• riverSpirit@thelemmy.club
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    1 month ago

    Awww did the big bad vet kill some Iraqi kids while defending American geopolitical interests? No respect for veterans.

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      1 month ago

      Most veterans started out as exploitable highschool kids and end up exploitated, handicapped, homeless, and without physical or mental healthcare.

      Don’t let political interests redirect your anger towards veterans. It’s a distraction that absolves the US government of responsibility for foreign policies rooted in American exceptionalism.

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        1 month ago

        War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.

        – Niko Bellic

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            1 month ago

            Mostly that she seemingly is throwing out of there that she is a veteran who was deployed in Iraq, it’s not like a badge of honor, it’s deeply shameful. (So mostly vibes and I might well be wrong.)

            tangent

            but any veteran who feels the need to throw out how he/she is a veteran irks me out. It mostly seems like there still is this persistent thought that veterans are somehow special and not people who were (consciously or not) used as an unimaginable brutal weapon that enforces hegemony of an empire through death and misery :::.

            I tried to look for the account for more info and can’t find it.