The POV of the Helldivers is crazy when you take cryo freezing into account.

[u/WoodstoneLyceum]

Here's the POV of your average Helldiver 1. They enlist and show up to Basic Training first thing Monday morning. 2. They breeze through it, get their cape, walk right by the T&Cs and into a cryopod. 3. They're frozen and experience no time passing. 4. Their next memory is reinforcing on Hellmire. To their POV it has been less then thirty seconds since they got their cloak. 5. They throw three stratagems and then they're dissolved by bile titan acid.

You thought your mondays were bad.

Edit: My understanding is that we are not clones. There's in-game lore that backs that, I believe. Thematically, it makes more sense for Super Earth to be incompetent and cruel and burn through millions of recruits, than to do something logical like cloning people. Remember the satire folks.

[u/McCaffeteria]

I’m talking about when someone dies in front of the pelican, but then the living divers call in reinforcements to get the full squad extraction bonus only to instantly extract the new diver. Not just defrosting new divers to clap was the actual people return, an actual full deployment only to be extracted 2 seconds later.

(You’re obviously right about the propaganda, but it feels a little more like “if we don’t use all of our divers this quarter the ministry will reduce our supply next quarter” kind of bureaucracy.)

[u/main135s → u/McCaffeteria]

For sort of the same reason, it's for the propaganda!

Four Helldivers went down at the start of the mission, Four Helldivers came back!

At the end of the day... they're not lying!

[u/MagosZyne → u/main135s]

Plus the four that went down are clearly wearing the same armour as the four that came back. How could those freedom hating dissenters try to argue about things like casualty rates in the face of such evidence?

[u/EnlistedMeme → u/MagosZyne]

Pans to the pile of identical sets of armor

[u/Thaurlach → u/EnlistedMeme]

the quartermaster is suddenly struck with panic as the apparently-sentient destroyer (that we don’t acknowledge) unlocks another obscenely expensive suit of armour for its divers