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      The manaquin is of a character who recruits young children to fight in a war under merciless conditions.

      ::: Spoilers for Evangelion

      The war turns out to be unecessary and largely driven my one maniac’s unchecked lust for power.

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          True, but it’s muddled - if I recall correctly, he takes a lot of weird risks that a loving spouse wouldn’t, while saying the expected things.

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        The war turns out to be unecessary and largely driven my one maniac’s unchecked lust for power.

        That’s… not at all what it’s about. Humanity competes with not just it’s self, but with all of the other possibilities which exist in this universe. As we grow and expand our powers we repeatedly come into conflict with proportionally greater adversity. The Eva program is an attempt to create a technological “ark” which can shelter the human soul indefinitely even after the world moves on without us. Gendo, as the human put in charge of managing this project, is grief stricken when his wife is killed by their research, and subverts the original intention in an attempt to use the technologies that he is developing to allow him to see her one more time.

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        Looked it up and some people are saying it’s just a cosplay selfie booth thing and that’s just some random cosplayer posing for it and not associated with them. I’m still surprised someone has the exact flat skintone of those display mannequins.

        Edit: also captures that super-rigid pose of them too. Found a larger resolution image and yeah, it’s a person.

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    Friendly reminder that the army is made up of terminally online shit-posters that are just like you. There’s entire subreddits/facebook groups dedicated to military memes.

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        Yea… the majority of the people in the military are just working class folk who wanted to go to school but couldn’t afford it.

        This childish “army man bad” mentality is the dumbest thing about my fellow lefties. Very few people in the military are there because they like killing people. For every dirt-munching, mouth breathing idiot there are a hundred cooks, janitors, stores distributors, technicians, mechanics, ect.

        You guys think when fascism comes to America that you’ll win by calling your fellow working class ‘genociders’?

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          Yea… the majority of the people in the military are just working class folk who wanted to go to school but couldn’t afford it.

          False.

          How affluent are enlisted recruits?

          Most members of the military come from middle-class neighborhoods. The middle three quintiles for household income were overrepresented among enlisted recruits, and the top and bottom quintiles were underrepresented.

          https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/demographics-us-military

          They are murderous volunteers of the most violent country in the world. Among the 248 armed conflicts that occurred in 153 regions across the world from 1945 to 2001, 201 were initiated by the US, accounting for 81% of the total number.

          There is no plausible deniability for this shit. Fuck you. Don’t “my fellow lefties” while spewing disgusting nationalism and supporting the US fucking military in my comm.

          And how the fuck do you think we REDUCE US military recruitment? By being nice about it? By telling them it’s actually ok that they’re in the biggest and most evil murder machine in the world? Fuck off. Even if some of them are naive morons the correct strategy to reduce the number of people joining the military is not to be fucking nice about it. It’s to create a culture of that being REPREHENSIBLE, which is easy because it fucking is.

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          ‘I want to go to school but can’t afford it’ isn’t a sufficiently good excuse to join the imperial murder machine.

          Also, without ‘cooks, janitors, stores distributors, technicians, mechanics’ the military wouldn’t function, so these people may never pull a trigger but they’re still complicit in the killing.

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          Yea… the majority of the people in the military are just working class folk who wanted to go to school but couldn’t afford it.

          We’ve heard this one a million times before. It’s not impressive. Everyone I know is working class and couldn’t afford school. None of them signed up to drop bombs on brown people for Raytheon stonks. Troops in the imperial core can pipe down, reeducate themselves, apologize for their direct and active participation in imperialism/colonialism, and get in line behind all their working class comrades as followers rather than leaders of the various liberation movements. If they want to be at the front of anything it can be at the front lines of the militant wing of the working class movement, contributing their combat skills to defending rather than attacking the workers. If they weren’t afraid to die for the burger reich then they shouldn’t be afraid to die for the working class. Then the rest of the working class can forgive them if they feel like it. But what happens more often than not is they are constantly engaging in this pick me ass behavior where they need to remind everyone what a small and innocent bean they were when they were tricked into dropping white phosphorous on iraqis or whatever. they are constantly holding their support hostage from the working class, whining about how the working class is too mean and alienating to them for calling them out, and how the rest of the working class should shut up and parrot the idea that they were “tricked.” The implication being that, if they don’t get their way, they’ll withhold support or join reactionaries instead. Good riddance!

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            If they want to be at the front of anything it can be at the front lines of the militant wing of the working class movement, contributing their combat skills to defending rather than attacking the workers. If they weren’t afraid to die for the burger reich then they shouldn’t be afraid to die for the working class.

            Strong point

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          there are a hundred cooks, janitors, stores distributors, technicians, mechanics

          Why aren’t they doing those jobs while not serving the world’s most evil imperialist machine? thinking-about-it

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          childish “army man bad” mentality

          wanted to go to school

          You are literally advocating for grown ass adults to go back to be kids in schools wtf

          my fellow lefties

          Said no working class comrade ever

          cooks, janitors, stores distributors, technicians, mechanics, ect.

          “I’m not a bad guy, I simply serve nazis and carry water to their holocaust centers”

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          yeah i know that ! the mentality of the people doing the crimes being guilty of the crimes , truly was a problem for my completly vibes based, non position-having - astetic leftism pretentions…

          So i grew out of them , Like people that join the Army do as well ,their main Job is to demonstrate that…

          "Ali !! dont target the Occupation Forces ! I just heard they have a COOK ! "

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          Talk to me when there’s a draft. If you willingly serve the war machine you’re no comrade of mine. Are cops working class comrades too? Or is it just the foreign oppression that you count as good working class people?

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      Wow, they post memes about drone striking weddings, they’re just like me fr fr! :so-true:

      …I’ve just heard some bad news about the tone of their wedding drone strike memes.

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      Yeah it’s really funny to go troll them from time to time they’re some of the most emotional and easily baited on the internet. They all have exactly the same insecurities.

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    Military people are your age now, they like anime, the demographics of anime cons line up with their recruiting goals. That’s why they are there.

    They didnt hire a Misato cosplayer, they had a cool rotating selfie booth because the army has infinite murder money and can use it on whatever and this person probably just wanted to use it.