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Retired US Army Officer disrupts Senate hearing in protest of the U.S. complicity in the Genocide in Gaza, Palestine (video.twimg.com)

submitted 7 months ago by rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml to c/us_news@lemmygrad.ml

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Video link -> https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1981320312198213632/pu/vid/avc1/720x1280/atlhMmcIPxf3ffd8.mp4

Source -> https://xcancel.com/MarEyedoll/status/1981320404967854523#m

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[–] BarrelsBallot@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Okay, maybe a few Officers can be spared from fragging

[–] burlemarx@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 7 months ago (6 children)

We should stop the ultra leftism of condemning individuals for the role of the corporation. In all socialist revolutions of the past there were a fractioning of the military and police forces, with many of them (mostly soldiers, not exactly officers) joining the revolutionary side. Without this fractioning, revolution will never be possible, and no underground militia would ever be able to match professional soldiers if confrontation was needed.

Instead of simply treating all individuals as a single whole, we should do political and politicization work to bring out that fractioning.

[–] vaguevoid@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 7 months ago

while it is true that veterans can be reformed and regretful for what they contributed to, american veterans, by and large, support american imperialism. they care more about themselves getting tossed aside by the government than the peoples, societies, and economies in the third world that they helped to destroy.

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