baguettes as guns
Wow didn't realize the French started occupying Britain
Something, something, that Sartre quote about how fascists are never completely unaware of how absurd they are.
That quote is the perfect summarization of "The Alt-Right Playbook" youtube saga.
Tho I don't like quoting :libertarian-approaching:
Dammit I can't believe I didn't think of this one first :rat-salute-2:
After you've used it for punching, you can pick up the crumbs and keep them as pocket sand.
Smh how are our brave boys and girls gonna fight China like this, we need 400 billion dollars to invent something somehow worse than the L85
Pretty unsettling when old shitbags call the military hogs "boys and girls", of course they are children to them, and that's the thing, stop using your children to kill people.
Yeah but it's weird the UK has a training child soldiers program
My dad really enjoyed cadets when he was a teenager but there was a whole set of circumstances in his childhood that basically made him an ideal child soldier, except the issues with authority. It sounded fun growing up, all hiking and learning how to shoot but yea, pretty fucked sounds about right.
Oh yeah, even though he's normally surprisingly self aware when it comes to the programming, I think the propaganda from that has really buried deep, like you say, not something anyone should really go through.
Apparently you can join the UK
securityarmed forces at 16 years old:ukkk:
They’ve deployed children to Iraq and Afghanistan multiple times
Growing up, it never seemed weird at the time that we had army recruiters visiting our school to talk to us about careers when we were 14. :sus-torment:
regime forces brought child soldiers to shame a lack of devotion to the military as they occupied the market
Its coming up to rememberance day (11th nov), which is ostensibly about mourning the people lost in WW1 and remembering how much war fucking sucks. People wear paper poppies because poppies apparently grew in the battlegrounds afterwards, and they symbolise peace and loss or something.
In actuality, its an excuse for people in the uk to be jingoistic, nationalistic, and pro-army. Its the only time of the year when you'll commonly see american levels of "support the troops, kill the middle easterners :frothingfash:" shit over here. Its been coopted by the modern military over the last decade or two and there is a lot of hostility towards people who don't get involved.
I remember a mate of mine once wore a white poppy to school instead of a red one (which iirc was a charity thing that explicitly supported veterans and/or their families but opposed any modern military action) and she got torn the fuck apart by teachers. Like, how dare children be pacifists. Shits fucked.
Yeah, and somehow every year rememberance day seems to get even more deranged than the last, half expecting Sunak and :tory: to do the next PMQs wearing ghillie suits made entirely out of plastic poppies.
It seems even crazier too because I'm fairly sure all but the most violently nationalistic WW1 veterans/war dead would be more offended by the chud virtue signalling pagentry of it all than by shows of pacifism. I remember hearing from older relatives about how originally most rememberance events were an excuse to let loose, get drunk and go dancing for all the people that couldn't do that anymore, now the actual vets have died from old age it's become some sort of weird cult of military worship and propagandised history, creepy shit.
this seems like a punishment that would be meted out for misplacing your firearm
