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We have an army for fighting as well as an army for labour. For fighting, we have the Eighth Route and New Fourth Armies but even they do a dual job, warfare and production. With these two kinds of armies, and with a fighting army skilled in these two tasks and in mass work, we can overcome our difficulties and defeat Japanese imperialism.

"Get Organized!" (November 29,), Selected Works, Vol. III, p. 153.

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 47 points 3 months ago

Imagine joining the military and they make you farm. Literally reverse levies

[-] john_brown@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago

Signing up to defend America in an emergency and being told you have to leave your normal job and family to go pick berries wearing a plate carrier and carrying a rifle in 98F and 87% humidity

fell-for-it-again

[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 21 points 3 months ago

VA denying back pain claims machine dialed up to 11

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago

Half the military would be out on a medical discharge within a month

The US military literally doesn't have the BACK to pull it off, hundreds of thousands of spines are barely hanging on to begin with

[-] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

>Join military

>Buy Ford F1488 truck at 25% interest with first pay cheque

>Deployed to a farm

>They make you use your truck off road and for hauling

>Wife still cheats on you with Jody despite being 40 miles away

The American Dream, shattered

[-] segfault11@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago

cultural revolution for bloodthirsty thumbs

[-] anaesidemus@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago

reverse levies! holy shit what a concept!

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago

swords to ploughshares; are we witnessing trump's IRA turn? starry-plough

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