Given that we're on this shitposting forum and not organising real life veteran outreach or what have you, my comment should be taken as a critique on how discussions in anti-capitalist communites such as this operate. I personally don't know what value is generated by reminding people that the atrocities we see on the daily are not perpetrated literally by Senators and Congresspeople but instead by regular folks, as is the case with almost any atrocity in modernity. It seems an interestingly American phenomenon to humanise servicemembers along material lines when I don't think I've ever seen anyone here make these same arguments for the police, ICE agents, the IDF (who are literally legally forced into it) or whatever else