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cesium-sheep · 2 years

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just my two cents on the whole lockheed thing: some folks have a lot of fuckin trouble seeing that individuals in a system, especially at the lower levels of authority, are not inherently at fault for the entire system. it's exhausting and dangerous.

there are many many reasons someone might be in jobs that relate directly or tangentially to the systems you want to tear down, some of them sympathetic, some of them grey, some of them shitty. but if you turn your back on all of them, you’re actively casting all of them out rather than trying to forge alliances where you can.

alienating entire vast sections of working class people, the ones you supposedly prioritize over all else (since I’m seeing this fuckin wildin absolutely most commonly and most ubiquitously from the “communist” types), makes you look like a fuckin clown, and does direct and material harm to both the folks you’re scapegoating and your own cause.

and make no mistake, it is scapegoating. it is picking an easy target because conceptualizing the actual power structures at play is a tall order. there is technically an argument to be made, but where does it end? maybe my grandfather was complicit for growing the grain to feed the people to work in the factory to build the parts to build the weapons to arm the soldiers to follow the orders to fight the wars. she swallowed the spider to catch the fly. if you want the fly dead, target the fly directly.

#us politics #ask to tag #look I was *in* the military.#in a combat mos.#(which many many people in the military are not btw and calling cooks baby-killers also makes you look like a fuckin clown.)#if you wouldn't say it to my face cuz I'm your friend and you know better #why would you brag about your ridiculous virtue-signaling scapegoating to anyone else.#like I get where the acab sentiment comes from (altho I think white ppl are way too gung ho about it)#(and I also think it's fundamentally reductionist even if minority groups most frequently harmed by these systems have a right imo)#but it's so easy for people to generalize it like this.#and like. it's really getting to the point where it may start ending friendships.#because I've got friends so radicalized that they're talking about people like me and my wife as cartoon villains.#(both veterans and people who can comfortably afford rent)#and seeing them constantly talk about me this way even if they don't realize it #legitimately makes me feel unsafe.#I don't know when they'll remember I'm part of the outgroup #or when they'll become radical enough that having known me first is no longer important.#when will they start saying this stuff to me directly. when will they start hurling abuse in my inbox.#when will they start making burner accounts to keep doing it when I block them.#the people who believe this shit also frequently believe in the value of dogpiling doxxing and personal attacks.

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