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Americans that are in the armed forces, What is the current feeling inside it? (lemmy.world)

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Do the army support the president even if his orders are against your constitution? How is the overll clima and feeling today?

Just asking because I'm curious, I have no horse in this race :)

Edited to Armed forces since thats exactly what I ment

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[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They've never had any problems with any of the other crimes against humanity they were ordered to do so why start now? They literally think they should be hailed as gods in the US and anyone who doesn't is a traitor, you think they'd have any qualms about killing protestors when they've already been told that they're anti-US terrorist scum?

It's literally the exact same tactics the IDF uses. Wonder who Israel learned it from.

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago

Have you talked to anyone in the armed forces? Many of them are there because they grew up poor and in the U.S. joining the military can be a good way to get out of poverty.

Only a tiny fraction actually do any combat and even fewer commit war crimes. The main ones committing “war crimes” is Congress who does things like give weapons to Israel.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The majority of gang members also grew up poor and joined a gang to get out of poverty. Does that make it justified?

[-] CMonster@discuss.online 2 points 2 days ago

Nice false equivalency

[-] BussyCat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Justified is different than calling anyone who tried joining at 18 scum and immediately dismissing them, which is also true for someone who joined a gang at 18

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago

Yankistanis always have talking points that deflect their own wrongdoings but does not apply to others in similar scenario.

[-] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I volunteered for the Army on my birthday They draft the white trash first around here anyway

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