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Not exactly a secret that we’re deploying troops and they’re gonna be there a while
I'm just worried for the troops. The fuckers sending them are ultimately responsible, but the troops should have been warmed not to expose themselves to danger like this.
Wat? Pretty sure they knew what they were getting into when they signed up for the fucking army.
they joined voluntarily. f them.
Not every body joined to carry out a fascist regimes whims, some joined before and are contracted for years. Some people have no option but the military if they want to have health care for their kids. It's an unfortunate truth that many good people are in the military because it's the only way to provide for their family, and a blanket fuck all military members statement shows just how ignorant and stupid you are.
sorry you feel that way. the us has been a terror state since at least ww2 and has terrorized people all over the world for decades. every place they entered was left in shambles and millions of people are worse off and suffering due to the usa's actions. trump didn´t change the trajectory of american foreign politics and warmongering. america didn´t turn fascist over night. it's only now that a president makes life worse domestically in a very blatant fashion.
after your statement you are not in the position to call someone "ignorant"
And do you not care about the families and children in the countries they plunder and rape?
Most people are more worried about their immediate family than strangers. But yes I do care, and fortunately it's not a call I have had to make but I literally couldn't have kids if I wanted to unless I joined the military today. Too bad the echo chamber here has never had to make a tough call! Maybe they could relate if they had to struggle and grow up poor.
The "echo chamber" here includes people who lost family and friends to US invasions, f off
So have I dumb ass, on both sides of US invasions. My mother is from Venezuela, and my father is ashamed of what he had to do to provide his children with a better life. That's not what my original comment was about, I was stating that in the United States if you are poor and want health care and the opportunity to provide for you family your option is the military. Must be nice to come from a country where you have a choice, your privilege is showing.
I'm trans, disabled, unemployed and from/in Latin America, you asshole. Having principles isn't a privilege, it's the bare minimum. If you believe we're less human than you and we can get killed so you get healthcare you suck. I'd sooner do precarious work that only puts me at risk than do that. There's no universe in which what you're saying makes sense. Grow up and stop making imperialist apologia.
See that's the thing. Only puts YOU at risk not others. I'm talking about people who want to raise a family and aren't from a wealthy family or incredibly lucky. I don't want to make that call so I don't have kids and therefore haven't been basically forced to join the military. I'm not talking about having principals I'm talking about having family health 0 out of pocket I don't get why people are conflating this with some sort of military support when I just said somebody is ignorant for saying fuck everybody in the military, as if its a choice for some of them.
You're defending killing people, you're disgusting, that's the whole thing. I wouldn't kill children or rape anyone to provide for my own children. If they can't take care of their children then they should organize against their government, not kill people in our countries.
People have been organizing against our government for decades. How many generations before it's acceptable to provide care for your family? You are right if it can't be done you should not have kids. That's why I havent. I also never defended killing people. I simply said some people don't have an option but to join military if they want health care for their family and thats a fact.
And then those people go on to commit and abet pillaging and atrocities worldwide. You are defending killing people. There always is a choice, and the fact is that things can be changed for the better. A better world is possible.
STOP DEFENDING US FASCISM
You think growing up poor would make me feel bad about them signing up to kill my family?
DEATH TO AMERICA
Yeah... only way to have health care for your kids is to blow up other kids. The only way to provide for your family is to provide death to other families.
So you are familiar with the American nightmare? Why do you think so few have kids anymore.
You cry and call others privileged who have experienced US-backed coups, invasions, sanctions as a collective punishment to starve people, to force countries that who have been taken over to put in severe austerity measures so that people work for fuck-all so that it can be exported to YOUR country for cheap!
And you?? You are crying how oppressed you are? Motherfucker you are not sleeping without a worry whether or not you would wake up after having hour home blown up. You are in fact privileged just from the fact you are living within the Empire that is the US.
Then you justify people joining the military forces that are the ones imposing these terrors onto the global south. You are one depraved and oblivious person. Listen to what the others are saying and read a fucking book for once.
Hint: You can live within the imperial core and still acknowledge your own privilege. I know I am privileged by living in a NATO(Nazi) country.
Every single one of them participate in or abet the acts of aggression, crimes, and atrocities carried out across the many conflicts the U.S. is participating and has participated in. As has been pointed out, they help facilitate the killing of civilians, many of which are impoverished.
The fact they're joining for the benefits does not excuse them in any way.
The very last part of your last sentence is a confession.
I hope every US soldier returns in a box
I know that comment can only come from pain. I hope you can heal 🙏
There is something so much more nauseating, cowardly and despicable about lacing therapy language with hatred instead of just telling someone to go fuck themselves
Most join because they're rapists and they know rape is legal for soldiers.
The US, specially internationally, has always been a fascist regime.
domestically too, but only if you don't look/act/think like the privileged group.
US troops are suckers and losers
Now I know why.