• 0 Posts
  • 14 Comments
Joined 5 months ago
Cake day: March 12th, 2025
  • HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.world•Litany Against ConsumerismEnglish
    1·
    15 days ago

    An emergency fund for emergencies. Save up for new tires for your car when they go flat on the highway. Medical bills for when you get injured and put out of work for a week. For when your water main gets clogged from all that bacon grease you pour down the sink, and you have to pay $2,000 to get the pipes dug up and cleaned out.

    Save for a better future where you can own a house and some land. Save up to travel somewhere you’ve never been so you can learn about a different culture and better help how you think about the world. There’s an endless list of beneficial things you can do with money if you actually save it up instead of short-sightedly spending every paycheck you get right as it hits your bank account.

  • HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Razor bumps can now get you kicked out of the marines. Black men will likely suffer the mostEnglish
    281·
    1 month ago

    It feels ignorant when I see people blanket bash service members like this. Military members in the US are primarily poor, desperate kids with no social safety nets who are just looking for a stable way to get their life together. You can lurk around military forums, chatrooms, tiktok pages, YouTube channels or wherever and see that service members almost unanimously HATE the military itself. There’s the saying: “Love the clowns, hate the circus”.

    Most cops are pussies who would never enlist in the military. More often veterans actually become some type of civilian DoD employee. Working inventory at a CIF, or being a counter clerk at the VA.

    If they worked in a certain field while they were in, they can usually go right back to that field once they leave the military. Army S6 guys usually go work IT, Transporters go become truck drivers, medics become EMTs, etc. Even MPs tend to work in private security rather than police force once they get out, the private sector is just better pay and safer. I’ve even seen guys get out and go work for Smith & Wesson just from the gun experience. I’ve only seen one scumbag try and become a cop after he got out of the military, and he actually didn’t last long before they fired him.

    Anyways most vets aren’t becoming cops, and most vets I know fucking hate cops.