• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Bases in the US also have this issue. It is systemic. Stateside, prosecutions of soldiers who rape women don’t see the light of day. The Florida panhandle is awash with stories of GIs raping women and facing zero consequences. I’ve friends that this has happened to. The whole damn system is guilty as hell.

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      5 months ago

      trump is known to have raped many women and republicans still want him to be president. The fact of the matter is that certain people just don’t care about women and them being raped. We call those people republicans.

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        5 months ago

        Fuck the Republicans, but the Democrats have had just as much time and power to deal with this systemic issue and have done nothing either. The military acts with bipartisan impunity.

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      And conservative voters see any measure to tackle this issue, no matter how benign, as “weak liberal nonsense” and “a waste of time” that cheapens our fighting ability. Of course I’m sure their hearts are set on what’s best for our military, and not that they’re sexist, racist abusers who don’t want their sexist, racist abuse to be challenged.

      This issue goes back at least as far as living memory for the US. We were particularly vicious to German women at the end of WWII. GI’s having illegitimate children with local women in Asia during our multiple wars there was so common it’s basically a trope.

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        5 months ago

        To be fair, it isn’t important enough to either party to substantively deal with, because they would have.

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      5 months ago

      There’s a reason the bad part of town is so close to the local military base

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        5 months ago

        Hell the only brothel I have ever seen had a yearly police support sticker all in a line by the door.

        Those girls really loved pizza

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      5 months ago

      Wait you mean the military industrial complex is bad all the way through??? I AM SO SHOCKED. 😮 😆