• 7DeadlyFetishes [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    No. They had the option to desert.

    Don't like capitalism? Starve and become homeless.

    Don't like the war your fighting? 5 years in prison, then starve and become homeless.

    Easier said than done.

    -7DeadlyFetishes

    • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Literally the only reason you are saying this is because you, like most Americans, are a chauvinist who sees foreigners as subhumans, and their deaths as an acceptable price for getting a leg up.

      Thank you for demonstrating why Americans can't be trusted by anyone in the Global South.

        • Brak [they/them, e/em/eir]
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          3 years ago

          You can in fact, recognize the simple fact the most US soldiers put themselves before the Vietnamese, and who can really blame them?

          :I-was-saying:

          I can and so can Mohammed Ali and so many other people who stood up against the death machine. You are apologizing for imperialism right now.

          The people who were drafted to work the concentration camps during WWII knew what they did was fucked up, why do you think most concentration camp workers after being caught apoligize for their crimes and ask for forgivness? You don’t do that if you were proud of your work or believed the fascist project. Once again, not all Germans were Heinrich fucking Himmler, they were coerced through the violence of the state and had their literal livelyhoods on the line to run the german war machine, and though they have been victims to this system, we still activly pursue these individuals to seek justice years after the fact.

          tfw you literally defend the fucking nazis

          • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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            3 years ago

            And even among American soldiers there was people who were not down with massacring civilians. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson_Jr. This guy saw all of the dead people from a helicopter and told the other people in the helicopter to shoot the us soldiers if they didn't stop murdering and raping people. Like he was still a us soldier fighting for imperialism, but saving some people's lives then testifying against the murderers so they couldn't cover it up is good.

            • DeathToBritain [she/her, they/them]
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              3 years ago

              I sincerly doubt people were lining up at the ready to dig mass graves for jewish people or gun down innoncent civilians in Mai lai

              YES THEY WERE. THIS IS LITERALLY DOCUMENTED HISTORY

    • Swoosegoose [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      This comment is especially dumb because you'll be homeless and stave as a vet anyway, with ptsd as an added bonus, but whatever you got to say to justify participating in genocide I guess

      • 7DeadlyFetishes [he/him,comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        fucking lol did you expect the soliders to have magic crystal balls to predict their futures? Fuck off with your gotcha comment

        -7DeadlyFetishes

        • Vncredleader
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          3 years ago

          You need a crystal ball to know what happened after WW1 with the Bonus army?

          • 7DeadlyFetishes [he/him,comrade/them]
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            3 years ago

            There was a literal world war between WWI and Vietnam along with vastly wealthier United States and welfare state post-GI bill, Apples and Oranges Comparason.

            -7DeadlyFetishes

            • Vncredleader
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              3 years ago

              I'm not making a comparison, I'm saying that this was not some foreign notion to people. The idea that you'd be left out to dry after serving wasn't something you needed a crystal ball to conceptualize. You're the one laughing at the idea that someone could conceive that the government wouldn't take care of them after their service.