What abt soldiers? An 18yo from Flint gets recruited bc there are no other prospects. Trained & indoctrinated, sent to MidEast to fight war for power & oil, taught to hate "towelheads" & to have barely-restrained programming to discriminate violently. Should they all be killed?
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Replying to @laurelai_bailey @o_guest and
And everything that came before that should not be taken into account? The literal brainwashing / programming that is essential to military training (or any kind of institutionalised grouping) should not be considered?
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Replying to @adativs @laurelai_bailey and
MY DUDE NO. So "just following orders"? I mean fuck you because I take serious person pride in un-brainwashing myself from a militaristic culture and Laurelai takes pride from similar, I ASSUME, given she served.
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I grew up around 5 armies. 5. And a lot of hardcore brainwashing and genocide committed is still not seen as serious with people boasting on the news about how many people they killed.
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My country is so fucked up. To take away from us our agency and pride in escaping the toxic thinking is really fucking out of order. There are not few people like me, many of us made it.
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Replying to @o_guest @laurelai_bailey and
I have not said that. At all. I am sorry that somewhere this touched a nerve but I have at no point said that.
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Replying to @adativs @laurelai_bailey and
No nerves touched — don't assume I'm upset if I swear, I'm just cool like that. So yes, you are implying that I and Laurelai are lost to our brainwashing by saying anybody who has been brainwashed is somehow compromised for ever. But in fact I explained two important things:
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Replying to @o_guest @laurelai_bailey and
It wasnt the swearing, it was the moral outrage lol
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