• Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    um "brutal and ruthless kidnappers willing to go to extreme measures to reach their monthly quota of new military recruits"? that's a quite a change in tone from reporting about ukrainian war effort two years ago... looks like it's backstabbing time.

  • LeniX@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 month ago

    Only a Nazi can use such words when referring to their compatriots, or all human beings in general.

  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    He said when he first started working with the TCC he felt pity and compassion for his targets.

    “I’ve learned to control my emotions during work, and now it’s just a job for me. I always have the argument: It’s either them or me,” he said.

    i think that this is why we're doomed

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 month ago

      The claim:

      “I’ve learned to control my emotions during work, and now it’s just a job for me. I always have the argument: It’s either them or me,” he said.

      The reality:

      He learned to suppress his emotions. If he survives the war, he'll become (if not one already) some form of addict, abuse those in his life, and liberals will generalize it out as "generational trauma", removed from the context of imperialism.

  • Thorngraff_Ironbeard [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    "I used to have sympathy for them but it's them or me"

    "I joined because I wanted to be a part of the machine"

    kind-vladimir-ilyich ussr-cry

    Tovarish Lenin look at how they butchered my worker's solidarity

  • bawb@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    Absolutely horrifying to imagine being abducted to serve a cause that nearly all your compatriots are already fed up with.