askchapo

I think mandatory military service is important because by the time you are 25 years old you have already either directly participated in, or knowingly collaborated in, some awful heinous crimes. furthermore, you know everyone you ever loved is also guilty. like all those snipers who spend their days kneecapping kids, those people are all integrated in society, they are loved by families who know what they do.

in USA those experiences are not as equally distributed.

I contend that israel is more homogeneously fascist, like psychologically fascist, beating the present-day US for this reason. possibly past US could make an argument although I wonder if that kind of fascist mind-state is really possible prior to mass media?

There was a thread on here the other day about how armed services recruits were primarily from the middle class and low income is underrepresented. They posted a ton of data to back it up. I admit I did not really look at it closely to verify. If I can find it again I will link to it, if you were curious about it that is.