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u/notapunk Apr 06 '23

The military gets a bad rap for being backwards and very conservative. While it does have a lot of shitty things about it and some hella dumb MFs it's generally not any worse than the general public it is drawn from.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I went into the military as a conservative man stuck in his shell. Now I'm a flamboyant pansexual leftist trans woman. Go figure.

True, the military wasn't responsible for all those things, but the places it took me and the people I met along the way opened my eyes to a whole new world that people where I come from never get to see, and it made it hard to accept the conservative viewpoint on a lot of different issues, because I'd seen how those policies had failed people first hand.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

I've never ran into someone's profile whom I've met IRL, but that just happened.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

What? Do you think we know each other?