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Here we go again (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The youth won't save us. There's millions of people who grew up in conservative households believing that killing brown people is the (only) American Way.

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

And even so, lots of guys from the sticks who wound up in Iraq and Afghanistan signed up to the military in order to get a free ride, not because they had any particular ideological motivation other than having no opportunity in wherever it was they came from.

They got a free ride, alright. Straight out into the goddamned desert.