cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29461578

May 1, 2025 5:00 AM ET By Chris Arnold and Quil Lawrence

"The U.S. #DepartmentOfVeteransAffairs, as of Thursday, has ended a new #mortgage-rescue program that so far has helped about 20,000 veterans avoid #foreclosure and keep their homes.

The move leaves millions of military #veterans with far worse options than most other American homeowners if they run into trouble paying their home loans. And it comes at a time when nearly 90,000 #VA loans are seriously past due, with 33,000 of those already in the foreclosure process, according to the data and analytics firm ICE."

      • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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        1 hour ago

        61% to 31%, veterans are not as split as you think.

        But either way, veterans get to suffer along with the rest of us with their votes, progressive or not.

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      11 hours ago

      Go fuck yourself. You display the exact same lack of empathy as the current administration and the same bigoted ignorance as it’s supporters. Veterans are absolutely not a conservative voting monolith, and you’re effectively condemning an entire class of people based on your stereotype

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        5 hours ago

        Oh boo hoo! Won’t somebody think of the idiots who are suffering from the consequences of their own actions? 61% of veterans voted for trump again after the first time they got fucked over by Trump, nope, have the day you voted for.

        And I didn’t condemn an entire class of people, the Neo-Nazis they voted into office did so take your “go fuck yourself” and tell it to the people who actually condemned this group that you care so much about that voted against their own interests, again.

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      14 hours ago

      No.

      Not all of them voted for Trump, and even if they did, they’re clearly not mentally well and need to be helped.

      Whenever anyone disavows Trump and Republicans, we need to embrace them so they stop working against us making things harder.

      Plus, turned Republicans are helpful in turning others like themselves over even if just by sheer example.

      We must build community, not tear it apart.

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        5 hours ago

        Oh please, spare me the kumbya bullshit with Republicans and veterans.

        • 2016, 61% voted for trump and the Neo-Nazis.
        • 2020, 57%, voted for trump and the Neo-Nazis.
        • 2024, 61% voted for trump and the Neo-Nazis.

        There’s no community to be built here. They’ve proven they will vote the Hard R after getting fucked over hard the first time and they get to have the day they voted for this election just like the rest of us has to have the day they voted for.

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          When we do not allow people to redeem themselves, they have zero reason to change or work with us, and will continue being our enemies.

          Yeah, they voted Trump and Nazis-- they also have PTSD, trauma, may be grappling with addiction, suffering from mental illness, etc.

          They also fought our country and are rightfully angry that we left them to rot in the streets.

          We ALL created the conditions that led to Trump.

          Thinking that we just need to be violent towards Trumpers to defeat them and THAT is going to fix our country is some really smooth brain thinking.

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            2 hours ago
            1. PTSD isn’t an excuse and it’s not every veteran.
            2. We aren’t leaving them on the streets, the Nazis they voted for are.
            3. “We All” didn’t create the conditions.
            4. Since we’re going into insults now, fine, if you want to smooth brain coddle and gargle some Nazi balls, you feel free and let them keep on making America fascist again and stand with Schumer’s pathetic strongly worded questions.

            If they want to redeem themselves then they need to have some self reflection on their own to understand that voting for Nazis is bad. That’s something they have to do themselves and when they actually come out and say, “I’m sorry for being a fucking idiot and voting for a Nazi” and actually back it up with actions like not voting against their own interests because they like racism better, then I’ll gladly talk with them. Until then, they can have the day they voted for.

            You can continue to be that bleeding heart idiot that thinks being punched in the face time after time without saying enough is a winning strategy, you keep getting punched.

            I’ll continue to think that Americans need to suffer the consequences of their actions and maybe they’ll learn not to hit themselves in the genitals and complain that it hurts afterwards.

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    Remember, you took an oath to serve the Constitution first. Time to dust off those uniforms and service rifles one last time

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        Service weapons. My grandad brought some abomination home from the Khyber pass. Granted I didn’t pry too much, cause I did that one time (unrelated story of his) and he shut the fuck down. Like went silent for what seemed like twenty minutes and just left the house. I tried asking my dad and he said he didn’t know much about my grandad’s time there either as he was born within days of my grandad’s deployment.

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        23 hours ago

        The US army will give soldiers a stipend to purchase their own rifles for use in battle, and those are the property of the soldier. I mean you can use a general issue rifle which you don’t get to keep, but everyonei knew opted for the stipend so they could build their own custom rifle and keep it.

        Also nearly every police officer opts to use a stipend to purchase their own service firearm which is their personal property. You can use one issued by the PD, but again I don’t know of anyone that opted for that route.

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    Know what? Fuck em. Don’t leave. They want the bills paid, then they can pay the fucking bills they told those veterans they would.