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> The military is far far from perfect. The police still manage to be worse. And that's fucking terrifying.

Having been personally subject to police violence for my life as an activist several times: I only sort of agree, which is why I said look as Jermey's work and draw your own conclusion.

I can tell you right now: my experiences do not even remotely compare to that of the normal civilian in Vietnam or Laos during those wars, I went to school with many of the children of that generation and it would be outright offensive if I tried to compare our experiences; let alone that of the Iraqi or Afghani people who are living in a literal nuclear waste land due to the constant bombing and use of depleted uranium munitions on their land while being 'shocked and awed' into submission.

Many of who I'm sure would tell you were just as oppressed by the Saddam regimes as well as the 'Taliban' but have found themselves in perhaps the worst of all possible situations in a horrible Humanitarian crises as they were 'liberated' by the US. While the world continues to ignore that.




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