• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    19 days ago

    Yes, just like kids are “being recruited” for sex work.

    Yet again, children’s brains are not developed enough to understand the consequences of what they are doing. They are being forced to fight because they are being manipulated into doing it. That’s why they “feel the need to.”

    It’s like you don’t even know what children are.

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      19 days ago

      Question then. If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

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        Why on Earth would you think I know the answer to that? Do you think I’ve ever seen it happen? Experienced it?

        Considering the number of young, impressionable kids who live comfortably that join cults, I’m guessing a good salesperson could be pretty successful at it.

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          19 days ago

          And what kind of people do cults tend to attract? People that are in happy lives? Or the ones that are in desperate situations?

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              19 days ago

              This person was literally a drug addict who got kicked out of her house by her parents. She was homeless when she got recruited. This only reinforces my point.

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                19 days ago

                Your point:

                If I were to go to a group of young, impressionable kids in a developed country where they are living comfortably, how successful would I be in recruiting them to be in a militia?

                Apparently you answered your own question now: yes, those kids in that developed country would be successfully recruited to be in a militia. Or at least do a militia’s bidding.

                Nah, never happens in America.

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyle_Rittenhouse

                And do tell me about Kyle’s tragic upbringing full of hardship.

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                  19 days ago

                  You’re giving me another singular example that i can probably nitpick. I’m giving you thousands. You’re not familiar with the success of this strategy to recruit kids , as you said in a previous comment, because it doesn’t happen where you live. It doesn’t happen because people don’t feel the need to, and kids don’t want to do that by default. The radicalization didn’t happen because someone came and said, “Hey kid, wanna get paid?”. It happened over the course of decades as kids grew up with missiles flying over their heads repeatedly and their friends and families dying. What did you expect these kids to do?

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                    19 days ago

                    You’re not familiar with the success of this strategy to recruit kids

                    And you are? How did you become familiar with it? Or is this just a guess on your part?