The military is a way out for many.

Wow a way out of poverty is to kill other people you consider less worthy and force them into further poverty. People join ICE in order to escape poverty too. Or is it too much when you get to experience the smallest amount of pain your empire does to others?

You should listen to the kids who enlisted pre-911 talk about it. They literally say they did it to go to college, not war. Things are not quite as innocent now, but I seriously doubt the current enlistees thought Asshat Hegseth was in their future.

I don't care. 9-11 was a drop in the bucket compared to the millions yours have killed and still have the entitlement to have the entire world cry for them.

And let’s be real, home defense against whatever, including any pot shots by any successes on the N Korean front is nice.

DPRK has not once attacked anyone but your country has attacked every region ever in the past 100 years. What the FUCK do you mean defence against DPRK?

To say it’s 100% bad is ignorant. There are few 100%s with people.

It is 100% bad. What is the point of the military otherwise, if not to kill others? Amerika has not been attacked once and has always been the rabid dog attacking others.

What is largely bad and a significant piece of the gross overspending are the contractors. They rake it in while military families can find themselves on food stamps. Bernie breaks it down if you’re at all interested in details.

Contractors scamming the government is the only good thing coming out of it. I don't care about military families, they can fucking die. You think the world needs to get on their knees, salute and scream "thank you for your service!!" ??

And Bernie is a zionist who has no issue with killing people in the global south.

This is what it means to be an Amerikan; fully self-absorbed, entitled and considers themselves more important than anyone else. Why else is 1 dead Amerikan more horrible than a thousand in the "some desert"?