Wonder what it would take to seize control of one of them thar aircraft carriers…🤔

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      JDPON Don assigned one of his mightiest lieutenants to be Minister of Jingoism and Paranoia.

      Thus he severed the cultural affinity between the working classes and the gendarmerie, so carefully nurtured through decades of culture wars

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    The whole thing is a mess.

    The us military culture and promising a good future to young kids - who cannot drink or smoke, but can sign their lives over.
    The leaning of the military branch, and them getting abandoned and betrayed by the same bunch of people over and over.
    Being an aggressor when someof them genuinely wanted to protect.
    Mental health crisis not just ignored but mocked and called them liars.

    Then patterns is there. And it is easy to laugh at all those people suffering - because they are in the same boat with everyone else who is getting the shit end of the stick.

    Meanwhile schools are getting bombed, drones are doing counter attacks - people get conscripted without choice. Women, children and men getting raped, murdered by hundreds…

    And that ship is just one cog in this infinite war machine…

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      … and them getting abandoned and betrayed by the same bunch of people over and over.

      i wonder if their collective culture still just shrugs it off with a lol.

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    When they finally get off the boat, perhaps there might be some budding revolutionary socialists in their midst . . .?