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[–] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

awww. STOP VOLUNTEERING FOR THE MILITARY.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The purpose of a system is what it does.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    Unless it's badly designed, in which case it does everything worse than intended.

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  • [+] -6 points 15 hours ago* (3 children)

    So you fucking murder people?? Why join the fucking military if that is your solution, you'd do less harm in the world just stealing what you need. I'm poor and desperate, too, but I'd rather starve to death.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago

    I get what you're trying to say, but I just wanted to point out that not every military job is boots on the ground killing people. They also have desk jobs and maintenance people and whatnot. Military bases employ a whole lot of people who will never see combat.

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    I'm sorry? Did the draft begin?

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  • [–] 0 points 23 hours ago* (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    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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  • [–] -3 points 15 hours ago*

    If your options are to murder innocent people or to die, then lie down and get comfortable. But I have a feeling that while you are waiting, other options will occur to you.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] -1 points 15 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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