I know that most of you won't believe this when I say it but the US Military is one of the most aggressively progressive forces in American culture.
Go look up when they desegregated.
When they enacted equal pay
When LGBTQ persons were allowed to serve openly
Every social justice change in the American culture has been preceded by the US Military.
To paraphrase my original First Sergeant: there ain't no skin color but olive drab. Their ain't no gender but soldier. When you're neck deep in the shit and taking fire, you ain't gonna care whose dick the soldier next to you was sucking last night so you best get over it now.
Says someone who never served the military. Octavia are you ranting on a post you have 0 knowledge and experience about again? Did you even try to enlist in the military or did the comfort of your surroundings and fear of being away from that comfort zone, and the selfless act of putting your life on the line for those that don't give a shit about you prevented you from joining?
Experience and knowledge dear. Again so.ething you will not gain if you do not participate. Doesn't that have any credit? Then, how much credit will your opinion have? How dare you speak for the soldiers when you never been one of them? How dare you?!
I see "If I was in combat I wouldn't care if the soldier next to me was gay, straight, bi or something else" and "I wouldn't want them in the military anyway." Instead of "I don't know shit of what I am talking about" and "I just want to include my LGBT agenda somewhere in this post". Now more honesty will be appreciated.
There is a way how you can speak for yourself, but another about how you will like to impose your believes and understanding of how things should be. Both start with "i" I even included them in my example because I am that nice :)
If they didn't, segregation would still be a thing in the military and in civilian life.
It didn't end because tye-die hippies passed a joint around and sang Kumbaya.
Well yes. But it was also women who did that. I think at that time, almost the entire body of the white people in America were universally racist regardless of gender.
I always get choked up seeing this picture. Had a friend of the family who was one of the first marines to storm Iwo Jima. The US had 28,000 casualties including 6800 men who died there. My friend died with almost a pound of shrapnel he received there, still in him. R.I.P. JB.
You made a dig on gun owner men of imgflip.
I turned it back on you, adding in your sperm digesting proclivities
And then you basically said the same thing I just said
And to boot, you think it happened some other way
IDIOT
No, in New Zealand, of course where I am. Eastern Standard Time.
and no, not normally on at that time, but fell asleep in my easy chair at 8pm and woke up ~3:30am
I do undestand how difficult it must be for someone whose miniscule braincase is only matched by his diminutive nutsack to comprehend even the simplest things, but try and scroll back and read what I said S-L-O-W-L-Y