The topic was why it took the shitlibs and Hasanabi-watching leftists (lol) a fucking tattoo to denounce Graham Platner, an Iraq veteran who did 4 trips to the war zone and then joined the Blackwater mercenary company to kill even more people.

  • fannin [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 days ago

    I think this is mostly right? It’s not an excuse but when your whole culture valorizes the military and that’s all you know it’s no surprise people join it

    • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      12·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, but here’s the kicker

      That’s bad and something we need to actively work against

      And that goes double for the notion that people join the military for “good” reasons

    • TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, but after three tours in Iraq and another in Afghanistan, he signed up with fucking blackwater to be a merc. People who do that are evil. I don’t know, maybe he’s a just really really really slow learner?

      • Pieplup (They/Them)@lemmygrad.ml
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        3 days ago

        Yeah i’m sorry but like, this dude was over here, retired from the military in college but was like i’m sorry war crimes are calling to me i’m enlisting in the blackwater military and doing a lil terrorism

    • D61 [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Counter point, I signed up for 4 years active (which means another 4 years inactive reserve) when I was 17 a few years before 9/11, Afghanistan and Iraq.

      Before being sent with the invasion and occupation forces it was an eye opening experience where all the “military people are serious and competent” advertising was completely stripped away. After wondering how nobody on “my side” hadn’t gotten me killed during the invasion and occupation and we had zero ability to actually help any of the Iraqis whose country we just broke, there was absolutely zero reason to stick around.

      I got lucky and my four years ended right after my unit was rotated out of Iraq back to garrison. There was no attempt to stop loss me. But I absolutely refused any conversations about reenlisting and made no effort to report to the military reserve unit I was ordered to.

      It was simple and easy.