Worthess@discuss.online to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agoThere's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.message-squaremessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up169arrow-down144
arrow-up125arrow-down1message-squareThere's a lot of freedom at first as a soldier to realize that you could put down so much evil in the world until you realize you might actually be putting evil into the world.Worthess@discuss.online to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 days agomessage-square32fedilink
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down4·5 days agoFighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA
minus-squareTiger666@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·5 days agoYou don’t think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom? What were they fighting for then?
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoFighting for power first and foremost, but I guess you could go and say it was for the “freedom to rule”
minus-squareAnnoyed_🦀 @lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 days ago Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Uhh no shit, nuance is important.
Fighting foreign enemies at home doesn’t automatically make it a “fight for freedom”. Case in point: Taliban vs USA
You don’t think the Taliban were fighting for their freedom?
What were they fighting for then?
Fighting for power first and foremost, but I guess you could go and say it was for the “freedom to rule”
Uhh no shit, nuance is important.