- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
This is what active military serving near Iran get to eat. Is he having door dash granny deliver it?
They signed up to be mercenaries. I don’t feel sorry for them in particular.
Some sign up for tuition, some have nowhere to go because there is no safety net or better options. Some people just succumb to propaganda or have a family history. Many enlisted before his second term.
I dunno, I’m super against any war, but you can’t assume they are all blood thirsty mercenaries. People have complicated situations, and even through I knew Trump round 2 would be corrupt, I did underestimate how maliciously terrible he could be.
They should be fed. They should be home. Politicians are to blame. One in particular, but there is plenty to go around.
None of those reasons are any better excuses.
Because you were born into a society with the carrot and stick mentality of 2000 years ago, that’s not on you of course. And I can see that they felt like there is no other option than sign up.
But if it is because you fell for the propaganda that’s 100% on you because it’s way too easy to see through that these days. Those people are basically brain dead mercenaries and deserve this meal and the any shit that’s coming to them.
Some people went in based on their grandfather’s tales of stopping the fucking Nazis, fuck damn.
When was the last time the US military did something good? They should have known better. Signing up to kill people isn’t suddenly okay, just because you’re desperate.
Except for a lot of people it’s never put to them that way. “Join the Navy, See the World.” “Learn a career in the Army” “Want to go to college? Serve your country for 4 years and have you tuition paid by the GI Bill.”
Should people know better? Definitely, but the sad truth is that a very large number of them didn’t know better because it was never put to them the way it was put to you.
Buying into American propaganda doesnt absolve you from responsibility and your own actions, sorry buddy.
Its funny too seeing how quickly Americans bash other corrupt governments and countries but somehow its okay for its own populace to buy into American propaganda. Thats pathetic.
Who said it absolved them? It doesn’t. It explains them. And fyi, I’m not American.
And just as many didn’t see any other way to climb out of the poverty they were born into.
How much slack should we give them? The worst a brainwashed MAGA-tard did was vote for it. Whereas they’re (most of them voted for it as well) willing to kill and die for it.
It was never put to me at all. I’m just not fucking stupid and/or wilfully ignorant. Either way, being brainwashed doesn’t absolve people from all responsibility for their actions.
I grew up in a poor rural area of the cultural south, scored very well on the ASVAB test (armed services vocational aptitude test), which was administered during school hours to all students. The recruitment drive was heavy. Maybe you grew up somewhere young people had more options.
Yes, yes it was. You just don’t remember when. Morality is learned, for good or ill. And as I said to someone else, it doesn’t absolve them so much as it explains them.
I don’t know man. I think it’s pretty self evident that travelling the world, killing people who did you no harm for money is bad and I feel anyone with a functioning brain should be able to come to that conclusion on their own, no matter how they were brought up and what they were taught and if they can’t, then that’s on them.
Those are all mercenary reasons for signing up to be a goverment killer, so they can eat this shit and then a bullet and I won’t shed a tear for these imperialist invaders. Dying there is what they signed up for, so they can do that.
You didn’t read what I wrote, did you? Or if you did, you ignored it.
No worries, have a good rest of your day.
I did. None of those are reasons to sign up to be a murderer. Skip the middleman and go kill and rob someone straight on the street if you consider greed a sufficient reason to kill people.
I can’t wait for the propaganda movie of this food based horror of war!!
The Tray Of Death!
No Potato Gets Left Behind.
Starring Marky Mark Wahlberg, only at cinemas.