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99% of military walking around are not armed, in fact it would be particularly odd to see anyone but military police walking around armed. Like to the point if I saw that I'd call the military police. Especially off base.

I'm military and I support the decision to not serve us in uniform. I think it's probably a little misguided since most of us are office drones same as anyone else, but it's his store and I wasn't born in the military, it was my choice* to join.

*I wanted healthcare and to pay for college.

Lmfao "defending itself." Where's the Russian military right now pal? I, too, defend my home by attacking my neighbors.

Correct. I'll happily shill for the defensive alliance formed to ward off (the currently on display) Russian aggression. NATO would not exist if Russia weren't so nakedly attempting to rebuild the Soviet Union by force, an alliance that had already been litigated and abandoned by the smaller nations Russia pillaged for resources, this time without even pretending to be for the workers.

Edit: no amount of tankie brigading will convince me that Russia isn't the aggressor in the region. Imagine the brainrot required to think that the military that invaded Ukraine and is still currently there is the good team.

I remember the good old days when reddit managed to make a swastika one of the top google image results for EA Games or something, maybe Comcast.

Honestly I'm pretty proud of how well turned the ship around on gay rights. Like in the span of a decade there was like a 40% opinion swing on that. We're still not where we need to be and it seems like it's getting worse though tbh. I think Europe overtook us on that front because I feel much safer here in Germany being gay in public.

How (generally) genuinely nice and outgoing everyone is in the states. (Outside of the south where it tends to be a very fake in my experience.) In the states I'm mildly introverted, in Germany I'm usually one of the most outgoing in the room.

Our multicultural foods and stuff. You're never more than a stones throw from really good Mexican, Chinese, Thai, etc. food anywhere in the US.

Turning right on a red light, the European mind cannot comprehend it.

Air Conditioning.

Handicap accessibility.

Our national parks are unparalleled.

Probably a few other American gems I could think of if forced to.

All that being said I'm immigrating to Germany right now and the grass is very much greener over here. I have no desire to live in the US again. I'm definitely not proud of America anymore, but I am proud of a few things about America.

Man I just moved to Germany and the amount I hear "bitte?" because my conjugation and accent. Really proud of myself for managing a meeting setting up my account at the Stadtwerke all in German though.

I've figured out a trick with ein, eine, einen. It's a bit more expensive, but instead of "ein/e/n Bier," I say "zwei Bier." Works every time.

They are largely the result of scripts battling other scripts.

Yeah really risking life and limb 🙄

You're either a troll or you've had your brain freshly Zambonied, either way you're not worth the effort to debate.

We've only sent $71B by DOD accounting. We're giving them our old stuff that we would have disposed of and buying new stockpiles. In most cases we would have done this anyway.

Even if it were the case that we've spent $71B we otherwise would not have, that's a damn good deal. We're defeating our greatest geopolitical adversary for 5% of our military budget while hardly lifting a finger. Now that's cost cutting!

Cluster munitions are normally controversial but in this case I don't think they are. Cluster munitions are controversial because they leave tons of unexploded ordinance sitting around like landmines waiting for someone to die later, but that doesn't matter in this war in my opinion for two reasons. Number 1 it's Ukraine's land and if they think saturating it with little explosives they'll need to clean up later is a good thing to do that's their business. Number 2 Ukraine is covered in all sorts of UXO right now, including the somehow non-controversial literal land mines.

I'm sorry but no, reddit has consistently gotten worse over the years, to the point that I can't possibly imagine what you mean when you say it got better.