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Triana

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2. I refused because they treat women like shit, raping them with impunity.
Wed Aug 14, 2013, 11:38 PM
Aug 2013

I had a friend who went in the Navy. The stories she told me about how women were treated and about the attitudes of men toward her there were horrifying. NO. WAY. would I even consider it. And then there's shit like what happened to this vet. If the United States cannot FULLY take care of our vets, especially disabled ones, then it should stop creating them. Period. This country uses its people for profit and power and for implementing global domination, and then throws them away like so much trash. It's immoral. It's psychopathic. It's bullshit. Maybe if we want to fight some 'war on terror', how about fighting the one being waged RIGHT. HERE at home. How about fighting the war on economic terror being waged on 99% of us every day while corprats feed off of us, off of our lives, off of our labor (or lack of jobs), off of our death and dying, injury and sickness, off of our need for shelter, clean water, decent food, and clean air to breathe. THEY are the parasites. THEY are the takers, moochers, fleas. We're just the hosts they feed off of and they'll do it until they suck us dry and dead. To them, that's what we exist for. That's what the Earth exists for. That's what vets are for. Use 'em until you're done with them and can't make any more profit off of them, then toss them out like trash and let them die. That's America.

There's no good reason. There's no excuse. There's just GREED. This country is so fucking bassackwards it's embarrassing.

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