Hello all! @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net is taking a well-deserved break so I'll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can't believe it's almost 2025.
REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!
Hello all! @sweet_pecan@hexbear.net is taking a well-deserved break so I'll be posting the mega in the foreseeable future. How are we all doing? I truly can't believe it's almost 2025.
REMEMBER, EM POC ONLY!!!
I'm not a hardliner who thinks every single foot soldier of empire is an irredeemable baby butcher who should be shot in the face, but there has to be a degree of humility among vets, including POC vets. There were plenty of Black Panther and AIM revolutionaries who started out as brainwashed lapdogs of empire send to Vietnam to oppress the Vietnamese, but they came out of the experience with a clear political understanding of US imperialism and their own personal role as a cog within the US death machine, which was part of the reason why they dedicated the rest of their lives to the BPP/AIM. And they had the humility to 100% owe up to being brainwashed lapdogs of empire who should've been fighting alongside the Vietnamese instead of against them.
I didn't see that sense of humility within frauddogg. You can't go around calling people settlers and crackers while at the same time having served in the US military. It doesn't work like that.
I'm also very late here but I'll say I liked frauddogg and thought null was a good addition to the site, and I agree with what you said but I will just point out that some of those who served in Vietnam were drafted. I know there were ways around serving, but they weren't all voluntarily serving, which added to the commitment to fighting US imperialism. I don't know how old frauddogg was but I'm going to assume null wasn't a drafted Vietnam vet.
I'll admit I'm biased but I think every voluntary US soldier is a piece of shit, I don't know the details of everyone's "militarily groomed" upbringing but I was hounded by recruiters and told them to fuck off at every turn. You joined because college was expensive? Fuck you, default on your loans like a normal person. As a working class person whose country was also invaded by the US, I don't have very much sympathy at all for any person joining or for any excuse they use to cope with killing innocent people for social benefits.
What happened was pretty light considering frauddogg was going around throwing haymakers at everyone for being a crackkker all the while having served in the imperial fascist military and done God knows what, which could be far worse than some online cracker microaggressions, even though they had discussed serving openly before. I didn't know about it and I'm going to assume most didn't either so it seems a little disingenuous.
My thoughts exactly. I only just learned about this because I've been staying out of this thread, largely due to how hostile and tense things had become the last few months. But learning this makes me very angry considering how null was constantly belligerent to all but a select few, including other EMPOC.