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 2 months agoIf they weren’t conscripted via draft, they volunteered. 100% their shitty choice to become a terrorist.
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
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.
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
Madison420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m not homeless or in debt of any kind. Get fucked with your bigoted fucking blanket statements dude.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 2 months ago
you should read my comment again but in a tone mocking the comment you responded to originally