https://unofficialbird.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1685473357955776513#m

  • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    "When you can kill your enemy ... Your marriage is stronger."

    Doesn't the military literally have name for the type of women who fuck other guys while their husbands are deployed, on account of it being so common?

    • windowlicker [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      there's a term for the guy who's back home fucking their wives, they're called a "jody"

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      1 year ago

      Exactly, if a troop is away murdering foreigners and Jodie is keeping his wife satisfied, his marriage is gonna remain strong as long as the checks keep coming in.

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      • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        "Dependa" is slang for the dehumanizing term that's used in administrative language - "dependant", which refers to a civilian spouse and children. The term dependants gets used in common speech for... Reasons? At any rate, if your dependant spouse (no domestic partners or common law marriage, no poly, just monogamous marriage... Which you get paid more for.) is over weight, unemployed, and generally slovenly, they are termed a "dependa-potomus".

  • Mokey [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    They say this stuff all the time to hype up the troops/scare him.

    My friend told me during basic training that the drill sergeants claimed that China were going to nuke/destroy Guam in a few days and one recruit burst out into tears. He was actually from Guam and it being a small island he knew most of the people there. They immediately had to walk it back and reassure him that everything was fine. They were just trying to get everyone to take the training more seriously.

    I imagine this kind of stuff goes all the way up. The future is a cold war with China and we should expect this kind of news and scaremongering more often.

      • Mokey [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        Cmon thats kinda unfair,

        I'd be in tears too if everyone I've ever known and loved were definitely going to be killed.

        • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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          1 year ago

          sure, but it's a feature i've noticed of most troops and aspiring troops (and i suppose americans in general) that they are completely oblivious about world events. like why would china be attacking the US? how the fuck are you going to join the empire and you barely know anything about it?

          • Mokey [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            Yes, Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet. All of our Media says China is bad and even on social media the hive mind keeps reiterating that.

            We sensationalized an evil weather balloon. We admit that Taiwan is a Chinese territory yet openly call them evil for wanting to claim it.

            If you live here and arent fortunate enough to be born to the right people and in the right areas, the propaganda is convincing enough to well meaning people. US media never calls the US an empire even though it is.

            • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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              1 year ago

              If you live here and arent fortunate enough to be born to the right people and in the right areas, the propaganda is convincing enough to well meaning people

              Traveling to non-Western countries and living there for a period also helps; especially places that are maligned in the media or adjacent to them, the problem is far too many people are terrified of the non-Western world and think they're dicing with death even stepping foot in most non-Western countries.

              • Mokey [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                Man, I was in Rome for like two days when I was a teenager and saw Communist/Che merch randomly and was so confused and taken back. It didn't do anything for my right wing attitude at the time.

              • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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                1 year ago

                the problem is far too many people are terrified of the non-Western world and think they're dicing with death even stepping foot in most non-Western countries.

                Which is hilarious because when I visited the U.S., the only thing I could repeatedly think about was the multiple ways I could be fucked over there. Being stopped by a cop, gunned down by a chud, or hell, have a medical emergency. Maybe this is paranoia from constant exposure to the atrocities in the U.S. but like, there are hundreds of instances of it and the Empire doesn't even try to hide it, so why shouldn't I believe it? Meanwhile I don't have these fears visiting other countries.

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        • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I think it's kinda infantile to think that China is about to nuke your home and the first place you hear about it is your moron drill sergeant

          • Mokey [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            Yes, the person question was a fresh high school graduate and was cut off from the world in a highly stressful and isolated environment. Part of why basic training "works" is that US military is a young persons first job and it will heavily shape their world view.

    • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      My favorite part of this is that most people from Guam join the military as a way out of Guam. The base literally takes up half of the island. What a fucking joke.

      • Mokey [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        From my recollection he was national guard. Some people care about their family too much to leave.

        • TreadOnMe [none/use name]
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          1 year ago

          I visited a college friend there once. It's not a bad place to live if you have a stable job locked down or can do performances for tourists and soldiers. Not a lot of opportunities if you're just a laborer though.

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      • GnastyGnuts [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Fun Fact, but the asshole who came up with "killology" was (maybe still is) an anti-videogame crusader who was fear-mongering over the effects of in-game violence on society lol.

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  • buh [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    savoring the flavor of chili mac MRE after calling an airstrike on a playground

  • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    Of course the guy talking a big game about killing people is A) an air force general, and B) a transport pilot who hasn't fired a shot in anger let alone killed someone. For some reason the most rabid Killology psychos have never actually seen combat

    • WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Probably the same way someone who's never pressure tested their martial arts (or has never done any at all) is most insistent that fighters do reckless techniques. I was at a UFC watch party over the weekend and when Bla- Jan Bl- Blastowitz... When Polish power was fighting Pereria and had begun getting striked after Pereria got up in the second round, a guy was like "you just need to go for another takedown!"

      The people with experience corrected him going "it's difficult, he just got punched in the face, his opponent is expecting it, it needs to be set up, last time it worked it was after avoiding a punch & not just executed from open space, and people get murked trying to take down randomly"

      All that to share a little anecdote about myself. People who don't do violence grossly overestimate how much of it you need and underestimate how horrible it is. I don't think I was ready to conceptualize imperialism until I realized how fucked up it would be if a group of 5 dudes with guns came running at me by virtue of having grappled one dude in competition and losing a couple times.

    • privatized_sun [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      transport pilot

      these soulless drones will be soon replaced with robots, we already have them at airports to refuel planes

  • CyborgMarx [any, any]
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    1 year ago

    Yeah sure invade China with 110,000 troops, good luck with that you fash maggots

    • DefinitelyNotAPhone [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      The easiest way to set yourself up for complaining about those ebil commies and their human wave attacks is to invade knowing you're outnumbered 100:1

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          It’s the Ukrainian method of war whereby every loss is actually a win if you really think about it

      • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        US troops be committing horrific war crimes all along the Chinese countryside, get their butts handed to them, and then make movies about how they were the real victims of the conflict, and then everyone cries about how the government treats 'the vets'.

        • Gucci_Minh [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah nah they aren't getting anywhere close to the Chinese coast. Airborne operations will get boomed by an actually existing air defence network and amphibious landing ships won't make it within 300km of the coast before getting turned into a fish habitat by a DF-17

          • OrionsMask [he/him, comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            I know it's probably an improbability, but I'd love to see crackers having to fight the war they so desperately want on cracker soil for once. Americans have been begging for a taste of that medicine for decades.

      • hypercube [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        best case scenario you'd see a white flash and then nothing, worst case scenario you'd be doing The Road shit for like 20 years

  • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    I know Hexbear frowns upon the word, but how can westerners call other people in Russia "orcs" and not look inwards to their own countries? For centuries, western countries are the orcs. This whole "tough guy" culture is something that should rightfully be called Orcishness.

    Can't wait for humans to go extinct because western men are too insecure with their masculinity to run anything.

    • WayeeCool [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Can't wait for humans to go extinct because western men are too insecure with their masculinity to run anything.

      So insecure and toxic with their masculinity that they can't even raise children or court women. Really makes me think of the "fellas is it gay to have sex with women?" joke or animal research where they found male mice selected for aggression were an evolutionary dead end due to failing to consistently reproduce.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      If I had the patience to write I'd probably write a story about exactly that; Westerners as orcs who think they're the elves of the world.

      • huf [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        westerners are numenoreans. made wealthier and healthier than the rest but not through anything they did, simply because elves gifted it to them.

        and then they colonized the rest of the world and cut down all the trees.

      • GarfieldYaoi [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Right, like I would mockingly call white people "elves" but they would probably take it as a compliment.

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  • FuckyWucky [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    i think there will be proxy wars like Ukraine instead. The question is where. Taiwan is unlikely because Taiwan unlike Ukraine is Chinese territory.

      • Mindfury [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        I WILL throw rocks and other spicier objects at australian troops and AFP officers if we ever commence any armed force actions against the People's Republic of China

        I'll still get put up against the wall for being a kkkracker, but i'll go out knowing I improved the world somewhat

        • forcequit [she/her]
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          1 year ago

          At present we're just wounding troops and causing traffic jams cos of talisman sabre

          also we're getting us spies, revamping northern bases, getting missiles, submarines, space bs.

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    • kristina [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      yeah like china and india both have nukes. itd be america's wet dream if they fought but i doubt itll happen. china is really just in a great position, very defensible borders with neighbors that cant really take it on.

  • puff [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    The US lost to Korea, Viet Nam, and Cuba. Do you really think they're going to beat China? They can't even beat a collapsed Russia in Europe.

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      that's why i said nice knowing ya. gonna get nuked over some geriatrics talking shit

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    1 year ago

    your marriage is stronger

    see??? we told you all it was important to keep up your vocel pledge, but nobody listened. sex and relationships are a path to destruction smh volcel-judge

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Oh cool something to add to my list of things I hope are fake because holy shit that's deranged and scary and we are run by suicidal idiots scared

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      • Awoo [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        And its own population don't want independence either.

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        • anoncpc [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Yea, no shite. A lot of them know that the war gonna be on the island, not mainland China nor one of the yankees state.