I felt pressured into it.

I was 19, and struggling.

No branch would take me, despite having a nearly perfect ASVAB score. Missed one question, and its because I never had access to fucking diesel engines growing up.

I’m epileptic.

So, after multiple attempts, I don’t qualify as “disabled” enough to receive benefits, but I can’t even sign my flesh away for an hourly rate like the dregs of society to die in some foreign shit-hole.

I’ll just die in my local shit-hole, thanks.

Plenty of firemen start fires to put them out, wind up with arson charges.

I’d feel safer at a waffle house deep in the hood, wearing a red shirt while everyone else had blue on.

In the grand scheme of things, we’re all animals.

Push any of us far enough, starve us enough, etc.

This is why we have self-defense laws. It is inherently understandable that under duress a person (or lion) will act outside of their usual nature to secure food, shelter, or safety.

That being said, this is no way in defense of any mass-shooter types. There is a difference between self-defense and mass-murder.

I mean, the US put out the game America’s Army as a recruitment tool.

Passably decent multiplayer shooter for its time. Good enough to kill some time with.

I’m a gamer, and I do…

Then again, I’m mostly excited about using CUDA cores for cracking hashes and the like, lol.

I think you’re trying to lead them on too much.

Obviously, you want to see chaos, explosions, fire, and mayhem. Of course you do, so do I, and if its in the process of destroying a fascist foreign interloper who somehow gets a pass for being an illegal immigrant from this joke of an administration, then all the better.

Bury the lede a bit. Let them think they came to that conclusion.

People don’t like being overtly manipulated. Covertly is a different matter.