Gallery image 2

Gallery image 3

Gallery image 4

Gallery image 5

Gallery image 6

    • apprehensivecrab1@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      2 months ago

      For many, joining the US military is the only way out of poverty, a path to citizenship, or a way to a higher education. Some others just are victims of propaganda, or just genuinely sadistic, but unfortunately most of the people joining the military are victims of a failed education and social security system designed to bring more troops into the meat grinder.

      EDIT: Holy moly. I do not condone US imperialism at all. I am not saying that people who fall into the poverty draft get a free pass either. What I AM saying is that the US war machine is a fucked system that results in endless atrocities abroad but unfortunately will only to continue unless we dismantle the institutions that blindly draw people to the machine so that these people who would otherwise be vulnerable can wake the fuck up and turn away from it. These systems include capitalism, propaganda, imperialism, jingoism, a failed education system, etc… Chill out friends.

      • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        2 months ago

        Joining the US military means killing innocent men women and children all over the world.

        Is “wanting to escape poverty” a valid excuse to murder children? Bank robbery is a more noble profession than US militant.

        • Grilipper54@sh.itjust.works
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          2 months ago

          Is surviving a reason for doing something bad?

          I’d say yes and anybody that disagrees has probably never been in that situation.

          There is a reason the military recruits the poor.

          • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            0
            ·
            2 months ago

            Surviving is when you go work for or McDonalds or Uber not kill brown children. Such a pathetic excuse for mass murder. As if these people had no other option. In reality becoming a mercenary mass-murderer is just a bit more lucrative than flipping burgers.

            • Fluke@feddit.uk
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              0
              ·
              2 months ago

              Spoken like someone who’s never truly known desperation or genuine hunger. ie. One of the bourgeoisie who’d be first against the wall.

                • Fluke@feddit.uk
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  0
                  ·
                  2 months ago

                  No, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in you pretending to know what it is to be desperate, that you can judge others in such a position.

                  I ain’t justifying diddly squat.

                  Edit: For clarification, watching the fall of the American empire in real time is both amusing and enlightening. Hopefully, it happens fast enough that I get to see the end result.