Oviously if a troop wants to leave the military that's good and they should be supported as long as they acknowledge the mistakes made, no problems there. Also you don't know me personally at all, how can you even say what decisions I would make. That's just a hypothetical with no value to what is being discussed here. How is my critique inconsistent with materialistic thought, most of the US military is made up of middle upper class chuds whose class interests align with those in power more often than not. While there are people that join the military for economic reasons, they are no where near the majority according to almost all studies done on the makeup of the US military. While someone that joins the military may be a good person outside of the military itself, they are still directly enabling US imperialism and are thus bad until they leave. I'm being rude and melodramatic because I have to live in the ruins of an ex apartheid state supported by the US government (they even covered up the nuclear tests, research the Vela incident, support in the Angola border wars, etc) that faces constant capitalist aggression (we just took another IMF loan ffs) and tons of people here want to go out of their way to defend US troops that engage in this around the globe. I never see the same discussion around cops here, and I'm going to guess it's because the website is America centric and have had bad experiences with cops personally so they don't go out of their way to point out every single nuance in the police force. Yet with the troops half the website wants to discuss every single little nuance and potential factor. I'm just surprised be the leeway troops get on here when compared to other groups.
I'm seeing myself out, because we don't agree on a fundamental issue. Either way, solidarity, fuck US imperialism.
If you were born someone else- you had a different family, different friends, in a different country, a different environment- you would be a different person. With your beliefs, I can deduce that all American gang members are bad people because they commit crime and kill people. But obviously and extremely commonly championed in these spaces, that is dumb. We can separate the negative actions from the material conditions, we can provide nuance and we can understand why GENERALLY people would make a decision to join a gang.
Oviously if a troop wants to leave the military that's good and they should be supported as long as they acknowledge the mistakes made, no problems there. Also you don't know me personally at all, how can you even say what decisions I would make. That's just a hypothetical with no value to what is being discussed here. How is my critique inconsistent with materialistic thought, most of the US military is made up of middle upper class chuds whose class interests align with those in power more often than not. While there are people that join the military for economic reasons, they are no where near the majority according to almost all studies done on the makeup of the US military. While someone that joins the military may be a good person outside of the military itself, they are still directly enabling US imperialism and are thus bad until they leave. I'm being rude and melodramatic because I have to live in the ruins of an ex apartheid state supported by the US government (they even covered up the nuclear tests, research the Vela incident, support in the Angola border wars, etc) that faces constant capitalist aggression (we just took another IMF loan ffs) and tons of people here want to go out of their way to defend US troops that engage in this around the globe. I never see the same discussion around cops here, and I'm going to guess it's because the website is America centric and have had bad experiences with cops personally so they don't go out of their way to point out every single nuance in the police force. Yet with the troops half the website wants to discuss every single little nuance and potential factor. I'm just surprised be the leeway troops get on here when compared to other groups.
I'm seeing myself out, because we don't agree on a fundamental issue. Either way, solidarity, fuck US imperialism.
If you were born someone else- you had a different family, different friends, in a different country, a different environment- you would be a different person. With your beliefs, I can deduce that all American gang members are bad people because they commit crime and kill people. But obviously and extremely commonly championed in these spaces, that is dumb. We can separate the negative actions from the material conditions, we can provide nuance and we can understand why GENERALLY people would make a decision to join a gang.
Cheers, good night and solidarity