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[–] 57 points 7 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    A bit immature, but seeing the video compilation they made recently, the governement functions at the same mental level of a 12yo on a monster energy binge, so it might be the correct way to address them.

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  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (27 children)

    I wish all deceased United States and Israeli combatants in the invasion of Iran a very RIP bozo.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (26 children)

    Americans are very much not for the invasion, and outright protesting it.

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  • [–] 24 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Show me American soldiers protesting the invasion.

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (12 children)

    She clearly was, otherwise she wouldn't be wearing the uniform. Imagine dying for pedophiles smh.

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    People always act like being in the military just absolves them of all their personal moral obligations. It is the morally correct thing to refuse these orders even if it means going to prison. Yes believe it or not, you going to prison is better than you killing innocent people.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (10 children)

    No guarantee she would actually have went with the attack on Iran. Did you see the soldier ruining USA's opsec by filming lazily his own radar system being blown up?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    It doesnt matter how you are involved with the war, if you help run a base, operate a drone or whatever else. You are still assisting war crimes.

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  • [–] -4 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    You can't view everything so black and white. These are normal people who signed up to do something they thought was right, only to be pushed into an unexpected war, their lives and livelihoods, their honor, their people at stake. But when push comes to shove, many of them just won't co-operate in the war, and those people aren't typically televised.

    Many of us willingly or unwillingly participate in questionable systems, burning fossil fuels as a side-effect. This does not mean we want to, self-preservation is a thing. But for example: even though I depend on many of the goods going through the suez cannal, I root for it's closure, for the destruction of fossil fuels. I have a portable solar panel, and I want to transition to 100% energy independence and my own grown food.

    Look at the army for freedom of Russia that is fighting it's own country. Quite a few defectors helping Ukraine.

    You only make things worse by rejecting these people as scum, by not leaving any room for their humanity. You kill who you must to protect yourself, you try to get them to defect to your side, and you can't do that by damning them right away.

    These people were just like you, believing they would rise up against their tyrannical government, and lay down their lives for the greater good, but it is not so simple or easy.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Fucking clean wehrmacht myth but for yank troops lol

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    "But have you considered having a nuanced opinion about the soldiers of a country that said it plans to flatten all of Iran" - No reasonable person ever

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  • [–] -5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Ok, so if your country goes to war, I expect you to instantly start shooting your own troops.

    I just know that your way never works out in real life. The amount of death, destruction, horror that would come about of applying your ideology would be incomprehensible.

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    The amount of death, destruction and horror that comes from yank troops not fragging their officers is already incomprehensible.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Severe amounts of moronic in this post if you're being genuine.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe people being killed is bad no matter who they are and an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind and all that

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Welp, seems Nicole won't be showing up on Lemmy anymore.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Idk, i don't really feel bad for terrorists

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Its actually such a disaster that the only way to appeal to the average US citizen is to make them worry about their own people. Brown people in the middle east just dont have worth i guess?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    the average US citizen might probably know about the 11 dead Americans but cant even guess the number of 2200 humans who were shelled and ripped apart by bombs in Lebanon and Iran who are most majority civilians.

    So this was not a soldier who defended their homeland. It was 1 vile mass murderer who travelled 5000 miles and comitted a terrorist attack killing 100 people in poor 3rd world countries for money.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    Most of the time, terrorists exist because the Epstein class bombed their family members.

    Edit: Which is not relevant here because I misunderstood that OP was saying that the American military are terrorists.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    and for Israel

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  • [–] 29 points 7 months ago (23 children)

    where she was? in foreign lands, invading. In the casino you shouldn't cry.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (20 children)

    you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (19 children)

    Not a great decision of her to help the US in its territorial ambitions but I'm also not a fan of victim blaming aka "she had it coming".

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  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago* (6 children)

    Especially when the US economy is basically stacked in such a way that the military is promoted as the only reliable path out of poverty for many (which the state also artificially maintains).

    There's a pipeline of high school to military recruitments for grads who have been convinced by their embedded ROTC recruiters that they have no other options.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    There are no more summer lifeguard jobs
    There are no more art museums to guard
    The lab is out of white lab coats
    Cause there are no more slides and microscopes
    But there are still careers in combat, my son
    There are still careers in combat, my son

    There are no more roles on TV shows
    There are no road-cone dispensing jobs
    There are no spots left for park ranger
    Cause there are no bears left to save you from
    But there are still careers in combat, my son
    There are still careers in combat, my son

    (s)

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So, she chose her wellbeing over others' lives?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    The overwhelming majority of people do, and not even for wellbeing, purely for comfort.

    Did you consider the workers at foxcon, where suicide is so prevalent they have had to make multiple changes to the building including massive fucking nets outside each window to stop jumpers, when you last bought nearly any bit of tech? Pretty much every device with cell data connectivity sources parts from them, and so do many other pieces of tech. How about all the children in rare materials mines where materials for tech are sourced?

    Personally I find this argument highly hypocritical. The basic fact that you're posting here all but guarantees you have chosen comfort, not even actual wellbeing, over others lives too.

    Edit: and to be clear, so do I. I just find it darkly funny when people pretend that their personal line in the sand is a difference of whether or not they do at all rather than simply a difference in degrees of separation. It's nearly impossible to exist in modern society without doing this sort of thing, so get over yourself.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I'm not killing other people. That's a very distinct line (which is usually a capital crime, unless you're hired by the army).

    You are trying to blur this line. Disgusting.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago*

    The fuck I am.

    You're the one that equivocated military service (and implied killing through it) to simply

    [choosing] wellbeing over others' lives

    Choosing wellbeing over others' lives is the thing almost all of us do almost fucking constantly, and explicitly what I was talking about.

    Military service and murdering people is not.

    Edit: Draw your line in the sand wherever you want, murder is a perfectly valid line to have and one I agree with.

    Just don't pretend that you don't choose wellbeing over others' lives too. If your issue is with military service and murder, stick with that.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Nah, she joined the military knowing exactly what we do with it. Not gonna shed a tear for someone propping up American imperialism and terrorism.

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    18 year olds are surprisingly easy to fool, let alone 18 year olds who have been getting groomed by recruiters since age 14.

    You are not immune to propaganda and pretending you are does not make you an intellectual, it makes you unable to see when you fall for it.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Except military recruiters lying their ass off is a universally known trope. This is a classic wolves ate my face, they went into the military for the benefits, fuck everyone else. And now it turns out the military cared for them about as much as it cares for the people she oppressed for them.

    The government setting it up so the path of least resistance is becoming a pedo doesn't make becoming a pedo ok

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    "universally known" By who? You happened to stumble upon that. Lots of people are impressionable, don't know that they're allowed to lie, or think people like you are exaggerating for effect, especially given that most people like you don't take the subject seriously and can only communicate through social media dunks. Like it or not, your sass does not help prevent kids from becoming cannon fodder.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Ya it's a universal known trope to young impressionable people who barely know anything you're right

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Lmao do you not remember being 18? They tried to recruit me, same as everyone else. I considered the benefits, decided, "hey, that sounds really cool, but aren't you guys known for lying your ass off?" and steered clear. You're trying to present this as retro framing, but it's not. This isn't a case of "I was so smart, I figured out the US military is evil", it's a case of "at 10 years old everyone who knew how to read knew the US military was evil"

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    You're literally saying "I am totally immune to propaganda" without a hint of irony. Which ironically means you're just as susceptible if it's presented in a different way.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    That's not at all what I'm saying. I gave you a specific example of what I was referring to, and I didn't make any blanket statements. That being said, out of the sample size of 2 in this conversation, I do seem to have above average literacy skills, which does seem like it would be beneficial for resisting propaganda.

    Did you really grow up in America without being taught about Vietnam? Our various war crimes? The way we treated Japanese Americans during world war 2? I feel like people explaining away "well they just didn't know the military was evil" are really just saying that they didn't pay attention in school, and I don't excuse ignorance as a reason for commiting or abetting genocide.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    First of all, English is not my first language, so you dunking on me for not being as literate as you sounds extremely fucking racist to me. But anyways, continuing:

    Did you really grow up in America without being taught about Vietnam? Our various war crimes? The way we treated Japanese Americans during world war 2

    A lot of states/counties will literally gloss over that. Also, indeed, kids sometimes won't pay attention to school. That doesn't mean the result should be them getting thrown into the Middle East to get obliterated by a missile because no one had the thought of talking to them about what recruiters do. They are literal groomers who will build a profile of potential recruits to emotionally manipulate them into joining, including even stalking their grades and other things to drive into their head that the military is their only escape.

    I don’t excuse ignorance as a reason for committing or abetting genocide.

    I don't either, but assuming literal groomed teenagers are just inherently evil for joining is stupid, and constantly dunking without ever stopping to be serious ONCE to tell people getting harassed by recruits what they actually want means you are not helping. You don't blame a teenager for getting groomed, you give them the tools to recognize when it's happening and exit stage left. That's my problem with this constant "haha dunk on the military and smoke the packs of dead soldiers", because none of you will actually put on the work to get serious for a moment and warn teenagers to not join the military or believe the recruiter's lies. All you want to do is to get some sense of sick satisfaction from laughing at targets you find acceptable.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    because none of you will actually put on the work

    I did that for ten years. Eventually trying to educate people while the world progressively gets worse wears your empathy thin. At this point, I can show you the path, but if you refuse to walk it I can't spare any empathy for you. If people aren't willing to actually oppose the oppressors I can't force them.

    That sounds extremely racist

    Lmfao, I'm tempted to just ignore that entirely. I could not have possibly known English isn't your first language, any racism received is on you mate. That being said, for a non native your English is very good. Indistinguishable from a native, even. Same reading comprehension too XD sorry, I can't resist zingers please don't take them personally

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  • [+] 5 points 7 months ago* (13 children)
  • [–] 26 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (11 children)

    Seems like a case of bait-and-switch.

    She was a reservist, meaning she was told she'd be training on weekends and working her regular job during the week. It should be illegal to send reservists to these wars of choice, but Dubya changed that during the War on Terror because no one wanted to go to Iraq and Afghanistan to die.

    And I'm not comfortable blaming the soldiers just yet, when all the evidence we have is that the military and joint chiefs (sans Keg-Breath) told Donald not to do this and he told them to fuck themselves and did it anyway.

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    In this day and age, if you sign up for the military you know there is a high chance you will be sent to a foreign country that did nothing to us to kill brown children to distract from the fact that our leaders are raping other children.

    Or you would know it if the USA wasn't the most propagandized place on the face of the earth.

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  • [+] -8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    you know there is a high chance you will be sent to a foreign country

    Being sent to staff a base and being sent to a war are two totally different things. (At least until February 2026)

    Or you would know it if the USA wasn’t the most propagandized place on the face of the earth.

    The military itself opposed this, and that's in the public record. This president has a record of avoiding wars and disentangling the US from them, especially in Syria and Afghanistan. (Which, ironically, Dems opposed even though these wars had lasted decades.)

    Iran and Venezuala are, rightly, unexpected, and if you're blaming reservists for their deaths then you're the one who's propagandized in this case. Can't exactly blame someone for dying in a war when all of the information they have is that it's (relatively) safe to be a US soldier and they can't read a demented person's mind.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Can't exactly blame someone for dying in a war when all of the information they have is that it's (relatively) safe to be a US soldier and they can't read a demented person's mind.

    No, but you can blame them having a complete lack of moral character and for being completely, and willfully, ignorant of what their job entails.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    And then his buddy Putin gave the American military targets to Iran, then convinced Trump to remove the sanctions on Russian oil.

    So Trump starts a war that jacks up oil prices, and firms up the markets for Russia and Tesla, making Putin and Musk the big winners.

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  • [–] -1 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    his buddy Putin

    American President surrounded by American generals and senators and tech CEOs doing a very American war in the Middle East as Americanly as you please

    "Evil Foreigners made him do it"

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Right, pretend Russia's fingers aren't all over every bit of this. Trump can be even scummier than you think (and he is), but that doesn't make Putin a good guy. They are both psychopathic maniacs, and they are both getting as much out of this atrocity as they possibly can, along with a LOT of other people.

    You'll always look stupid defending Putin. As stupid as you look when defending Trump.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    How the fuck is he defending Putin? Just because you made a accusation and he told you fuckwits are evil all on your own and always have been makes him a Putin defender?

    Holy reading comprehension batman.

    Is this what you have to show for your education? Strawman arguments like a toddler.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    My reading comprehension is bad? He's the one who literally took "evil foreigners made him do it" from what I said. Obviously Trump and MAGA are evil, but so is Putin, and Musk, and together they form the triumvirate of evil that is taking us into WW3.

    They're all evil, okay?

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  • [–] -3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    You’ll always look stupid defending Putin.

    Evangelicals have The Devil and Liberals have Vladimir Putin.

    The GOP has wanted to bomb Iran since Bush 41. The whole party, and much of the American business community, is fully in his corner.

    Hell, even Democrats are throwing in their support.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Did you know that recruiters LIE?

    Imagine being broke and struggling through college. You get an email from a recruiter - they have access to the university’s entire mailing of course - telling you that all you have to do is show up to a few weeks of boot camp, and do drill on the weekend.

    You’re 18, and don’t know that recruiters are not just allowed to sell you up the river, but encouraged to. It seems like a nice alternative to student loan hell debt and living off jars of peanut butter.

    I do ASVAB prep occasionally, which I have mixed feelings about, and have a client who I’ve just gotten to being able to borrow when subtracting. Do you think he’s equipped to make an intelligent choice when a recruiter promises him the world?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Nope but she did chose to live and die to enforce imperialism so hard to feel bad for her.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    The westboro Baptist Church used to praise the death of soldiers for their misbegotten ideology.

    Don't be like Rev. Fred Phelps.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    westboro

    Deliberately instigated violent opposition so they could press and collect on civil lawsuits.

    Many members of the group are trained lawyers, including founder Fred Phelps, and they have historically filed hundreds of lawsuits—mostly over picket rights and alleged civil rights violations—aiming to secure settlements or court-awarded legal fees.

    They were quite literally professional trolls. Baiting people into attacking them by criticizing dead soldiers had nothing to do with ideology. It was purely part of their grift.

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  • [–] -2 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    I mean, it's double edged.

    You've got folks in desperate poverty for whom enlistment is designed as a release valve.

    But then you're being paid to crush people more desperate than you.

    So do you want to be the half of lumpen labor paid to do the killing or the half that's being killed? I don't like the people doing the killing, but I can't blame from for not wanting to be on the other side of the barrel. There's no good choice to be made when you're in the bottom rung of the social order.

    At the end of the day, what we really need is a mid level officer's revolt. Where is the American Chavez? Where is the American Gaddafi?

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    No excuses if i rob and kill my elderly neighbor to steal their stuff to help pay rent that explains but no way excuses my actions.

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    if i rob and kill my elderly neighbor to steal their stuff to help pay rent

    It's rob the neighbor or be the neighbor that gets robbed.

    This isn't a real choice from a material sense. It's selection bias. You're mad at a random sampling of people forced into a Sofie's Choice, rather than the fascists forcing this choice on them.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Gaddafi and Chavez? Both of those governments had a shitload of military people staffing leadership roles that should've been civilian gigs. No thanks.

    Disobeying authoritarian orders is one thing. Using that as a tool to centralize power and staff civi roles with military brass for decades? Hard pass.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    You did a good job sectioning people neatly into two categories, and if those were the only two choices then sure choose to murder brown people.

    The reality is far different though, there's thousands of "groups" and you can't generalize them like that. The majority of people joining the military have no moral issue with it. The rest that join simply lack the creativity and confidence required to come up with a better solution for their problems.

    We should allow people space to learn from their mistakes of course, but that doesn't excuse their past behavior.

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    [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    She could have refused to obey the order. A martial court is better than being killed for defending a child rapist.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Or y'know just not join the military to begin with.

    "Join us, do what we say, don't ask any questions, and kill who we want you to kill. We'll pay for your college." Seems fuckin legit and not like the most obvious "become a henchman" pipeline

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