• Tempus Fugit@lemmy.world
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      11 hours ago

      There are plenty of shit bags in the service. There are plenty of fantastic people too. The military is a great representation of all proletariats.

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        10 hours ago

        So what? The same could be said about ICE. The quality of individuals doesn’t mean anything when the institution as a whole is so rotten and evil

        The US military has murdered orders of magnitude more unarmed civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan than ICE ever conceivably will in the US

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        9 hours ago

        My point is, you can draw a direct through-line between Iraq/Afghanistan and what is happening now domestically. You can’t really separate the two. Thus there’s no point in drawing a distinction between a soldier and a “gravy seal”. That’s just cope; the military is not coming to save us