• Madison420@lemmy.world
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      The average income of a enlistee is below the poverty line, if you can’t get a job you can get your ass in the military and make enough to survive.

      You act like every life choice is binary.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      Good to remember that not everyone is aware of the bullshit by 17 or 18 when recruiting is at its height (gotta pay for college somehow, right?). I know I wasn’t but, luckily planned to do ROTC instead of enlisting, then, educated myself out of being willing to do that.

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        If “ignorance isn’t an excuse” doesn’t get you out of any law you break, it also doesn’t get you out of accidentally joining a terrorist organization due to propaganda.

        Because that’s exactly what it is.

        It is no different than the teenagers that join ISIS. Propaganda takes them in, they join voluntarily, they live with their consequences for life.

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      They are usually uneducated and poor with trauma in their backgrounds. They have no idea what they’re signing up for.

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        This is an acceptable excuse in 1902.

        In the age of Google and where even the homeless bum down by the river has a smart phone, Googling to find out about a major life choice is easy to do. Failure to help yourself do nothing but use a phone for 10 minutes deserves zero empathy.