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

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[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 5 points 20 hours ago

Me: Hey, stop that!

Guy who broke into my house: What a great sentiment, but it's unbelievably unrealistic throws my stuff into a giant bag there will always be things people will want to steal.

When criticism is levied against the empire, it gets framed as "stopping all violence forever." The same framing is not used when it comes to criticism of enemies of the empire. Nobody talks about Iran in terms of "We can't do anything about them because violence will always exists." Why? Because they framed as being somehow uniquely beligerant, while the empire is framed as being "the normal amount" of beligerant - even though the empire is much more violent, beligerant, and aggressive than Iran or any other country.

You can want the most murderous regime on the planet to stop attacking countries without the expectation that all violence will end forever.