• Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    Found an article on this guy before he died, some notes of interest:

    he was convinced to go by his Ukrainian-Canadian boss

    member of the 22eme, not CANSOFCOM so not actually an "elite" sniper, just a regular Canadian sniper

    served on tours with yankees, war-crime likelihood increased drastically

    There is something profoundly sad about being convinced by your literal petit-bouge boss to go and die in a pointless war, somehow more so than usual.

    • mittens [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Can't say I feel any empathy for the guy, but the gal to tell an employee to go become cannon fodder on a war you cannot possibly win is all sorts of fucked up.

      • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        see this is why we need unions. The union would tell your boss to fuck off if he tried to draft you

        • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          What kind of loser actually listens to someone telling them that though. Yeah, the boss is a jackass, but he doesn't have the power to send him to Ukraine. He should have been the one to tell his boss to fuck off. Now he can't cause he's dead.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            3 years ago

            So there was this war called World War I and several million young men signed up to die in the mud in France because of reasons that I still can't comprehend after 35 years of living and readying history.

            • mark213686123 [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              I didn't get how WW1 even happened until I heard people who previously struck me as completely non political started talking about how we should do a war because of a treaty (there isn't even any treaty)

              it feels like a body snatchers horror movie

    • cilantrofellow [any]
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      3 years ago

      Ukrainian-Canadian

      Depending on what generation Canadian they are, that’s probably gonna be a yikes from me

    • mr_world [they/them]
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      3 years ago
      1. Going to war for your boss's country while he sits in yours behind a NATO shield is pretty funny. Takes peasant mindset to subject mindset.

      2. "He's not a great sniper. But he's okay. Pretty average. So let's send him to help an underdog army of rag tag civilians and right wing nationalists.

      • Tomboys_are_Cute [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Number 1 hard agree. Number 2 basically Canada has a history of actually training a lot of good snipers but when I served every battalion had at least one platoon of these guys, so 20ish/300 infantry was this level of sniper. This guy was not the crawl three days in, wait three days, take one shot types, they are usually part of a recon detachment or a heavy weapons detachment, not some lone wolf types.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      There is something profoundly sad about being convinced by your literal petit-bouge boss to go and die in a pointless war, somehow more so than usual.

      • NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE

      • We sent our most gullible interns to die in a hail of cruise missiles on the other side of the planet

      :-/