Tailored like a fresh paper bag. I dunno man there’s a weird trump ideation that made baggy ill fitting rack suits in vouge for a certain sect of people.
“I’m not religious, but I always felt I was put on the earth to do something specific. After that mission, I knew what it was.”
Of course this guy is a violent drunk and a conservative! This country has treated him like SHIT.
“No one who fights for this country overseas should ever have to fight for a job,” Barack Obama said last Veterans’ Day (2012)
After sixteen years in the Navy, his body filled with scar tissue, arthritis . . . he gets from his employer and a grateful nation:
Nothing. No pension, no healthcare for his wife and kids, no protection for himself or his family.
He’s taken that as a calling - and become yet another angry conservative grifter. Speaking engagements, media appearances, tweeting hateful bullshit for attention. Since claiming he was The Shooter (of Osama) he’s claimed to have been a key member in other SEAL missions that have been made into movies. Who knows the truth? Nobody is allowed to correct him, and that’s why he can build this brand for himself.
His shit stirring is always newsworthy and pushed in front of us. Anti-mask shit, transphobic shit. So I’m happy we can see his miserable personal failures, too.
I mean to be fair assault and public intox are about what i’d expect out of most military vets. It isn’t like the VA’s giving them good mental health assistance after they return home.
There are many traumatized combat troops out there, but most find help (despite the VA) and live lives out of the spotlight.
And most of the military is just a huge interstate money laundering ring for big military contracting companies wasting our tax dollars.
That said, mental health, pensions, and support systems by all measures need improving and we should all be pushing our congress to get off their asses and pay for it.
I’ve noticed quite a bit of information posted from sources i don’t really recognize. I usually try to find an AP article if i can since most outlets are just quoting them anyway.
Edit: people seem to think recognize = aware of. I don’t recognize AOL as a news source.
Seriously… can we normalize posting the breaker / source of the story rather than rewarding these journalists who repost and reword it? Lemmy has a problem Reddit had but was never willing to fix - this board design rewards bad news sources and sensationalism.
The same Algeria that has a 12.7% unemployment rate, a rising 8% inflation rate, and whose economy almost strictly relies on processing hydrocarbons?
$1.5 billion would be nice though. Based on the $5.1 trillion moved per day in 2016 according to the BIS, that will last about them about…25 and a half seconds worth of cross-border transactions on the international market!
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