See, this is interesting.Basically, we promise all this stuff—job training, healthcare, education, discipline—that many young men and women would simply not have access to otherwise.But—here's the catch—you have to be trained to kill and ready to die on the whim of others. And as we've seen, those others rarely if ever have your interest in mind, will send you to kill and die so that others may profit, and they sure as HELL won't send their own kids along on the same missions.In Europe, young men and women receive job training, healthcare, education and discipline without any risk to life or limb—but ZOMG, that's SOCIALISM!!!111!!one!!1!America compels their young run through a gauntlet of death on behalf of the government to have a chance at self-betterment, at receiving the same social benefits that all other civilized, industrialized nations provide to their young as a matter of due course.Some of our American kids have never seen a dentist in their LIFE before they join the military. If they're poor, then let their Goddamned teeth rot out of their heads, right? Unless and until they take an oath to relinquish their personal liberties, take up arms, and risk getting blown apart on some fraudulent foreign escapade. Then, it's OK for them to receive basic medical care, and we all pay for it.Which system is more ***** up, do you think? Which is more worthy of us as Americans?

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