A Marine at California’s Camp Pendleton has been charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl who was found in a base barracks, the military announced Friday.

  • @atrielienz
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    11 year ago

    Stop conflating people who join the military with non-military leaders who control and make profit off the military industrial complex. They aren’t the same. And assuming that everyone involved is just out here killing random people, or even that that was their reason for joining is sick. You are not in a place to know what we’re defending ourselves from. You literally have no idea what’s going on on the world stage, you just assume that because some news outlet told you so that it’s a complete waste of money over things we shouldn’t be involved in. Do you know how often military members engage in humanitarian aid? How many natural disasters we’ve worked to mitigate or how many peoples and countries we’ve helped in the aftermath? Nothing about this situation is black and white but you continue to blame the wrong people and are all for treating them badly when you speak from a place of ignorance.

    • @Stinkywinks
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      11 year ago

      I have plenty of idea what’s going on the world stage. I get into some geopolitics. What are we going to be the world police on the back of the working class in America? Sacrificing healthcare, education and all the other nice shiny things we dont have because it’s all spent on war. Why can other countries just have a defensive army? Maybe you should look up how much we spend on our military compared to the rest of the world. Point is, you guys join to get the free education, the travel, the rush, the money, to fight, whatever selfish reason. In the end you are joining to help yourself with some delusions about it actually helping this country. What would help is if y’all stop joining and got a real job like the rest of us. The military industrial complex is out of control and has been since WW2. You’re just another brain washed soldier feeding the war machine. Totally fine dropping bombs on people you don’t know. If you want some humanitarian aid, take the money from the war machine and put it in better places.