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Lot of people on here seem to assume that the US military is basically as bad as US police when it comes to “being totally dominated by frothing MAGA freaks.” This is absolutely NOT the case.
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people forget that the military specifically targets poor kids for recruitment, using benefits/stability as a big draw, and therefore you have a lot of people in the military who would not otherwise choose to be there
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and of course there are people who will moralize that decision by saying that folks don’t have a right to live comfortably through that route, but I just also don’t believe that folks born into situations they cannot control should be forced to suffer to ensure their morality remains pure
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sometimes leftism is very catholic coded
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girl it's worse than that. at least if you're catholic and you fuck up theres a path available to correct yourself
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yeah there’s quite a bit of “leftism” that doesn’t seem to be built on the idea of community, and I don’t like that at all! and I think that’s why fuck ups are deemed “unacceptable” by some
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Think about this a lot, this vibe is in so many leftist spaces, once you make what someone deems a mistake you're tainted forever.
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like i have many bad things to say about organized church and the catholic church in specific but the idea that sin is universal and that concrete actions can redeem it is one that is often lost in leftist spaces imo
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Agree. I think it's more accurate to say those leftist spaces are evangelical: you need to accept [fill in the political position] as your personal savior.
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ive said it many times but it's truly amazing that america is so calvinist that we've created marxism-calvinism
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NGL, seizing the means of predestination would be pretty badass.
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Maybe a sequel to Paradise Lost?
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Sounds like a one sentence plot summary of an Philip K. Dick novel
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Also roughly the plot of Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” books, now that I think about it.
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Doing anything <<< being one of the Righteous Elect of Marx
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double predestination but for political alignment