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Army raises enlistment age to 42, removes waiver for marijuana possession (taskandpurpose.com)

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[–] Ravell@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ohhh all those people were raping and murdering too so its ok if we do it on an industrial scale!!

You might want to learn what a strawman is since I never said it was "okay". I said it was a fact of life, dumb fucking idiot.

Is your big "revelation" that America does evil? No shit genius. Anyone with eyeballs can see that. Do you want a fucking trophy or maybe next you can describe to me how the sky is blue???

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it seems like a big revelation to someone who literally wants to deploy ICE abroad?!?! You know, the thing that started this chain???? And whats the point in bringing it up as "a fact of life" if not to distract and downplay your regimes genocides and evil?

Is your big “revelation” that humans have been killing other humans for a long time? No shit genius. Anyone with eyeballs can see that. Do you want a fucking trophy or maybe next you can describe to me how the sky is blue???

[–] Ravell@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I never mentioned ICE.

And yeah, that does seem like a revelation to you considering I was responding to "lmao your yankee propaganda has you convinced that everyone is just as murderous as your stromtroops" this sentiment, by pointing out that yes, historically human history has always been violently, murderously evil, and it's not some novel American invention.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The person at the very top did, anything I say was in response to that, like "oh you said a really obvious truth in response to an incredibly ignorant statement" what even are you trying to do here?

“lmao your yankee propaganda has you convinced that everyone is just as murderous as your stromtroops” this sentiment, by pointing out that yes, historically human history has always been violently, murderously evil, and it’s not some novel American invention.

I have to explain to you what a comparison is? Your country was an inspiration to the literal nazis and recruited and put into power literal fucking nazis. Your country is on the same level of evil as the nazi regime, are you gonna go with "Being a nazi is just human nature, it's always been like this", because it would be an incredible self-own.

Which means, as Whitman notes, “that American racial classification law was much harsher than anything the Nazis themselves were willing to introduce in Germany.”

This is what I'm talking about. The actual things your regime did not some abstract "oh killing bad" concept, but the material reality of what makes the united snakes of amerikkka what it is.

[–] Ravell@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, America is as bad as the Nazis, I agree, and we learned it from the British, who learned it from others. Being a Nazi isn't every humans nature, but the basic blueprint of the Nazi is as old as civilization, so it is definitely part of human nature.

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

This isn't news either

not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois.

L. Trotsky

and why did you feel compelled to bring that up? What were you hoping to convey? And why is this always brought up in the context of people pointing out how the total sum of american evil is beyond comprehension but when people say the tiniest nice thing about china suddenly the wee-ghur wee-ghur alarms get sounded?