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not that anyone needs to be, but to be fair, the American government is big on telling teens to join the army too.
I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll before seeing some variation of 'America Bad'.
Yeah, the propaganda is killing the Lemmy experience.
America is pretty bad, so not that far.
According to my history books, all the wars that were ever fought were won by the good guys. What are the odds of that? Isn't that great?
-Norm MacDonald
Also not great, although I have to say that it's quite a lot easier to criticize the US military than it is to criticize the Russian military.
All western countries are telling their youth - one way or another - are doing it, in the wake of Russia's militarization. As for the US asking their citizens to join the army, it became a meme of some sort due to how frequent it happens to be, but other countries, save for a couple of them, are not better. Russia has had many spots and I watched one of them. It's exactly as you imagine that. Very glorious and macho. Comically so. But you know wars aren't like that.
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Holy moly this 1984's style of speech, if you read the book you know what I'm mentioning here. Anyway, doing shrooms will give you a better insight than that piece of propaganda.