• refract@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    They’ll be really upset when they realize young people wont sign up to fight another oil war for a country that is actively enslaving them.

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      15 hours ago

      They don’t need to. They already have the largest volunteer army in the world that is compelled to fight else risk losing economic incentives and/or job opportunities back home. Not to mention all the nutjobs that will willingly go abroad to kill “for their country”

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      1 day ago

      The youth won’t save us. There’s millions of people who grew up in conservative households believing that killing brown people is the (only) American Way.

      • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        And even so, lots of guys from the sticks who wound up in Iraq and Afghanistan signed up to the military in order to get a free ride, not because they had any particular ideological motivation other than having no opportunity in wherever it was they came from.

        They got a free ride, alright. Straight out into the goddamned desert.

      • refract@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 day ago

        Valid point, my intention was to highlight that the younger generation is generally more self-focused and has better access to the information (if they seek it). Be that a good or bad thing, with enlistment numbers dwindling, I presume it has more to do with better access to information and self preservation dwarfing the maga need to eliminate ‘non-whites’.

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      1 day ago

      Young people are not automatically good just because they are young. There are murderous fascist young people as well.