Cav(R), Gentleman Rogue

There’s a politician in my neck of the woods who covers himself in veteran banners, rides around in a side-by-side ATV plastered in military shit and with his old rank on it.

He served four years in Europe in the 80s.

I know it’s ironic coming from CombatCavScout but find a fucking identity.

“Go to therapy” sounds like such a pissy, throwaway retort but it’s wild how legitimate it is. Like, for real. Go to therapy. It’ll be good for you and everyone around you. It’ll fix so much. Go to fucking therapy.

This applies to all aspects of military affairs, by the way.

I know that you’re not thrilled with Graham Platner. but the primary is only a year away and we need a mid white guy with a beard to say working class stuff and that type of person doesn’t just show up by the hundreds at any establishment everywhere in America that serves affordable beverages

Feels different than Iraq. In 2001-03 everyone was in for whatever and it was blasphemy to say the war was unjust or ill advised. Everyone was ready to enlist.

People don't want to die for Israel and they don't want their kids to. Even the die hard MAGA aren't into it. They can't sell dead troops.

I honestly think dudes like Dort are outliers. I hope they are. I don’t personally know any GWOT vets that are itching to see a war with Iran. But maybe that’s selection bias among my friends.

The folks I know remember what was thrown away. Lives ended or utterly destroyed. They know we lost. They know what we lost. It’s not something the vets I talk to are eager to see repeated.

Quite possibly selection bias, but not a single GWOT veteran I still keep in touch with has expressed any sort of support or praise for the war. The general consensus is dread and dismay.

By this I mean that human rights abuses are not incidental to their policies or the eggs they believe must be broken to make their omelet.

It’s the entire point. Abusing people IS the policy.

And no, this isn’t some new revelation. We’ve known. It’s just still shocking, if not surprising.

The Trump regime seems to be actively hunting for opportunities to abuse people’s basic human rights. It’s insane.

Talked to someone I know who is at risk of being scooped up by ICE. They have deliberately made online friends with people in the countries they are most likely to be deported to, and they wear a tracker when they’re out so that their roommate will know if they are taken somewhere.

Men will start wars of choice before going to therapy.

Equating long-term imprisonment and the possibility of the death penalty to “uncomfortable consequences” is also disingenuous, as is the notion that an x-ray tech is murdering anyone let alone children. This is the definition of absurdism.

Police: find woman in and out of consciousness outside the door to the hospital emergency department

Also Police: fire dept, we need you to come out for this patient

Me: hey so fyi, right on the other side of the door is an entire hospital and they don't have to drive to you

yeah look man I'm not sure how much benefit of the doubt you can extend like come on

That’s not at all what I said and it’s frankly either stupid or disingenuous to say otherwise.

Some 19yo generator mechanic or x-ray tech in Kentucky is not murdering children, and is unlikely to ever even point a weapon at anyone.

If you wanna hang “murdering kids” on them, hang it on you, too.

I prefer to do those in the opposite order, but to each his own

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it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

When I interviewed with a 3-letter agency, I took a paper copy of my resume in with me.

When I left the building, I was trapped by a little old lady who made very clear my ass wasn't leaving until she inspected every page for classification markings.

I cannot imagine having an Apple Watch on.

the war is unpopular but it's also illegal but it also doesn't serve any purpose but it also undermines diplomacy but it also is set to produce the opposite outcome as intended but it also already has hundreds dead and threatens more but it also will not make anything better for anyone but it also

Yes. Do you think refusing to bomb a school is the same as a clerk or generator mechanic halfway around the world deserting?

Like this: “I’m a generator mechanic in Alaska and I have four kids and if I desert because someone on the other side of the world whom I’ve never met pulled a trigger when they shouldn’t have, I could go to prison or even face the death penalty.”

You can thank Donald Trump for Gallagher walking free.

No. I spent a good chunk of time protecting the schools being built.

You should look up Hugh Thompson Jr.

You should look up Eddie Gallagher, whose own platoon turned him in for his crimes.

Ditto Lorance.

Any of the numerous times service members have been held accountable for their crimes, it’s almost always because their fellow service members made it happen.

The bottom line here is that people who have never put their own freedom on the line are saying some paper pusher in Kansas with four kids to support should choose to go to prison because he’s as culpable as someone a world away who kills a child but they, themselves, are not. Which is absurd.

I don’t have anything to absolve myself of. I conducted myself with honor and within the law in a just war against people who attacked my country and those who harbored them. But I also don’t have to have stolen food or diapers to understand why someone might need to.

Unironically yes. Or, rather, don’t tell other people to be Luigi if you aren’t ready to Luigi it up alongside them.

What threats? You’re telling other people to go to prison for their ideals. Either you need to be willing to do the same or you’re a hypocrite. If people want to go the reductio ad absurdum route, let’s take it all the way.

Thanks for buying my bullets.