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JimDandy

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6. His list of reasons why you should think twice about joining the military:
Thu Jan 15, 2015, 03:01 PM
Jan 2015

1. you will be subjected to radical psychological manipulation and racist group-blaming to get you to view others as an enemy to kill;
2. your "enemy's" culture is invariably poverty-stricken. As you walk around among them with obscenely expensive high tech weapons, they are digging for crumbs to eat;
3. you will end up killing more civilians than gun-toting "militants", and
4. instead of making an area a better place for freedom and democracy, you will be making the world more dangerous.

He views himself as a counter-recruiter to the US military's 10,000 recruiters who are targeting our kids lives with a $700 million advertising budget.

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