I play games with some childhood friends and we use discord. At the time when everyone went off to college, my cousin joined the military (surprise). He's like a brother to me and he's not a chud, so we're still close. Now our discord is overrun with his military buddies. It was alright at first. I could hold my own against one or two of em. A few are even comrades, but now I'm beset on all sides by bootlickers.

In one of the most insane moments yet, this line of argument was tossed out by one of them last night: "America has only lost wars due to its strict rules of engagement" implying of course, that losses in vietnam or afghanistan, for instance, were only due to our humanitarian willingness to not nuke/carpet bomb the enemy.

I don't even know how to respond to shit like this. I just want to keep in touch with my friends, but at what cost?

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "strict" rules of engagement

    The flamethrowers came in and we burnt the hamlet. Burnt up everything. They had a lot of rice. We opened the bags, just throw it all over the street. Look for tunnels. Killing animals. Killing all the livestock. Guys would carry chemicals that they would put in the well. Poison the water so they couldn’t use it… They killed some more people here. Maybe 12 or 14 or more. Old people and little kids that wouldn’t leave. I guess their grandparents. People that were old in Vietnam couldn’t leave their village.

    from https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/07/what-we-did

    • ThanksObama5223 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      That's what killed me. Like I "get" the point of the argument. We could have done so much worse with the tools at our disposal. It's incredible propaganda as it downplays the war crimes the US does commit and posits the US as the good guys all in the same breath