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A lot of people who do the violent work of capital aren't actually dead-eyed psychos. Plenty believe there's some worthwhile purpose behind what they're doing. That's half the reason we have such a wall-to-wall propaganda machine; to let the folks pointing the guns rationalize.
There's a big difference between that and doing anything (even as modest as this) that might jeopardize your livelihood for your beliefs, but there's at least an entry point there.
Yeah but the letter said values of the US Armed Forces not “values of certain individuals within the US Armed Forces.” So as a commentary on the values of the institution itself, the letter is hilariously wrong as the USAF is one of the most evil institutions in the history of mankind
the explicitly-expressed patriotic values of the USAF are different than the actual values of killing brown people in service of capitalism. but the oaths and propaganda is largely about the explicit stuff. this type of thing appeals to
Stated values are completely meaningless though