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[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Weighs". A curious term.

The WSJ sanewashing this administration because the Pentagon follows the commander in chief and we know Trump neither weighs, ponders or considers shit.

He makes up random bullshit on the fly and the Pentagon blindly obeys. If they are lucky, they get to react as to how to minimize the inevitable fallout of supremely stupid decisions in the hopes they can survive long enough to make it to to retirement.

The smarter Pentagon officials are probably googling "US military pension lump sum payouts" along with "Renouncing US citizenship" and "Warm, cheap places to retire to."

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just posted this because last week it was 2000. By these trends it will be 50000 next week and 250000 after easter...😑

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's gonna be a second Vietnam if the dumbasses go through with it.

I hope Israel is a worth it.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I hope Israel is a worth it.

It isn't. Genocide killed any chances there. They became what they feared most.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There's no lump sum option for a military pension, at least not in the US, and renouncing citizenship also forfeits any future pension or social security entitlements.

Edit: VA and healthcare benefits too.

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

AFAIK, once you qualify for Social Security, you get it even if you stop being a citizen. I looked into it at some point as I plan to renounce once my parents pass (I already live overseas)

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Wonder why you retain that but lose everything else. Thanks for the correction.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Can you sell your pension to JG Wentworth types?

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've never heard of it. Doesn't that require the pension to have a buy-out value? Military pension doesn't have that.

[–] CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you have a pension worth $1 mil, that trickles in over time, you sell it for $600,000 lump sum and just get pension payments deposited into an account of their choosing. You got some immediate cash. They get more money over time.

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Ah, let me clarify: I've never heard of being able to sell a military pension like how JGW "buys" them, as they don't have a buyout option that I've ever heard of.

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

10,000 of our guys to be sacrificed for the Epstein class. Again.

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If this is the headline then you can be damn sure the Pentagon is already planning to put those boots on the ground, they just need a few friendly articles first

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It's a trial balloon at best, or yes softening the inevitable.

This also sounds exactly like how we ramped up troops in Vietnam.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

A friend works for the Department of Defense in Japan and told me a couple of weeks ago that a lot of military folks were already being shipped out.

[–] lithiumground@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Everything for Zionists !

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 month ago

So this is really happening, huh? It's almost surreal, as it's pretty obviously going to turn into a disaster, but there's no stopping it. A horrifying train crash in slow motion.

[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do it. Doooooooo it. Let's just throw those kids into the meat grinder, fire up the old conscription, and watch America implode

[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh it’s happening alright and Americans lap it up.

[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Guess we're doing accelerationism now