• Varyk@sh.itjust.works
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    This is based as far as I can tell.

    It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

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      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      It’s definitely more palatable when the strangers you’re killing are nazis

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        I can agree that there’s been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.

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          Yeah I’m struggling to come up with the war anon could be referring to…

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            Japan was invading China.

            But this is clearly fake and connected to the month of June.

            Anon probably read a story about this happening and assumed the heir of the protagonist. Then used online for attention and group feedback on his projection that hiding in a cave is somehow based.

            They are probably in that cave right now.

    • Elvith Ma'for@feddit.org
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      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row.

      Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.

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      That’s often the case when it’s a battle over shit like oil but for instance when Germany attacked Poland, it’s the Poles’ primary responsibility to fight for what is theirs. “Let the people who declared war be on the front line” okay well in this example that’s Germany and you’re going to lose everything your family ever worked for.

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        *if you and your family own stuff. Which is not the case for most working class people. The same working class getting shoved to the front lines.

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          Get out with this class essentialism.

          Going from prole renting a shitty apartment who barely owns a car and a washing machine, to forcibly deported or forced to renounce your culture and teach your children the invader’s language and culture is not “potato, potato”.
          Sometimes there are other things to fight for than capital, even if this might sound like a foreign concept to Westerners whose country hasn’t been directly involved in a meaningful non-imperialist conflict since 1945.