Hello! I’m a POC (black/latino) autistic/ADHD dragon from Brazil. My interests are usually gaming and drawing. Reddit refugee after getting banned multiple times for “threatening violence” for standing up against fascism.

Used to be https://lemmy.world/u/SalamenceFury.

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  • SalamenceFury@piefed.socialtopics@lemmy.worldWashington DC
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    1 day ago

    First of all, English is not my first language, so you dunking on me for not being as literate as you sounds extremely fucking racist to me. But anyways, continuing:

    Did you really grow up in America without being taught about Vietnam? Our various war crimes? The way we treated Japanese Americans during world war 2

    A lot of states/counties will literally gloss over that. Also, indeed, kids sometimes won’t pay attention to school. That doesn’t mean the result should be them getting thrown into the Middle East to get obliterated by a missile because no one had the thought of talking to them about what recruiters do. They are literal groomers who will build a profile of potential recruits to emotionally manipulate them into joining, including even stalking their grades and other things to drive into their head that the military is their only escape.

    I don’t excuse ignorance as a reason for committing or abetting genocide.

    I don’t either, but assuming literal groomed teenagers are just inherently evil for joining is stupid, and constantly dunking without ever stopping to be serious ONCE to tell people getting harassed by recruits what they actually want means you are not helping. You don’t blame a teenager for getting groomed, you give them the tools to recognize when it’s happening and exit stage left. That’s my problem with this constant “haha dunk on the military and smoke the packs of dead soldiers”, because none of you will actually put on the work to get serious for a moment and warn teenagers to not join the military or believe the recruiter’s lies. All you want to do is to get some sense of sick satisfaction from laughing at targets you find acceptable.


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    “universally known” By who? You happened to stumble upon that. Lots of people are impressionable, don’t know that they’re allowed to lie, or think people like you are exaggerating for effect, especially given that most people like you don’t take the subject seriously and can only communicate through social media dunks. Like it or not, your sass does not help prevent kids from becoming cannon fodder.



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    2 days ago

    18 year olds are surprisingly easy to fool, let alone 18 year olds who have been getting groomed by recruiters since age 14.

    You are not immune to propaganda and pretending you are does not make you an intellectual, it makes you unable to see when you fall for it.







  • “Trust me this job that will scar me for life and probably mutilate me at some point that pays less than Costco in California is gonna get me a Hellcat and it will be all worth it”

    Nowadays I tell every single high schooler that I meet on occasion and is from the US to not join the military. There is nothing good that will come out of killing strangers, seeing your friends die, or even end up dead yourself for a class of mega pedophiles.