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Always better late than never, and if we're being honest with ourselves there's so much work to be done that we really can't afford to be unforgiving if we want to accomplish anything. They don't have to be propped up as our greatest and most trusted comrades, just welcomed as comrades.
That’s why I always bring up Puyi. Almost nobody is actually beyond redemption. But we really do need to kill the “cult of the troop”
puyi was reformed years and years later, there's no route to that kind of reeducation for US troops right now. their options are, at great personal cost: materially protesting, exposing warcrimes, stopping war crimes, defection, or treason.
so, Bushnell, Manning, or no recent examples, unless some of those people getting in trouble for selling information to china were troops.
Not all will be high-profile. For example, some of the hosts and guests of Eyes Left are ex-military turned anarchists, and there's the infamous " 'sup bootlickers" guy. Those aren't exactly recent either, but my point is that one can redeem themselves without being imprisoned or in some other newsworthy situation
nah they gotta at least go out of their way to get in a fist fight with a recruiter for me to trust them. if they just get out and grow a conscience that shouldn't be good enough for anyone else.