• mr_sunburn [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 day ago

    Well yes, the US is funding genocide and extracting money from me to do it, but I don’t really get why you’re coming for me personally, edgelord.

    I don’t have volitional control over the US Military and I don’t find the US military and its child killing actions heroic in the slightest, and its a continuation of nasty genocidal work from the foundation to the modern day through My Lai and Abu Ghraib.

    I oppose those policies and am actively organizing with my fellow socialists to end this, but we both know it will take more than me saying “no”, it will take mass organized revolutionary action. We are all born into a world with disturbing contradictions and injustice and have a burden to work toward a more just world.

    • SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml
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      1 day ago

      I’m not going for you, but “you”. That’s the thing about communitarianism, you’re part of makeup of the actual material conditions, you don’t get a individualistic pass of non complicity. The burden is on the shoulders of all people, it’s the lifelong brain washing propaganda of self-made men that makes you think otherwise. Socialists in North America shouldn’t see themselves as saviors, but penitents instead.