I love seeing people on this site, especially soft, millenial, LGBT people, not just disprespecting but actually insulting the armed forces, as if their existence in developed, free democratic countries doesn’t have anything owed to the men and women who died for their reality.
Had a silly Spanish lesbian law student ranting about how the USA is to blame for her country being under fascist control for 40 years (she thought I was American), how the US military is a force of oppression and genocide of genders and races (Genders? Please remind me of when the US military waged a war on a gender, unless they mean Trump’s trans serviceperson ban)… etc.
As if Spain didn’t fall to fascism from an internal civil war, between their own people and some help from the Nazis… Totally America’s fault, right? They were only bankrupt and on the other side of the world.
But then you consider that this same girl was slandering the RAF, the british armed forces overall, and me for “worshipping machines of death, that murder people”, under the belief that we only fought to defend ourselves, for selfish purposes, and totally dismissed my point that I wouldn’t be able to see my friends at uni go to their first Pride if our pilots, mechanics, the women in the factories, and the engineers hadn’t won us the Battle of Britain. They’d have been murdered while living under a Nazi rule, given one is gay and the other is a Jewish ally. But no, apparently I’m disgusting for implying anything is owed to the armed forces for that.
Then to cap it all off, she claims that it’s all meaningless if we’d been invaded and enslaved by the Nazis, my Polish grandmother had been murdered, my friends not allowed to live, and the Uk ceasing to exist, because we did nothing to win the war. Didn’t I know? The USSR would have done it all themselves, because if there’s one country a Spanish communist lesbian should be praising, it’s Russia! Let’s just ignore their history of treatment of the LGBT community, their present persecution and Chechen death-camps, and of course forget that one of the only reasons Moscow didn’t fall to the Nazis in the winter of 41/42 was the equipment being sent to Stalin by Britain via the arctic convoys, for which they have never paid us back, because they were getting their asses kicked so fast by the Panzer divisions that all their factories were being overrun or moved further east.
-Hates the USA, and assumes anyone they disagree with is America
-Hates on armed forces, all who serve in them, and denies any good as a result of the sacrifice of their own European neighbours who fought in France and the skies over Britain, while their country surrendered itself to fascism, but of course that’s all America’s fault too right?
The true sacrifice of the armed forces is risking their own lives to defend despicable little shits like this, knowing they’d never do the same back.
