"Don't worry! I'll come back and be venerated as a hero for protecting Western imperialism. And possibly become a "progressive" candidate for Maine, if I get enough nazi tattoos."
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Yeah but the ones that die are "suckers and losers".
(Quote from Pedolf Shitler)
One of the very few true things he's said.
Love Pedolf Shitler that’s great. I was using pedolini and the rise of the turd Reich
even a broken clock is right twice a day
No sympathy for willing imperial enforcers.
they are killing people worldwide because they are imperialistic nazis, not because they are afraid of any consequences related to epstein, because there won't be.
USA Imperial boots try not to butcher people. mission: impossible
Every one of these fuckers should skip ahead to the part where they shoot themselves drunk
20 a day become one of the good ones
No you don't understand, they are doing it to get into college! /sarcasm
If we had free college tuition and universal healthcare, there would be no one to fight the pedo oligarchs' wars for them.
Which is why republicans and centrist democrats oppose both free tuition and universal healthcare.
The pedocracy. New term coined.
That's an angle that more people should talk about, honestly.
The mistreatment of the American populace isn't just to keep a steady supply of cheap labor for the rich people's investments, it's to keep a steady supply of cheap lives for the government to do their dirty work.
My generation's dead and disabled veterans fell in service to that sweet Iraqi oil. Oh and the Saddam hidden underground meme, can't forget that one!
It's almost like soldiers are not immune to the material conditions that help perpetuate the capitalist empire......?
Historically one of the most important missions for any revolution is to spread class consciousness among the imperialist troops.
I don't really know how people really expect a revolution to be possible while withholding class solidarity from the only people who have military training.
A tale as old as time. We all need to develop some bone spurs.
I despise anyone who becomes a soldier of their own free will. The moment you enlist, you accept that you could be obliged to kill, and that you will have no control over whether that killing will be justified.
In other words, you accept the possibility that you could become a murderer.
That's why the US likes to keep a well stocked under class which makes the Army one of the few options to get out of abject poverty.
I wonder what would happen if we didn't have a military at all
Thats the trick. If a country doesn't have a military and they have something like resources other countries want. The become puppets of the countries that have militaries. The exceptions are small countries that don't have enough of anything anyone wants for others to bother taking it. They don't tend to do so well usually.
It's a race to the bottom.
We wouldn't see images like the Iranian girl's rucksack smeared with blood.
What do you think the drones are for?
Not true for the USN. They hand you a contract that you sign. You only have to do what is contained in that contract. To change your job they have to get you to sign a new contract. I was never close to combat, and neither would any other Navy Nuke, though they actually left the school for the fleet. I skipped that step. There are tons of non-combat jobs in the US military that will never be anywhere close to combat. Logistics is why our military works.
That being said, it's worse than you are making it out to be. A lot of the people who signed up for combat roles were looking to kill people before they ever signed the contract.
You join the USN, you help with the logistics, someone you've helped in some way or another presses a button somewhere, a cruise missile is fired, obliterates a target and a few bad guys, some civilians die as collateral damage - to me, you've helped kill these civilians even though, admittedly, you've only played a very minor role. I very much doubt there are any contracts at the USN that 100% exclude that possibility and I'm not giving anyone a benefit of the doubt.
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America loves thier soldiers until they have to take care of them
Sending people off to kill and die so that rich pedos can make more money is not love
So much this. The same people saying "thank you for your service" are the same people that constantly want to cut veteran services. Sure they care when you're a tool for their goals, but why can't you then just instantly become an invisible member of society once you're done?
Oh, you want more?! Wasn't service enough for you? How dare you be traumatized by killing people and having bombs nearly blow you up! Maybe you should be a man.
But maybe I'm just too sensitive about this...
I don’t like Veteran’s Day and I’ve been called out for that.
I do respect and appreciate veterans for what they’ve done, but I cannot respect or celebrate the military complex that has thrown people into a meat grinder and then discarded them for decades, which is what that day represents to me.
I cannot support these wars, where people are brainwashed, used, then cast aside, to benefit elites and politicians who will never feel that pain and will literally party when dropping their bombs.
Fuck everything about that.
I understand the message here, but surely the remaining population could push for change while the military part worked down their contracts.
i can't think of the last time, if ever, i loved and hated a meme so much at the same time
Yeah, its hardcore
I know the nuance will be hard for some. So I will start by saying that I am very against the actions of our government, and have been since a pretty young.
But, the vast majority of our troops are in the military because it was the best or maybe only option to make a living. And that is the way the government design the economy. They make sure people have no or few other choices.
Now compare what the military is doing to distract from the epstien files to what the billionaire class is doing. Then look at who you work for. Odds are your job in some way supports the very people who made epstien possible. So we are all complicit. Yet we all have little choice but to work. So instead of pointing your anger at someone who just like you is complicit. Point it at the people actually responsible.
The same justification was made by my grandfather for joining the SA and for another two members of my extended family for joining the SS. Honestly, that is exactly what they said when I confronted them as old men.
I don’t know much about the SA. But my understanding was that the SS required a person to be pretty fanatical. So that is a little different than just joining the regular army to be a cook or something. It really would be more of a person by person determination, than a sweeping generalization of everyone who joined the military. There were and are certainly plenty of people who join looking to become murderers and such. But in todays military, that percentage is a lot lower then back there. There is just a lot more jobs that lead to a better career, and are often the only way many people can get to that stable life. This is of course one of the reasons they don't want college to be free. It's thier hook for a lot of people.
US troops are disproportionately middle class. Full article is on scidb if you wanna read the whole thing. But here is the important part:
We show that recent recruits tend to have higher than average socioeconomic background: they dispro- portionally come from the middle of the family income, family wealth, and cognitive skill distributions, with both tails under-represented
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660?src=recsys&journalCode=fjss20
Also they are not doing this to distract from Epstein. The rich got away with that, we have not taken out any of them in retaliation. We're not even protecting kids from troops at Ft Brag. We don't care enough to stop them, they can do whatever they want until we hit our breaking point. Just shitty to know that pedos running concentration camps for kids is not our breaking point
This might work for anybody who signed up for the military after Operation Epstein Fury started, but my guess is there aren't going to be many of those.
Most of the rest probably signed up while Biden was president, and thought at worst they'd be going to war to help keep the oil industry profitable.
Trump has been in power for over a year now, so at least a couple of ten thousand new people have signed up since then. And a couple ten thousand more renewed their contracts. Everyone in the US military is part of the war effort and nobody can claim innocence.
Most people who sign up as an enlisted soldier are dumb, desperate or both. Many probably believed the idea that Trump wasn't going to start any new wars. And, to be fair, maybe he wouldn't if the Epstein stuff hadn't been quite so devastating for him.
I don't think many signed up so that they could kill children to help distract from the Epstein stuff.
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