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My take away is that the people who are in there just for the GI Bill are the people who are in there for the shortest period of time. So the people who maintain the culture of the organization and are the most loyal are these JROTC (which ofc is geographically deep south) type people or the ritzier officer class. It would be a mistake to treat “just killing for my degree” as the typical situation, as veteran-friendly orgs like More Perfect Union do
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“I just wanted to pay for college!” is kind of a bullshit argument when you keep in mind that the alternative is taking on student loan debt rather than participating in the deeply evil shit that the US military is doing.
Also it’s a fucking ridiculous tradeoff: Are you willing to shoot an innocent person/drone strike weddings for four years all so you can fuck around in Excel for the rest of your working life?
“They were going to put me in jail for 30 days 😔😔😔” is patently ridiculous but somehow derpy, purehearted US troop narratives still scan to people?? Make it make sense
Needless to say Mr. Tooze did not frame this as eliminating the potential for GI resistance
https://archive.ph/2x19K another good article related.
I can’t for the life of me get this to open on my device, which is strange since this is not the noided one, but in the meantime, I remembered the Tooze article https://adamtooze.com/2023/07/25/chartbook-229/
middle class hitlerites, and it’s the child of registered nurse who is also a single mom.
Can the child of a single mom nurse not be a hitlerite? I mean, what else are we supposed to call people who run the imperial death squads?
Minor point about the quintiles.
They are not misrepresented. The range of different quintiles is usually different. The point is, each quintile contains the name number of data points (neighbourhoods in this case).
So 20% of neighbourhoods have an average between 0 and 33k. And 20% of neighbourhoods have an income between 65k and 246k.
