• Varyk
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    5 months ago

    This is based as far as I can tell.

    It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

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      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      It’s definitely more palatable when the strangers you’re killing are nazis

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        I can agree that there’s been an extremely minuscule amount of justifiable war in an endless number of wars.

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        But the story in the greentext takes place in 1932, before the Nazis even got into power in Germany.

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          Yeah I’m struggling to come up with the war anon could be referring to…

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            Japan was invading China.

            But this is clearly fake and connected to the month of June.

            Anon probably read a story about this happening and assumed the heir of the protagonist. Then used online for attention and group feedback on his projection that hiding in a cave is somehow based.

            They are probably in that cave right now.

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      It’s a bummer how killing strangers for your government is glorified.

      Killing for yourself: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison and maybe send you into the death row.

      Killing for your government: Government will provide training, shelter, equipment, pay you and award you medals.

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        Killing for your government: Government will track you down, kick your door in and throw you in prison for refusing to.

        Fixed thar for you :P

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        Do not forget about right to rape and steal dishwashers on your government enemy territory!

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      Tribalism. Our tribe is good, their tribe is bad. If you are not with your tribe, you are a traitor, so people are pressurized into this, and start believing lies about our glorious pride and wise leaders.

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        Probably a cooler picture than Stanhope appreciates, but: