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  • Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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    5 days ago

    This is your brain on American exceptionalism. It’s kinda funny when people think an organization that practices war crimes across the world wouldn’t do so at home. I’d love an explanation about how Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay happen when soldiers would never follow an illegal or immoral order.

    Police kill Americans every day. The National Guard has killed Americans before. Maybe the military won’t be called in to kill Americans, but I think people saying “The military would never kill Americans” really mean “I would never kill Americans”. American citizens were killed by drone strike without anyone batting an eye.

    How many right wing militiamen are ex military? Does anyone really believe there are no White Supremacists in the military? Probably most of the military wouldn’t fire on Americans, but anyone who thinks there are zero service members just itching to murder people needs to read more history.

    • scintilla@lemm.ee
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      4 days ago

      Shes so convinced that she was in a virtuous organization its almost funny.