They willingly signed up for engaging in colonial subjugation of the rest of the world, including by kidnapping, torturing, and killing non-white foreigners.
What do you think they had in mind?
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matlag@sh.itjust.works 6 hours agoPretty sure that when they enlisted, they had something else in mind.
And it’s not always about the glory of the nation or other crap.
They willingly signed up for engaging in colonial subjugation of the rest of the world, including by kidnapping, torturing, and killing non-white foreigners.
What do you think they had in mind?
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Did they willingly enlist in the US military during the last 50 or so years?
Again, fuck them. It’s not as if they had anything noble “in mind”
gogonan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Yeah fuck those stupid poors who had no financial safety net or good enough education to pursue traditional employment, who wanted the option to secure a good mortgage or steady healthcare
Objection@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
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sudoer777@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
It seems like the ones who really need the steady healthcare are either not eligible for the military or are the ones being attacked by it
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
Hey, I won’t stop you if you want to take the position that poverty turns the decision to carry water for an empire built on coercion, extraction, and violence into a virtuous one. Knock yourself out.
gogonan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
We all participate in unethical business, however far removed our choices may seem from it. I’m not part of the military, don’t endorse it, and am angry about how my taxes are spent on it. It’s our government and military leadership that causes these problems and should be derided though. A lot of these sailors probably joined the military fresh out of high school with nothing better out there for them and aren’t educated enough to realize they’re not doing anything good. They’re kids though, but ride your moral high ground. I’m sure you’ve never worked for a scummy corporation or consumed slave labor goods.
Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Why are you pretending that they are poor, or that that is somehow a good excuse?
gogonan@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I just think willfully ignoring the fact that there’s systemic pressure that coerces the lower class into the military and then saying they deserve to be starved and sent off to their deaths in pointless war is a fucking wildly dickish perspective