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  • I never specifically said "joining US military is bad", I said joining the military in general is a bad thing. And neither did I talk about nukes, which are the ultimate evil.

    I also never demanded to remove the military capabilities of one country, leaving it open for other countries to attack. I never talked about these things, about balance of power, about mutually assured destruction and all these geostrategic aspects of military logic.

    All I said was - if you are a person who joins your country's military, I despise you. Period. This is a statement I made completely disregarding all these other aspects you mention, and it is completely logically valid on its own.

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  • You failed to get the point I was making. Just because the military is a driving factor to technological progress, doesn't mean it's a good thing all of a sudden. And all that progress could also have been made by science. Wernher von Braun didn't care who funded his research into rockets.

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  • Would we have the Autobahn if Hitler hadn't built it?

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  • Thank you very much for saying that, but in hindsight it was actually a great life experience. I met a man who was 103 at the time, in 1997. So he was 21 years old when WWI broke out. He later joined the German socialist party SPD, he resisted the Nazis and was forced to emigrate, he had such amazing stories to tell.

    I think he played a big part in why I became interested in politics, German history and also why I became an antifascist and anti-militarist. Him and the fact that the Nazis executed one of my two grandfathers for "defaitism".

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  • Feeling you have no other option (despite a lot of other jobs being on offer) and totally not having any other option (because they'll put you in jail for not paying taxes) are two completely different things.

    With all due respect, but there is no reason to join the army unless they force you to. Even when Germany still had mandatory military service and they wanted to draft me in 1997, I opted to wipe old peoples' butts in an old people's home instead because that was the only way out. Don't you dare tell me there is no other option.

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  • If you read my first comment, I explicitly said "of their own free will". I do not pay taxes out of my own free will, so your comparison is invalid.

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  • We wouldn't see images like the Iranian girl's rucksack smeared with blood.

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  • Yeah. Why not just lead a normal life.

    I wish society would frown upon people choosing to become soldiers like they do upon prostitutes. But instead, all this glorification and militarism makes them think being a soldier is a commendable thing.

    In my view, prostitutes should get the medals. They literally make love, not war.

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  • Absolutely agree.

    I happen to be German, by the way. My grandfather was forced into the Wehrmacht, he tried fleeing the battlefield, he got executed.

    Anyone who works for the military enables politicians to wage war. And no soldier will ever be able to 100% prove their actions never led to anyone getting hurt.

    Soldiers know and accept that and that's why I despise them.

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  • Working for the military makes you a war enabler. Best case. You help making it possible for some government asshole to wage war. Worst case, you become a murderer.

    So whether you're in battle or not only decides if you're a murderer or helping murderers.

    None of these possibilities are acceptable. Period.

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  • You join the USN, you help with the logistics, someone you've helped in some way or another presses a button somewhere, a cruise missile is fired, obliterates a target and a few bad guys, some civilians die as collateral damage - to me, you've helped kill these civilians even though, admittedly, you've only played a very minor role. I very much doubt there are any contracts at the USN that 100% exclude that possibility and I'm not giving anyone a benefit of the doubt.

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  • I despise anyone who becomes a soldier of their own free will. The moment you enlist, you accept that you could be obliged to kill, and that you will have no control over whether that killing will be justified.

    In other words, you accept the possibility that you could become a murderer.

  • Stop bogarting that good stuff

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  • I'm at the age where I sometimes start sentences with "I'm at the age where".

  • Game over

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  • Ain't nobody got thyme for that.

  • What brings you peace in your life?

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  • That's awesome, man. Huge respect, I know how hard it is. I was very lucky to somehow get out of my debts, and it really gave me back an inner peace like I last felt when I was a teen without any obligations.

    Life isn't perfect, but hey, it never is. But I can at least take out my wife for a fancy dinner each wedding day and I don't feel like a total loser anymore. Keep going, even if life throws shit at you, never ever give up.

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  • I'm not good with people either. You can't solve all your problems at once and some problems never, but you can take some weight off your shoulders. Every bit helps, every small step forward gives you a little more energy, a little more emotional wiggle room and belief in yourself gradually returns.

    Not gonna lie, it's not easy. It took a long, long time for my brain chemistry to readjust so I could feel joy again from something else than weed. And I'm not sure if I could have done it without help from family and friends (the very few that I have).

    But I am so glad that I somehow made it. You will be, too. I root for you, my friend, and I wish you well.

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  • I hate to be that annoying fuck who mentions having money to get by.

    But I have been broke for such a long time (until I started working on getting my life back on track), I even once got evicted from my then relatively cheap apartment in Berlin. I spent all the money I had back then on smoking pot. Tried getting away from my problems, mainly caused by being broke, by being stoned off my face 24/7. You can imagine how that went.

    So yeah. 15 years later, having saved enough so I don't have to worry about these things anymore is a huge deal for me.

  • Idaho Republicans want the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate same-sex marriages - LGBTQ Nation

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  • "You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress of humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.”

    — Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)

    And since the Republicans have been taken over by conservative Christians, this quote basically explains everything they're trying to do as well.

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