• AFaithfulNihilist@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Nice.

    When I was in high school and I replied to the appearance of an army recruiter in my social studies class I objected to his presence there with the phrase, “surely you don’t think it’s appropriate for you to be here recruiting impressionable youth to bomb brown people in the name of fascism?” My teacher made me stand in the hallway and gave me a “0” on the days quiz. There was no fucking quiz.

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    9 months ago

    Their recruiting offices were set up directly across the street from my daughter’s high school right next to the Burger King where all the seniors went to lunch.

    Shady as fuck

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      9 months ago

      They also exclusively target lower to middle class areas because rich people have options, and the capitalist oligarchy love that poverty to cannon fodder pipeline.

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    9 months ago

    Yup. Although it’s not generally 1 per school. More like 1 per 10 schools. No different than job recruiters for any other field.

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        9 months ago

        Prey? It’s a path into the middle class for many people. Even during the forever wars there was 2/3rds of the force that never deployed.

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          9 months ago

          Be it as it may, it’s kinda sad that it is how you say. “Go out and fight against other humans to get yourself out of poverty”.

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    9 months ago

    I went to highschool and university in the US - I was lucky that I got a scholarship and that covered pretty much all my tuition costs.

    But I had a friend, one year older than me, who joined and served in the US army for something like 2 years just so he could get his university costs covered and to save some money for living expenses.

    It may not be intentional, but the high cost of higher education is an excellent recruiting tool for the US military.