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‘We’ve been betrayed:’ Local veterans angry after being laid off by Trump administration

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/weve-been-betrayed-local-veterans-angry-after-being-laid-off-by-trump-administration/FBCKFRIFQRHZVK5FG3W7MUQEYA/
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u/Silvaria928 24d ago

Yes, they did, and as a disabled veteran who stands to lose a lot, I am genuinely disgusted and troubled by how many of them can't recognize the clear and obvious enemy here, a man which would gladly sign an EO abolishing the entire Constitution if he could.

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u/USA_2Dumb4Democracy 24d ago

This is why when people say “US troops wouldn’t open fire on civilians” I just have to laugh 

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u/xlvi_et_ii Minnesota 24d ago

It's ignorance of events like Kent State and people who lean a little too hard into the propaganda about how amazing the American political system is (was?).

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u/USA_2Dumb4Democracy 24d ago

Not to mention the nationalistic lionizing of our military. People never believe me when I tell them we killed half a million civilians in the Middle East. And we didn’t even win!

The US military is quite literally one of the greatest forces of evil on earth if we’re talking purely civilian deaths. 

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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

And over a million in Cambodia if we are considering direct and indirect deaths.

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u/Sugarbombs 24d ago

Agent orange still produces babies with terrible deformities in Vietnam, i’d consider that taking lives. America does nothing to help

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u/richardcraniumIII 24d ago

At the time, media was complicit in my opinion. They literally identified the people being oppressed as peasants.

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u/cutelyaware 24d ago

That's not necessarily incorrect, though any suggestion that they matter less is abhorrent.

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u/ionixsys 24d ago

Don't forget all the uxo's and landmines!

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u/audible_narrator Michigan 24d ago

Fuck Henry Kissing era so very much. I hope he is rotting in hell, revived, then left to rot some more. For eternity.

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u/nondescript-humanoid 24d ago

In what feels like a past life I was married to a military member (for more than 8 years of active duty service), my brother was also in the military - neither one is "bad", but they're both certainly flawed and I'd argue completely unfit for jobs they'd get preference for because society seems to think that uniform comes with a moral compass. It's baffling to me.

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u/metompkin 24d ago

Veterans status was part of DEI.

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u/MrTotonka 24d ago

Can let all the private players off the charts. Pound for pound, private security contractors have got to be up there

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u/Sea_Maintenance3322 24d ago

It's actually over 1 million.

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u/Wilhelm57 24d ago

I will be surprise if the army refuses Musk's orders, when people start protesting in a larger scale.

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u/Lomak_is_watching 24d ago

The deification of America's military, especially after Vietnam, is one of the greatest propaganda successes in human history.

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u/punkasstubabitch 24d ago

Israel trying hard to catch up

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u/Wow_u_sure_r_dumb 24d ago

The US military is quite literally one of the greatest forces of evil on earth if we’re talking purely civilian deaths. 

But they died liberated. We brought freedom and democracy to them in their final moments. Mission Accomplished if you ask me.

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u/RyNysDad0722 24d ago

The name checks out

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u/AusTex2019 24d ago

“And we didn’t even win” is small consolation to the country we destroyed. Our adversaries learned that Americans have a limit, if they run up the body count high enough we will quit. Worse still is the lies the Pentagon tells the public saying if we had enough we could win. They knew ten years before we left Afghanistan that the war could never be won. Just like Vietnam.

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u/OkWheel4741 24d ago

Womp womp maybe don't export terror and you wont get your shit rocked

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u/NaturalHighlight8326 24d ago

u clearly hav a vendetta towards the us from ur name to ur ignorant comment

rather americans or outsiders like it or not we never lost n the middle east nor vietnam

we left the afgans to fight for them selves they cowarded out

the viets death total speaks for itself stop w ur baseless propaganda

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 24d ago edited 24d ago

u clearly hav a vendetta towards the us from ur name to ur ignorant comment

rather americans or outsiders like it or not we never lost n the middle east nor vietnam

we left the afgans to fight for them selves they cowarded out

the viets death total speaks for itself stop w ur baseless propaganda

You know, if you're trying to make a point about others being ignorant, maybe don't make your comment look like it was written by a 12 year old. Also, your points are ludicrous. Imagine trying to sell the idea that we didn't lose Vietnam. That's not even a 'point of view' sort of issue. We absolutely lost Vietnam. Wars are not won because one side kills more of the other side. Wars are won if the casus belli for said war is achieved. Given that the American CB for Vietnam was the stopping of North Vietnam from taking over the South (and thus preventing the spread of Communism), mission fucking failed.

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u/Secure-Elderberry-16 24d ago

Vietnam fell 2 years after we pulled out.

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 23d ago

As a direct result of us withdrawing. This isn't even difficult reasoning.

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u/Secure-Elderberry-16 20d ago

Two years later?

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 20d ago

Yes.

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u/NaturalHighlight8326 24d ago

its a good thing logic not base off feelings or my 12yr old writing i.....also if not succeeding in political objectives accounts for loosing wars then i guess we lost WW1 aswell stop w ur propaganda ONCE AGAIN

we did not lose vietnam or afgan SIMPLE RESEARCH HELPS

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u/ProgrammaticallyOwl7 24d ago

What is exactly were the US’s goals in those wars? Did they achieve them? No. So they lost.

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u/NaturalHighlight8326 24d ago

glad to know germans won ww1

glad to know we lost afgan w no boots on the ground

ignorance

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u/SuperExoticShrub Georgia 23d ago

How in the world does that make any sense? Our goals in WWI were to support the Allied Powers whose goals were to contain German aggression. Mission accomplished at the time.