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Old 08-27-2021, 06:25 PM   #75697 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by adidasss View Post
I don't understand why people join the army in the U.S., they offer some kind of attractive compensation? In exchange for the possibility of being killed?
Free college, chance to see the world, patriotic daydreams. And most people don't even get near combat. All that with the absurd military cult in this country that normalizes joining the military as just another job opportunity and lots of people don't even think twice about it.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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