I view this as Naval commanders looking out for their personnel.

I’m quite sure a lot of the high level commanders here have very little actual investment in this “war” as they’ve seen how unhinged, random and scatterbrained the administration has been with foreign policy.

Imagine spending your life training for the most harrowing missions and highest-level tactics, and then being sent basically to a random country to attack for unspecified reasons, and then being told “Go send your multi-million dollar boats filled with irreplaceable sailors through that channel filled with mines so oil tankers can get around faster or something, don’t think about it. We promise we won’t pull out of this whole mess in a week bro. Promise.”

What exactly is an escort going to do for submerged mines anyway? Take pics? “Oh shit it blew up! Wow. Hope it’s not us next.”

It’s the next one: “Operation: Heckin Huge Chungus LMAO”

I have no idea if you’re referring to the meme or the massive pushback against it, considering it’s a day old.

I will take a different route here and remind everyone that the natives who did steal a limited number of guns, were fierce fighters who punched way above their weight before being disarmed by overwhelming odds. For their limited numbers and lack of training in firearms, lack of ammunition and support, they killed a LOT of settlers and soldiers, with and without guns. There’s a reason we name all our goddamn military weapons after native tribes, and it sure as shit ain’t for woke points.

If I’m going to be murdered by mask-wearing thugs in my own country for having an opinion, I will make them fucking remember me and I will be honored to be thought of in the same breath as the native americans who fought to the bitter end.

I want some future hovertank or winged death machine to be named “The Lefty Wokefighter”

I hope all of them, so they see that the overwhelming leftist/progressive response to a naive meme is pushing back and everyone uniting behind the idea that forcefully removing opposition will be a house-to-house bloodbath as we all have our guns pointed at the door. I will get on the roof with a sign for their fukkin satellites to see.

Tankies aren’t in favor of arming up seriously. One of them will buy an old Mosin Nagant and bring it to their clubhouse where they’re all wearing their favorite jumpsuits and red-star hats and they will all “ooh” and “aahh” at it and then they will march around while the anthem plays.

The real world requires far more serious consideration for contingencies.

Yah I stand by it 100%, if you can’t muster the will to even TRY for a future, you’re a worthless turd and I don’t want your poison infecting others who are willing to keep fighting, I want people who care about the future so we can rebuild some measure of community and a better future. You don’t want to have those kinds of values, and a lot of sheltered, asocial hermits in this post feel the same, so yah… I really hope you have the future you seem to want. I’m done, don’t worry I won’t reply or see any more of this.

It’s funny because I never even said “retirement” I just said to plan for your future and stop being nihilistic and thinking “I’m going to die before I’m 40 anyway.”

A lot of people feeling really unhappy at the entire message and that’s really telling about people’s anxiety right now.

I am glad you agree with me that you need to save money for potential expenses and future problems.

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You can’t shoot misinformation, but if they ever decide you commenting on Lemmy is evidence of being part of a terrorist cell (and they might) you will only benefit from enough of us declaring we have our shotguns pointed at the front door. (Misinformation isn’t going to break down your door, it will be people in masks.)

Time to get a lot harder and less cynical about protecting yourselves and your communities.

There is a highly performative and cynical segment of the left who occupy large parts of Lemmy and I love that this post is getting the amount of pushback that it is.

We are NOT in the same timeline we were a few years ago, the world is changing rapidly, and we need to change with it to survive.

Nobody seems to care about the MILLION PEOPLE who died in the first two months after cutting off USaid, I don’t really expect our species to care about anything anymore.

I will still fight for a better future and good outcomes, but I’ve seen just how dark and selfish our world is, and has always been, and I have no choice but to swallow the despair that we’re further from some kind of Star Trek utopia as we are from the extinction of the dinosaurs.

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I’m in the same boat but I still find ways to do it, way too late in life, because as I said above, you need to take your years-away future as seriously as what you’re going to eat tomorrow. It’s going to get harder and harder to keep the grind going and you will absolutely need some measure of savings in the future. As long as you’re making any money at all, even a few dollars here and there will help towards a better tomorrow.

They don’t care, their goals have nothing to do with pleasing American people or even securing a republican electoral mandate. They have no plan beyond smashing every piggy bank they can get their hands on, and they’ve been wildly successful while we’re all out here screaming about unjust military actions and Epstein.

They are getting everything they want and will face no repercussions past a few rats that won’t flee the ship fast enough when the sinking starts.

Speaking as an American resident, this country needs a fucking enema.

Considering the only people at risk of starving there are the migrant workers and indentured servants to royalty, then yeah, we should probably give a fuck about the innocent people who didn’t ask for this.