Sounds about right
The old combined trick of "you're part of our special club" and "now you can't blow the whistle or you go down with us"
Oh sweet, we finally got a proper Australia flag emoji
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yep definitely looking forward to the whole country burning down again in a few weeks, how goods the cricket though
If a socialist country did this they would get sanctioned into the stone age
Socialist countries get sanctioned into the stone age precisely because they don't commit atrocities on behalf of imperialism lol.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. I wonder if 300 years ago there were libs that would protect the rights of cops to torture
in the 1720s torture was still a standard part of the judicial toolkit in the west
Can someone tell me if one of the recommendations of the report is to send these people to the Hague?
I'm sorry but the lieutenant in the photo of the article is pretty much a spitting image of :le-pol-face:
No but why would you send mass murders to face trial in some liberal white people court instead of to where they committed the crimes?
The head of the inquiry referred ~ Australia's most decorated soldier ~ to the federal prosecution authority two years ago... No charges have laid yet.
it's actually ok because the unarmed civilian we shot and planted weapons on was a military age male so the engagement was legitimate
I don’t think your average troop should get too much hate as I think they should be given a chance at least to be a comrade.
But fuck all of the operators and SF guys that we don’t even hear about. Just going around and committing war crimes and murdering people.
If you work special forces, mercenary, bounty hunters, marines, or are a high ranking military officer you can get fucked imo. Wayyy too deep into the imperialist genocide machine
I always try to say that I’m a vet so other leftists know my sins. But I got out after my first contract was up and haven’t looked back. If anything I regret joining but also know I wouldn’t have the view into the imperialist and colonialist system without it.
We need comrades like you. You didn't create the conditions that led to your being used as a gun for capital, but you have known directly what that entails. Therefor, you know better one cost of neoliberalism and the depth of the imperative to end it. Thank you for being here.
So many are just wrapped up in the propaganda and lies they are told by the military industrial and intelligence complexes. The material conditions they offer you for signing your life away are all things we as leftist believe everyone should have as a right, not only if you enlist in the imperialist war machine.
i talked to a leftist navy vet who claimed he met some seals once while he was in and came away from that with the opinion that they're absolute psychos
I was a tank gunner, so I was “trained to kill”. But those guys and SF are fucking crazy. Psychopaths that crave killing at some point.
That term - blooding - immediately made me think of Dave McGowan's Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder * here's the passage it reminded me of:
Another common thread that ties the cases of these [serial killers] together is an early experience in the workforce that exposed them to the depravities that one human can inflict upon another. Kenneth Bianchi, for example, worked for a time as an ambulance attendant. So did John Wayne Gacy, who also was employed at a mortuary. Such an experience is what the intelligence community refers to as a ‘blooding.’ In a similar vein, the entire country is being ‘blooded,’ though on a lesser level, through near constant exposure to a television and video game diet increasingly dominated by scenes of graphic violence. The effect of this is to radically desensitize individuals, or an entire society, to appalling levels of bloodshed and carnage.
*Fair warning if you decided to read it. The first part of the book is called "The Pedophocracy" and immediately starts talking about the Dutroux affair and pedophile rings. Honestly, the book was one of the most radicalizing things I've ever read.
Also a hunting term used after you kill your first deer and get covered in its blood as a right of passage.
Holy shit, this is a serious war crime... oh wait, it's done by one of the US's biggest allies. Carry on.
Fuck yea dystopia! I saw them live a few times back in the day.
"FUCK YOUR SON I HOPE HE FUCKING DIES!"
Hi ex-neighbor. I never saw them live, a bit before my time I think, but I'm like 90% sure I saw the drummer at Great Wall in Oakland once
