• rhacer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Did you wear the uniform? What are you doing to help prevent the 22 suicides a day among our service members?

    This is what the military subs have had to weigh when making these calls.

    • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I have met people who was in the service enough to know the struggle is real.

      It’s just hard to believe that they depend on Reddit for their support system.

      • rhacer@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not enough. Still too much stigma attached to behavioral health.

        That’s why there is so much need for additional support from elsewhere.

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        1 year ago

        Another thing I never see anyone in US is talking about: If US veterans need so much help (and they really do), what is happening to people in counties they were fighting against? And those are not only soldiers, but whole families. Everyone ober there has witnessed same shit they did, kids, elders, moms…

        • Cerulean@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          “Developed” countries see “undeveloped” countries (or whatever euphemism you want to use) as Others. We may be the target of their charity or of their pity sometimes, but we remain a mysterious monolith. I’m reminded of that whenever someone says “The US is [generally something bad] among developed countries”.

          I’m not angry about it. I get it. I still wish it wasn’t that way.

          As trivia, at least one “undeveloped” country has universal healthcare.

    • manapropos@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      So it’s everyone else’s responsibility to protect people subjected to Israeli wars by the lapdog US government?