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Contempt towards child killers isn't misplaced
Don’t confuse hatred of the institution with hatred of the people fed into it.
The U.S. military sells education, healthcare, housing, income, status, and stability in a country where those things are not guaranteed. That is not an accident; it is part of the recruiting bargain. A lot of people join because it is one of the few paths that looks structured and secure.
That does not make every service member personally responsible for U.S. foreign policy, defense contractors, or the political decisions that send people into wars. Criticize the machine. Don’t pretend every person inside it built the machine.
The US military is primarily comprised of middle class people who chose to participate in the subjugation of people infinitely poorer than them, in order to preserve their cut of the imperial spoils. Poor people who happen to join are also just vying to be allowed to enter the imperialist-peripheral class.
The machine and its components are part of the same process. To pretend otherwise is idealism, elevating some imagined internal essence of each indivual above the function they serve in material processes.
Even in your fantasy of an "innocent" génicodaire who only participates for economic privileges rather than because they personally believe in the fascist project, they're still selling out and killing their fellow workers for selfish benefit. The term for that is class traitor and they deserve no sympathy.
It's a fucking wild fantasy too. "Hey I was only a concentration camp guard because it financially benefited me, I'm not a fascist the machine I work at is fascist". Liberal nonsense
You've obviously never been poor. Choice is a luxury.
I've literally been homeless dumbass
Fuck off with your fascist apologia