Comment on Food served to US service men & women.

• Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Free tuition, healthcare, a paid job. When you’re trying to get yourself out of misery, you don’t always have many options.

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    • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you can sign up for kidnapping, torturing and murdering people in the Global South for the Epstein empire, you can find a different job.

      Also, did they suddenly forget what their military does? And also failed to think of the people on the receiving end of what this military does? How is this in any way an excuse?

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• WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”

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  • gogonan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • gogonan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why are you pretending that they are poor, or that that is somehow a good excuse?

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      • gogonan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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    • mrdown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nobody shade a tear for isis fighters who joined regardless of their social and economical situation why should i shed a tear for the american terrorists?

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    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      steady healthcare

      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

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