cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7288811
It’s also because you DON’T hate AmeriKKKa ENOUGH.
Death to ALL Yankee fascists, I’ll respect the troops when they regret being troops and do something about it.
Now waitaminit! I’m a yankee… a real one. Actual descendent of families from the oppressor race that came to the New World on the Mayflower and then the Pacer…
Do not paint my anti-monarchist ancestors with such a reprehensible stroke! My Yankee family took down fascists across Europe and also in the Pacific theater some 80+ years ago…
Ack!
(Oddly enough, to current events, I actually called this one out to my husband last mid-summer.) Can’t recall the actual thing that tipped me off, but I opined that Trump was gonna go all Teddy Roosevelt and “walk softly and carry a big dick…” and he was getting ready to head into meddling in South America.
Fuckin’ hell… I was right.
He’s all over the map and it doesn’t help that Steven Miller - whom Steve Bannon introduced to Trump and told him, “This guy IS a fascist…” and Trump latched onto him like a limpet - is creating a domestc nightmare that is consuming the public’s attention.
TV President indeed.
Daddy Warschmucks needs people around him to throw under the bus if it gets too shitty for him. Miller is the architect of the domestic terror and has created such a perfect smokescreen that the foreign intervention that makes Kegsbreath stiff and wet can roll out across the region.
I noticed that once they got Maduro, the “drug boat” interventions have seemed to stop, though am not sure on that, the press being the Administration’s bitches that they are - due to the corporate consolidation opening them up to government control via leverage through the SEC and the FCC. (What spineless cunts).
Thing is, troops don’t regret being troops until they’re wounded and walking around in constant pain, getting fuck-all from the VA. Trump doesn’t like wounded vets… they’re broken men to him and suitable for the trash heap only. Recall his dismissive attitude at the War Memorial in Europe during his last Administration? What a cocksucker.
I recall the guys that came home at the end of the Vietnam war. I was 10 at the time. Young men - kids actually - literally dumped off of planes at nearby air bases (in California) still covered in dried blood from the gunfights as they left Saigon… and just turfed with their duffel and a “Thanks for your service… goodbye…”
Lots of them ended up homeless and drug addicted and drinking themselves into oblivion as a way to run from their regret, PTSD and physical pain if they came home injured. I’d see them on the street… sleeping on the sidewalk near the liquor store. One guy we knew in the neighbrhood had half a jaw and the side of his face was open with a steel band of some sort poking through the scar tissue. Dude drank a ton.
Today’s army is voluntary so I imagine that the regret is going to be a lot more difficult to see, compared to the draftees of the 1960’s. It’ll be there though, in the quiet corners where no one is looking. Hidden and full of shame for the shit decisions they made to join up in the first place.
Those chickens coming to roost are gonna be a nightmare.
Also, have you noticed that since Bill Clinton’s people told the DOJ to go ahead and release all the files they have on him, that the Trump Administration’s gone silent about ol’ Billy-Boy?
My bigger question is what is the SCOTUS thinking is going to happen now that even business is telling Gen-z kids to quit thinking of college and good paying jobs and instead aim a little lower and opt for the service sector or the Trades (which DO pay well, but it takes decades to get to a point where you can command a good wage and get it…)
Fun times ahead.
It’s also because you DON’T hate AmeriKKKa ENOUGH.
I’m trying my best
They’ll gain my respect when they stop mindlessly doing the bidding of fascists (so probably never).
Acab means military too
I really expected to see more pushback from the military. Every single one of them swore to defend the Constitution from all threats foreign and domestic, and are literally oath-bound to engage Trump the same way they do any other enemy of the US. Instead they keep just blindly following orders from chief domestic enemy while the Constitution burns.
Like, I never expected to see the military actually unite against the Trump regime, but surely there are at least a few thousand people in a force that large who take their oath seriously, right? …apparently not. Not a single one of the troops has stepped up to do what’s right, opting instead to do what’s easy.
Cowards and/or traitors, all of them.
I think that stems from a misunderstanding of what the US military is. It’s the armed force that maintains and expands the amerikkkan empire, nothing more or less than that. Any pretense of an “oath” or any kind of rules or laws or principles is just a pretense.
You don’t have to like the military to understand how childish and devoid of nuance views like this are.
Also anyone who feels the need to type america like that immediately forfeit any semblence of credibility there may have been. I keep blocking .ml to not have to interact with tankies yet you keep popping up like cockroaches
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_the_War_Home
If anyone is interested in how ICE is just imperialism turned inwards (one of the definitions of fascism) I recommend this book
I think they are bad in different ways tbh.
Also, on a personal level your average ICE employee is much more actively fascist and evil than your average military employee. There are actually a decent amount of relatively normal humans in the US military, after all most of the US military is just a massive fucking supply line.
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You can be less bad without being good. Hell has levels, after all.
Hell ain’t real.
Trying to equivocate the atrocities of the US military as being “not as bad” as what ICE is doing to US citizens is tacitly implying that those being oppressed in the global South by US military are less worthwhile than that of US citizens.
Hell ain’t real.
Have you heard of a metaphor
I have, unfortunately your metaphor sucked and only served to further imply that those of the global south are somehow less worthwhile than US citizens.
I don’t mean to be abrasive here, but if you really believe that, you may either not know what the US military actually does or you may think people in the Global South are less worthwhile than those in the USA (like it says in the title of the post).
“anyone who disagrees with me is either an idiot or a terrible person”
I don’t want to be a Debbie downer, but in this case they’re right. It’s literally impossible to argue. Look at the rape rates of enlisted women to see what we do to our own, let alone the people we’ve dehumanized.
this edgy shit won’t accomplish anything
Crossposted from hexbear? Fucking please.
Maybe don’t?
Fucking please.
You’re welcome?
“How dare you crosspost truth from the good instance!” - Midwesterner realizing that the “Tankies” are the only ones that make sense, and I might have to change instances.
The tankies might have a couple similar values I agree with, but I reeeeally just don’t like the dprk support I’ve seen.
Funny enough I been thinking about moving to midwest.social cuz I’ve been meaning to move off .world for a while lol
