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".

[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 4 months ago

"Thank you for aiding a corrupt military-industrial system."

[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 4 months ago

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

[–] NOPper@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Fuck that guy though.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months 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.