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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Im sure many were not volunteers. In the same way you don't volunteer to work on that project at work.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Volunteered, aka voluntold

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I remember reading a piece from an army general who was saying that any soldier who had different political beliefs could simply opt not to march. This was about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and I can not find it now, but it would appear to me that this entire parade was trump fans. These clowns wanted to be there.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just as in any job, there's the chance of pressure from above and the side. If the squad, squad leaders, or even higher up would make life hell for non participants then they might just participate regardless of their belief.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So let the cowards suffer.

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What would you do if you were blackballed by your entire industry (not just your current workplace), along with field adjacent ones (thus rendering your ENTIRE means of earning a living) because you didn’t play along? Do you have a family to support, therefore making it harder to open your mouth, because if you say something, your children and elderly parents will starve to death because you become massively underemployed?

Bruh, it's the military. They aren't getting 'fired', they aren't getting their pay docked, and they definitely aren't getting blackballed from civilian jobs because they got a "Do not promote" on their file.

[–] BossDj@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But they (I'm the military) face being shunned by peers and for advancement at the least, and harassed and abused a possibility, and essentially "pushed" out.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I agree that it's a consideration that shouldn't be discarded. I'm just saying that it's not "You will be fired, forbidden from any job, and end up starving on the streets."

It's "You may be harassed by peers and superiors, and if you were thinking of making the military your career, that may no longer be an option."

[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I read their comment more as "Let anyone who didn't speak up to get excluded from Dear Leader's parade, if all they had to do was voice disagreement, suffer." rather than "Anyone who volunteers for the military is a coward(???) and deserves to suffer."

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 3 points 1 week ago
[–] Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Books are where it's at!

[–] Derpenheim@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

So that's why it was such a small parade lol. That's all they could get

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You'd think if they were True Believers(tm) they'd've put on a better show of it.

[–] imrighthere@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

As amusing as that thought is, I don't know that they'd've even made it out of Basic marching like that.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It says volunteered for. As in someone volunteered them for the parade.

[–] zaph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

English is absurd sometimes

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump: Which ones were bad, again?

Miller: We formed a cannon fodder regiment made of all the people who ruined your special day. We're calling it "Operation Get Behind the Darkies"

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago

Fucking windows 98... Get Bill Gates in here!

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 7 points 1 week ago

Did he really complain about his oown parade?!

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

It turns out that "classic rock" is not good for cadence.