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Trump has directed the national guard in DC to pick up garbage. Are we witnessing his turn to Maoism? /s
(hexbear.net)
We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.
"Get Organized!" (November 29,), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 153.
Anyway
You might be surprised how often the US military is just wandering around picking up trash, sweeping sidewalks, etc. They'll have battalions out cutting grass with a folding shovel and then the next day contractors show up with lawnmowers.
There's even a word for this kind of shit that I can't remember. I used to work in a restaurant on a base and watched this shit all the time
There is essentially nothing you could write after this line that I would be genuinely surprised about.
You might be surprised how often the US military is comprised of 3 children in a trench coat
"Class/race traitor"
They should stand in the garbage bin in solidarity with their fellow trash
Deep
Marines call it "weenie fuck-fuck" work, IIRC
Air Force refers to it officially as "details"
Eloquent as always from the crayon munchers
Really true to form, it sounds exactly like something a toddler would come up with after learning the word fuck
Making the low-ranking grunts do menial labor is just a thing in the military. Not even as punishment necessarily but also as busywork.
conditioning too, gotta learn to do anything for as long as told whenever told