No, I still won’t watch streams, this guy is a great poster though

https://twitter.com/badempanada/status/1657263485397483524?s=46&t=DBqOmL5V_w7cid09gQz_FQ

  • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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    1 year ago

    The military doesnt sell it as killing people. Its defending your country and vague romanticized notions. This is the disconnect I get, can you really not take off the lefty lens for just a second? Most people don't have that kind of analysis even as adults.

    I smell bs please stop talking to me

    • Abraxiel
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      1 year ago

      People are really constantly going, "I'm built different, I would simply never get caught up in a big lie, because I'm a good person. Anyone who does anything bad does it because they're inferior ethical beings, an intrinsic and inextricable quality."

      • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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        1 year ago

        Love to simply helplessly get "caught up" in a "big lie" that coincidentally also promises economic benefits to me if I follow along with it without challenging it.

        There's no connection between my apparent lack of agency and insight and the fact that it personally benefits me.

        (This is not to suggest that propaganda or indoctrination plays 0 part in this, but that theres a direct incentive to buy into this, and that both the big lie itself and the concept of the big lie provides an excuse and license to do so.)

      • usa_suxxx [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        They literally did that though. At least the buddy joined the military and not a gang. What's a gang supposed to be doing again?

        • ClassUpperMiddle [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Im actually built different from all other poor people, theres no path, set of circumstances or situation possible for me where I joined the military. Also being poor is actually a choice, if you stay poor it's 100% your fault

    • usa_suxxx [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      I don't think you like my reply because it implies that there were poor people out there who made the opposite choice and did not need leftism to make that decision. You used poverty as a shield and now you use leftism as a shield to discredit my background and choices. And the way you told the story, it makes sense. You frames it as a being better morally than some other acts.