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The negativity isn’t anti-military service. It’s because this specific expansion at this particular time for this current administration is all very ridiculous.

I think most people still are in support of the idea if military service even if that job may entail death.



People should look up what the US military has been up to for the past half a century if they think this particular time is an abberation.


However you choose to look at it, military service is still widely respected as a duty to the nation and a place were patriotic sentiments exist.

I’m not debating the right or wrong of it, but it just is so. I’m pretty sure the entire history of militaries have been full of people enlisting to die and kill on behalf of some random politician they don’t necessarily agree with. There’s nothing particularly notable happening differently.

But Trump being the clown he is, this is laughable.


Yeah just think of how great it would've been to serve in the past decades. Oh wait you'd still end up killing people in the Mideast - half way around the world, and in turn getting killed by them, all in endeavors that ultimately make the world a worse and less safe place. And that certainly includes America.




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