• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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    So the ones turning up still are just the ones that don’t have any moral objection to it? How reassuring…

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      a) Those moral objections aren’t going to be worth much when you get put in a high pressure moment by your shithead bosses and your training kicks in and you’re just following orders because everything happened so fast

      b) These soldiers are human beings who have a fundamental human rights not to be enslaved to their job. If serving in Donald Trump’s army is causing them psychological torment (and how could it not), they should be allowed to leave.

      c) If enough people leave, it’s going to start to degrade the capacity of the American government to martial marshall force, and that’s a good thing for us.

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    Sometimes when you feel a way it’s because things are that way.

    For example the other night I ate a funky taco and I felt like my colon was full of diarrhea. It turns out that not long after I discovered it was indeed full of diarrhea.

  • thecoffeehobbit@sopuli.xyz
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    Gastrointestinal rights hotline?

    (Yes I can infer what it’s about but as non-American I have zero idea what it concretely stands for…)

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      Non-American as well, but I believe GI means “General Infantry”, but in use GI means “Army Man/Soldier” so it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

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        it doesn’t really matter what the letters stand for.

        This is American English we’re talking about here, so of course the answer is ridiculously convoluted and involves everyone getting it wrong for so long that wrong eventually became right

        It was originally an initialism used in U.S. Army paperwork for items made of galvanized iron.[2] The earliest known instance in writing is from either 1906[3] or 1907.[2]

        During World War I, U.S. soldiers took to referring to heavy German artillery shells as “G.I. cans”.[2][3] During the same war, “G.I.”, reinterpreted as “government issue”[2] or “general issue”,[3] began being used to refer to any item associated with the U.S. Army,[3] e.g., “G.I. soap”.[3] Other reinterpretations of “G.I.” include “garrison issue” and “general infantry”.[3]

        The earliest known recorded instances of “G.I.” being used to refer to an American enlisted man as a slang term are from 1935.[2] In the form of “G.I. Joe” it was made better known due to it being taken as the title of a comic strip by Dave Breger in Yank, the Army Weekly, beginning in 1942.[2] A 1944 radio drama, They Call Me Joe, reached a much broader audience. It featured a different individual each week, thereby emphasizing that “G.I. Joe” encompassed U.S. soldiers of all ethnicities.[4] They Call Me Joe reached civilians across the U.S. via the NBC Radio Network and U.S. soldiers via the Armed Forces Radio Network. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower would notably reference the term “G.I. Joe,” who he described as the main hero of World War II, in his May 1945 V-E address.

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        Yeah they should just *ill the protesters more humanely /s

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          Why are you censoring the word kill? Are you a child?

          We can use big boy words on the internet, this isn’t the classroom.

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            No need to be this consescending.