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Bill to require factual teaching about U.S. Capitol attack clears Va. General Assembly
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They don't deserve that. They joined up as poor people needing to eat or, before, people hoping to do right by a country that deserved it back then.
Right now, though, they're playing a bit of roulette as, overall, their chance of killing themselves later due to PTSD is far greater than the chance of them getting killed in-country now.
It may come as a surprise to you, but as recently as 18 months ago the US military was in a calm pattern of training and maintenance and wasn't doing the level of terrible things for terrible people that they are required to do now or face court-martial.
Also, enlistment durations are longer than 18 months. But that's just math.
If the choice is "be poor" and "sign up to be on call to murder brown people", surely we can agree that "be poor" is the better choice.
Might be surprising, but the US military killed over one million innocent civilians in its unjust wars of the early 2000s. Anyone who joins up now is either signing up to kill people, or signing up to “serve” because they are ignorant about what our nation actually does. Why would I give a break to a poor US soldier that I wouldn’t give to a Russian, IDF, Iranian, or Nazi SS? We are all responsible for our own personal actions. The country and world would be better off if the poor killed their rich masters rather than each other for their masters. I’ll not forgive their willingness to be puppets.