There is no number of foreigners that is unacceptable to sacrifice for a middle class livelihood. Anti-cop because they can imagine a scenario where a cop inconveniences them. These principles don't apply to the Waffen SS because they can't imagine a soldier personally inconveniencing them and, of course, foreigners aren't really humans.

  • Foolio [any]
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    2 years ago

    Warmish take but I'd argue the troops are actually far more guilty than cops. Many people are cops simply because it's a job, and there is a way you can naively spin it as "helping people", like providing support in emergencies, etc. Being brutal is not inherently part of it, if you're not educated on the nature of policing.

    Joining the military means signing up to kill people in the name of the United States. Period. There is no "helping".

    • Redbolshevik2 [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It's really funny when they're like "I had no idea what the military was!"

      My dude, toddlers understand that the point of the military is to shoot people.

      • Foolio [any]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah, that's why it irritates me so much when leftists who scream "ACAB" bootlick troops and vets because they think "normal rubes respect the troops, so you gotta be normal". Or even worse, they repeat the lie that "the military is the only example of state power/public welfare that Americans see perform competently so we need to worship it too" - motherfucker the post office works every damn day!

      • rubpoll [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        A former teacher of mine was an army vet and said what surprised him most about boot camp was how much emphasis there is on learning how to kill another human being.

        He knew that was silly - obviously it's the army, what else would you be learning - but it still surprised him that his job as a soldier was 99% learning how to kill people.

    • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      100,000% agree. Cops kill a lot of people. Soldiers kill way way more.

      If cops are the handguns of the state, soldiers are fucking predator drones. And I think it’s pretty obvious that predator drones are worse than handguns.