• starlinguk@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    When you’re 60 and the choice is either a permanent contract for the army or 1 or 2 years elsewhere, you’re going to choose army.

    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      If an army is dumb enough to offer me a permanent position when I’m 60, I’d take it too (then immediately retire and live off the pension).

      • starlinguk@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Oh you will, you will. Trust me, young people.

        PS I’m not talking about the US military, because I’d rather live under a bridge for the rest of my life.

        • Zombie@feddit.uk
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          3 days ago

          Just because you sold your soul to the devil doesn’t mean others necessarily will.

          If anything, doing it in your 60s is even more morally reprehensible because you should have enough world experience by then to understand what militaries truly are. Both the atrocities they commit regularly on behalf of politicians and vested interests, and the lies and manipulation they perform during recruitment to get young people enlisted.

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        3 days ago

        You’re not a researcher depending on funding that barely exists anymore, I assume.