Why don't we see how things have fared in The Philippines after the US placed them under new management after seizing them from Spain in a war of aggression?

There are plenty more examples in the gaps between and further back in time. The only ghoul here is you.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.

But go ahead and tell me about how you're mad at people killing children.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But go ahead and tell me about how you’re mad at people killing children.

I can't believe this is a real sentence

[–] orc_princess@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

It's a parody of themselves LMAO

[–] 9skyguy0@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

At last we see the ghoul's true colors.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You're happy to see poor enlisted kids die for rich old assholes. It's not a hard concept.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Look at these poor enlisted kids. What kind of monster would be happy to see them die?

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

Unironically? Some of those were kids, back then. The photos make them look a lot older because they were tied, hungry, dehydrated, and filthy. Kids were lying about their age far more successfully then than now.

But you're just proving my point: you like seeing dead kids fighting for old men. As long as they're the right dead kids for your political compas.

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Lol okay, so at this point you'd rather try to rehabilitate nazis (i specifically searched for pictures of the SS during Operation Barbarossa, so these are committed ideological nazis in the middle of a genocide of 21 million people) than accept the victims of the US empire as being fully human and deserving of the right to kill in self defense.

This is a level of fascist apologia masquerading as enlightened pacifism I have hitherto never witnessed before, and you yourself are a worm of titanic proportions.

At this point you should monetize it and start writing op-eds for the NYT about how it's wrong to celebrate when IDF soldiers get got, you're already doing it for free for the Waffen SS.

[–] 9skyguy0@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You are willfully ignorant to the fact every crime, atrocity, and act of aggression was willingly committed and/or abetted by soldiers who enlisted on their own free will. This is what you support. It's not a hard concept.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.

I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don't deploy them to combat before they're 18.

I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.

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