• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Wouldn’t that be great if I could have the faith in our military leaders to mock trump instead of saving their own positions and paychecks by bending the knee.

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    They actually showed bits of both speeches on TV news around here (I’m not in the US) and these guys are like a clown version of the Nazis.

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    “And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you just feel nice and loose, OK, because we’re all on the same team. And I was told that, sir, you won’t hear – you won’t hear a murmur in the room. I said, we got to loosen these guys up a little bit. So you just have a good time.”

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    They just adapted incel / Maga recruitment methods to try and reel in the tops of the world, for real? Those work on incel / Maga, because they’re downtrodden and insecure, but arrogant, want not to be, but don’t have the insight or the ego to permit self improvement.

    People don’t get to the top with a personal failings like that, being angry at the world, types, don’t ever get to top jobs, they were talking to grownups, thinking their magical words will cause them a world wide army. Holy fk I can’t decide if thier levels of God syndrome are hilarious, in the face of the level of danger this presents. I mean, they’re not dangerous in the sense that no one would listen to them, other than the dickheads like them. But, damn!

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    I wonder how much this meeting cost the tax payers. It wasn’t free to fly all the generals to this location and put them up for however long it was required.

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    I was kinda hoping when the orange titbag told them if they didn’t like what was said they could leave, that they would all rise up and rush the stage to show them what real soldiers think of loudmouth pussies

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      They wouldn’t dare risk their pensions or their cushy post retirement job at a military contractor corporation.

      But don’t worry. When and if this regime falls, they’re going to write SO MANY books about patriotism and fighting the good fight and how they secretly hated having to mulch all those civilian protesters and how it’s unfair to put them on trial for following orders.

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        I used to work for a software company that spent its time chasing military contracts. We had a whole corridor with offices for the retired colonels we had hired who never came into work. I had a friend in HR so I knew what everybody in the company made; the colonels all made in the neighborhood of $200,000 a year. Not a bad no-work gig at all, especially when that money was on top of their pensions. I can’t imagine the kind of money the fucking generals and admirals pull.

        Us programmers used to sneak into the colonels’ offices to “work” – which really meant “nap” – confident that we would be undisturbed. I especially liked it because I didn’t have to hold in my farts.

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    So something about this I don’t get. Didn’t they relax the standards because they couldn’t get enough people for Cyber Security Command? Do they just think these people are gonna magically start working out?

    Oh that’s right, they don’t think.

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    I’d like to see the first line changed to “Everybody’s calling them” because

    1. The generals didn’t get to be generals without knowing when to keep their mouths shut.

    2. You don’t have to be military to enjoy this crack. I’m definitely going to be part of that everybody.

    And also

    1. Trump’s favorite way of manufacturing and spreading lies is to say “Everybody’s” and “People are” saying whatever it is.