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Tbh, the fact you even mentioned veterans is really fuckin weird to most people.
What makes them any more deserving than anyone else? Because they killed brown people for oil money?
Just shows the level of brainwashing going on
It's not that I think veterans are better people or anything. It's just that if I were to literally risk my life for some organization (such as the US government), I would expect that organization to show some fucking gratitude when I need help.
I really don't see why making their own decisions to risk their lives for money makes them any more deserving than a single mother or what have you
In fact, you could argue that the single mother is more deserving of everyone's help because all she did was exist; she didn't participate in destabilising half the planet
Am I not correct?
It functions better as a foot in the door. R's love* veterans (*on paper). Get them benefits and work from there.
Incremental progress baby. It's unsatisfying and miserable, and still better than the alternative.
I'm probably not the best person to make this point because I would never join the military, but if anyone is joining for the money, they've got to be monumentally stupid because the money isn't that good, especially for what they have to deal with. People join because they want to "serve their country" and be part of something larger than themselves. They don't see themselves as destabilizing the planet or anything like that--quite the opposite.
I don't see military service as particularly noble, but it's what people in the military are taught to, and more to the point, it's the truth according to the US government. I'm just asking for Congress to legislate as if they believe their own propaganda. Well, really I'm asking them to take care of everyone in need, but if they would at least serve the people who served them, it would be a start.
MANY people join for college tuition and medical care. The number joining out of sheer patriotism or wanting to "serve their country" is much smaller than you think.
I suppose you're right. It's fucked up what we make people do just to get what a lot of countries give away for free.
The media loves to mention it for sympathy points but I think it's only being brought up here to point out the hypocrisy of the right who often speak highly of veterans in public but really don't give two shits about them.
Your take is so far off the mark. Conservative voices have screamed for decades about supporting the troops as some form of projected nationalism. This was all just fine until Trump came along and started being horrid to veterans, especially those who were captured, injured, or killed. Then Conservatives started becoming directly hostile towards veteran families.
The point here is that Conservatives chanted the chant but never got behind making life better for veterans. The person you are responding to simply pointed out this discordance.