Comment on Not happening, dude
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoSome of them, sure, but there are a lot of stories of how many lies recruiters will tell you to get you to sign on, so a pretty significant number are genuinely bad people.
Comment on Not happening, dude
Mnemnosyne@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoSome of them, sure, but there are a lot of stories of how many lies recruiters will tell you to get you to sign on, so a pretty significant number are genuinely bad people.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They have quotas blame the system not the consequences.
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If they weren’t conscripted via draft, they volunteered. 100% their shitty choice to become a terrorist.
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The average income of a enlistee is below the poverty line, if you can’t get a job you can get your ass in the military and make enough to survive.
You act like every life choice is binary.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
it was 100% your shitty choice to become homeless. maybe dont get cancer and be in debt to medical bills next time dumbass
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Good to remember that not everyone is aware of the bullshit by 17 or 18 when recruiting is at its height (gotta pay for college somehow, right?). I know I wasn’t but, luckily planned to do ROTC instead of enlisting, then, educated myself out of being willing to do that.
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If “ignorance isn’t an excuse” doesn’t get you out of any law you break, it also doesn’t get you out of accidentally joining a terrorist organization due to propaganda.
Because that’s exactly what it is.
It is no different than the teenagers that join ISIS. Propaganda takes them in, they join voluntarily, they live with their consequences for life.
ZMoney@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they’re signing up for.
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is an acceptable excuse in 1902.
In the age of Google and where even the homeless bum down by the river has a smart phone, Googling to find out about a major life choice is easy to do. Failure to help yourself do nothing but use a phone for 10 minutes deserves zero empathy.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Why not blame both?
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For the same reason I don’t get upset at the drive through server when the cook makes my burger wrong. They’re just part of the process, not the cause it’s kinda hard to judge people for trying to survive.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
On the other hand, the policing system encourages screwing over minorities and doing various other scummy things (through a quota system among other things). This does not absolve cops of guilt if they target minorities, lie, or plant drugs.