Fuck the troops tho.

  • Reversi [none/use name]
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    Video: young men realizing their deception inside of an imperialist war machine

    Comments: "ooh they're so handsome, young enough to be my sons, the things I'd do to them, vote Green"

    What a stupid fucking country

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      just realized these dudes are literally young enough to be my sons and now I'm the opposite of horny

      • Reversi [none/use name]
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        "I'm going off to commit war crimes"

        "That's great, anyways pretend you're my son and you've been bad"

        That's not pandemic, that's American psychosis

    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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      Why do people here dislike the Green Party? They’re way more likely to become progressive alternative to the Democratic Party than the obscure PSL.

      • Reversi [none/use name]
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        More the absurdity of seeing someone's life unravel and being like "ooh cute boys, VOTE" instead of anything else

  • SimAnt [any]
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    I really hope the people who get recruitment texts start replying with this clip

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    Losers and suckers

    Edit: I'm not making fun of these people. Recruiters are the scum of the earth and these people were conned.

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      18 Year Old: busted for weed

      You: "His material conditions!"

      18 Year Old: regrets joining military

      You: "Haha, bootstraps!"

      Right out of high school I was a genius and made no mistakes

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          I'd hope so, but I've seen enough Chapotistas honestly believe that a day in the military makes you a perpetual counterrevolutionary

          • Torenico [he/him]
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            Being in the military + getting radicalized during service is good, you get a lot of training for free which you can use later on against the system.

          • grillpilled [he/him]
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            Just a Trump reference. I myself went to a navy recruiting thing to try to sign up, but I was a year too young thankfully.

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        it is objectively morally superior to be a criminal

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      Stupid bastards

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      That's the wrong way to look at it imo. I'm assuming most of these guys aren't actual killers but the poverty draft is real and we ought to be empathetic towards them.

      The losers and suckers are the chuds who may or may not have joined the military and still lick boots.

      • grillpilled [he/him]
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        I was just making a joke about how Trump called dead WWI troops losers and suckers. I do have a ton of empathy for them. I almost signed up for the military without a recruiter even tricking me into it, but I was too young.

          • grillpilled [he/him]
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            Nah, I made it too ambiguous, and someone else here thought that I meant that too. I had original written more that would have given it context, but took out everything except for "losers and suckers".

            • tofunaut [he/him]
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              I don't read all the replies in a thread before I comment, I should do better

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      The pigs have the same demographic as the military because America has created a military to police pipeline to funnel a bunch of murderers from foreign wars into a role that suppresses, controls, and murders Black and Brown people in a domestic class war. But we also gotta know why this shit happens, they are lied to and brainwashed by propaganda. A lot of these boys come from the south and midwest where jobs are lacking or non-existent. They are not actually taught how to manage money (any better than your average college-bound teenager). So as soon as they get that first bonus, they spend it all on a car and have to cycle through multiple times to pay things off; then they meet a girl or get them pregnant and now they got child support, marriage, etc. I remember my call from the military recruiter. I wasn't radicalized at the time, but I was completely disinterested. I had top-notch AP scores, SAT scores, my dad was gonna pay for the first year of college. I had zero interest in joining, even if for a while I thought the military "gave structure", or seemed cool like the movies, as a dumb ass teenager. One of my closest friends at the time, smarter than me to be honest, was kicked out of his parents at 18. He lived with us and then with an old lady, and worked at Walmart for 6 months before he joined. Material conditions are what make the military death machine possible. I think there was a recent report that Seattle is the worst place to recruit teenagers because the $15/hr wage made it easy to survive.

      The systemic forces that put them into these positions of oppression take away their humanity just as they dehumanize others. They shouldn't be the priority, tho. The humanization of the oppressed always comes first, but the byproduct of humanized oppressed is in turn the humanization of the oppressor as they no longer have the power to oppress and can become equally human.

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      Why? https://mobile.twitter.com/LaviniaWorth/status/1314221987083018240

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    I mean, eh.

    I hated it too when I was in but now I'm out and have no debt and have more money than anyone my age. Was a pretty sweet deal considering I spent the 4 years cozy in DC spitting in Jack Posobiec's coffee every day

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            I fixed computers lol, you aint gonna guilt me into not falling into a horrible debt trap like everyone else I know, nuh uh, sorry pal!

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                    Never said anything like you weren’t remorseful? You’ve said it multiple times?

                    I fixed computers and spat in Jack Posobiec's coffee for four years. That is not me trying to downplay what my Job was, that's all I did. One working printer is not the difference between a building getting blown up or not

                    Besides, you live in a first world country? Congrats, you have materially supported imperialism just as much as me lol. Only dif is I got paid to do it and you just do it with taxes and by not rising up against the government

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                        You joined a volunteer army, you didn’t have to.

                        Yeah, could have gone to college and ended up like a billion dollars deep in debt and with no healthcare, no thank you

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                            She's probably done bad shit to survive too lol, everyone does and if you think you don't you're lying to yourself.

                            I aint Christian no more for a reason fam, this browbeating protestantism you are trying to shove down my throat aint gonna work

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                                The Vanguard parties had a ton of guys in them that were basically just opportunists who were good at violence so way to rat out how little you know about them parties ;)

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          lmao I've seen this one before

          I'm gonna say this site isn't for you

          Come back later and try it out again