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callouscomic@lemmy.zip 15 hours agoThis has more to do with propaganda. Where are the discounts for all other contributors to our functional society? Do the garbage people or the electrical worker or sewer worker get discounts?
Its all part of a much larger scale propaganda across our countries history.
sartalon@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
You get pissed at senior discounts too?
😂
fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
I really don't get why a senior ex-military has better benefits than a normal senior. One is a benefit everyone applies and another is a benefit that a specific subset applies, and it's not like they do things that are more important than those that work everyday in the country to keep it running.
A kid spends 5 years in military, lifetime discounts. A teacher spends 5 years teaching, lifetime debt. I really don't get the point.
meta4@retrolemmy.com 2 hours ago
The lifetime debt incurred from military service isn’t something you can put a dollar amount on, but it exists all the same. Veteran discounts aren’t for the kid that did 4 years sitting at a desk. They’re for the ones that didn’t come back, the ones that missed their kid’s birth, their grandfather’s funeral, their brother’s wedding, watched their friends die, worked 20-hour days for weeks/months on end without even going home at the end of the day.
You don’t have to get it or like it, but it’s not without cause.
sartalon@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I was highlighting the fallacy in your argument, but that was clearly a waste of time.
You obviously don’t know the history of veterans in the U.S. or what brought this type of culture to the U.S.
You probably see the military as an extension of a government you hate (understandable) and think of its members as fully endorsing said government (not correct at all).
That you get butthurt over a discount says a lot about you though.
fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
I'm not the same person of the original comment. For you to personally insult me while not bothering to read the name of the user says a lot about you too though.
I hope you have a great day.