Me and my brother both joined the army at slightly different times. We both did a tour in Afghanistan that overlapped and were just one province away from each other. I did a second tour over there and he got out.
We both came from a VERY conservative family. It was after serving that we both became suuuuper liberal. It was like the wool being pulled out from out eyes when we joined the army and saw how much of a lie it all was. Oddly enough, this is a semi common story for conservative people joining the military.
We grew up with our dad working in the military-industrial-complex and he would make fun of the liberals who called out the military for serving the MIC companies, and how it Iraq was a war for profit. Then we serve and see it first had with all the contractors, the needless equipment, the contracts for new tech that wasn’t needed, and all the other money sinks going into it. It was all a lie.
We grew up being told how bad universal healthcare would be, but then had it in the military and saw how amazing it was.
We were told that if people didn’t have a personal motivation through debt and loans to make them work harder, then people going through college would have no motivation to improve their lives. And yet here I am with the GI bill. (Granted, I still have 70k in student loans. The GI bill is kind of a lie in its self).
Everything that was a conservative talking point was exposed as a lie after joining army.
Why is a community called conservative just filled with “conservative bad” and articles from liberal leaning outlets?
I’m not conservative by any mean, in fact I’m a former Democrat who became disenfranchised so am now voting 3rd party, but I hated the progressive spin/propaganda on everything I saw on Reddit & it’s even worse on this app somehow.
I only looked up this community to see if theirs ANYWHERE where conservative views are discussed just to see if I wasn’t going crazy that everything is biased, and even here things are.
This makes no sense. So I’m using a worse version of reddit, and getting fed the same propaganda? I don’t understand Lemmy anymore. I just want information without progressive or conservative spins, and a diverse set of community to subscribe to so I can see a diversity of opinions but I’m only getting one thing here.
Maybe it is a real, truth-seeking discussion of conservative ideas versus what is currently out there in about 500 mainstream talk, tv, print sources? I think people are finally fed up with the bs. That is just my opinion.