• MehBlah@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      I’m poor and desperate. Whose hiring? System is working as intended.

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          11 hours ago

          It depends on what you mean. They don’t exactly draft Liberian diamond miners either. Poor uneducated Liberians do that because they have to.

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            4 hours ago

            Holy shit…

            Did you just equate working in a mine for sustenance to committing war crimes for a placement in the middle class, lifetime benefits, free education, and the expectation of respect and special treatment for the rest of your life?

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        13 hours ago

        our US military is entirely voluntary, if you exclude the influence by capitalists and gov staff who direct communities to keep its people poor and desperate enough to think they can “win” by joining.

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          13 hours ago

          Is it really voluntary when you have no other recourse? When the circumstances of your life are so hopeless that is seems like the only option?

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            12 hours ago

            Work at a gas station or go murder brown people for way more money and paid education?

            It’s a choice, a selfish one.

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              12 hours ago

              Look, I get what you’re saying, and “I was only following orders” is also a choice, and one that you should get rightfully judged for, but let’s not pretend like creating circumstances where people find themselves uneducated and without life prospects isn’t a big recruitment vector for the military.

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                4 hours ago

                Yeah no shit, the military gives you incentives to be a Nazi, you choosing those incentives knowing you’re doing Nazi shit still makes you a Nazi, regardless of how you end up if you don’t choose to be a Nazi.

                What point are you making exactly? We don’t have to pretend like they had no other choice…

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          11 hours ago

          Kind of like conscripting gang bangers and cartel members. Join us, and you’ll want for nothing. Terms and conditions apply.

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        12 hours ago

        Did you know his family name was originally Drumpf? I mean that’s not just a sound bite, that’s their original German name. Do you know what it means in German? It’s the sound that something hollow makes when you tap it.

        Edit: “ein drumpf”.

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      1 day ago

      Right?! If this were any other country, we would’ve had multiple military coups forcefully removing the orange shitstain from office.

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    1 day ago

    Just when you think America is scraping rock bottom ethics/morality/humanity, they surprise you by going even lower.