fair fair points as I can imagine, in a perfect world, some cohort will cleave off and be on the “right side” of the impending civil war.
but from who I have met — they’ll just not deploy and then become local cops pretending they’re “in country” or whatever while they bully local homeless folk.
this is an all volunteer military. known for actively supporting genocide and has a history of invasion and war crimes. this history goes back to the beginning. far more than 4 years ago.
ANYONE WHO WILLINGLY SIGNS UP FOR THAT HORSESHIT IS COMPLICIT. Full. Fucking. Stop. No matter how much they enjoy college.
to be fair, anything (any thing) a state does is under threat of violence. be it from “spreading democracy” or not paying your taxes because you disagree with how your town of 12k is spending.
could? saudia arabia? any organization hoping to make a buck in this system, at a large enough scale, WILL cost human rights. this is how the system is designed.
yeah it’s not like Smith predicted this but yeah … it’s certainly not human nature either.
i’d be happy if shareholders, all of them, were held criminally responsible for the criminal things corporations do - all the way down to wage theft and child labor.
My plan is to vote for folks who are not democrat or republican; as they both support exploitation, financial instability, genocide, and general capitalist concerns.
All things that are destructive to working class people. Some more than others, of course.
file under: “unsurprising capitalist takes”