• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    They call it collateral damage. Or is it casualties?! A few hundred thousand in Iraq. Plus a few tens of thousand in Afghanistan. And maybe some torture here and there.

    And I doubt this person is old enough to have fought literal fascists.

    All heroes for participating in the glorious defence of capitalism democracy.

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      Yeah Americans love making up words to justify their actions to themselves.

      “Oh no I didn’t drone strike that wedding and kill that 4 year old girl, that was collateral damage from me killing the super bad guy. I’m a hero!”

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          Yeah, he should be waterboarded by one of your heroes torturing America’s ennemies in Guantanamo Bay, then he would have more respect.

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              I go touch grass regularly. Actually I went bike touring and camping this very week. And the week before. Want some pictures?

              And no. Just like life, I’m gonna stay here, be a thorn, and point out the obvious to the boot lickers. Otherwise I would have killed myself a long time ago.

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      It becomes a double standard when you think about the literal Nazi generals pretty quick.

      These people thought they are saving the world and were usually one of the “sacrifices” by the actual politicians doing all the bloodshed.

      They risked their lives and went through hard training just to “protect this country” too.

      Yet a bunch of medals and being in the army tells me they aren’t clueless and had an idea of what politicians are actually doing. A good chunk of them even today see it as “just a job I was doing.”

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      Hey we have a military industrial complex products millions of tons of explosives American Freedom™ and we gotta use it