I don’t have any sympathy for those who joined from a position of privilege. I acknowledge that is likely the majority of service members.
There’s also the many, many poor rural children that join for nationalistic reasons, already far down the path to fascism.
Same as joining a gang. Participate in violence and you get a roof over your head and maybe a couple meals. Wether or not it makes them “bad people” or “class traitors” doesn’t change the pressures and incentives at play. There are few alternatives and fewer viable ones.
For many it is their only hope of escaping poverty or owning property. “Convenient” for the state that this is the case.
Desperate people are willing to do horrible things. To what extent are they to blame for being exploited? The state’s policies allow and encourage poverty, destitution, and desperation, then exploit it.
I don’t think one is just or even absolved by their exploitation, but I can have empathy.
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The state doesn’t treat veterans much better than dogs. Some get to leave with work experience, savings, and education, others get to crawl in the streets until they starve.
Nah, this week an ex al qaeda member/leader visited trump in the white house. Lots of smiles and handshakes.
Merrick Garland is a member of the heritage foundation and giving him the AG was putting a conservative in charge of prosecuting conversatives. The most important part of Biden’s presidency was prosecuting Trump and he chose a fucking Republican for the job.
Pretty hard to lose an election against Donald Trump but they’ve managed to do it twice.
Maybe they should’ve ran a primary.
Maybe they shouldn’t have both sides-d every goddamned issue against their own fucking side. Trans rights. Palestine. Healthcare. Immigration. Housing.
maybe they should’ve found a spine at some point in the last decade?
Maybe they shouldn’t have wheeled out liz fucking cheney in support of kamala harris?
maybe they shouldn’t have fucked bernie out of a run a cycle back.
Democrats are not your friends
Can you help me with a christlike waffle recipe?
Women should suck women’s breasts
Culture is not a monolith
“Some media company sued the Internet archive so now I’m not paying any artists for their work or the media I consume” is entitled bullshit. Esp after acknowledging many struggle to pay rent.
Burn your CDs and listen to the silence. Maybe a thought will wander through your skull-cavern
The only thing I’ve seen linking their roomate to “transness” is a single Instagram makeup filter photo. Not exactly conclusive evidence.
“They were trans”
“Their roomate was trans”
Anything to attach this to queers and not to the alt right.
We gotta steal gaming back from gambling and sports washing :(
Guiness is widely known to not actually keep ‘records’. They’re just a glorified marketing company.
Is national payment processing the solution?.. International public payment processing?
not sure meme applies. just suggesting that I think it’s unlikely they found a specific, well known thread on a low-traffic forum naturally while ‘searching for something unrelated’ instead of through one of the dozens of places it’s been shared in the last decade+ … especially if they’re viewing it/linking it through the wayback machine instead of directly?
I doubt you randomly ran across this highly popular and heavily memed thread, that I’ve seen everywhere from NASIOC to YT to work.
‘Degeneracy’ is just a dogwhistle
“regulated” doing a lot of heavy lifting
What?