I said “yeah have fun dying in Operation Epstein Fury!” and he gave me an enraged look.
This guy kinda looks like Pete Hegseth btw. Trashy tattoos and all.
Little afraid he’s gonna show up to work with a gun now and shoot me but honestly dying to make a headline like “Ex-Con shoots coworker for calling Trump’s operation in Iran ‘Epstein Fury’” would be a pretty epic way to go.
To be fair, I just read he was addicted and while I never had to struggle with an addiction as well, I’ve been so disillusioned I miss the forest for the trees a lot.
But I agree, status is a very powerful currency even if not material. Not to say I support his decision, but in hindsight I can pinpoint how the national myth can endure when status can be achieved.
Especially when he’s an ex-con who spent years in jail for a DUI and is a recovering coke-head. From that and the rest of the description he seems like someone who has a court order to stay away from his kids. A lot of people like that would see the saintly status granted to veterans and look at all the shame and stigma assigned to them by society and even assigned by themselves, and want to enlist to basically escape their current social conditions. It’s a depraved move considering all the murder he’s signing up for, but it’s no wonder that doesn’t bother him given the aforementioned “taught to hate these people” part.
From what I understand he has no kids. He does seem to have health problems though (despite appearing in decent health for his age). Apparently his kidneys nearly failed once due to mixing booze and painkillers (this guy is weirdly open about his ENTIRE fucking life, and he weirdly likes me despite me giving A LOT of signals that I’m way to his left (I think some of it is that I’m actually smart and do my job at this place unlike a lot of the bozos we work with)). So yeah maybe free healthcare is a draw.