• theneverfox@pawb.social
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      1 day ago

      Yeah, I don’t know why we glorify military service. It’s just exploiting people to enforce exploitation overseas at this point

      But even aside from that, I feel like this is in bad taste… They just finished fucking over all the trans people in the military. The tone is like telling someone “you’re welcome here” as they’re lying there after being thrown out

      It’s like saying “well, I believe you’re an American” as they’re put on the plane. Just doesn’t seem like the right thing to say in that moment

      • LousyCornMuffins@lemmy.world
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        15 hours ago

        I don’t know why we glorify military service

        Because we should glorify service to the people, and service to the state can be and sometimes is an abstract a form of that. Same reason we pay teachers in pats on the back instead of money.

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          5 hours ago

          We don’t glorify service to the state in any other way though. We look down on public servants.

          And military service is the biggest gulf between service to the people and service to the state… It doesn’t help the people at all, it only serves the state

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            … It doesn’t help the people at all, it only serves the state

            Depends on your state’s situation. USA, yes. Somewhere like south korea, no

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            1 day ago

            While its true in an ideal world there would be no militaries and no war

            Unfortunately, we do not live in that world, any country that doesn’t have a, or is under the protection of another’s, military will be taken advantage of sooner or later.

            There are many hostile countries in this world

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              1 day ago

              True, but the USA has been the instigator in many cases. Was invading Iraq really necessary?

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                23 hours ago

                No, but that’s just criticism or condemnation of specific actions taken by a certain military, which should always be done.

                But condemning a country just for having a military is what’s silly