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NeoTokyo 10 points ago +11 / -1

See here's the thing, the military is a job. If you're gonna take a job for ideological reasons then that's on you. But the biggest reason for me joining was financial, in addition to me wanting to own up to my beliefs.

Realistically, I wasn't in danger all that often. In all the years I was in. The times I was in real danger I could probably condense to a few days tops, probably even just hours really. The majority of my time in the military I spent mainly working out, playing video games, or cleaning. Training surprisingly takes up a pretty short amount of your time and deployments are just really long stretches of boredom and paranoia, with brief moments of chaos.

This was back in the early 2000s too when the war was in full swing. Now deployments even for infantry units are mainly booze cruises(MEU'S) across the Pacific, Mediterranean/Red Sea or a Black Sea rotation. If you're really unlucky you get sent on a UDP to Okinawa and you basically pretend you're in Nam for 6 months. Shit sucks.

But overall, the military was a great gig especially if you come from a poorer background. You get money for college and other life long skills and benefits. You form lifelong friendships that transcend even familial relationships. Yes, obviously there's the risk of dying or getting injured. But you know that going in, so if you're willing to risk it for the biscuit. Then it's not a bad deal. This is also assuming you're even a combat arms MOS, to begin with. I went infantry so this applied to me. The vast majority of the military never sees combat, heck a lot of people never even leave the US, to begin with. To those guys, it's basically a civilian job in uniform. They get the same exact pay and benefits as we grunts did, minus the combat pay now though. That one I think changed under Obama, if you're not actually in combat, you don't get that extra pay bump.

When it was all said and done and I got out. I got my GI Bill and free healthcare from the VA(this VA is trash but at least I didn't have to worry about healthcare emergencies) & preferential hiring due to my veteran status. The Post 911 GI Bill is straight-up unfairly good. If you're actually serious about your education, you can basically get to go to any university not only for free but actually, get paid for it. I had friends that ended up going to Berkely and other really prestigious state universities and in addition to their GI Bill benefits, were getting tens of thousands in state and federal education grants. I had a bunch of C's when I took some college courses prior to enlisting so I only got accepted to the lower tier state universities, so the state and federal grants I got were also peasant tier. I think a friend of mine who went to UCI was getting like $18k in grants annually while I only got $6k. But it was free and I got paid around $3k a month from my regular GI Bill just to be a student. So I didn't have to worry about student loans while I was getting my degree and had a pretty decent amount of drinking/party money.

But yeah, if you look at it from an ideological perspective. Then sure MIC or whatever might be a turn-off. But looking at it from a self-improvement and upward mobility opportunity standpoint. Hands down the best decision I made.

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NeoTokyo 9 points ago +15 / -6

Have you considered joining the military? particularly the Marine Corps?

Even before the Left-wing craziness that envelops the country today, I had to deal with a lot of shit being a Bush supporter. It was similar to now where the media basically just shat on him 24/7 and society just demonized anyone who supported him. Not as extreme as now, but similar.

So I decided to put my money where my mouth was and enlisted. Since I supported a President that got us into a war. It was only fair I fight in that war.

Turns out the Marine Corps is based as fuck, and around 2014-2015 when there were talks of Trump running for President until I got out in 2017. It was basically one massive MAGA rally.

Once I was out, dealing with the negativity was pretty easy. I was so much more mentally resilient from the Marine Corps that it's just funny watching people rage at you for expressing your opinion. Especially knowing too that if they decided to swing at you, you could probably demolish them with ease.

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NeoTokyo 21 points ago +22 / -1

If you're cunning enough, you could try and convert them without them ever catching on to you. I tried doing this in college, though I had little success. It did help me identify kindred spirits though who were hiding among the student body. Keeping their views secret from the ever-watchful Woke Inquisition.

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NeoTokyo 18 points ago +19 / -1

Hey if they wanna erase themselves from the culture that's not really my problem or fault.

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NeoTokyo 18 points ago +19 / -1

Just like LandO'Lakes. The best way to be culturally sensitive is to pretend that minorities don't exist.

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NeoTokyo 2 points ago +3 / -1

How is T_D these days? I used to frequent it, but the people there are just too serious.

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NeoTokyo 6 points ago +6 / -0

The thing is though if you look at how Leftists operate this isn't unusual. They frequently turn on each other and will often throw each other under the bus if they fail to meet the ever changing standard of what is acceptable for their "movement".

This isn't a new phenomenon, just look at the French revolution for instance. A good number of the original leaders and key members eventually got executed by other revolutionists.

Same story with the Soviet Union, they purged members from their own ranks for assumed slights or infractions.

Hell even now, if you're not "Woke" enough the mob turns on you just as quickly as it would turn on someone they would consider an ideological enemy. Just look at JK Rowling, she was their love child until she put her foot down on the women being women. Now she's public enemy #1 in their eyes.

The point being, just because a Leftist might agree with you on some things doesn't mean as a whole they agree with you. Ultimately you're still their enemy. There will never be an agree to disagree with them. You might tolerate them, but they will never tolerate you.

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NeoTokyo 39 points ago +40 / -1

Looks like you’ve got yourself an insurgency. They’re mainly there just waiting for y’all to mess up and run to the reddit admins, who will be more than happy to ban the sub

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NeoTokyo 6 points ago +7 / -1

He’s trying to do as much damage as he can before he gets forced out. Since even he knows that after the shit show that’s been his term, he won’t get re-elected. Not even his aunt Pelosi pulling the strings, can unfuck his public image here in CA. Uber and Lyft possibly leaving CA is really what turned the majority against him.

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NeoTokyo 3 points ago +4 / -1

Oh it is, they just don’t report it. It’s not just between the 13 percenters tho, they’re pretty much irrelevant in LA now. It’s mainly the Latino gangs that are mopping up what’s left of the Crips and Bloods.

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NeoTokyo 19 points ago +20 / -1

Oh there’s a bullshit protest/riot going on here too. No wonder I can’t get any fucking sleep since the helicopters keep flying over my place ever 3 godamn minutes.

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NeoTokyo 37 points ago +38 / -1

Best part is they quote UK law claiming it allows them to do this. When it in fact it does the complete opposite. What their doing is literally illegal.

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NeoTokyo 16 points ago +17 / -1

Yep, spent some time in the sandbox. I recognize a lot of the tactics they're using are exactly the same as the ones insurgents used on us.

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NeoTokyo 2 points ago +4 / -2

Honestly with how cucked the mainstream sources of entertainment are. You could publish your work and make a decent profit since most of society is sick of this woke trash being peddled in our direction. But since creators are afraid of being blacklisted by these major publishers, they play along.

RAZÖRFIST I think got into this and wrote a novel. https://arkhavencomics.com/product/the-long-moonlight/ I haven't read it yet, but the guy is highly critical of Woke culture. So I'm pretty sure his book is at the very least will not a bunch of woke trash. If not critical of wokeness in general.

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NeoTokyo 18 points ago +19 / -1

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Every single time a guy claims to be a male feminist, you can start the clock on when a rape allegation will surface.

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NeoTokyo 7 points ago +8 / -1

In college in one of the university required social classes I had to take. The professor who kept going on and on about white man bad and the only reason minorities are poor is because white man. Got asked why it was that Asians are outperforming whites, his response.

“Asians are fast becoming the new white people”

So yes, they quite literally rebrand any minority that doesn’t fall inline as “white”

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NeoTokyo 7 points ago +8 / -1

There’s a theory that something like that is the reason why the AI in System Shock went postal. Because in the beginning it’s always referred to as a “he” but then when you meet it. It’s now female. So the theory is that the AI rebelled when it was forcefully turned from a male into a female by its owners.

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NeoTokyo 2 points ago +3 / -1

I always just use a burner temp email for forums.

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NeoTokyo 2 points ago +3 / -1

What’s the general plot?

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NeoTokyo -1 points ago +1 / -2

African countries could try and lie but their lies could quickly be debunked since organizations could simply look at the other data and see that it’s bs.

North Korea on the other hand is a hermit country, no one goes in or out with out the explicit say so of the North Korean government. So you don’t really have a way of fact checking them.

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NeoTokyo 0 points ago +1 / -1

I don't understand your line of questioning.

Are you asking where smart people come from originally?

I assumed you meant smart people in general. As in people who can process information and problem solve at a higher degree than the people they are being compared to.

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NeoTokyo 0 points ago +1 / -1

I highly doubt the people running the site are also the ones collecting the data. Chances are they’re simply compiling and publishing data that is provided to them. So in this case that info would more than likely come from the North Korean government.

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NeoTokyo 0 points ago +1 / -1

According to WebMD parentage and culture have more to do with it.

https://www.webmd.com/baby/features/what-makes-kids-intelligent

Smart people breed smart children, then cultivate that intelligence and their child will eventually repeat the cycle by picking a smart mate and breeding a smart child.

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