Thanks for the info. Hopefully he’ll read through it. This guy wasn’t on board with calling the Palestinian genocide a genocide until some Israeli based charities started saying it a couple weeks ago. So I’m not hopeful that he will be able to use his own judgement to refuse being used as a domestic police force.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not sure if this is at all helpful, but it took me over 10 years after I got out of the Army to finally let go of a whole lot of things and fully accept that the US military is an imperial force, anywhere the US military operates it is actively working to do bad things in the area, and even though I managed to kill exactly zero people as part of the invading and occupying forces of Iraq in 2003 I'm still one of the "bad guys".

If you have the patience and your aquiantence isn't immediately walking away from you when you try to give them correct information, you just need to keep pumping that info into their envrionment. Little cracks become big cracks over time.

[–] FishLake@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for the advice. And sorry you went through that. I’m glad you’re in a better place now, comrade.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

Self inflicted so ... shrug-outta-hecks

But I do wonder how much faster the turn could have been if I had stumbled into some theory literate Anarchist or MLM people.