• AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Do you REALLY think everyone in the US military joined up during trump and is a raging Republican? If you do, what a strange world you live in.

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      19 minutes ago

      the US military has been doing this way before trump was even considered for presidency.

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      Really then?

      Why don’t we check in with the dead Afghani and Iraqi civilians killed before and during US occupation?

      Why don’t we check in with Serbia, still dealing with depleted uranium from US weapons?

      Why don’t we check in with Vietnam, still dealing with Agent Orange and other fallout in the aftermath of their liberation after all this time?

      How about over in Korea, where the US dropped more bombs there than during WW2?

      Why don’t we see how things have fared in The Philippines after the US placed them under new management after seizing them from Spain in a war of aggression?

      There are plenty more examples in the gaps between and further back in time. The only ghoul here is you.

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        The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.

        But go ahead and tell me about how you’re mad at people killing children.

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          But go ahead and tell me about how you’re mad at people killing children.

          I can’t believe this is a real sentence

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              You are willfully ignorant to the fact every crime, atrocity, and act of aggression was willingly committed and/or abetted by soldiers who enlisted on their own free will. This is what you support. It’s not a hard concept.

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              Look at these poor enlisted kids. I can’t imagine what kind of monster would be happy to see them die.

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                Unironically? Some of those were kids, back then. The photos make them look a lot older because they were tied, hungry, dehydrated, and filthy. Kids were lying about their age far more successfully then than now.

                But you’re just proving my point: you like seeing dead kids fighting for old men. As long as they’re the right dead kids for your political compas.

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                  Lol okay, so at this point you’d rather try to rehabilitate nazis (i specifically searched for pictures of the SS during Operation Barbarossa, so these are committed ideological nazis in the middle of a genocide of 21 million people) than accept the victims of the US empire as being fully human and deserving of the right to kill in self defense.

                  This is a level of fascist apologia masquerading as enlightened pacifism I have hitherto never witnessed before, and you yourself are a worm of titanic proportions.

                  At this point you should monetize it and start writing op-eds for the NYT about how it’s wrong to celebrate when IDF soldiers get got, you’re already doing it for free for the Waffen SS.

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      Even the most vote-blue-no-matter-who Democrat ideology is fundamentally imperialist and genocidal. Don’t kid yourself. That’s always been the function of the US military

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      I think their job is to follow orders from the same people who ordered them to kill a million Iraqis.