• PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Soldiering is a middle class profession currently

    https://www.military-ranks.org/army-pay

    Starts at $24k per year. Not to worry, though, once you’re a sergeant with 14 years experience it caps out at $48k, and once you’ve reached literally the highest rank of enlisted man it is possible to achieve, of which there is only one in the entire army, it goes up to $118k!

    (You do get a signing bonus, too, which since you’re a middle-class person and not being taken advantage of, you’ll stick into an investment account to start saving up for your middle-class life, instead of buying a new Dodge Charger. All those new recruits with their investment accounts are practically a meme at this point.)

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      1 day ago

      Bless.

      Motherfuckers around here parrotting lies just because they mesh well with their pre-establushed hate boner.

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      1 day ago

      Starts at $24k per year.

      Plus food, housing, medical. More bennies if you knock up one of the local strippers. Money for education, sweet home loan terms, preferential hiring…

      Meanwhile, full-time work at Federal minimum is $15k a year. Biggest benefit is that you get to keep your soul.

      • Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone
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        15 hours ago

        This also means more to lose if you try to disobey what you think is an unlawful order but when you get to the court martial it’s found to be lawful. Weird, it’s like we understand that these kind of imbalanced power dynamics make people feel like they just have to accept what they’re given and can’t say no in some contexts but not others…

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            14 hours ago

            Weird, it’s like we understand that these kind of imbalanced power dynamics make people feel like they just have to accept what they’re given and can’t say no in some contexts but not others…

            But it’s okay because these people “sold their souls” which I guess you say to mean they’ve forfeited their humanity?

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              14 hours ago

              I respect the pigs that kill themselves.

              You’re still so concerned about yourself, and not at all about the people you chose to harm for a bigger paycheck.