boy marx wasn't lying, the wealth of societies where the capitalist mode of production prevails sure does present itself as an immense accumulation of commodities
blows up a random stranger with a rocket launcher for no reason then falls to the ground weeping histrionically & receives the tender attention & support of everyone present
so many americans being psychologically unwilling to grasp that the us political system is supporting this genocide because they WANT to because AMERICA IS AN EVIL COUNTRY and not because theyre scared of israel or because of a 'zionist takeover'... really feel like theres very little hope for the organized left in the us lol
Remember Marcellus Williams! A black Muslim man falsely accused. Remember that he's innocent. Remember that the governor of Missouri, mike Parson who had the opportunity to save this man's life, decided not to. Remember all but three supreme court justices decided his life wasn't worth saving either. Remember his face. Remember his Last words. And remember how fucked up this country is
Ok, no.... I'm a military spouse. My husband has never been deployed and most people in the military never see combat (which is a good thing). Many join for the healthcare and GI bill. While active duty you are pretty much guaranteed to have funding for housing and it does pay pretty well depending on your rank. So I really can't blame people for joining, especially those who joined because they felt like they had no other options. Some join because without the healthcare for their disabled child they would go into astronomical debt.
Do I like what the military does? No. But I see how it can be helpful for our people to have even an ounce of what other countries grant all of their citizens. We need universal healthcare, free college, and affordable housing.
Oh, he doesn't kill people personally, he just helps others kill people. Oh, and he does it to improve his personal position in life. That somehow makes it better.
Seriously, fuck you. You act all high and mighty as though you don't work to improve your own personal position in life too.
He was a broke trans guy in rural Texas who joined the military because after college he couldn't find a job where he was. He thankfully was sent to Massachusetts where we met. He does fucking admin work.
It's because of his income that I'm able to afford working at the nonprofit that I do and don't go into God damn medical debt because of my disabilities. You're so god damn judgemental that you can't stop to understand the full scenario. It's not our fault that the US is designed the way it is.
Only 1 in 10 soldiers even see combat. I vote the way I do because I want to get us out of wars so that the US isn't involved in imperialism as much as possible.
I wish you a lifetime of discomfort for wishing death on a stranger.
When a drone pilot blows up innocents, they are not the only person who's culpable. The person who performed maintenance on the drone is too. The people who transported the munitions, the people who fed everyone involved, the person on patrol in their base. And, yes, the person who does the administrative paperwork to facilitate the logistics in support of the above. Everyone is there for the same purpose. Not being the one who pulled the trigger is no excuse. This is what the US military is for.
Oh you don't like that I wished death on a stranger? Your husband materially contributes to the death and immiseration of billions of strangers. But, you know, he's probably not rude when he'e doing it, so I guess I'm the monster.
I'm glad he can support you so you can not go into medical debt because of your disabilities. Just don't ask about all the people he helped make disabled.
What do you do with your life? Seriously? What is your job there, @perpetual-oratorio ? What privileges do you have that you feel you can pass judgement on desperate people taken advantage of by a fucked up system?
Where does your high fucking horse come from?
The US military is predatory on US citizens, offering them things they have no chance of getting elsewhere. It chews them up and spits them out. And you're here sitting in judgement as if you have any fucking idea beyond some pretty fucking privileged leftist 'ideals'.
Which shouldn't include wishing death on anyone, so. Please. Do share.
I'm someone who can recognize that the soldiers aren't the actual victims of the US military, for one. Do you think about the people actually victimized by the US military at all?
Yes. I do. But do you actually think about them and how they are victimized, or do you just listen to a bunch of propaganda?
Do you think about how Afghanistan was left in a worse state than it was when the US entered, and how it could have been left in a better state if Dubya hadn't been a fucking idiot? Or do you just think about people killed in drone strikes, not even remembering any real details?
Do you think about how the invasion of Iraq engendered ISIS, and how we're still dealing with the fallout of that?
Or do you just go 'soldiers kill people' and ignore anything else?
Yes. Soldiers kill people. Sometimes, they kill people who want to kill others. Sometimes, they kill people they shouldn't. Usually, which of those they kill, and in which ratios, depends upon the orders they received. I'm not blaming some PFC for some General's fuckup. They were some poor dumb 18 year old who joined the army because it was that or join a gang or starve on the street.
Do you ever actually consider other people as people, or just toys for your righteous anger?
What point do you think you're making? Do you think I'm not also blaming those who set the policy? Of course I am. The reason that the soldiers are bad is because they're the ones enacting that policy. I thought that was obvious from what I was saying but I guess not.
Recognizing the systemic nature of the evils of US imperialism doesn't mean the people actually performing that imperialism at the ground level have no culpability.
Also, are you implying that invading Afghanistan could have ever been anything but an atrocity? Like the actual problem is just that Bush did it stupidly? For someone trying to argue that I don't understand the systemic nature of the problem, you're sure willing to make excuses for the systemic nature of the problem. What is the function of the US military? What do you think it's for?
Afghanistan could have actually been left in a better state than it was when we invaded. However, that would have required helping set up a coalition government that would have included elements from the Taliban. But they wouldn't have had the full power they do now.
Literally, of all the invasions the US did after 9/11, Afghanistan was the one that had the most validity to it.
But you think that people trapped in the system should also die. You do not recognize that many soldiers are soldiers because the system gives them no other option. And you wish death upon them for the system that put them together.
I think that some wars are sadly necessary. I think many regimes must be toppled, and will not be from within.
But tell me this: do you wait for a glorious revolution that will fix things?
Not that that super matters. Murder and imperialism don't become ok just because you benefit from them.
More importantly, how can you have lived through the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan and just think it was a problem of good intentions poorly executed? The point of both of them was three-fold: to funnel money to arms companies and those that would be involved in the "reconstruction", to facilitate the plunder of their natural resources by western corporations, and to "open markets" for western corporations, and by those metrics they succeeded wildly. THAT is what the US military is for.
I do actually appreciate that info, I was not as aware of it as I had previously been.
The fact remains that you have a tale of someone who basically had nowhere else to go and decided that they deserved to die because they went with the only possible option.
By the standards of judgement you have shown, you are yourself condemned.
Choosing to kill people in order to keep the most brutal and oppressive empire alive for a little bit longer is actually the worse choice compared to starvation.
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On September 11th 1973, US-backed General Pinochet overthrew the democratically elected leader of Chile, Salvadore Allende. Pinochet ordered an air strike on the Presidential Palace, labor activists and famous folk guitarists were rounded up for torture, disappeared, and killed.
Pinochet converted the national football stadium into a detention facility like Guantanamo Bay. Chile’s economy was turned into a plantation for the 1%, as inequality and poverty skyrocketed under the imposed Milton Friedman-style economic model.
Over 40,000 Chileans became victims of Pinochet’s terror. In response, the Nixon administration committed more money, more training, more torture equipment.
The world didn’t begin on September 11th, 2001. Rather, for the first time in modern history, Americans were visited by the same violence the US has imposed since its creation.
In Chile, the US murdered tens of thousands and impoverished millions. This wasn’t America’s first foray in international terrorism, nor would it be the last.
The United States security state is a terrorist and a plague on the people of the world.
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