• HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
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    5 hours ago

    Thoughts and prayers.

    Thoughts: Yeah she’s gonna die.

    Prayers: Hey God, remember to warm up the brimstone for this one!

  • Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    My cousin was doing a law degree. For whatever reason she decided to pivot to physiotherapy which is great. But then out of nowhere she joined the army as a medic. I just cannot understand why, for the life of me.

    If she gets vaporised I’ll not be too troubled. She had life on a platter, and could have used her skills to help people who needed it, but decided that the war crime machine was her calling.

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      Not exactly a secret that we’re deploying troops and they’re gonna be there a while

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        I’m just worried for the troops. The fuckers sending them are ultimately responsible, but the troops should have been warmed not to expose themselves to danger like this.

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          but the troops should have been warmed not to expose themselves to danger like this.

          Wat? Pretty sure they knew what they were getting into when they signed up for the fucking army.

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            Not every body joined to carry out a fascist regimes whims, some joined before and are contracted for years. Some people have no option but the military if they want to have health care for their kids. It’s an unfortunate truth that many good people are in the military because it’s the only way to provide for their family, and a blanket fuck all military members statement shows just how ignorant and stupid you are.

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              And do you not care about the families and children in the countries they plunder and rape?

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                Most people are more worried about their immediate family than strangers. But yes I do care, and fortunately it’s not a call I have had to make but I literally couldn’t have kids if I wanted to unless I joined the military today. Too bad the echo chamber here has never had to make a tough call! Maybe they could relate if they had to struggle and grow up poor.

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                  The “echo chamber” here includes people who lost family and friends to US invasions, f off

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              sorry you feel that way. the us has been a terror state since at least ww2 and has terrorized people all over the world for decades. every place they entered was left in shambles and millions of people are worse off and suffering due to the usa’s actions. trump didn´t change the trajectory of american foreign politics and warmongering. america didn´t turn fascist over night. it’s only now that a president makes life worse domestically in a very blatant fashion.

              after your statement you are not in the position to call someone “ignorant”

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                Ok and where do you live buddy? It is ignorant to act like everybody in the military is there by choice. When the choice is to let your family starve and die of preventable disease, or join the war machine do you see that as a choice? Is letting your family die an option you keep on the table? 2 of my siblings would not be here today if not for my father’s health coverage in the military. Not everybody grew up in well to do families that had options, some took the only opportunities they had and to day that’s a choice is pure ignorance. This helps your children have a choice, instead of a grave stone. And the fascist movement in USA really has taken off in the last decade, go watch a George bush talk when he was president. He sounds like a lefty by todays standards with how far the Overton window has shifted. And no I am not justifying the endless stream of “military operations” the USA has partook in, but to compare what’s going on today to what military action looked like 20 years ago is just silly.

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                  I am not justifying the endless stream of “military operations” the USA has partook in, but to compare what’s going on today to what military action looked like 20 years ago is just silly.

                  What do you actually know about Korea? Vietnam? Iraq? Yugoslavia? Afghanistan? …

                  Only someone as privileged as a USian could say something so completely wrong.

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        Operational Security. I.e. securing information related to deployments, plans, attacks, strikes, etc etc etc.

        Controlling access to any information that could be used to gain intelligence on troop/ship movements, locations, timing, etc.