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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    People always go on about how the armed forces hate Trump.

    They do?

    My impression has always been that some of the military hates him, but it’s a very small handful.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
      4·
      2 hours ago

      My impression has always been that it’s a shitshow.

      • Military vertical culture is “fuck your opinion, do your job” or “failure to obey orders.” Refusing illegal orders is a theoretical training seminar that covers examples like sexual favors and cleaning out the bosses car.
      • Military horizontal culture is “I’m just here to do my job, eventually go to school” and “failure to report.”

      There’s not really any room to hate Trump. I mean… go ahead, hate him… They have about the same regard for that as they would have for any conservative members hating Obama. They don’t want to hear it, unless it’s just you and your bud shooting shit on a long watch. You do your job, that’s it.

      High-ranking members get disgruntled and choose to retire or whatever. That only weakens the reserve of people who aren’t just blindly following orders.

      They aren’t taught to have opinions. They’re taught to stand at attention so that someone else can breathe down their neck and talk shit unrelentingly. They’re taught to breathe the farts in deep, until they start seeing the shenanigans as tough love.