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[–] BillyB0nes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Join your military so you can go crush the regime? That's how the world solves its dictator problems. Other countries agree to come kill a lot of them and cripple their ability to express power. Then your country can power broker after the war, advance all their interests, start a culture of exceptionalism to compensate for their looted wealth. Then later on will find out your country started importing Americans as they sold company/state secrets left and right for their own safe passage. .ow they're slowly starting groups that spread hyper-capitalist ideology through out your police departments and draw in the heads of industry in your country. They advance their power by demonizing your most vulnerable groups and steadily gain a diseased momentum in your politics. No matter how much you point it out to others... no one understands you. They've slowly deamonized critical thinking and history lessons start to leave out more and more context so you can't actually talk to other members of your country about what's happening because their literal ability to interpret and evaluate what is happening has been specifically crippled. Now you're intellectually alone, in physical danger from persecution, and none of it was your fault because you genuinely tried to highlight the downfall around you and push movements to change the pattern.

Then when you go online you realize pathetically sad people exist everywhere...and they're all prepared to watch your country burn while high fiving each other for "Not being you".