Pete Buttigieg joined the military to seek career advancement. This is transparent and obvious. But he still joined. And he was still deployed. And swift boating that is bad and sharing the WSJs swift boating op ed is bad. /1
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In broad terms, enlisting (or being conscripted) is signing away your right to make your own decisions to be told what to do by people who have a commission A commission is a magic piece of paper from the state telling you you can, on the state's behalf, tell people what to do
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It's not the same thing at all, it's an essential opposition, and half of military culture is about that opposition
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