• xenomor@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Just jumping in here before the bags start shipping back to say fuck every single one of these service people. All of them chose to go. All of them chose to serve this lying, fascist government and do the bidding of their corporate patrons. All of them signed up to bomb children. All of them deserve the consequences. Have fun shitting in a bag the rest of your life assholes.

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        2 hours ago

        And that was the high point for many, as they’d end up addicted and living on the streets shortly thereafter.

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      14 hours ago

      Most of them are probably 18 years old, poorly educated, and raised on Fox News. They’re just pawns that have no idea what’s going on.

      Congress on the other hand, knows exactly what they’re doing, and has no moral qualms.

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        13 hours ago

        You’re right, but the 18 year olds are probably educated on Assmeinkampfmongold and that is even worse.

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        Don’t blame soldiers. Blame their government.

        I’ll also blame the ranking officers.

        The grunt soldiers may not have the perspective to see how illegal this is, but the officers should.

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        7 hours ago

        Absolutely blame governments. But that doesn’t absolve soldiers from responsibility in a volunteer force. Absolutely blame soldiers for their own misdeeds.

        This notion that our service people are somehow these fragile, perfect little angels that deserve nothing but effusive worship is nonsense, and part of how the government enforces its awful, self-serving corruption.

        Fuck the soldiers, every single one of them. They signed up to do evil, they deserve to suffer the consequences. Can’t wait to ridicule them when a few of them get back.

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            Tell that to the 2 million dead in Iraq. Tell that to the people who suffered in Abu Grhaib. To the little boys who were forced to have sex with their moms, and to the dads who were forced to sodomize their sons and daughters. To the men forced to hold weights with the threat of death, only to have their arms snap in half due to the pressure. To those who were forced to eat their own fecal matter. America, and its military are the greatest evil the modern world has ever known.