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[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml -5 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Look in the mirror: if you're happy to see someone dead you are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who joined up.

Or worse, because lots of folks join with the expectations that they will not be asked to kill unless it's reasonable, and will do some good. You're just happy to see people you don't like it understand dead. Congratulations! It's you!

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 7 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Look in the mirror: if you’re happy to see someone dead you are EXACTLY THE SAME as someone who joined up.

This is what the lingering DNA of a church-dominated society does to people's brains. "All violence is morally equivalent, and all feelings about that violence are morally equivalent" is a fairy tale for children meant to condition them into compliance with an indefensibly monstrous social order by using metaphysics to equate the violence of oppression with the violence of liberation. It's only one or two steps removed from "If you celebrate violence against the King's men, you are a knave in the eyes of God." It's religious magical thinking that only serves the powerful. Not only is this idea of automatic equivalence stupid and unscientific, it also runs contrary to the way people actually exist in the actual world. In the actual world, people are happy for the peace that comes when a slaughterer's rampage is ended. Or do you think that Palestinian resistance fighters are somehow "the same" as the IDF fascists they kill? Do you think they take no delight in the moment of the kill?

Deeply stunted and unserious view on violence, the empire thanks you for your servility masquerading as "moral uprightness". While you claim the moral high ground, the enemy claims the actual high ground and rains death on you.

[–] ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 7 points 19 hours ago

I don't remember US troops been force to go to Iran to bomb schools. Just following orders doesn't work.

You’re just happy to see people you don’t like it understand dead.

Yeah it's make me really happy to see dead nazis.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

EXACTLY THE SAME

not at all lol. OP is probably not signing up to deploy abroad so they can murder children for oil. they even openly condemn that, which is already much better by itself.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml -3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They are cheering for dead troops. Those troops happen to include 17 year old from poor families. They are, unironically and with great enthusiasm, cheering about dead 17 year olds.

I just struggle to see that as good.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 hours ago

... who chose to be murderers.

because fuck the families of those they kill, and the many more they throw in misery, right?

won't we think of the spoiled westerner who just wanted to not have to deal with their own shit and comes to murder everyone for money.