Post 9mEKA4KcPbOU16FhCa by melt@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #9mEKA3sG72i0b8z2zw by melt@mastodon.social
       2019-08-25T00:43:42Z
       
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       You ever think about how the push against free college in the US is probably backed by the military industrial complex because free college is one of the only incentives they can actually offer to poor Americans?
       
 (DIR) Post #9mEKA465HdlfI1S5Y0 by melt@mastodon.social
       2019-08-25T00:46:29Z
       
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       I grew up in a poor as fuck area and those posters were plastered everywhere."100% Free Tuition". The further you got away from rural towns the less Honor And Duty USMC billboards you'd see. They'd come to our high schools and advertise to what were essentially tall children.
       
 (DIR) Post #9mEKA4KcPbOU16FhCa by melt@mastodon.social
       2019-08-25T00:46:40Z
       
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       It's why I don't typically say fuck people in the military. For a lot of us back home it was the only way out. The system was made with this in mind.
       
 (DIR) Post #9mEKCMqQYHDC0sE6Uq by melt@mastodon.social
       2019-08-25T00:58:37Z
       
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       To clarify, ACAB. Even if you mean well, you cannot exist within the machine and hope to dismantle it or work counter to its intentions. There is a place for that and I don't believe it's here or now. My concern lies with the tactics used to coerce teens.