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Here we go again (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 15 points 2 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 2 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.