for what it's worth, nobody flying old warbirds are currently involved in the military and most aren't even veterans
took a ride on a b-24 flown out of galveston a while back because my grandfather flew them in ww2 and my dad paid for it, it was pretty cool. old planes are neat, particularly when you can lean most of your body out the waist gunner holes in the side of the fuselage
While I appreciate the insight, I'm unable to take this event out of the context (a veterans day airshow) and find sympathy for even civilian pilots. In a basic, "aw that sucks those people had families" I can pity them a little bit, but then I'm reminded that the entire event is a preposterous circus dedicated to projecting and glorifying military power while the planet burns.
people that fly planes will use any excuse to fly planes, if you put on a gay pride airshow and paid for the warplanes to show up I'm certain they would
Yeah but the point is that willingness to work for "both sides" isn't necessarily a vindicating factor. You can preserve history without allowing it to be used to promote American imperialism.
I mean yeah maybe people just wanted to see some cool planes. It's just that the people who spend their weekends larping as SS officers also use "protecting history" and "see cool war vehicles" as excuses for their crypto fascism so also :shrug-outta-hecks:
for what it's worth, nobody flying old warbirds are currently involved in the military and most aren't even veterans
took a ride on a b-24 flown out of galveston a while back because my grandfather flew them in ww2 and my dad paid for it, it was pretty cool. old planes are neat, particularly when you can lean most of your body out the waist gunner holes in the side of the fuselage
While I appreciate the insight, I'm unable to take this event out of the context (a veterans day airshow) and find sympathy for even civilian pilots. In a basic, "aw that sucks those people had families" I can pity them a little bit, but then I'm reminded that the entire event is a preposterous circus dedicated to projecting and glorifying military power while the planet burns.
people that fly planes will use any excuse to fly planes, if you put on a gay pride airshow and paid for the warplanes to show up I'm certain they would
I'm not sure how much better it is if the company that makes Confederate flags would also make pride flags if you paid them.
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Yeah but the point is that willingness to work for "both sides" isn't necessarily a vindicating factor. You can preserve history without allowing it to be used to promote American imperialism.
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Youre right. If we put aside the whitewashing of the reputation of war criminals, this event doesnt promote imperialism.
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I mean yeah maybe people just wanted to see some cool planes. It's just that the people who spend their weekends larping as SS officers also use "protecting history" and "see cool war vehicles" as excuses for their crypto fascism so also :shrug-outta-hecks:
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counterpoint: airplanes r cool
That sounds rad. I always wanted to do that. I remember ads for the old warbirds whenbi lived around there