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General Discussion Thread - Juche 115, Week 31 (europe.pub)

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Welcome again to everybody. Thank you for joining us for the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.

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[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I struggle with this too. While I think there's value in telling these stories from the Yankee perspective in order to agitate against enlistment, it certainly feels very dehumanizing for the author to completely exclude any mention of how much more those on the other side of imperialist aggression are suffering.

Also, this paragraph seems to drastically contradict itself.

Melonie grew up in South Georgia in extreme poverty where food scarcity was a common experience for her. Her father served in the Air Force, and in her household, the military wasn’t just a job — it was the clearest path to stability.

^emphasis mine^

Then there's this.

While she never deployed, she was responsible for intelligence that “ended up with a man dead.”

“I felt responsible for a human being’s death,” she said.

The imperialist death machine is creating death. How surprising.

[–] Marat@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 day ago

Tbf my great grandpa and great grandma were in the army [ww2, infantry and logistics respectively] and while my family isn't like, destitutenand homeless, it's not like we got generational wealth from that [but idk how much has changed in pay and benefits and stuff since then]