How many more to go?
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It was a sacrifice that Trump and the Iowan Republicans were willing to make.
This is tragic. Not more important than the lives of all the kids the organization he was part of killed. But still, tragic.
Who cares?
How do people not understand that they’re volunteering to be used as cannon fodder? The more exceptional a person is, the less it makes sense.
Guys, chill for a second.
He was a kid who enlisted in the Reserve before Trump was even in power, and deployed to Kuwait with a logistics unit without knowing wtf was going to happen.
Instead of being mad at the dead pawns, be mad at the people in power who started this shit. Be mad at the officers at the highest levels who didn't push back against Trump's orders to attack Iran without just reason. I think they deserve hate more than anyone.
If you choose to join the military regardless of when you chose to join it. You still chose to join the military.
I can be mad at both.
Ok?
Youngest girl killed day 1 by U.S. was as young as the other 150
They were mostly in the 7-12 years old range. And the death count has exceeded 160 now.
He helped make many more youths homeless with his service than he helped homeless youths.
Yeah, but the youths he hurt were on the other team so doesn't count. /s
The spirit of Scouting and the modern military seem kind of like, diametrically opposed, but what do I know.
I don't know a ton about scouts, but they've always felt like literal military preparation cults to me.
Having experienced both environments they are nothing like each other at all
But the roots of scouting come from the military. Lord Baden-Powell called them scouts at they were literally using training for military scouts as a basis for their organization. It is definitely different but it is based from a military mindset
Not really... they teach you how to be a decent human within a community
You've never been in the Scouts. It's community building and becoming a better, more able person through skill development and mentoring. When it works.
He was the modern equivalent of a Nazi soldier. Too fucking bad.
I was more thinking British soldier, but potato potato I guess.
I don't care. He died in a war of agression, he is a terrorist to me
Its hilarious how people will say stuff like this, and then in practically the same breath say “how can the federal government call anyone antifa terrorists?!?”
Like, youre doing the same thing that they are by watering the word “terrorist” down to a point where it somehow applies to normal people that are obviously not actual terrorists. The protesters convicted of being terrorists are obviously normal people who didnt set out to inflict violence for the purpose of terrorizing anyone. Even if they themselves were in contact with people who intended to harm others that wouldnt make them terrorists. Only actually being (or aspiring to be) a terrorist makes someone a terrorist
The same is probably true of the (likely) clipboard jockey kid youre calling a terrorist. Most people in the military work in logistics. A lot of people do a lot of nothing the majority of the time they are deployed. Many of them probably joined mostly for the benefits. The military is a fucked up institution controlled by some fucked up people, arguably terroristic for sure, but that does not make every person in the military some kind of radical terrorist individual. That same logic is exactly what the US government uses to label entire countries of people as terrorist targets…
The only thing hilarious is equating calling a protestor a terrorist with aggressive actions of a military.
It's also pathetic how concern trolls like you come out of the woodworks when your side is on the receiving end of it.
You don't mind families and civilians getting wiped out for being at the wrong place and label them as cost of war but are "concerned" when people label a military who enable the same atrocity machine as a terrorist?
I don't think this is where "let's be civilized while they bludgeon us to the ground" narrative works.
Reddit is that way. 👉
Any soldiers who is accepting to participate in any shape or form in that war is a terrorist. The soldiers who refuse are not. I do not water down the word terrorist. It is not similar to trump calling an antifacist a terrorist
You are just another racist who only think muslims can be terrorists
This is the point that isn't being clarified: this war reputation washes anyone who participated into a terrorist.
Damn, its hard to see otherwise decent people become imperial boots
If they die for Israel are they still called US soldiers?
They are called terrorists
The US is an Israeli puppet state.
Damn I came here to make fun of how his parents chose to spell his name but yall are on another level.
I'm listening, my friend. Go ahead. (I can't be bothered to click on link and find his name.)
yall
I'm gonna make fun of how you spell "y'all" ;-)
Don't worry, pretty soon we will be past the point where we can individually profile the people that died for Trump.
Recruiting the best of the best for the Epstein meat grinder.