the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
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All troops are bastards
"I didn't know what I was signing up for!"
:bruh-moment:
What do you think we did in Afghanistan? What about Iraq?
What about every country we've bombed and left a trail of death behind us?
This information isn't hidden. The people signing up in the 10-20 years lived through it! People can regret signing up all they want, but they don't get to downplay their support of Amerikkkan imperialism. They can move on, do better things with their lives, but they're still culpable for their choice
i knew one based anarchist who had fucked up and joined the military. they admitted they fucked up, it was a stupid childish decision and they were desperate to get the hell away from their family, and they regretted not finding a decent way to do it. i never once saw that fucker sober. they said when they were leaving, they looked for data to leak, but didn't have access to anything good.
This is what gets to me. I've seen footage of pilots who flew the planes that took Northern Korea back to the stone age. They looked completely haunted by what they'd done once they realized it was wrong. How is it that these men who were almost certainly not Communists show more regret and contrition than some "Socialists"
I mean, among "baby leftists" who know about what the US did but still can't grasp the theory, the conditioning is hard to shake. A veteran, the same guy who did the :communism-will-win: stunt at West Point and now has a podcast, mentioned that he had hopes to "reform" the military from within as a junior officer, only to have that expectation slam him in the face like a rotating door. Which is why he hoped to be discharged with a bang.
Not to infantilize them, of course, just weighing it in.