Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 1 year agojoining the military for the literal free education it gives
”This education is free! Except for all the civilians I had to kill for it.”
Comment on Hexbear federation megathread
BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 1 year agojoining the military for the literal free education it gives
”This education is free! Except for all the civilians I had to kill for it.”
Firemyth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
insert tangentially related counter strawman
commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 1 year ago
It’s not tangential, it’s the primary function of the military of the US at this point. Kill at the periphery in order to expand the markets to cheap labour once that war is over and project the threat of violence everywhere else to maintain that position (like coast guard and military in allied countries). The free education is, once again, because the war profits are much higher than even the exploited soldiers produce for the empire. That doesn’t make it ok, but it’s good to clearly understand that the soldiers are exploited for the “value” captured from wars through the expropriation of the lands at war (look at theft of oil in Syria and Iraq for the easiest examples). Soldiers could, theoretically, be paid much more if capitalists didn’t primarily take the value taken. The whole process is horrific and everyone involved guilty for the horrors. That’s how soldiers get free education, though, by being exploited for their “work” of theft through expropriation
Firemyth@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Insert unsourced counter rhetoric without any actual research into the topic
commiewithoutorgans@hexbear.net 1 year ago
“without any actual research into the topic” I’d give some recommendations for some heavy or light reading which I’ve done to come to this conclusion, but with this part of your comment, I don’t think it matters to you at all and isn’t worth me collecting links for.
Instead, and in order to maintain a bit of order in this thread not intended for such long tangents, I suggest we do this: would you like to explain to me how you see being a soldier of the US or European armies functioning in local and global socio-economic processes? Let’s start a thread wherever you would prefer to have a good discussion on this. I can’t do anything but throw a bunch of sources at you without better understanding what you think yourself. If you can start this thread, I’ll take you seriously and collect the sources to help you understand this conclusion, and hopefully some comrades with a bit more knowledge than I have will also come and match your level of respect that you project there.