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      15 hours ago

      You’re right, the poor soldiers had no choice but to go to another country and kill a bunch of people. What else were they supposed to do? The dead civilians are so entitled, do they not realize that choice is a luxury?

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        Joining military gives them baseline needs so they gain choice. Most soldiers never get deployed, and if they do they can use the gained choice to employ Simple Sabotage Field Manual.

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        15 hours ago

        Describe your experience and why you think considering nuance in a situation means agreeing or disagreeing to a “side” rather than analyzing the gray of every situation.

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                12 hours ago

                Even if you accept a Settlers-style critique of the U.S. working class, it still does not follow that all participants in an imperial institution have identical agency, power, or culpability.

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                  11 hours ago

                  No one claimed they are equally culpable, I’m not interested in examining the marginal culpability of settlers and fascists. You’re inventing arguments to contend with because your understanding of theoretical concepts is shallow

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                    11 hours ago

                    “I’m not interested in examining distinctions” is not a rebuttal to being accused of flattening distinctions. It is a confession.

                    My argument is not that enlistment is innocent. It is that a material analysis should distinguish recruitment pressure, command hierarchy, profit extraction, and policy-making power. If your framework treats those as irrelevant because everyone falls under the same condemned category, then yes, that is moral flattening with theoretical vocabulary.