L in Vietnam

L in Laos

L in Afghanistan

L in Iraq

L in Syria

The L actually stands for L.I.B.E.R.T.Y

  • Rojo27 [he/him]
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    24 days ago

    kill bad guys

    Are they shooting themselves with it?

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]
      hexagon
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      24 days ago

      No, usually US Military vets shot themselves in the mouth using M1911 pistol

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    23 days ago

    One of these days I'm gonna write a whole UlyssesT style rant about how much I despise the term "bad guys" in discussion of warfare, how fucking pathetic and infantile it is to be obsessed with having the skills to kill but having the epistemology of an actual toddler. And the fact that it's so widespread feels like a low key and insulting form of propaganda, just encouraging the reader to think like a fucking 4 year old who wants to be a cowboy while simultaneously considering themselves a very serious sheepdog-person.

    • NPa [he/him]
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      23 days ago

      The bad guys did an oopsie 😡when they knocked down the two towers 🫣 so then the good guys did a heckin democwacy in the middwe east 🥰 but but then the evil bad pwootin went and did an owie on our fwiends isis in sywia 😭 and we had to use depweted uwanium in Ukwaine to stop him 😇

    • huf [he/him]
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      23 days ago

      yeah, even the US couldnt be described as the "bad guys". they're the "bad guys and gals", obviously.

  • Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]
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    23 days ago

    Why did they tag the article with Iraq and Afghanistan? Someone writing this article should want less attention to be paid to those two.

  • ComradePlatypus [fae/faer]
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    23 days ago

    Silly Tankies the USA won in err...Grenada, Panama, Kuwait and Kosovo all real wars people remember.

    • micnd90 [he/him,any]
      hexagon
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      23 days ago

      "No boots on the ground." The last war the US army won with boots on the ground was maybe 1991 Gulf War 33 years ago. This empire is washed up AF

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]
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    23 days ago

    Vaguely related but does anyone have the image of a laughing Ho Chi Minh superimposed over that US war cemetery/memorial?

  • Barx [none/use name]
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    23 days ago

    Hell yeah they used it to kill the bad guys (your CO) all the time.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    23 days ago

    All the secret wars we don't hear about until another 40-75 years have passed, I'm assuming.

    • RyanGosling [none/use name]
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      23 days ago

      All the US does is drone strike children and traffic guns to terrorists. Don’t think they’ve done much to kill “bad guys” in firefights

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    23 days ago

    This is the rifle I use to clutch out a 1v3 on CT