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If it means diplomacy over war? Yep.
You are from a country that has been at war almost continuously for as long as anyone in it can remember.
Same as every other US citizen. Not ashamed of that either.
The constant warfare? You should be.
Thanks for your opinion. It doesn't affect mine.
At the beginning of this conversation, I felt considerable empathy towards you. Every time you reply I feel it less. Maybe try imagining the lives of people who end up under the American boot, people outside your country are also human beings.
I do. That's why I fight against the evils my country inflicts on the world.
You literally repeatedly stated how proud you are to have been part of the system that inflicted those evils
"I'm not ashamed of being from a country that constantly starts wars by invading other nations and committing genocide directly or by proxy"
So the complaint is that I was a soldier. Keep up.
No the complaint is that you were a soldier in a fascist genocidal army and are proud of it, plus not being ashamed of the fact your country is a ravenous genocidal warmongerer.
So you just hate America. Cool, bro.
Yeah I hate white supremacy, capitalism and genocide. You clearly don't.
Wrong on all counts.
It's a paradox to hate white supremacist genocide in favor of American capitalism but somehow still being proud of serving the military that causes it.
I'm not really a big fan of capitalism. I used to think I was but it hasn't really worked out that way.
If youre not a big fan of capitalism why are you proud of spreading its influence and helping fight for it
Yes.
You don't seem to have any capacity for shame
Diplomacy is when you force Haiti to lower its minimum wage so your monied class can get even richer
Fought against how we treat Haiti.
You fought as a soldier against your own government?
Like with guns? No. I fought in ways that aren't going to get me dismissed as a loony because those are losing strategies.
Let's hear these winning strategies then.
Let know if you figure it out, mate.
Your winning strategies won so hard that trump is president and your government shut down.
I'm one person. If being one soldier in an army is power, so is being one vote in a country. If my vote didn't change anything, neither did my soldering.
Your vote didn't change anything because it was never meant to change anything fundamentally. Just some farce to keep the masses under the delusion that they can change things without collective mass mobilizations. A religious ritual that reaffirms faith in the american capitalist order. Just another cope.
You being a soldier did in fact help with the maintenance of a fascist army though, sorry.
We can vote, or we can murder one another. I chose the former.
Mass movements aren't murder. Furthermore you already murder each other en masse so that's a moot point.
Well as I said, killing one another isn't something I support. Kinda feels like an internal issue, though, separate from everything else you've brought up. But while we're on the subject, I oppose the second amendment because it is used to defend the position that we must accept these murders.
I think admitting fault and joining a leftist organization that opposed american genocide is different to mass murder.
You literally repeatedly say how proud you are to be part of the USA military. You clearly support killing
Real "my girlfriend lives in Canada" ass answer
So, you didn't fight against it. You just quietly disapproved and then went back to serving the machine that was doing it