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College life is true freedom (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 weeks ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The military is literally a socialist meritocracy and for some reason people insist we can't have socialism in the US

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 11 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Socialism is the workers owning the means of production.

Professional national armies are the government doing things, how collectivist that is depends on the government.

Even the Soviet Red Army while it was fighting Nazis wasn't "socialist" except in the sense that it was, in theory, defending the rights of the workers.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wouldn’t really call it socialist because it’s not self-funding. The 99% of non-military people put a huuuuuuuge amount of money into the military community to fund its creation and existence.

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't necessarily call it a meritocracy either because it's way easier to buy your way into being an officer than any E-to-O program and because who gets promoted in a difficult rate can get very political very quickly.

So it's neither of those things.