They even directed movies about how sad he was afterward :(
Fuck US troops, yes all of them, especially whatever bastard troop you're related to.
ESPECIALLY fuck military spouses. They need some good loving while the bastard troops are away
the troops who did the Mahmudiyah rape and killings weren't sad afterwards:
After the massacre, Barker poured petrol on and the soldiers set fire to the lower part of Abeer's body, from her stomach down to her feet. Barker testified that the soldiers gave Spielman their bloodied clothes to burn and that he threw the AK-47 used to murder the family in a canal. They left to "celebrate" their crimes with a meal of chicken wings.
A hero of war
Is that what they see?
Just medals and scars
So damn proud of me
And I brought home that flag
Now it gathers dust
But it's a flag that I love
The only flag that I trust
Don't forget to fuck all the Australian troops who helped fuck over Vietnam too
During the Vietnam War, at the village of Binh Ba, five kilometres from the main Australian base at Nui Dat, a battle raged in June 1969. Australian tanks were “devastating the town while infantry fought house to house and helicopters hosed the plantation with fire”, tells MacDougall. Australian casualties were nine, while more than 100 dead Vietnamese were counted. “A number of them were women and children, a fact that deeply troubled many of the Australians and still does.
I should probably note that the link is quoting a book that in its words:
Despite its attempt to glorify war and promote nationalist myths, he gives an honest account of Australian atrocities in war-both in decisions by the ruling class to throw away lives joining unnecessary conflicts and in the war crimes committed by the military in waging them.
Not that this isn't correct, but alienating all military members during a time of upheaval probably isn't a good idea
As if anybody who was on the fence about the left is going to be put off by memes and criticisms of imperialism.
They're not going to be put off by it once they start coming around, but when they take their first steps towards the left? Yeah, someone who might otherwise become a leftist might get turned off by this.
It's called a "pipeline" because there's some distance between the beginning and the end. What someone considers acceptable at the end isn't the same as what they'd consider acceptable at the beginning, and they can get turned back.
Lmao a small forum full of libs is the end of the pipeline to leftism now?
Are there any further left online spaces before you join an actual org?
Who says anything about offense? And I'm not talking about this meme, or any one meme in particular, I'm talking about the naive "fuck every troop, especially whatever bastard troop you're related to" vibe, as if pre-emptively eliminating the possibility of getting a bunch of highly trained combatants on our side will do anything but swell the ranks of the fascists. Ignoring them won't make them go away, eventually you have to decide if you want them doing horrible things for you, or to you.
Besides, almost every SRA chapter has a couple former troops, I'm not gonna toss them all out and throw away the millions of dollars of training that they share with us for free just because some memes online said so.
To reiterate my point, "fuck all troops"=morally correct, but tactically a huge fuckup.
While I appreciate the effort at playing armchair psychologist, your shit is way off base, mate. Once again, you're making a moral argument for a practical decision. Being a troop is morally indefensible? Yup. Being a troop also means you get organizing knowledge, training, information and connections. If you'd rather all that go to the chuds, be my guest. Also tbh I didn't read much of your novel up there at all
