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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 3595857" data-attributes="member: 56035">this article speaks about the toxic culture inside the army as america (and to a lesser extent other western countries) terrorize the world.&nbsp; they mention suicides in the army due to the toxic culture (hazing, etc).&nbsp; i wonder how many die every year because of that:<a href="https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-soldiers-tale/" target="_blank">https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-soldiers-tale/</a>The military beats empathy out of you. It makes you callous.”He watched as the Rangers separated terrified men, women and children, treating them “as if they were animals.” The Rangers spoke of the Afghans as subhumans, dismissing them as “<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hajji" target="_blank">hajjis</a>” and “<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />s.”...“A lot of the guys would say, ‘I want to go out every night and kill people,’ ” he told me. “The Rangers are about hyper-masculinity, misogyny, racism, and a hatred of other cultures.”His platoon sergeant had the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&amp;biw=1152&amp;bih=563&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=1&amp;ei=QR0wW7CUOaiF0wK7gKrYBw&amp;q=hammer+of+thor+symbol&amp;oq=hammer+of+thor+symbol&amp;gs_l=img.3..0.7325.8968.0.9302.7.3.0.4.4.0.96.261.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.7.302...0i67k1.0.22b2dPTXB9M" target="_blank">hammer of Thor,</a> a popular symbol among white supremacists, tattooed on his arm. The sergeant told new Rangers that if they saw something that upset them and wanted to speak out about it they were “in the wrong <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ing place.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 3595857, member: 56035"] this article speaks about the toxic culture inside the army as america (and to a lesser extent other western countries) terrorize the world. they mention suicides in the army due to the toxic culture (hazing, etc). i wonder how many die every year because of that: [URL]https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-soldiers-tale/[/URL] The military beats empathy out of you. It makes you callous.” He watched as the Rangers separated terrified men, women and children, treating them “as if they were animals.” The Rangers spoke of the Afghans as subhumans, dismissing them as “[URL='https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hajji']hajjis[/URL]” and “:censored:s.”... “A lot of the guys would say, ‘I want to go out every night and kill people,’ ” he told me. “The Rangers are about hyper-masculinity, misogyny, racism, and a hatred of other cultures.” His platoon sergeant had the [URL='https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-ab&biw=1152&bih=563&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=QR0wW7CUOaiF0wK7gKrYBw&q=hammer+of+thor+symbol&oq=hammer+of+thor+symbol&gs_l=img.3..0.7325.8968.0.9302.7.3.0.4.4.0.96.261.3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.7.302...0i67k1.0.22b2dPTXB9M']hammer of Thor,[/URL] a popular symbol among white supremacists, tattooed on his arm. The sergeant told new Rangers that if they saw something that upset them and wanted to speak out about it they were “in the wrong :censored:ing place.” [/QUOTE]

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