• Mossy Feathers (She/They)@pawb.social
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    1 month ago

    I’ve heard it’s Schrodinger’s virtue signaling. Most military guys get annoyed, but then when you don’t virtue signal, it just happens to be the one guy who actually enjoys it and gets upset that you didn’t say, “thanks for your service”.

    • Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 month ago

      That guy spent 4 years fucking up people’s pay in finance never deployed, then didn’t reenlist, fuck that guy.

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      1 month ago

      To which you respond, “I don’t know, what have you done for me lately?”

      You know, if you don’t care about the next 5 minutes of your life or you wanted to tank the reviews for your workplace.