• njm1314@lemmy.world
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    The National Guard has fired upon and murdered American civilians multiple times. The us national guard is in no way special. You are peddling a fiction here. The vast vast majority of times Armed Forces will fire upon their own citizens with zero compunction. Often with Glee. Hell if anything by the end stages of revolutions hearts have hardened and they are more likely to fire.

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      Yes yes, get it all out. There, there. I can tell you’re deeply learned about all of this stuff, it makes me feel a little bad that I came in with some kind of examples or anything, I’m sure there are not any more and it was just some crazy outlier.

      Also, if there’s one word that I really commonly hear from people who’ve killed other humans in the military, when they talk about their experience, it is “glee.” They just glee all over the place, whenever they talk about it.

      (What other examples are you even talking about? Kent State and what? I feel like I sent you into some kind of fit by bringing up the example that I did.)

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        I’m sorry what examples did you bring up exactly? You just sent me a link to a Google search in which three of the top results were American officials talking about how they want to fire on protesters. If that’s the level of scrutiny you bring to your research I’m not surprised you don’t know more. For instance the many many times US National Guards upon Union Strikers in our country’s history.

        You seem to have some sort of reverence for the US National Guard that has no basis in reality and I really suggest you educate yourself upon the history of our country. The ones that they don’t want you to read. Not the propaganda you seem to have fallen for.

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        By the way personal attacks don’t make you seem more credible Just for future reference.

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          There is research on this: Generally, when talking to someone online, remaining completely respectful to someone who’s spitting in your face rhetorically speaking actually makes your argument less effective.

          I’m still talking factually, sure. I’m actually not making any kind of personal attack, I am just being sarcastic a little. But I am not pretending that I respect your point of view, because your point of view doesn’t deserve respect. You keep getting all emotional and just repeating over and over how you are sure that it works, and I keep sending you examples and citations. We are not the same.