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• TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If they weren’t conscripted via draft, they volunteered. 100% their shitty choice to become a terrorist.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it was 100% your shitty choice to become homeless. maybe dont get cancer and be in debt to medical bills next time dumbass

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I’m not homeless or in debt of any kind. Get fucked with your bigoted fucking blanket statements dude.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • ZMoney@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they’re signing up for.

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    • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Why not blame both?

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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