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[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 116 points 5 months ago

He helped make many more youths homeless with his service than he helped homeless youths.

[-] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 28 points 5 months ago

Yeah, but the youths he hurt were on the other team so doesn't count. /s

[-] forkDestroyer@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago

How do you know what he did while he was in?

[-] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 5 months ago

Even if he was only "logistics" what do you think he is helping organize and supply?

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 93 points 5 months ago

Ok?

Youngest girl killed day 1 by U.S. was as young as the other 150

[-] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago

They were mostly in the 7-12 years old range. And the death count has exceeded 160 now.

[-] AlexanderTheDead@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

I get what you're saying but posts like these are crucial to waking up Americans. Shove the death of white people in their faces and they actually recoil sometimes.

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[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago

I don't care. He died in a war of agression, he is a terrorist to me

[-] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 5 points 5 months ago

Its hilarious how people will say stuff like this, and then in practically the same breath say “how can the federal government call anyone antifa terrorists?!?”

Like, youre doing the same thing that they are by watering the word “terrorist” down to a point where it somehow applies to normal people that are obviously not actual terrorists. The protesters convicted of being terrorists are obviously normal people who didnt set out to inflict violence for the purpose of terrorizing anyone. Even if they themselves were in contact with people who intended to harm others that wouldnt make them terrorists. Only actually being (or aspiring to be) a terrorist makes someone a terrorist

The same is probably true of the (likely) clipboard jockey kid youre calling a terrorist. Most people in the military work in logistics. A lot of people do a lot of nothing the majority of the time they are deployed. Many of them probably joined mostly for the benefits. The military is a fucked up institution controlled by some fucked up people, arguably terroristic for sure, but that does not make every person in the military some kind of radical terrorist individual. That same logic is exactly what the US government uses to label entire countries of people as terrorist targets…

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 months ago

The only thing hilarious is equating calling a protestor a terrorist with aggressive actions of a military.

It's also pathetic how concern trolls like you come out of the woodworks when your side is on the receiving end of it.

You don't mind families and civilians getting wiped out for being at the wrong place and label them as cost of war but are "concerned" when people label a military who enable the same atrocity machine as a terrorist?

I don't think this is where "let's be civilized while they bludgeon us to the ground" narrative works.

Reddit is that way. 👉

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Any soldiers who is accepting to participate in any shape or form in that war is a terrorist. The soldiers who refuse are not. I do not water down the word terrorist. It is not similar to trump calling an antifacist a terrorist

You are just another racist who only think muslims can be terrorists

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

This is the point that isn't being clarified: this war reputation washes anyone who participated into a terrorist.

[-] Get_Off_My_WLAN@fedia.io 51 points 5 months ago

Guys, chill for a second.

He was a kid who enlisted in the Reserve before Trump was even in power, and deployed to Kuwait with a logistics unit without knowing wtf was going to happen.

Instead of being mad at the dead pawns, be mad at the people in power who started this shit. Be mad at the officers at the highest levels who didn't push back against Trump's orders to attack Iran without just reason. I think they deserve hate more than anyone.

[-] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemmy.zip 29 points 5 months ago

I can be mad at both.

[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 months ago

If you choose to join the military regardless of when you chose to join it. You still chose to join the military.

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[-] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 19 points 5 months ago

This might be a hot take, but the US military was shit long before Trump.

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago

Really nothing Trump is doing is new to the US. He just gave up any pretense of it being for good or to help anyone. Also he's even more inept at implementing anything so the outcome is worse even quicker than in the past.

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Those photos of Iraqi prisoners connected to a car battery were not really made public. /s

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 7 points 5 months ago
[-] Linktank@lemmy.today 3 points 5 months ago

Fake, kid is still alive.

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

Not to be a dick, but maybe he shouldn't have joined a military force known for extreme violence.

[-] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

When I was called to serve in Bush II's wars, I refused. It should be a way easier decision this time.

[-] Major_Tsiom@fedia.io 36 points 5 months ago

He was the modern equivalent of a Nazi soldier. Too fucking bad.

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 6 points 5 months ago

I was more thinking British soldier, but potato potato I guess.

[-] magnetosphere@fedia.io 33 points 5 months ago

How do people not understand that they’re volunteering to be used as cannon fodder? The more exceptional a person is, the less it makes sense.

[-] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Draft Dodgers by Escape from the Zoo

[-] mortemtyrannis@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago

It a lot of ways the military is a means to escape poverty, of course you run the risk of dying to have the chance at some fleeting semblance of middle class life.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago

It was a sacrifice that Trump and the Iowan Republicans were willing to make.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

Damn, its hard to see otherwise decent people become imperial boots

[-] Jumi@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

He volunteered

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 13 points 5 months ago
[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 11 points 5 months ago

Poor guy just wanted to bomb brown people.

[-] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 13 points 5 months ago

Rough. He died for Epstein.

[-] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 11 points 5 months ago

Don't worry, pretty soon we will be past the point where we can individually profile the people that died for Trump.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago
[-] orlyowl@piefed.ca 11 points 5 months ago
[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

This is tragic. Not more important than the lives of all the kids the organization he was part of killed. But still, tragic.

[-] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 7 points 5 months ago

Ok, now do individual stories about the dead people that aren’t US military.

What’s that? Too many to choose from? I’m sorry I can’t hear you over the deafening silence.

[-] RockBottom@feddit.org 5 points 5 months ago

Recruiting the best of the best for the Epstein meat grinder.

[-] kittykillinit@lemy.lol 5 points 5 months ago

Everything is okay as long as Israel gets what it wants.

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Oh! Ooh! When do we get a story about the killed Iranian soldier who was Viagra raping beheaded premature incubator babies and kicking puppies!

I need more propaganda!!! (I edited it to make it even more dark!)

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

ITT: Jesus christ the comments.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Who's out here upvoting the NY Post? Surely another news site has called this story?

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