• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    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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      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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        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 has bipartisan impunity.

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        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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      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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    4 months ago

    I love that Sweden signed the DCA the other day so the US military can come here and do it here too.

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      yeah what are they going to do, remove a soft power so close from China?

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    I completely agree that sex crimes cannot be tolerated. So, when can we expect those apologies for forcing women and girls into sexual slavery as ‘comfort women’ ? 🤔

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    Inherent issue with military that they are refusing to fix because it would prolly cause them operational discomfort.

    IE it is a bad idea to put young men into these conditions but hey we got got an empire to run to put young men in isolated conditions and foreig land then pikachu face when they lash out.

    Yeah criminals should be convicted but you won’t solve the issue with it. You are just punishing the crime and there is still a victim.

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      Pikachu face sounded racist at first and it made me laugh once I realized it wasn’t just slang for Japan because of Pokémon