is it more dehumanizing to engage in normative social interaction with these individuals than it is to reduce individuals to their participation in harmful social institutions, thereby ruling out social contact with them? if you're engaging in relations with a gay/lady/minority troop/cop/guard, is that less egregious than engaging in the same with individuals who have more agency in seeking stable careers outside of the most brutal institutions on earth? am i a fuckshit? hitler.
angelbutt_dollface posted:is it unethical to have social relations, be they simple friendship, casual sex, or even an involved relationship with a tool of imperialist genocide? what about domestic agents of genocide, such as cops or prison guards?
is it more dehumanizing to engage in normative social interaction with these individuals than it is to reduce individuals to their participation in harmful social institutions, thereby ruling out social contact with them? if you're engaging in relations with a gay/lady/minority troop/cop/guard, is that less egregious than engaging in the same with individuals who have more agency in seeking stable careers outside of the most brutal institutions on earth? am i a fuckshit? hitler.
dehumanize yourself
VoxNihili posted:please do NOT associate with such dirty, immoral salt of the earth proles
troops arent proles and iwont have you spreading your disinformation on a primarily educational teen forum
Impper posted:troops have hard dicks
it's true. i have performed tests with delicate scientific instruments
-they're not all babykillers
-college money
-they were duped
-what about the good things
-you don't know if you didn't go
-they served their country
-we need SOME military
-blame the commanders
-what about noncombat roles
-they're poor/black
-support the troops, oppose the war
gloomstein posted:im going to start work on my anti troop book soon. srspost. i have the following pro-troop arguments to rebut, can anyone think of any I missed?
-they're not all babykillers
-college money
-they were duped
-what about the good things
-you don't know if you didn't go
-they served their country
-we need SOME military
-blame the commanders
-what about noncombat roles
-they're poor/black
-support the troops, oppose the war
-goatstein hates them, so they're probably not so bad
- ~aesthetics~
- troops are awesome chill dudes, actually
- one of the effects of ideology is the practical denegation of the ideological character of ideology by ideology
- america is great but its greatness can only be maintained through the blood of innocents
- chin larger than worlds
gloomstein posted:im going to start work on my anti troop book soon. srspost. i have the following pro-troop arguments to rebut, can anyone think of any I missed?
-they're not all babykillers
-college money
-they were duped
-what about the good things
-you don't know if you didn't go
-they served their country
-we need SOME military
-blame the commanders
-what about noncombat roles
-they're poor/black
-support the troops, oppose the war
title suggestion: Fuck and Destroy
lol:
"Each day he would do verbal battle below the line with online trolls, conspiracy theorists and fellow Arab spring obsessives. The name Brown Moses, taken from a Frank Zappa song, has led to confusion about his identity."
Crow posted:Hey guys look its Brown Moses. Didn't realize CIA contracted work out to ppl working at home http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/21/frontroom-blogger-analyses-weapons-syria-frontline?CMP=twt_gu
lol
Recent activist footage claimed to show the remains of a Chinese-made cluster bomb at the scene of a bombing. Drawing on his online network of fellow weapons-spotters and translators, Higgins established that it was in fact a bicycle pump.
Crow posted:Wow I had no idea the west was intervening, thanks CIA guy
i mean look at his pic. never attribute to malice what you can to being a goon. maybe im wrong? maybe im a prophet? the future will tell.
Crow posted:Hey guys look its Brown Moses. Didn't realize CIA contracted work out to ppl working at home http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/21/frontroom-blogger-analyses-weapons-syria-frontline?CMP=twt_gu