Slop.

Even US draft dodgers e.g. during Vietnam had roughly 1-2% chance of being penalised at all. And that penalty was typically months in jail.

Draft dodging also virtually guaranteed you entry to a moderately less bad but still capitalist and imperialist country next door.

If said white kid next door was not a straight cis man or a (even perceived) communist that would probably be much more likely.

#notall , just 50-100k officers so that could not plan another war.

the white kid next door

they were no angel

Recruiting ex-military comrades is vital to any revolutionary org. Doing it while not compromising your anti-imperialist stance is the challenge.

Exactly this. Work to end imperialism

Despite my other comment, I do agree. We don't all grow up immediately realising the truth of the world.

If you come to that truth late and truly, genuinely, work to help right the world, I'll welcome you.

I agree but repenting has to include more than just saying "that was bad, I was wrong, sorry," otherwise it's no different than IDF shoot and cry bullshit. You need to actually be an active participant in opposing US imperialism.

The problem is that Americans (including here) will take literally anything as repentance. Platner has never to my knowledge expressed actual regret for the imperialist violence he did. In fact he's talked about how fun it is to fight in "little wars" and given a list of the ones he wishes he "got to" fight in. He also thinks he should receive more recognition and pay for the violence he did do, and wants to expand the armed forces! Yet people are backing him as the "lesser of two evils" and such.

I will be frank: I have seen the people - mostly kids, who are especially vulnerable to uxo - who are injured, maimed or killed in his "fun" little wars that he wishes he "got to" fight in. I have met those who have had every member of their immediate family murdered by men just like Platner. That's what he wishes he got to engage in more of. He is literally an unapologetic, racist mass murderer, and the fact he only did it for the money does not make him better. He is unironically worse than the majority of IDF genocidaires, who at least don't sign up for multiple tours with the IDF then go back as a mercenary when the IDF says they won't send them in to do more murder.

There is no possible explanation for being okay with granting this man political power, no matter who his opponent is, that doesn't hinge on regarding his victims as less than human. It is raw, unadulterated, American exceptionalist racism. And while that's going to be a problem on any site with a large number of Americans it's fucking depressing to see it here.

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Let’s set up a moneypot operation where anyone betting the “over” on war crimes on Kalshi gets instantly drone-striked.

I think it would have the same effect in America as it does in Israel.

Chelsea Manning was an analyst who leaked war crimes and paid dearly for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea_Manning (sorry for fedopedia link)

if @LegitTayUpdates can do it you so could your uncle

Not all Hasan fans but always a Hasan fan

Joined the marines out of high school for college, I'm defending for my PhD where my topic is III-V renewable energy on Tuesday. I'm not an activist but I feel like that counts.