• CTDummy@aussie.zone
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    19 days ago

    Immigrants in the US won’t serve in the military for citizenship!

    This pathway was closed by Trump.

    I wanted to serve in the military to earn my citizenship, that way the local can’t say I didn’t earn it.

    Gimme one of them non-combat roles though, I don’t want any of that war business. Which is all pointless because the second a Russian asks him “what role did you serve in the military?” He’d simply reply “huh, can you speak English?” I also love the idea of him believing he’d be a correspondent despite being unable to speak Russian. Im sure his wife and daughters will enjoy their time in Russia when his military career blossoms.

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      18 days ago

      Im sure his wife and daughters will enjoy their time in Russia when his military career ribcage blossoms.

      Those drones pack a punch, you know.

  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.”

    Let’s us know how that works out for you.

    after a month of service, her family had yet to receive any pay.

    Not so well, then?

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    19 days ago
    • Complaining migrants do not integrate
    • Is a migrant, who doesn’t speak the language, himself
    • Complaining, they don’t speak USian with him
    • Joins the aggressor’s military during war time, complains he has to go to war.
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      19 days ago
      • Is a migrant, who doesn’t speak the language, himself
      • Complaining, they don’t speak USian with him

      This always makes me laugh when American and UK tourists go abroad and expect people to speak English. Integrate muthafuckas!

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          18 days ago

          Back in the eighties my parents (British) bought a villa in Spain, all on it’s own on a mountainside. Over the following ten years fifty - yes, fifty - other villas were built, all independently, all by Brits, all on top of each other, most without planning permission. A group of busybodies formed a HOA-style association and took over the area, building an English Shoppe with a red phone box outside where you could buy the Daily Mail and Tetley Tea, an English pub, replacing the road signs with English ones, even an English radio station. The last time we visited and decided to sell, we arrived to find they’d illegally installed a gate across the road - the PUBLIC road - and were only giving the remotes to certain worthy residents, which apparently we weren’t.

          But it’s okay. Because they weren’t dirty migrants forcing their culture on others and refusing the integrate; they were expats just looking for a little bit of sun.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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        18 days ago

        Well Americans would probably do best to learn Spanish. The problem is it’s not so clear-cut in the UK, in theory we should learn French, except the French don’t appreciate it and speak English anyway. The Spanish and Germans also speak English so again there doesn’t seem to be an obvious language to learn.

        If you’re going to learn a language that want to give you the maximum ability to communicate with new people it’d probably be Japanese but realistically no one in the UK is going to learn Japanese.

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          18 days ago

          Idiocracy has been far too prescient. I just hope we can survive long enough to get to the listening to the last remaining expert stage.

          • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
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            18 days ago

            I dunno. Brawndo gives a pretty compelling argument about the cravings of my crops. That other guy drinks water! From a toilet!!

      • Donjamos@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

        That’s not an American specialty. Our German right wing shitheads are migrating to South American countries for example without speaking a word Spanish and without even wanting to integrate there because of all the not well integrated migrants here. Nazis in all their forms tend to be not the smartest tools in the shed.

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          18 days ago

          Our German right wing shitheads are migrating to South American countries

          Some things never change.

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      18 days ago

      where does it say he complains about language and won’t learn it? he’s been there for like a few months, learning a language takes time (especially if you’re dumb as this guy)

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        18 days ago

        He would expect people to learn English before arriving in the US so the inverse should also be true. And yeah learning Russian is hard, but that’s his problem. It’s not like he had to leave in an emergency, the threat that he was experiencing is entirely fictional.

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        Huffman has no prior military experience, DeAnna said, adding that his limited training was conducted in Russian. She suggested the language barrier has made her husband particularly unprepared for the horrors of combat.

        Ok, he didn’t, his wife did. This was an important part of the article for me, the oh gosh training for Russian military is in Russian.