Seeing some of these really disgusting videos by US military personnel, I got to wondering if perhaps I ought to make my own anti-US military skits.
Ones mocking them as war criminals, others pointing out the hypocrisy of supporting US military during invasions vs opposing Russian military, also ones making jokes about taking them out (for dinner, totally).
You will be hit by endless suspensions and revoked videos FYI, but it's still possible to reach a sizable audience even with those.
You see now that's the part I'm concerned about, the legality of the thing. I'm not currently residing in the states, is there anything to worry about in that scenario do you think?
I'd ask in reddit's legal advice subreddit but I can't help but think I'll just be riling up a hornet's nest with a question like this.
Oh it's perfectly legal, but the US keeps lists of people who engage in what is determined to be "extremist" behavior regardless of its legality, and if you get high profile enough they'll come ask you questions as they did to Second Thought for his YouTube video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization". As to whether or not you'll be safe in your country, I would google around to see if anyone in your country's gotten got for doing something similar - I could see someone in the EU getting cited for hate speech or harassment or something like that, but it probably depends on how busy the cops are in the specific country.
The most likely response by far though is just that you'll get mass-reported by reactionaries and taken down by TikTok.
Might be worth doing a quick look at the defamation laws in your country, the limits of what kind of political protests are allowed, things like that.
Everything that harms or opposes the great Satan is good in my book. You have my blessing if you need it.
The answer is 100% yes. We do not put out nearly as much propaganda as we should.
Sort of related, but I always thought it would be a good idea to specifically target military recruiters on social media. Basically make videos on why people shouldn't join the military and post them in the comments of recruiter posts, use similar hashtags to exploit the algorithm, or whatever else you'd need to do to get seen by the same people.
Skip the last one, that's what'll really get you in trouble. Definitely call them scumbags and make them feel like shit, though.
Skip the last one, that’s what’ll really get you in trouble
That was the one I was most looking forward to (one video would've had as part of the skit....me showing some personnel my new tires, and then showing it to them again), but it would probably be better to avoid that as most likely yeah, that would probably have some serious repercussions even if the folks in question are unnamed goons.
What are you trying to accomplish? Are you trying to make them feel bad? They probably won't pay attention. Are you trying to educate them? Mockery isn't a good way to do that. Are you trying to recruit them? The ones who are prone to radicalization and recruitment are probably already critical of the military and may be aware of their role as assassins for capital, so again mockery isn't really productive.
If you're just doing it for shits and giggles then go for it, but if you're actually trying to accomplish any political goals mockery doesn't seem like it would achieve much of use.
Edit: If you were trying to educate other people about the role of the US military then yeah, mocking the US military makes sense. Make them look like buffoons and it undermines their air of mystery and invincibility.
Anything that helps to remind people that when you put on the uniform you now get to be responsible for all the war crimes.
tiktok would be a good platform to bring attention to the Fallujah birth defects again.
I think you misunderstand that in the US it's ok to kill brown kids if it's for free college and making fun of them is a no no, I'm sure the American hexbearers will come here soon to remind you. But yes, you totally should
Wait is this based on an honest to god real opinion you've heard or just twitter-style catastrophic thinking
I haven't seen it here, but it's definitely a thing in "leftist" spaces on reddit. Nobody explicitly says "killing brown people is okay as long as I get money", but I've seen several say "it was worth it" or that they don't have anything to apologize for.
It's literally all the americans screech whenever any criticism of the their troops is mentioned, hell I've even seen it on this site.
So there were hexbear users telling you "it’s ok to kill brown kids if it’s for free college"?
That's actually something I have seen (though I can't recall if it was on hexbear or back on reddit's CTH sub); basically the idea was that "it's easy for you to say, but you can't understand the difficult choices some people have to make".
If I recall correctly, it may have been from a user who was ex-military themselves.
the hypocrisy of supporting US military during invasions vs opposing Russian military
oh that's not hypocrisy, it's just racism :us-foreign-policy:
