Da souf why u ask?

You don’t know how predatory these army recruits are in areas of the disenfranchised americana.

I walk through the puerto rico day parade and its a go army booth on every other block. This in east harlem.

Meanwhile, I go to the jewish festival in brooklyn and it aint not one booth to be found.

My sympathy and condolences for your family. I had a great uncle that caught agent orange from vietnam. Its always gonna be f*** the troops. I’m just saying i get why poor niggas do it. Ima always hate the system that forces said poor niggas to these circumstances more than the ppl that did it.

what a nice thread

man shut the f*** up

the military is awful but if you're not going in neighborhoods telling those poor kids to pick themselves up by their bootstraps and don't take the new opportunity stfu

my mom died when i was 10 my dad was selling coke in the past and didn't have enough money to have food for us semi regularly. raging alcoholic. i'm not doing some f***ing moral calculus i'm taking the way out that gets me the education i want, gets me out and independent

i get its emotional and moral issue for sure but we're talking prescriptive vs descriptive reality. there are thousands of kids in similar situations to me and im not shaming them at all

me and @Synopsis are comrades

The last part becomes a lot easier when youre from on the countries where the US Army kills people

You go tell afghanis fleeing their country they should empathize with the poor kid from bumfuck, florida LMAO

We all f***ed up on both sides of the coin.

morals vs self preservation thread

I’m not telling them I’m telling socailists posting on ktt2 from their air conditioned house

Wait until you find out where @americana grew up

So only certain people are allowed to condemn things? Somebody ITT said they had family killed by the US. Is that good enough for you?

Funny bc socialism thread is like 90% non western immigrants lol

No but that’s a straw man

What is?

You bringing up Afghani refugees when @Scratchin_Bandit is certainly not that. Who was the person who brought this all up in the first place

last line is crazy lmao

I'm not an afghan refugee, but americana grew up in Afghanistan and was personally affected by US militarism

Yeah and I regret telling him to empathize before I knew that, because it’s insensitive. Still, I don’t condone moralizing people making decisions for survival.

And well my mom is a political refugee from a US backed dictatorship in Ethiopia and I was basically unable to visit the country I'm from for the first 18 years of my life except once so there's that

It's dumb to have a litmus test of personal experience with US imperialism anyway, don't get that argument

I mean I still think he’s wrong even if I understand where he’s coming from and think it’s in bad taste to try and tell him otherwise. It’s not about supporting US imperialism —- it’s having compassion for those forced into serving by that very same system