Comment on There's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.

• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA

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  • Tiger666@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom?

    What were they fighting for then?

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Fighting for power first and foremost, but I guess you could go and say it was for the “freedom to rule”

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”.

    Uhh no shit, nuance is important.

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