It’s so bizarre when you find out these military bases are entire small towns with chains of restaurants, high speed roads, and everything short of a suburb.

Also, my favorite part of this video and much of the early COVID days were how clowns were wearing their masks outside where there’s nobody around, then take them off when they’re in a tiny enclosed space, interviewing their subjects at a spit’s length from each other.

Also, the soldiers deserve it. If I knew that my baby killing job would also include being systemically murdered, SA’d, and my complaints tossed out the window, I would simply get another job that doesn’t involve killing babies. trump-who-must-go Suckers and losers getting abused for a Camaro lease

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    4 months ago

    Uh because they are crawling with murderous psychopaths.

    Just look up the relevant QAA and TrueAnon episodes.

    US military bases are hotbeds of the most deranged shit you have never heard of.

    Oh and lots of beheadings, human trafficking, drug trafficking basically just everything trafficking.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      There was an investigation of “special forces” soldiers committing a bunch of crime including murder and human trafficking domestically and abroad because they’re “bored” that they don’t have any missions to do lol

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Smugglers is YMMV but pirates basically have always been good whenever they crop up. Always be on the side of the pirates

        • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 months ago

          https://www.audacy.com/connectingvets/news/fear-grips-special-ops-amidst-human-trafficking-drug-arrests

          • the_itsb [she/her, comrade/them]
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            4 months ago

            Holy shit, you weren't exaggerating even the tiniest bit:

            "This is what happens when there is no war, no direction, and an 18-month red cycle with no mission," a Special Forces soldier said. "So dudes are fucking around with young kids and the craziest drugs. All these lives ruined because people are just bored."

            wtf

        • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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          4 months ago

          You’re gonna have to be more specific since it’s not just one investigation.

      • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        i think that woman (Specialist Vanessa Guillen) who was murdered at Ft. Hood in 2020 was taken apart before being buried. that story went wide due to activism from her family and community keeping it in the news and like a dozen officers were "punished"/found culpable. and that's the story that was made palatable for the public.

        i used to pay closer attention to military stuff when i was younger, because i worked alongside guys that got out. not like infantry guys, but like 4-and-out types who turned wrenches, loaded planes, and fixed computers. from 3 different guys in 3 different branches who did not know each other, to a person, they all said large bases and postings (like aircraft carriers) were nightmares and dreadful places to be posted. like a cross between a self-contained dystopian city and a straight up prison. organized crime syndicates that "everybody" knows about operating with impunity, places on base or on ship that are unsafe to go (because you'll be beaten up and robbed or worse).

        the army guys said Ft. Hood--the most populated US military base on the planet--was fucked. none of the insane stories that came out of that place ever surprised them. that murder in 2020 is the tip of the iceberg. technically, it's "Fort Cavazos" now because it was renamed from "Hood" in 2023 due to that being a confederate officer's name. absolutely also to probably try and get the stink of being such an infamous shithole off it. anyway i remember in the 2010s some prostitution ring was broken up that was set up and run by a guy that organized sexual harassment training on base. not to mention the occasional story of murder that would have something gripping enough about it to make the news.

      • D61 [any]
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        4 months ago

        Okay... its not "lots" of beheadings, just a few.

        I think it was Fort Bragg (pretty sure its Bragg) where both JSOC (the special special forces types) tend to be based and trained out of alongside regular airborne troops.

        On occasion somebody will find a headless body in the training areas.

    • Tunnelvision [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Soldiers are not victims of anything. Personally I don’t accept the idea that they’re victims of poverty either. Everyone made a choice, they chose to be in the military.

  • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    If they're doing this shit to other Americans, imagine what they're doing to local populations overseas.

  • Rx_Hawk [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    A bipartisan group of senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand and Ted Cruz have been fighting for years to fundamentally change the military justice system

    heartbreaking

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      The only acceptable military justice reform is to take all active and former US soldiers and barbara-pit them.

      • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        Not a good take here comrade, but I feel the sentiment. A lot of us turn communist and or anti war/anti American empire afterwards. A major contingent of trans people are also vets too. Those of us that speak out against the military are able to make waves. There's also class dynamics within the military - the brass and enlisted comes from a long history of class warfare. Mike Prisner would be a good jumping off point to see some great work from radicalized vets.

        Edit: I should specify though - all command staff that interface with the Pentagon get the pit, they know full well what their doing.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          The US military along with the IDF are criminal organizations akin to the SS. An SS member does not get out of justice for their crimes if they become communists after the war. Or if they're trans. Or if they were on the wrong end of class power dynamics during their service in the SS.

          Like you said, some of the brass, the officers, and the particularly aggregious war criminals should be pitted out of hand. Most US active military and vets still get a term of reeducation and hard labor commensurate to the crimes committed in their positions.

          Of course there will also be exceptions and allowances for people who were conscripted against their will, or who tried to stop a crime or whistleblow or whatever, but I am not inclined to repeat the failure of denazification by letting war criminals off the hook with a couple of "my bad"s before they're put in power again.

  • D61 [any]
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    4 months ago

    Between the security theater, the "we've got an image to project", and "we're mostly just a large group of adult children"... I'm honestly surprised bases/postings are more dangerous than they are.

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    Not gonna watch it, but I'm going to guess: is it because of all the unhinged Yanks with guns in positions of absolute power?

    • Nakoichi [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      Basically yes.

      Here's the trueanon episode on it

      https://m.soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/jsuc

  • Hexamerous [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    These psychopaths are stations at 17 bases in my country now thanks to NATO membership occupation.

    agony-deep