But there’s a lot else they currently do or even could be doing if some reforms happened that would be more helpful than the shitty things they do.

Nothing the US military is currently doing is more helpful than the almost five million deaths they caused throughout the war on terror or the horrific genocide with 200k+ deaths that they’re supporting, but I digress.

But most importantly, your bringing it up here only serves to derail a different discussion that is important in its own right, and that this thread was created to discuss. The most important thing is that you’re not helping.

You make a fair point but consider: The social current that Trump was able to get elected twice by riding was created most directly by the war on terror and the subsequent rise of American chauvinism and nationalism. This sort of glorification of the military has to be shut down hard or you’ll either fail to get rid of Trump or get Trump 2.0. This sort of jingoist attitude (see: the other guy who replied to me) is very much at the root of Trump’s fascist takeover, and needs to be removed root and branch before anyone can hope for anything resembling a better tomorrow (or, to tie into the OP, for trans people to not be thrown into concentration camps).