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  The American fetishism of veterans and people in the military fucking astounds me. I’ve worked with a bunch of vets/reservists and my father is a veteran. They’re normal fucking people. Outside of being drafted and forced to go to war why should I give a shit what someone did for a living? We aren’t going to give medical professionals who went through years of hell over Covid a 10% discount everywhere all the time. I’d wager a majority of people who have been in the service over the last two decades haven’t actually seen combat.
context: Republican lawmakers said during debate on the Ohio legislation that even if Trump’s claims aren’t true, the skepticism they have caused among conservatives about the accuracy of election results justifies imposing new limits.
  
  Skepticism that the GQP lawmakers THEMSELVES manufactured and amplified. >
  
  It was a perfectly acceptable solution when it served to get us in to power. 
  Now that same measure threatens to remove us, so we have to take it away before that happens. You get it. >
  
  Bro.... veterans and military are in every single one of those groups you mentioned.
  This military isn't made up of all straight white republicans. >
  
  And you can't forget the vets, and entire families who put those vets on pedestals. 
  And the wannabes who worship them.