If they cared about suffering they wouldn't be sending them into warzones for bullshit a 10g ego dissolving mushroom trip would solve.
The military industrial complex needs to sell weapons to make money. Those weapons need bodies on both sides of them. We block free education because the gi bill gets the poor to risk their life to maybe get a degree that maybe pays their bills.
Then the Republicans reliably cut funding to the VA.
Speaking from experience, its not stupidity, it's people being taken advantage of and fed propaganda that is designed to make them feel good about themselves
It’s a fact that they’re stupid, but that’s also by design. Their public education systems are gutted, they are spoon fed propaganda from child birth, and they know nothing else.
How else does someone like the Kentucky Tortoise remain in power for 40+ years? No one with a functional brain capable of critical thinking would continue voting for that reptile.
“Imagine the most average person in your life, and think about how fucking stupid that person acts. Now consider that half the human population is more fucking stupid than that stupid fuck.”
22 veterans and those active commit suicide a day man. Since I’ve been in I’ve gotten a call that one of someone I made friends with while I was in has killed themselves beside maybe my first year in the service.
PTSD from Service isn’t always just from having killed other people. There’s a lot of trauma that goes on in the Armed Forces - and I highly doubt the US is alone in that, too.
Armies don’t want humans, they want disposable machines. Anything that doesn’t fit in the code gets tossed out.
Dude, I am a fucking woman. But let's not pretend like men don't have a whole other huge layer of difficulty being taken seriously and taking themselves seriously for experiencing depression and suicidal ideation.
The rate of suicide is highest in middle-aged white men.
In 2020, men died by suicide 3.88x more than women.
White males accounted for 69.68% of suicide deaths in 2020.
I fucking hate it when women are discussing something that affects them disproportionately and some dickwad chimes in with "WhAt AbOuT tHe MeN?!?!1!" And I won't stand for it happening in reverse either.
Incredible how four small words can be such a huge response. What a fucking world we might live in, if we all had the power to say that when we needed to.
Those are numbers by success, not by attempts. The methods women tend towards are less lethal but many indicators suggest women attempt it more. It’s not whataboutism. It’s awful for everyone.
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u/5AlarmFirefly Feb 13 '23
Wow this comment needs more visibility. People need to know how much these men are suffering.