I didn't know what would result of the Reddit Army, but even funnier than them crying and pissing themselves like the mercenaries who stormed Venezuela is all of them dying immediately after getting there. Not firing a shot, not doing anything they can be martyred for, dead so ingloriously that they'll never be mentioned again for fear of deterring the next dumbass. The last thing we need is movies being made about these people unless it's a Tropic Thunder sequel.
Former special forces members from several NATO countries and also a bunch of tacticool goobers vs a swarm of mass produced scud missiles, WHO WOULD WIN?
Thank you for watching this week's episode of deadliest warrior, the missiles won and therefore all cool battle footage was subsequently destroyed
Turns out those tactical sunglasses and $5000 custom scope weren't enough to save you from a veteran of Chechnya with more than five minutes of experience in the field.
We're probably being influenced by a lot of selection bias. Others whose stories we're not seeing could be causing a lot of pain and suffering. We probably shouldn't get too cocky when they could be helping out the murder and torture squads like Azov and C14.
No doubt. However, having that fodder serves its purpose and allows more violence by the state and fascists. I just think it's dangerous to underestimate the damage that's done by having people feeding into the war because we look only at the few videos that are spread around about some of them being ineffective and even killed before they engage. For example, we should continue to dissuade everyone from going and doing this volunteer shit, and thinking they just go and get owned and die or leave tends to make us (leftists) instead just shrug it off and some even possibly encourage it. Like, getting your proto-fascist neighbor to go pick up an AK in Ukraine might not (just) be a recipe for getting him killed; him being there might result in some additional neo-Nazis (whether him or the people he's supporting) murdering people.
It's probably fine to deride the ones who do wind up obviously having zero effect, but generalizing that to the point of implying that the entire phenomenon of people going to support the war is fine and harmless IMO is a bad idea.
God forbid one of these idiots survive to come home and start telling impressionable youth about how manly and hardcore the ukrainian nationalists were and how they should be more like them etc etc
My brain parsed FL as Florida and not Foreign Legion so I'd like to treat everyone to the mental image of the first Floridaman regiment, armed with alligators and a PCP ration
The last thing we need is movies being made about these people unless it’s a Tropic Thunder sequel.
Remember how they had to make a fictional movie about an Italian who could go more than three rounds in the ring against a black guy? I'm confident that we'll see Mel Gibson churn out a hagiography about this asshole that insists he was single-handedly blocking a Russian tank battalion while evacuating six school buses full of child brides, only to be killed by a hail of cruise missiles so thick it bloated out the sun.
I didn't know what would result of the Reddit Army, but even funnier than them crying and pissing themselves like the mercenaries who stormed Venezuela is all of them dying immediately after getting there. Not firing a shot, not doing anything they can be martyred for, dead so ingloriously that they'll never be mentioned again for fear of deterring the next dumbass. The last thing we need is movies being made about these people unless it's a Tropic Thunder sequel.
Anglo milspec nerds taking a lot of Ls recently
Former special forces members from several NATO countries and also a bunch of tacticool goobers vs a swarm of mass produced scud missiles, WHO WOULD WIN?
Thank you for watching this week's episode of deadliest warrior, the missiles won and therefore all cool battle footage was subsequently destroyed
I loved that show. It was so perfect for what it was.
Turns out those tactical sunglasses and $5000 custom scope weren't enough to save you from a veteran of Chechnya with more than five minutes of experience in the field.
Gopnik Thunder :kelly:
We're probably being influenced by a lot of selection bias. Others whose stories we're not seeing could be causing a lot of pain and suffering. We probably shouldn't get too cocky when they could be helping out the murder and torture squads like Azov and C14.
It seems like the FL folks are literally being used as cannon fodder.
No doubt. However, having that fodder serves its purpose and allows more violence by the state and fascists. I just think it's dangerous to underestimate the damage that's done by having people feeding into the war because we look only at the few videos that are spread around about some of them being ineffective and even killed before they engage. For example, we should continue to dissuade everyone from going and doing this volunteer shit, and thinking they just go and get owned and die or leave tends to make us (leftists) instead just shrug it off and some even possibly encourage it. Like, getting your proto-fascist neighbor to go pick up an AK in Ukraine might not (just) be a recipe for getting him killed; him being there might result in some additional neo-Nazis (whether him or the people he's supporting) murdering people.
It's probably fine to deride the ones who do wind up obviously having zero effect, but generalizing that to the point of implying that the entire phenomenon of people going to support the war is fine and harmless IMO is a bad idea.
God forbid one of these idiots survive to come home and start telling impressionable youth about how manly and hardcore the ukrainian nationalists were and how they should be more like them etc etc
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My brain parsed FL as Florida and not Foreign Legion so I'd like to treat everyone to the mental image of the first Floridaman regiment, armed with alligators and a PCP ration
:this:
That'd be a pretty short movie
it would basically just be Four Lions
Remember how they had to make a fictional movie about an Italian who could go more than three rounds in the ring against a black guy? I'm confident that we'll see Mel Gibson churn out a hagiography about this asshole that insists he was single-handedly blocking a Russian tank battalion while evacuating six school buses full of child brides, only to be killed by a hail of cruise missiles so thick it bloated out the sun.