It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

  • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    I was deployed and got a box from my home unit that was basically just trash. I think it was supposed to be funny, but it was just a lot of scrap paper thrown into a box. Nothing written on them that was for me. Nothing to signal anything. Just a big box of trash that could have been nothing more than the recycling bin upended into it.

    That was pretty heartbreaking.

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      6 days ago

      Did you ever talk about it with them? Definitely sounds like an inconsiderate joke. Flabbergasting that they managed to follow through enough to get it posted to you.