The army doesnt want me

conclusion*

besides*

positively*

oh really.. you try to think positively about things? positive as in the way you bag on your fucking country? the one that makes sure you are safe and sound in your bed each and every night? the same one that had men fight and DIE so you would have the FREEDOM to talk shit on your own country? really now... sounds like a lot of fucking negativity if you ask me.
 
maybe he diddnt come over because he though

"i bet that kid does some grandma activity, and looks like a POOPSTER!!!111"

then he probly realized you like little people and was like

"wow, your sick"

then backflipped out of the room
 
spelling and grammer have nothing to do with it. its all about the ideas and meaning. I think that I pretty much have gotten accross every point I was trying to make to you, and so nothing is lacking. Im not great at memorizing shit like spelling, you honestly think that that alone makes me unintelligent?

and, both are fucked up. you guys see it all wrong. It doesnt matter who started it, or who is not killing in such a torterous manner. its all killing, its all fucked up, its all very very wrong. an eye for "an eye makes the whole world blind."

lets put it this way. say Iraq won this war and proceeded to take over the United States. Once they were done, and if you were still alive, you still wouldnt give in to their rule. It is much the same. fighting never solves anything, It cant truely address the real problem.
 
jaross... in the last few replies you have made completely sum it all up. there is nothing left for me to say to you since you obviously have nothing to say back, and have no idea what the hell you are talking about.

this is a quote from something you said earlier-

"army recruters are the slime of the earth. I mean people who join the army are as well..."

... and i will leave it at that.
 
Funny, there hasn't been a war since WW2. By the way, I really hope you weren't trying to correct me on MISINFORMED. That is how you spell it. You just made yourself look like even more of a retard.

Oh by the way the gulf war conflict (not a war), was justified quite well. You should really read up on your history.
 
korea man. congress has never declared war but u gotta count korea and vietnam but i wont hold it against you cause ur arguing for the right stuff
 
Nope I was talking about Jaross. Korea and Vietnam were terrible. Congressionally, they aren't wars. They definately deserve recognition, but there was no declaration of war.
 
oh I know about that WAR that we lost.

as far as im concerned, any mittitary action where a trigger is pulled over and over again for a time longer then say a month is a war. I dont care what you call it, its a war. just becuase bush doesnt want to call it a war because that would make it sound bad doesnt change that.

and ill say it again (just to piss you off sean):

Recurters, and (let me clarify) many of the higherups and some of the other lower men in the army/millitary/navy/airforce are the scum of the earth!
 
I hope you're not talking about the current Bush there. I don't know my history too well, but I do know that Korea and Vietnam did NOT occur very recently.
 
No you're wrong. A war is when a nation's government puts out a declaration of war against another nation. Funny thing is Bush actually does call it a war. You really aren't making me mad. You are just acting like a fool in front of the NS community.
 
having a military is dumb. maybe if we stop fighting, the "terrorists" will stop fighting. anyways i too like to give them shit for even going to be in the military becuase it has never and will never do anything good for us
 
You're not listening. You're turning this into a discussion based on technicalities and grammar errors, not based on ideas. I don't really like to get involved on discussion like this, because my opinions tend to become those of other people's, but well, this is just not fair.

There's a little thing called "respect" that's not happening here. Now, I know I sound kind of stupid for saying this, but I certainly do not get treated with the respect I seek at school, and if I keep losing outlets for expressing my opinions (like ns), well, I'm going to be pretty fucking miserable. Please goddamnit, listen to one another's IDEAS and THOUGHTS, not the fine details of them. I feel offended that people aren't allowed to actually say what they think here anymore without being shot down. It ain't right.
 
Did you read anything in this before you posted? I will agree with you that we do spend somewhat excessive amounts of money on the mililtary, but it does have a use from time to time(WWII, anyone?).
 
I did, and I clearly stated what the facts were. This is NS own or be owned. It's a dog eat dog enviroment.
 
it is gay he didnt give u a chance, and i agree i think u can feel wut ever u want about the military, but u are being the bigger duche if u start giving him shit bout the army, if we have ppl fuckin fighting and dying over there they dont deserve to be trash talked by some highschool kid, if any thing we as americans need to be more supportive of the people fighting for us, u may not believe in the cause but we r stuck in iraq, and we need to support are troops.
 
not to keep harping on the fact that im going into the millitary for basic this summer BUT us kids who are going arent watching the news going omg i wanna fuck up sadamn and some a-rabs BUT its merely somehting i have dream'd up, its a way out for me, and no im not poor, and im not in the ghetto but its a good way for me to start my life out, and if it should be the end of it...so be it i will be doing it for something I believe is honorable
 
army recruters are the slime of the earth. I mean people who join the army are as well, but recurters are the cream of the crap!

technically, the army recurters are not allowed to be inside the school. they can be outside but you coudl, if you really wanted to, get proof (pic maybe) and get him in trouble.


Army recruiters are similar to all other humans aiming to achieve their goals. They need young, able men and women to serve in the military that protects YOU. It may come as a shock, but we do need protection (no, we didn't need protection from Iraq) and we do need a strong, formidable military to maintain OUR way of life.

Stereotyping all the individuals in the military as slime (or at least the large majority) is pretty weak by itself, but what I find funny is that you associate with people in the military--I mean, you must right, since you have some much experience talking to all these veterans who are now doomed in their post military lives? So you associate with slime? Got it.

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they use slimey evil tactics (lige giving out free shit, but that isnt nearly as bad as the fucking bullshit lies they tell about the army)

What lies (assuming "lige"=lie, of course) do they tell? That there are careers for individuals in the army? That's not a lie--there are careers for them. It may not be as good as the career you get going into college, but the probability is that the individuals who join the military wouldn't go to college anyways. Does that make them slime? No, it doesn't.

For the slightly more ignorant, they make the army seem like a great option after high school (I suppose for the very poor it is, but its still really shitty)

Before I get going again, are you categorizing all the military branches or just the Army? Cause you're interchanging them like they're the same and they are not.

Anyways, the Army, or any military branch, which at the very least writes you a check each month after you're out, is a good option for people when they get out HS. I'd rather have someone in the military doing something with their lives then just graduating HS to go to college and drop out or work some shit job or worse yet do nothing at all.

I hope this whole "military is evil" campaign you're on isn't tied into some broader idea about peace or ridding the country/planet of injustice.

They will ask you what you like, and no matter what it is, they will have a way of telling you that you can do whatever it is that you like in the army. It will mostlikley be a flat out lie (well, maybe not, but the truth will be twisted for sure).

Hmm, wonder why they're able to say that? Maybe it's because they CAN provide a role for just about ANYONE. Again, that's not a lie, as you stated when you started back pedalling after talking out of your ass, again. Furthermore, it's not twisted. They say "Yeah son, we got that in the army." Well, they do. How's that twisted?

On top of that, they tell you that after the army, you will have usefull skills to get a job with and thats just a big BULL FUCKING SHIT. First of all, many of the things they train you for have nothing to do with civilian life. I know a guy who was in the airforce. They told him he could get a job with an airliner. Calibrating an F16 (or whatever the fuck it was) he told me, is a shittload different then calibrating a 747. He said he may be able to get a job being a flight attendant, but that is about it.

Ok, we'll deal with this ONE EXAMPLE. I find it funny that you're basing your conclusions off of it, but that's another issue all together.

Did this individual perform well? Did he work hard for the more prestigeous mechanic position? Or did he just settle for what they slotted him with, hoping it'd be an easy way out? I'm not going to make assumptions about what he did or did not do, but regardless the military is not responsible for the lack of performance of those individuals it recruits.

A flight attendant? What the fuck does being a mechanic have to do with being a flight attendant? Is he going to fix a mechanical problem in flight or in his off time between serving me vodka while I watch my inflight movie?

On top of that, the way they train you is not very practical for a civilian job. For instance, in the army, lets say you are a Humvee mechanic. What they infact show you how to do is work on only a very small part of the Humvee so they can have a number of people working on it at once and it gets out into combat sooner. So now the war is done, and you know how to replace an exaust system on a millitary humvee and that is it. You really think a car repair shop is going to hire you if you only know how to do one thing?

Ok, this actually sounds semi-legitimate, but in the end, it's just too broad. Your example is crap, really, cause if a mechanic did learn how to fix a Hummer's exhaust he is guaranteed to have learned something else about the damn thing. In addition, if he's a mechanic, he perhaps has previous knowledge of automobiles. When the recruiter asks "So what do you want to do?" the guy who wants to be a physicist doesn't go "Shit I'd really like to replace exhaust systems on Hummers. Do you have a job doing that?" The guy wanted to fix automobiles. The military has automobiles that need fixing. The military has benefits (and drawbacks, as does every other job). Terrible, "slimey" decision, right?

Also, the quasi-validity of your statement is still no grounds for stereotyping an entire class of people as "slime" and it doesn't make recruiters bad people.

Also, as for the money they say they will govie you for college, thats a bunch of bullshit as well. they give you some, but not nearly as much as they say they are going to. Plus, it actually reduces your pay while you are in the army if you choose to get money for college.

I guarantee you the terms are clearly written in the contract. If it isn't, it's illegal and I would encourage those morons who didn't read the contract to file greivances and take it to court. No one is saying the military is perfect, but it's not an omni-potent evil either.

Again, you're generalizing. The amount of money they give you depends on what you sign up for.

overall, the US combat forces, atleast the leaders are really slimey shitty people

Wait, I thought they were all shitty people? Now it's just the leaders? And how are they shitty again? Getting people interested in a job they could do well at for a legitimate cause (protecting you and me and putting food on their table)is slimey?

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ya doing something meaningful. gathering people to go kill and die :-)

Yes, we gather people to kill others, hopefully, for a just cause. All other modern nations do this too. Are you attempting to say killing people isn't meaningful? I'd say ending someone's life (or having yours ended) is about as meaningful as it gets.

All cynicism aside, the military stands as the protectors of our nation and if that requires killing people (again, not in Iraq) and dying, then that's what has to happen. That's the world you live in. When you figure out how to implement your pacifist agenda into a world full hostile mother fuckers let me know. I want to watch.

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your ignorance amazes me. I dont care to server my country, when the people leading it are fuckheads. plus, going to Iraq, is in no way, serving my country. it is serving rich republicans so they can get cheap gas for the fucking SUVs.

Now, now--easy on the "ignorance" comments, Captain Hipocrisy. Afterall, who's slopping all military folk into one steaming pile of "slime?"

A lazy bum? I stand up for my oppnions; how does that make me lazy? true hippys have not existed since the 60s and 70s. I take showers, dont wear tiedye, dont smoke weed all the time, dont do other drugs.

I didn't accuse you of being hippie, so I won't respond to that.

Some of the conservatives on this site, I can atleast understand, and I atleast see how their oppnions are somewhat justified.

What does that have to do with anything? Were you attempting to make a comparison to the conservatives posting in this thread? If so, you forgot the rest of the sentence.

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most advertising is a slimey tactic.

Getting people to buy shit is not slimey. Lying to people is. Nothing about the military's advertising campaign is dishonest. Join the military, get trained in something, get money for school, get to kill people, whatever it may be. They say what they offer and they say it in an appealing way. That's not dishonesty, that's rhetoric.

also, I have no doubt that plenty of people get great jobs out of the army, but there are some people that get completly screwed over. I have seen many situations, and know a few people. You sir are the one who is missinformed. I know what I am talking about, you dont!

Ah. See now you're totally fucked. You completely contradicted yourself. How am I suppose to believe anything you say if you can't keep your story straight? "Plenty" of people get good jobs? Hmm, a few minutes ago the whole military was getting bent over the recruiter's desk and sodomized. Which is it?

hehehe

What are you giggling about, dipshit?

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you can try but i doubt you'll get far. What good is it to leave a problem to someone else???

I concur. Leaving problems to others isn't a good idea. What are you doing to rid the world of these problems? Serious question. If you're taking action, all the power to you.

I am indeed not talking out my ass. this is actually a subject I know a little about. I taken a seminar on the subject, and I know plenty of people who were in the army during vietnam, are in the army now, or were in the army recently.

Uh oh, you took a seminar!? Shit, all that work for nothing. You got me, man. A seminar and knowing a few vets doesn't constitute a body of knowledge worthy of calling good men and women "slime," nor does it boost your credibility.

That guy who celibrated the fighter jets had just a few interesting stories. Perhaups you would like to here one. He was saying that the pilots would record their bombings on video and then watch them when they got back to base. They would have him watch them as well. These assholes would laugh at the scattered Iraqi body parts after a bombing, slap him on the back and tell him how good of a job he did on the calibration. How fucked up is that?

Well, it's morbid, yes. Their laughter is also a coping mechanism for those who feel badly. Their laughter is also a sign of joy at accomplishing their objectives. Their job is to blow people up. Some of them probably like it. If you wanna call it fucked up, that's fine. It's your definition to construct. But you have no fucking right to judge them.

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how is it so contradictory to agree with a small part of what you said?

HUH? You contradicted one of your MAIN FUCKING POINTS. That's not a small part.

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I like to think positivly about things, as I think many other people do as well.

Oh yeah, you're oozing positivity. Read your first post, man. That was perhaps the most negative, derogatory, and unfounded statement in the thread. At least the 14 year olds are just shit talking. Were you just baiting for a flame war (you got it) or are you really that contradictory that you'd post that and then claim to be "positive" a few posts later?

In review:

Your stereotyping all of the military as less people, especially recruiters, is just that--an overgeneralization used to simplify a complex issue that you don't fully understand. It's ok, it's a natural part of the human psychological process. Fortunately for the rest of us, we don't base our conclusions off of our stereotypes.

Not only did you NEGATIVELY stereotype a whole class of people and judge them as lesser than you, but you completely contradicted yourself on one of your MAJOR "arguments" (that military personnel cannot obtain jobs upon returning to civilian life).

To top it all off, your posts were a disgrace to the English language. I'm not perfect, but come on, man. How is anyone supposed to take any of your half truths seriously when it's not even written well?

What is it that you do for a profession? I'd like to see you tell the soldiers of this nation or the recruiters or anyone in the military that they're slimey people. I'm sure they'd have plenty of negative shit to say right back to you.

Just cause you know some vets whose military careers didn't translate to prosperity doesn't justify the bullshit you posted in this thread.
 
JackBach

That was impressive, well written, seroius, funny, and passionate.

You sir have made my night. Everyone else can sit down read the response, and pretty much shut up.
 
im sorry, i really dont feel like th army protects me. if anything they piss of more terrorists that want to go after me
 
Some of these things are to be taken as small points. I wouldnt say as small as "a grane of sand" but I dont see how partially agreeing with someone while still sticking to what you said is contradictory. nothing is ever 100% true, EVER.

I like to think positivly, but it is rather hard, when talking about this subject. If positive thinking is deniying the truth, thats just fucked up.
 
also, when talking about stariotypes, everythign we precive is steriotyped in some way. we all have some way of our own intruperatation of shit, and such is life and the human mind.

generally (steriotyping) I see two different types in the army, both suck. One is the stupid hich who actually enjoys killing (cant imagine who fucked up you would have to be, no matter who your killing).

The other is the smart right winger who controlls the shit, and gets the stupid hick to do the dirty work.
 
wow he said alot of things that have already been said/are obvious/are already explained three times over. just because it was all in one post it seems impressive. granted, it was a good coharent post, but its not like he was that revolutionary. you all get my point (I think) and its your really that much of a prick about spelling and grammer then your just an asshole. Not like im righting a college paper, and it is my personal belefe that if I can write a college paper that has great ideas/explains itself, that spelling and grammer shouldnt matter (although I reconise that they do, and write my papers accordingly)
 
The first type makes up about 2% of the military population, the latter 5%.

Have some respect for those in the service. You don't have to agree with what politians send them, with no accountablity I might add, to do, but don't disrespect civil servants of any country without good reason and without singling out the dishonourable member(s).

And seriously... it's Rememberance Week... can we cut down on the slander?
 
jaross please just stop before you look like even more of a moron, all you do is spout off stupid punk bullshit about the army and all of the "right wingers" you keep going on about, your a fucking douche who obviously has no idea what your talking about and that is painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain, you really need to stop trying to sound smart, and dont ever say you tr to think positively, because your just about stupid enough and a big enough bitch that i highly doubt you would ever not complain and bitch about the "authority" that always keeps you down, i dont know what exactly is your problem but you really need to stop paying attention to whatever punk bullshit angry music you listen to, because it clearly shows when you start busting out retarded generalizations about the army and conservatives, noone intelligent uses your arguments, its the same kind of stupid "rebelling" bullshit that kids with weird piercings, black hair, make-up, and hate their parents, wonder why youve never even heard any legit liberal say something like "army recruiters are slime and the army is made up of rich kids who want to kill and crazy right wingers," because only a douchebag would say such a thing
 
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