Idk chief I think if I needed those things I'd organize my community to demand them first and not go into the "will I kill a bunch of innocent foreigners" lottery.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 17 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I left "I'm a fucking idiot" in there for a reason. Had I played my cards better in the first place I wouldn't have been stuck weighing whether I should kill myself or put myself into that kind of ethical disaster... which probably would have ended with killing myself anyway.

Lucky for me, they made me a medic, so I never had to find out.

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 9 points 8 hours ago

If I killed you and robbed you to "get benefits", am I fucking idiot? am I simply acting fucking stupidly? You can't run away from your responsibility by "waa waaa I am feeling suicidal about being a murderer for a job"

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Bruh, that ain't gonna feed or house you while you're doing all that.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Unless I'm mistaken, there's still other ways to feed and house yourself that don't involve signing up for the wall street Wehrmacht. Like, I imagine living inside the empire it's normalized as hell but I don't think there's any excuse not to know nowadays.

Statesians having a choice of aiding the big murder machine or having an uphill battle to live in dignity is pretty shitty, but I think that animosity should be directed to the government and not people who think it's still pretty ghoulish to act like there wasn't even a choice. People used to go to jail for dodging the draft and some of y'all act like soldiers are all enlisted at gunpoin bc they offer you college and insurance.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world -1 points 9 hours ago

You're missing the point - not everyone has the privilege to consider the cause.

Even now as a civilian in healthcare, which sounds infinitely more benign, I'm stuck working for a different flavor of orphan grinding machine in exchange for a paycheck. ...but does that mean I should personalize the evil shit this industry does, like refuse care if someone's too poor, or do provide care but financially ruin them in the process? I'm a surgical tech, soon-to-be nurse: I can't control any of that shit. Should I quit in protest? Cuz that won't change anything outside of several reducing the quality of my own life.

Same is true of the military: you milk a living out of a shitty system. Are there other options? Sure, but the vast majority of those are shitty too.

[–] AnotherUsername@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Awesome, who taught you how to organize your community and which community volunteered their HUGE amount of spare time and effort for your benefit?

Some of us had a fucking choice between dying homeless or learning to survive in the military, and you removed about it now is a weak-ass bitter excuse for venting your frustration at the wrong goddamn people.

[–] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago

See, this is what I'm talking about. Your life isn't worth more than that of many, many foreigners. It's one thing to be like "I didn't know any better and I regret it" and quite another to put on the whole Chris Kyle self martyrdom piece.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

Awesome, who the hell raised you and which one of the NATO states do you belong to that disperses the HUGE spoils of their imperialism for your benefit?

Murdered children, women and unarmed men across the fucking planet didn't have A choice, ANY choice in the matter especially considering that they were already struggling under unending sanctions, occupation, wars, genocide, or a combination of all of the previous. You thoughtless motherfuckers pretend like you're perpetual victims when you WILLINGLY volunteer to steal the lives of entire family lines, or help others do so, just so you and only you yourself can have a shot at life.

Ghoul.

[–] Samsuma@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

That's too much work, and an uphill battle that they'd rather wage against women, children and unarmed men. Murdering Arabs and Muslims and reinforcing the idea that they don't deserve college or healthcare for the crime of being born on the "wrong country" and only they do sounded a lot more attractive and more fun for this ghoul.

You can tell that they knew exactly what they were getting into, and even if they didn't, that would still not be an excuse.

Next, they and the other imperial loving devils will try to plead for you to "consider being nuanced".