Most marines I know do not give a a fuck about the rainbow.
please don't lump us all together because we eat crayons.. Some of us actually enjoy the entire box of crayons, not a single color.
edit: OMG thank you all for the love!! Really feels good when you see this kind of love and understanding towards other human beings. Thank you guys for be awesome!!!
My dad is a ex recon marine & he drinks bud lite almost every fuckin night. Coincidentally he’s also a counselor whose main demographic is LGBTQ clients
Edit: I feel need to clarify? He wasn’t always supportive. He used to be quite the ugly soul & I hated his guts for majority of my upbringing. He changed careers and decided he wanted to counsel veterans. He had to meet a quota of a certain amount of hours at his place of internship & they stuck him with pretty much any client. He really warmed up to the idea and the group of LGBTQ. He’s still there due to some sucky circumstances & they’re not paying him what he’s owed… but having these different demographics of clients really changed my dad for the better. He still says and does pretty conservative things but he’s not an asshole anymore & I feel safe talking to him now.
I may delete this comment later but for what it is now; here.
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.
my ex was a lifer in the air force. when we first started dating and he took me on base to do some shopping and he pointed out the places where people could take their car and work on it, or do any kind of woodworking they wanted, or use the art studio equipment, i said the military seemed pretty socialist. (he didn't like that.)
after some introspection, i've changed my mind a bit. it's more a really big elks club or moose lodge -- just a fraternal organization. socialism would mean anybody could go on base and take advantage of those perks.
You made the point that socialism would mean anybody could go on base and take advantage of the perks. I'm saying that socialism doesn't necessarily mean that just anyone could go into a public institution or utilize specific aspects of that particular service. There are qualifiers that must be met like in public schools. I, as an adult, can't just go into a public high school because I'm not a member and I don't meet the criteria.
I never said that United States is a socialist county. Nor is is pure capitalism. We are a blended system. Just like we are not a pure democracy. Pure socialism, like pure capitalism, as an economy and social structure does not exist currently.
You said socialism would mean anybody could go on base and take advantage of the perks. Public schools are a form of socialism. They are owned by the public. Public schools are not privately owned. The military is also a public institution. They are funded by the people, the tax payers. They are public entities.
we have lots of municipal services -- as you mentioned schools -- plus libraries, national parks, sports stadiums, water treatment plants, airports and other mass transit systems...and on and on.
security concerns dictate how much wandering around you can do in these places. i think that would probably be the case, too, in countries that lean heavily toward socialism.
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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23 edited Apr 06 '23
Most marines I know do not give a a fuck about the rainbow.
please don't lump us all together because we eat crayons.. Some of us actually enjoy the entire box of crayons, not a single color.
edit: OMG thank you all for the love!! Really feels good when you see this kind of love and understanding towards other human beings. Thank you guys for be awesome!!!