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  • I find this incredibly depressing. A poor kid, surrounded by toxic propaganda, got vacuumed up into the MIC by way of some white nationalist recruiting outfit so he could throw his life away charging the front lines of his old home town. What an absolute horrific waste.

    Kid should be out playing softball with his buddies at the park, getting his first apartment, going to big house parties full of sexy singles, and figuring out what kind of beer he likes. Instead, he's getting jumped into a gang full of dipshits, juiced full of amphetamines, and tossed out into a warzone so some Russian mortar team can play target practice with his rag-doll corpse.

    What a fucking nightmare. What a miserable pointless stupid way to spend the last years of your abbreviated life.

    • Yeah, thats all true, but utimately he made his own decisions, and the world is now slightly better off without him in it.

      • utimately he made his own decisions

        Who can say if he made the best decisions he could with the information and opportunity available to him? Not when the information was shit and the opportunities were slim to none. Ukrainian boys are being groomed for this. At some point you can't discount the propaganda machine that stamps hate into so many foreheads.

        the world is now slightly better off without him in it

        Only after a cartel of shit-heads twisted his soul and tossed away his body. The world won't be better until the engine of immiseration is silenced. No when the next generation of children is being lined up at the hopper.

        • there is definitely something in the fact that he was only a nazi because he was indoctrinated as a nazi from a young age likely in a program funded by the US

          and as Stalin argued when he called for leniency for the Hitler youth someone raised in nazi ideas is less culpable than an adult that knew better

          that being said it's not like he was executed and if a nazi is shooting at you who cares how he came to be a nazi

        • Who can say if he made the best decisions he could with the information and opportunity available to him?

          Based on results obviously he didn't lol. And plenty of others grew up in the same environment and didn't do this.

          And where do you draw the line anyway? Elon musk was born into his position and reinforced with all the prevailing attitudes in society, is it also not his fault for being a fascist shithead? Everyone is just helplessly following their predetermined path? Seems undialectical. Maybe it's my predetermined path to have a sensible chuckle when nazis get got.

          If you have some bottomless christ-like empathy for your enemies, then good for you I guess. I think it sounds exhausting and pointless. I still have far more empathy for them than they have for me, that's the best I can manage personally.

          • And plenty of others grew up in the same environment and didn't do this.

            Plenty of others got explosive ordinance dropped on their heads or shrapnel wounds that crippled them for life.

            This guy got targeted for recruitment by a military gang, and took the bait, because even bait looks good when you're starved.

            You think he was having debates on the quad with his friends over the merits of ideology? You think he was holding up a copy of State and Revolution in one hand and Mein Kampf in the other, with ample opportunity to pick a side?

            If you have some bottomless christ-like empathy for your enemies, then good for you I guess.

            I don't see this kid as an enemy. I see him as a victim. No different than a black kid shoved into state prison for years. Or a hick from the sticks who enlisted to the American armed forces.

            I was 19 during 9/11, and I absolutely had the "should I join the military?" moment. I had a conga line of people to talk me out of it. He didn't.

            • I don't see this kid as an enemy. I see him as a victim. No different than a black kid shoved into state prison for years. Or a hick from the sticks who enlisted to the American armed forces.

              Unlike the dead nazi these hypothetical people wouldn't be ethicly cleansing eastern Ukraine if they weren't getting killed by the Russian army. But also fuck the troops including the hypothetical hick

              • these hypothetical people wouldn't be ethicly cleansing eastern Ukraine if they weren't getting killed by the Russian army

                It isn't as though the Russians are above a little ethnic cleansing. Just ask the Chechens. We're back into fash-infighting. Am I supposed to cheer for a former Donetsk resident who was born into a burgeoning civil war aflame with right-wing propaganda at every angle because he got popped by a Russian soldier with equally awful politics doing ethnic nationalism on his side of the newly carved border? Or should I take the Reddit route and clap like a seal any time "Based Ukrainian Liberators Saw Off Man's Dick While Calling His Girlfriend On His Own Cell Phone" trends on some war-porn sub, because said dickless Russian can be tied back to some anti-LGBT post?

                Its all fucking awful. And there are going to be an ample number of survivors of this war who regret every moment of it. Many of them are going to have some pretty cringe tattoos they picked up in the trenches. Why should we be happy when toxic racist ideology foments war and said war kills the folks that adopted said ideology?

    • Which one of you coward mods removed this?

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