• doctorcrimson@lemmy.today
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    9 months ago

    Nah fuck ya’ll Ima sign up if we have an enemy worth fighting for the first time in my life. I’ll push the lines to Moscow, Beijing, idgaf: dictatorships will destroy us all if left unchecked, make life not worth living for everyone. The whole time I’m deployed I’m going to be using absentee ballots, and if I make it back I’m gonna use my new cred to run for office and fight the corporations, too.

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        Definitely on the todo list, but honestly the options seem mutually exclusive given the friendliness between our wannabe dictator and his foreign dictator benefactor.

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        9 months ago

        Do what lol. Yeah everyone says we have guns to “stop tyranny” but the national guard would kick our ass.

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      9 months ago

      You think there’s a chance of boots-on-the-ground conflict with these people? No. Swords get crossed and everyone’s dust.

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        You think it makes sense for Russia to lose as much as it has in the Ukrainian conflict? That is the thing with authoritarian states, they’re more aggressive and make more costly mistakes. They already have nuclear weapons and they aren’t using them. If I were afraid of nuclear war then I would have lived all my life and all of its remainder in fear because there has always been some madman with a finger over the button, I’m not just going to give up and bend over for him.

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      Beijing and Moscow will defend themselves with nukes before they allow their capitals to be taken. America would do the same.

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        9 months ago

        LMAO defend with nukes

        If they get desperate enough to arm nuclear warheads then their country is already at the verge of collapse. There is no benefit to firing nukes even as a last resort, it does nothing to improve your situation.

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      9 months ago

      I’ll tell the freezing homeless about how you’re heroically dying to defend their freedom and prosperity.

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          9 months ago

          There’s a pretty big leap from “Dictatorships are bad” to “Invade Moscow and Beijing”.

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            9 months ago

            How about

            I want to fight dictatorships

            Well you have homeless people!

            Not sure how you could turn that without it sounding like a total non sequitur

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        You think they’ll be happier in a wartorn dictatorship? I don’t pretend the USA is some beacon of hope with its gerrymandered failing democracy, but it sure as fuck beats Putin or Jinping calling the shots.