• foxodroid [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    It’s really easy for leftists to get woke about shit like this instead of thinking materially.

    i'm Arab. I know Iraqis who got injured and fled due to the US invasion. One was only a child when it happened, he didn't deserve to struggle with PTSD for the rest of his life. He didn't deserve all that horror. I heard all the explanations and justifications there is about why lefties should judge your made-for-exports serial killers less harshly.

    They're still bullshit. Like, who lives in a rock and doesn't know the US is invading multiple countries? What are they ignorant of exactly? No, college money or poverty does not make assisting in carnage justifiable. that's not "wokeness".

    the moment you set foot on foreign land with an invading army you lose your right to life and there's no taking that action back.

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      4 years ago

      It is wokeness, if you lived in the same shoes as any of these dipshits who join the military, you would make the same fucking choice. You're not inherently better than these people, you would of absolutely made the same decisions and you're walking a very similar line as the fucking fascists by thinking this way. Also by themselves, a bunch of crybaby, vegan leftists who never held a gun or had anything resembling military training aren't going to be able to do much to a bunch of fascists who eat, sleep, shit military and killing people. You dig your own fucking grave.

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        4 years ago

        I could've joined ISIS at some point for the money too. i've seen how their propaganda paints it. hell one of my teachers strongly suspected i would but i see i'm not a fucking monster. it's insanely obvious invading others and killing are bad.

        aren’t going to be able to do much to a bunch of fascists who eat, sleep, shit military and killing people.

        You overestimate the "military training" of fascists. They're dangerous but are no state military. Also you can train to use guns and guerilla tactics without having to join the damn US military.

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          The US doesn't paint it as invading, the fact that we've been in Iraq and Afghanistan for 20 years wasn't imperialism or invasion, they just simply can't leave the country in the state it is in! And we don't kill with impunity, we only kill terrorists. Also, you kill people who are going to kill you, and that's what we're told over here. Terrorists want to kill us.

          I could’ve joined ISIS at some point for the money too.

          Does ISIS let women or trans people join ISIS in any meaningful combat role?

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            4 years ago

            The US doesn’t paint it as invading

            neither does ISIS. hell ISIS has a better argument for being there in the first place.

            Does ISIS let women or trans people join ISIS in any meaningful combat role?

            i'm not sure how "meaningful" but there was a women-only police force and several terrorist attacks and shootings were done by women. but even if one isn't combat inclined partaking in propaganda and recruitment alone is dangerous.