Once got called a liberal and told I was being idiotic and counter-revolutionary by someone I considered a close friend and comrade because I said I’m inherently distrusting of “veterans” and probably couldn’t be personal friends with someone who committed atrocities elsewhere even if they felt sorry for what they did. I don’t give a shit if it’s liberal or idealist or whatever, I’m not sure I’d be able to ignore the blood on their hands. Organizing with them… that’s up to the party. They should probably undergo an even more strict vetting process than non-“veterans”.

I also hate that fucking term. “Veteran”. “Served”. You’re not a fucking hero, you didn’t serve anyone but oil and MIC kingpins, you’re a fucking fool who got duped into killing foreign innocents to line their pockets. We’re all fucking fools doing the same in one way or another, but not much compares to literally picking up a gun and murdering people. The ‘left’ doesn’t give the fascistic U.S. police a pass, I’m not sure they should be so quick to do so for military pigs, they’re just police stationed elsewhere.