so many people will be theoretically anti-war and some may even pay lip service to the notion of imperialism being bad, they will perhaps go so far as to say they oppose the idea US occupation. and yet still they will genuinely be shocked when you straight up hate the military in a real way, in the kind of way where you do not make excuses for or lend sympathy to anyone who enlists. they won’t follow you there. they will invoke things like poverty and ptsd and when you remain stone faced and uncompromising they will think YOU’RE the monster. and not, you know, the people who literally knowingly signed up to be a part of the mass murder machine.
#so many of the American 'progressives' rallied behind a soldier who#and I quote#joined the army 'to kill someone'#who got a tattoo of the actual SS of Nazi Germany while in the army he joined 'to kill someone'#he is. and I say this with 100% sincerity. more of a war criminal then Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton#but his war crimes were tragic and badass omg he shot a child in the head for asking for directions and now he's sad#Platner was a monster who offered nothing except more violence and that he received any support is something we will never recover from
