Your post betrays you here. You've genuinely never met a poor teenager before. Because that's who you're talking about here. You're talking about children and young adults in poverty who are being preyed on by the military industrial complex. Hope that makes you feel real proud of yourself.
2)Most people and most working class people in the imperial core know that the military is an institution of violence, and to join such an institution is to perpetuateband enable its homicidal tendencies.
3)You're infantalizing the people who choose to become mercenaries.
Being a mercenary because you don't want to work for minimum wage isn't the vindication you want it to be.
lmao. most of those "poor teenagers" join the military because they are reactionary dogs. the only people I have known to be interested in enlisting at a young age do so because they see it as a place to buddy up with other racists, queer bashers, and misogynists. there is an ideology behind enlisting whether those who leave the military admit it or not, they joined because they believe in continuing imperialist oppression, not in spite of it.
Your post betrays you here. You've genuinely never met a poor teenager before. Because that's who you're talking about here. You're talking about children and young adults in poverty who are being preyed on by the military industrial complex. Hope that makes you feel real proud of yourself.
Go back to your tech bro job in the burbs.
I've met plenty of poor teenagers as I was one. Your friends comfort is not worth the lives they helped destroy
1)You're strawmanning me. Wonder why
2)Most people and most working class people in the imperial core know that the military is an institution of violence, and to join such an institution is to perpetuateband enable its homicidal tendencies.
3)You're infantalizing the people who choose to become mercenaries.
Being a mercenary because you don't want to work for minimum wage isn't the vindication you want it to be.
lmao. most of those "poor teenagers" join the military because they are reactionary dogs. the only people I have known to be interested in enlisting at a young age do so because they see it as a place to buddy up with other racists, queer bashers, and misogynists. there is an ideology behind enlisting whether those who leave the military admit it or not, they joined because they believe in continuing imperialist oppression, not in spite of it.
They wanted a piece of that imperialist pie.
it's weird but i know tons of people who grew up in poverty, my partner included, and none of them ever turned to murder for hire to make ends meet