• callouscomic@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ah well, soldiers haven’t fought for their country for decades. Instead they’ve been fighting for the interest of industrialized military, and the whims of politicians.

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      1 year ago

      the american military-industrical complex is little more than a welfare/jobs program for americans with profits made overseas while at home were prostetlized that were ‘defending’ ourselves with overt patriotism

      its absolutely revolting, and it boggles my mind how anyone in the military can find this a good thing for humanity.

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        1 year ago

        Remember the video of the Iraq vet that was screaming at Bush to apologize in 2021 I think? He talked about all his friends being dead and a million Iraqis being dead all because of a bunch of lies. And while Iraq was one of the latest foreign failures, it was far from the only one. It just so happened to occur right around the same time the internet started connecting everyone. MSM couldn’t whitewash or ignore what was actually happening like it could a few decades prior.