• BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
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    7 days ago

    It’s more that their options are severely limited, and the military offers a paying job that could lead to a career, or at least pay for college, which could lead to a career. Getting the Hell out of bad living situation, either a terrible home town, or a rough family situation, is another good reason. Foster kids age out of the system at 18, and often go homeless. The military looks like a positive viable option from that perspective.

    There are a LOT of reasons that people join the military, and VERY few join the military to kill.

    • Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      VERY few join the military to kill.

      Repeating the same mental gymnastics, as if these scumbags don’t know what that terrorist army does constantly.
      Those frequently heard apologetics are disgusting. They are vulgar hired murderers in a uniform.

      • Alkali@lemmy.ml
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        6 days ago

        I’m a bit confused, so we hate Mongols now? I mean, I’m down I guess. It’s just hard to keep up.

        • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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          6 days ago

          If you would do me the kindness of treating my point in the context it was made, that would be very welcome. The point, though perhaps mystifyingly put, was that the motivations and economic forces acting upon the invader are of little import to the objects of their predation.