• frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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    2 months ago

    Oh, I have. My time in service is exactly why I'm as hardline as I am for my people. I know what these crackers say about anyone they want to kill; past, present, and future. I was groomed to sell my soul to the Great Satan at 16, and I'll spend my entire life atoning for it.

    • vegeta1 [he/him]
      hexagon
      ·
      2 months ago

      I hear it. It must be tough to break out of that programming.

      • frauddogg [null/void, undecided]
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        2 months ago

        Thankfully, it never fully took. I was a "dirtbag" who tried to keep whatever broken pieces of myself that I could, rather than let Satan mold me into an unthinking killer. There was shit to shuck off and strip away, sure; but I wasn't some dead-eyed, soul-scooped jarhead by the time I made it out.

        • Poogona [he/him]
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          2 months ago

          I have a buddy who went into the military and managed to make no friends and absorb nothing while playing monster hunter the entire time, he has my respect

        • vegeta1 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          2 months ago

          It seems the jarheads get hit with the programming the hardest