WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Lagers in Springfield
is the American blood is a cheap blood?
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Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I've never seen him this patriotic. It truly is a thing to behold!
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
I we yanks are coaxing it out of him.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
This is why I recommended Greggs to Guspendy, not Gusty Spence because that would be contradictory to the tricolour
@linebaugh
@linebaugh
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
You, a fed grass
An older, foolish cycle of a self, chucky a la from Style Mile!
An older, foolish cycle of a self, chucky a la from Style Mile!
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
For once - it happens - I agree with gus on a matter of substance (I can't cosign, yunno, not giving a shit about the occasional kid buried in Arlington, tho certainly yeah the disproportionate coverage of that over mass civilian death was/is crazy if not exactly surprising)
U.S. hasn't instituted draft since Vietnam precisely bc Americans by + large think our blood is too expensive to spill in wars against non-existential threats, and/or we're against those wars for moral and/or pragmatic reasons. Actual blood cost of post-Vietnam wars borne by quite small % of population, generally not including the families of policymakers who send other ppl to war. None of this is news to anyone.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
Also Woodrow Wilson was a terrible, deeply racist shitbag who among other things, resegregated the federal govt and strongly promoted Lost Cause mythology (probably its most important proponent) directly leading to the rebirth of the KKK, but the League of Nations tbf was a pretty good idea even if it wound up not working out.
sus
Moderator
Yeah American military obviously always drew on lower classes to bulk out its infantries, but that seems even more so the case today. GI bill stuff is amazing, get those kids educated, and I personally know two guys who grew up dirt-poor, always caught up in trouble with the law—going into military best thing that ever happened to them, straightened them out + got them into college, welcome to the middle class. But that's in relative peacetime, and if blood is being shed, its theirs, i.e. any nice incentive-for-the-disadvantaged we pad military service with is also something that further distorts demographics.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
That almost looks like the build-up to a choreographed musical number.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Alan Smith, what a donkey
sufi
lala
this is btw the uk government endorsed britishness https://www.gov.uk/government/news/guidance-on-promoting-british-values-in-schools-published
i would not characterise any of those values as british at all
i would mentionn being enthusiastic about shaking hands and unashamed public farting, not much else apart from eating swine but not dogs or cats