Charlotte

“US imperialism exploita US soldiers” is the “patriarchy hurts men too” of imperialism.
it decenters the actual victims, and makes invisible that while this group might sometimes get hurt, it also materially profits from the injustice and is the main group upholding it.

those poor children (adults) being forced (choosing) to join the army and then just following orders (by murdering kids) are the real victims here!

ICE is recruiting everywhere and offering good money, clearly that’s grooming

I think instead of centering the victims of fascism we should talk about how ICE grooms people into joining

young people aren’t primarily groomed by the military into joining, they at this point have already been groomed into having an ideology that excuses imperialism, which is not very different from every maga fascist that wants to kill you, so can we talk about how maga fascists are the real victims?

people in the IDF have less choice than US soldiers too, I guess they can’t help but do genocide.
remember the swiftie that went to prison because she didn’t wanna join the IDF? americans pretend there’s no choice somehow lol.

you are not anti war, you are anti “bad things happening to US soldiers”

“you don’t have a choice” about a military system without conscription is painfully stupid. nazi soldiers had less of a choice than US soldiers.

the choice is JOINING.

you can avoid prison for desertion with this simple trick:
don’t join.

you all are fucking insufferable. “we don’t have any choice except killing brown people”, man I wish white genocide was real.

we should center victims of violence before talking about the structural issues of the perpetrators. if they don’t know how to quit the US military they can always take their government issued sidearm to end it.

you all cant go a second without centering the plight of US soldiers, imagine we were doing that with nazi soldiers. “these poor 16 year olds were drafted against their will after being brainwashed in the hitler youth, boohoohoo”
babe they willingly slaughtered innocents.

no one is doing that babe, people are just pushing back against the people who are saying “actually all these 18 year olds were poor people groomed by the military” when they are largely from middle class families who are in favor of US imperialism

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whaat

right? jumping spiders are the best

exactly my point

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so if anything, the median salary for the US is probably too high to identify the middle class in a military population.

difficult to give comprehensive image description here, but basically people from areas with lower cost of living and lower median salary are -probably- overrepresented in the US military bsky.app/profile/fire...

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I don’t mind that because I can use that as an opportunity to explain that while everything is contextual, we have the context of this data and the context of the data makes people with 50k income even more middle class because people from areas with low cost of living are overrepresented

I think as a journalist you should have at least some statistical literacy dude

the data that was talked about here used US median income quintiles, and the -middle quintile- started at 50k.
the -middle income quintile- for the -US- is almost definitionally middle class.
this was not LA data.

The number of people who will just write off the significance of pharmaceutical manufacture regulation because they don't understand why it exists is one of the reasons we need informed consent over the counter transition medicine.

We need a better alternative to DIY trans healthcare.

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

having written about how banning web scrapers from a code forge i host made it usable again and saved ~60€/y in power bill, let me tell you:

you cannot fathom the offloaded cost of GenAI on small web hosts. it is a veritable distributed denial of service to the entire web. Every web admin sees it.

Elad shares a screenshot of a Twitter post where someone wrote “Hitler in heaven getting told that the whole world is against the Jews now” with a video of fireworks. Sandra, a Canadian Bluesky account with thousands of followers, immediately replies that this is “anti-Zionist not antisemitic”