Oh shit. I never realized this.
This is a depressing reality every 4th of July.
So they go around the world bombing and killing people and then expect us to feel sorry for them?? Nah son, you deserve it.
me if i ever find out any of my neighbors are veterans
Hmmm. I mean, just because the army as an institution is flawed and damaging doesnât mean everyone in it is a terrible person. To paint every single veteran with the same brush is reductive and to make light of the debilitating mental disorders many have just seems wrong. Like yes, fuck the military as an institution completely 100%, but blaming disabled ex-front-line infantry maybe isnât the best direction for our anger, perhaps.
A lot of veterans are poor people who were intentionally targeted by scouting programs coming to their schools starting at age 13, and most of them are worse off coming back than they were to start with⊠letâs be courteous to folks with PTSD
Donât be an ableist fuckface. Intentionally triggering someone is disgusting.
I thought people on this godforsaken website at least understood this one basic principal, but apparently not, so let me make it crystal clear:Â
IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE SELECTIVELY PROGRESSIVEÂ
You can hate Ann Coulter. But if you suggest that she deserves to be raped, you are a misogynist.
You can hate Woody Allen. But if you say heâs part of a Jewish conspiracy or joke about putting him in an oven, you are an antisemite.
You can hate Michael Vick. But you call for him to be lynched or call him the N-word, you are an anti-black racist.Â
You can hate Caitlyn Jenner. But if you misgender her, or make comments about her genitalia, you are a transphobe.Â
And you can hate the military. But if you deliberately try to trigger veterans with PTSD, you are an ableist piece of shit.Â
You do no get to pick and choose which people to treat fairly when it comes to acknowledging and combatting prejudice.Â
Not liking a person is not a free pass to disregard anti-prejudicial words and actions. Either you respect marginalized peoples as a whole (even if you donât like an individual), or you donât respect them at all. There is no middle ground.Â
If anyone really like, agrees with harassing veterans with PTSD or anything similar, unfollow me right the fuck now. I donât want you following me.
You donât have to like the military, itâs massively fucked up but y'all needs understand that most people in the military are victims of propaganda and are usually poor or part of a minority who are taken advantage of in order to join.
^^^ All of these comments tbh
Mhmm
They offered the ASVAB at my HIGH SCHOOL. They CAME INTO MY SCHOOL and said âIf you guys take the military aptitude test, you get free donuts and you miss the first half of the day.â They brought in hot dogs. They brought food to a place where half of us were in poverty if not more, and they said, all you have to do is take a little test and youâll get a snack, you donât have to come in to school on time (an extra full hour of sleep that morning!). So we did. By the hundreds. My younger brother, a year behind me in school, scored âthe highest weâve ever seen in the whole damn state, son,â and for the next. Three. Fucking. Years. They harassed him. He got phone calls from every goddamn branch of the military. People would show up at our house at random, trying to recruit him. Theyâd tell him horror stories about how much better it is to enlist than be drafted (as if thereâd been a draft in our lifetime!). They called our Mom at work. They sent recruiters to talk to our stepfather, whoâd been in the Army, to try to get a handle on my brotherâs weak points. THREE FUCKING YEARS OF THIS. My brother is the second child of six. My brother was thirteen by the time he had his own pillow for the first time. My brother was hungry all the time, dizzy from hunger some daysâand oh, sidenote, my mother, stepfather and father are all abusive assholes whoâd as soon hit you as look at you. Guess what year my brother graduated? If you guessed âMay, 2002,â or âalmost immediately after 9/11,â ding ding ding ding! The ONLY REASON my brother didnât join the military, in the end, is that his girlfriend at the time said âIf you enlist, I will never speak to you again.â Her dad was a military man, and he was also an abusive shithead, so in her head the two were inextricable. But if sheâd said âgo for it?â Or if she hadnât said anything at all? Something like half of the males in my fucking graduating class enlisted. It was better than starving. And a great number of those are dead now. I hate the US military industry. Iâm disgusted by the things our military does. But by god I donât blame our veterans for what was done to them. Rich people donât enlist. The ones who join the military are the ones who are hopeful that for once theyâll know that theyâre getting a meal, not just today but tomorrow too.
Every damn point of the thread.
The soldiers are, by and large, as much a victim as anyone else.
Also donât forget that as huge part of the American military are non-citizens hoping to become citizens via their service. A lot donât even get that. The people starting the wars and consigning so many to death arenât the ones in combat. They have âheel spursâ.
If you like triggering anyone with PTSD for the "fun" of it or just because you think they deserve GTFO my profile. UNFOLLOW ME BLOCK ME. All of it please. Because that shit is bullshit.
