I agree that it’s a consideration that shouldn’t be discarded. I’m just saying that it’s not “You will be fired, forbidden from any job, and end up starving on the streets.”

It’s “You may be harassed by peers and superiors, and if you were thinking of making the military your career, that may no longer be an option.”

I read their comment more as “Let anyone who didn’t speak up to get excluded from Dear Leader’s parade, if all they had to do was voice disagreement, suffer.” rather than “Anyone who volunteers for the military is a coward(???) and deserves to suffer.”

What would you do if you were blackballed by your entire industry (not just your current workplace), along with field adjacent ones (thus rendering your ENTIRE means of earning a living) because you didn’t play along? Do you have a family to support, therefore making it harder to open your mouth, because if you say something, your children and elderly parents will starve to death because you become massively underemployed?

Bruh, it’s the military. They aren’t getting ‘fired’, they aren’t getting their pay docked, and they definitely aren’t getting blackballed from civilian jobs because they got a “Do not promote” on their file.

As amusing as that thought is, I don’t know that they’d’ve even made it out of Basic marching like that.

You’d think if they were True Believers™ they’d’ve put on a better show of it.

Volunteered, aka voluntold

Explanation: Gaius Aelius Gallus was a commander under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. Gallus was ordered to undertake an expedition to conquer Arabia with 10,000 troops, including local allies - a relatively small army. If successful, it would have massively increased the tax revenues of Rome, as the Arabian states controlled the flow of spices and silk and other exotic imports from the east.

Despite considerable military success in open battle against the Arabian polities, the Romans were chipped away at by the unrelenting desert itself - stretched supply lines, unfamiliar environs, heat, exhaustion, and sickness took their toll. Eventually, Gallus withdrew from the region, making a two-month retreat from modern-day Yemen back to Roman-controlled Egypt, having lost a majority of the expeditionary force in the process - many of them during the retreat itself.

Explanation: Gaius Aelius Gallus was a commander under the first Roman Emperor, Augustus. Gallus was ordered to undertake an expedition to conquer Arabia with 10,000 troops, including local allies - a relatively small army. If successful, it would have massively increased the tax revenues of Rome, as the Arabian states controlled the flow of spices and silk and other exotic imports from the east.

Despite considerable military success in open battle against the Arabian polities, the Romans were chipped away at by the unrelenting desert itself - stretched supply lines, unfamiliar environs, heat, exhaustion, and sickness took their toll. Eventually, Gallus withdrew from the region, making a two-month retreat from modern-day Yemen back to Roman-controlled Egypt, having lost a majority of the expeditionary force in the process - many of them during the retreat itself.

A fox, having pissed into the sea, said: “The whole of the sea is my piss”

Very cool!

My mother socialized me too damn well, people IRL think I’m friendly and kind when in reality I hate every last one of those fucks from behind my eyes.

I have some pretty severe doubts that an AI could replicate that so precisely.

More likely it’s AI upscaling.

therizinot, it looks like, posted some five years ago, who has since deleted their account.

“A few years later…”

… what a bizarre piece.

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Sh.itjust.works

Sopuli.xyz

Lemmy.cafe

100%, died happy in his bed surrounded by loving family

… sorry, gotta break it to you. He was an immensely civilian Emperor who was well-regarded by the public for respecting the republican traditions of Rome, insisting that he was only a private citizen and issuing edicts with the Senate and a panel of legal experts to ensure continuity with extant law and opinion. Unfortunately, despite several near-misses where he managed to talk the troops down after one crisis or another, his lack of military credentials eventually killed him. His attempt to bribe an invading Germanic tribe to turn back instead of engaging them in battle enraged his own troops, who were looking for loot and vengeance against the barbarians which had violated Rome’s borders and plundered Roman provinces where many of them had come from, and the Legions thus mutinied and killed him for his lack of militancy.

On the upside, he ruled for some 13 years, which is a good clip.

but why is the American flag over an Australian?

Meme templates are often divorced from the details of the original picture. Else you could also point out that this isn’t Mel Gibson complaining about how hard his life is to soon-to-be-crucified Jesus, but Mel Gibson as director talking with one of the actors he’s directing.

They both need to go, albeit for different reasons.