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RIP to the victims |I.
U.S. bomb a hospital in Afghanistan :(
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Boy, hush. Go be a pawn and come back in a body bag if you choose to. FOH
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Fixed that for you.
White people live in a state of perpetual fear of some mysterious boogy man.
White people live in a state of perpetual fear of some mysterious boogy man.
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Hopefully there will be peace some day
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Id make America go back amish for that dumbmish
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I can't imagine how much we don't know, which is weird, because in so many other genres of journalism with high consumption rates (sport, political, celebrity, etc.) the complaint is that we know too much.
I wonder if people - in the same type of mass quantities we see in the mostly irrelevant-to-life things like sports/celebrity news - were driven to consume stories about 'bombing ISIS hideouts in the Middle East', we'd actually have a better handle on what's going on OR if the international aspects to all of this couldn't be significantly helped by an increase in public desire to know more.
I wonder if people - in the same type of mass quantities we see in the mostly irrelevant-to-life things like sports/celebrity news - were driven to consume stories about 'bombing ISIS hideouts in the Middle East', we'd actually have a better handle on what's going on OR if the international aspects to all of this couldn't be significantly helped by an increase in public desire to know more.
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Activists on the ground told Al Jazeera that the majority of the attacks hit civilian targets, a claim that Moscow, a key ally of Assad, denies.
In the Hama suburb of Habeet, an air strike at about 08:30pm local time killed three civilians, including a 5-year-old girl, and injured 12 others, according to opposition activist Hadi al-Abdullah.http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/...g-civilian-targets-syria-151002072135928.html
Russian air strikes in Syria on Wednesday killed at least 36 civilians and targeted areas where Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked fighters are not present
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/30/us-mideast-crisis-syria-opposition-idUSKCN0RU1XB20150930
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Nothing is worse than the self-righteous "all the people in the armed forces are PAWNS!!" people.
Did you go to college? Did you graduate? Do you have a job? Do you work for someone else? Cause you're ALSO a "pawn". Unless you're living off the land not paying your taxes (cause who wants to follow the IRS's orders?), you too are following orders.
Everyone who isn't a social deviant takes orders one way or another. The only difference is it takes a lot more balls for an 18-year old kid to get shipped halfway across the world away from his family and friends, eating cold MREs and sharing a room with a bunch of other scared kids while risking his life every day in comparison to someone who thinks that cause they crossed street on a green light or left the office at 4:55 that they're free thinkers and somehow better than them.
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Don't call me self righteous. You don't know anything about me. You wanna hit me with a survey? No I didn't go to college, yes I have a job and no I work for myself. I pay taxes, I'd gladly pay more if it went to our own people.
I don't even know what I'm supposed to say to the second paragraph bro. You just went off on a rant. You don't see anything wrong with luring 18 year olds into the military with a signing bonus of a couple grand?
We aren't getting invaded here, kids are going over and coming backed EFFED up for nothing. Nothing but some old white peoples war and opinions.
I almost joined the military when I was 18. Luckily my uncle who was in 20 years said no way.
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I won't call you self-righteous if you don't call someone else a pawn. I don't know anything about you and would never have even addressed you, until I saw you talk down on others, who you also don't know.
Everyone has their own opinions about our foreign policy and that's okay. But to insult and belittle the people in the military like they are drones incapable of thought is pathetic. You want to blame someone, blame the system, blame the people who send them over there, blame the people luring the 18 year olds, not the 18 year olds themselves.
If you ask me, the higher education system isn't any better over here. I see just as many things wrong with all but forcing impressionable high-schoolers to go to college or be labeled a failure in the public's eyes, just so kids can take out absurd loans which they'll have no chance of paying off, to attend a school which provides them with no unique skills to make them more employable. And even worse, unlike the glory or pride which the military markets, the universities go the opposite way - join us or you are screwed. I don't blame the kids for going to school, hell I don't blame anyone, but I did it would be the institutions.
Also, everyone almost joined the military, but didn't. I was ready to crush the PST and PFT in high school but I didn't do either nor did I serve, so that doesn't make my opinions on this any more valid.
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You just don't like the word "pawn" I never once belittled anyone in the military. I got nothing but love for vets. I came up in a military family. If you are fighting someone else's war what do you want me to call it?
Yes, college is extortion for the most part agreed.
We can disagree but don't look down on people in the military at all.
Yes, college is extortion for the most part agreed.
We can disagree but don't look down on people in the military at all.
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Nobody likes being called a "pawn". If you're fighting someone else's war, you don't have to call it anything besides you're fighting in a war. It doesn't matter whose it is, or which side is "right", they're there and that's that. I think in every situation, we are always furthering someone's agenda.
I know my ISP is scamming the hell out of me and billing me extra for what is crappy internet. I know when I go to work I'm at the mercy of my boss, and his boss, and the company and everyone else. Yes, you could say that's being a pawn, I think that's just a part of life that myself and many others are okay with. For a lot of people who served, especially kids, joining the military was a chance for them to be forgiven for the decisions they made as teenagers, get a fresh start, be a part of something bigger than themselves and fulfill a commitment not just to the country, but to themselves all the way to the end.
But yeah I can see why you said that and it was just a misunderstanding.
This isn't directed at you anymore either because I know you didn't even mean harm when you said that, but more for the armchair politicians who make snide remarks on the military. I'm sure a great deal of why it's so difficult for veterans when they return is because they come back from a place and organization which really changed their life and the arrogant civilians who call them "terrorists" and "murderers" while never doing a single honorable thing in their own lives. Those people are the real garbage.
I know my ISP is scamming the hell out of me and billing me extra for what is crappy internet. I know when I go to work I'm at the mercy of my boss, and his boss, and the company and everyone else. Yes, you could say that's being a pawn, I think that's just a part of life that myself and many others are okay with. For a lot of people who served, especially kids, joining the military was a chance for them to be forgiven for the decisions they made as teenagers, get a fresh start, be a part of something bigger than themselves and fulfill a commitment not just to the country, but to themselves all the way to the end.
But yeah I can see why you said that and it was just a misunderstanding.
This isn't directed at you anymore either because I know you didn't even mean harm when you said that, but more for the armchair politicians who make snide remarks on the military. I'm sure a great deal of why it's so difficult for veterans when they return is because they come back from a place and organization which really changed their life and the arrogant civilians who call them "terrorists" and "murderers" while never doing a single honorable thing in their own lives. Those people are the real garbage.
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I think twitter is a prime example of the power people have when they unite for a common goal. If we pushed for more accountability and information I imagine there'd be more revealed; whether through official channels or whistleblowing. How many things wouldn't of been known if it wasn't for Snowden or wikileaks and the people who release information to them? I don't know that the average person REALLY wants to know(or cares) about what's going on if it doesn't directly affect them. There's a detachment there. And yet what a celebrity did or said seem to be more important. Generally speaking.
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No one involved in this tragedy went to prison? Amazing.
