This may also be why military enlistment is plummeting, and they're having to beg people with cash and other goodies to join up with the ICE Nazis
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I'm sure that's a part of it for military recruitment at least. If you want an all volunteer military, you can't do things that naturally go against the nature of most people, who do in fact mostly just want to do good (even if that involves some violence, fuck knows I'm nice but can be violent AF).
aug 17, 2025, 3:21 am • 3 0 • view
Plus like, number two reason I personally would never touch the military (#1 reason being I'm a pacifist), is that there's no way in hell I'm joining anything where I have to follow anyone unquestioningly. I've met way too many abjectly stupid and/or corrupt authority figures to be into that idea.
aug 17, 2025, 9:37 am • 2 0 • view
My mother is a narcissist, she barks orders. I learned pretty early on in life that the best strategy for dealing with it was outright defiance. I'd have been kicked out of the military if I'd bothered to join, and they wouldn't have taken me anyways, never was healthy enough.
aug 17, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
My mom is both a ditz and has mental disorders untreated for decades as nobody wanted to admit she was weird and so would attack me as a "problem child" when *I* pointed out she was weird. Dealing with seeming nonsense I was expected to somehow follow anyway on pain of punishment was my childhood.
aug 17, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Combined with being a bullying victim with teachers who protected the bullies, nothing* adults did or said made sense to me, heh. I would be drummed out of the military in like all of two seconds as a result, the first moment I tried to stand up for myself or question any seemingly illogical thing.
aug 17, 2025, 5:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep, that's pretty much where I would have been at. Drummed out the second I questioned, which would have been about 2 seconds into my service, lol. I never would have considered myself a bullying victim because the other kids didn't do it to me, I'd have hurt them, but teachers bullied me.
aug 17, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
It took me a long time to realize that adults around me were bullying me, I was an adult myself before I came to that realization. I did everything I could to make sure my own kid didn't get bullied by the system or other kids. He didn't hit as often or as early, he waited for them to get real mean.
aug 17, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't have kids and likely never will, but I would have been a terror for teachers and other parents (because ultimately it's parents who failed to teach their kids not to bully) if my kid ever got bullied lol. And of course no way in hell my kid would hear the end of it if *they* bullied anyone.
aug 17, 2025, 7:16 pm • 0 0 • view
My son's high school principal (big guy, over 6ft, weighed at least 250lbs) thought he could get loud with me, once. He thought he could use his size to back me up, once. Then looked astonished when I didn't move a muscle and just got louder (all 5'3" 130lbs of me). He retired the next year.
aug 17, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Incidentally, after I wrote a legalese letter threatening to sue, not just the school district, or the school, but everyone who had ever laid eyes on my son in their individual capacities, when my kid was in elementary and bullied & no one had stopped it. That principal retired the next year too. 🤗
aug 17, 2025, 7:26 pm • 2 0 • view