L in Vietnam

L in Laos

L in Afghanistan

L in Iraq

L in Syria

The L actually stands for L.I.B.E.R.T.Y

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    21 days ago

    One of these days I’m gonna write a whole UlyssesT style rant about how much I despise the term “bad guys” in discussion of warfare, how fucking pathetic and infantile it is to be obsessed with having the skills to kill but having the epistemology of an actual toddler. And the fact that it’s so widespread feels like a low key and insulting form of propaganda, just encouraging the reader to think like a fucking 4 year old who wants to be a cowboy while simultaneously considering themselves a very serious sheepdog-person.

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      The bad guys did an oopsie 😡when they knocked down the two towers 🫣 so then the good guys did a heckin democwacy in the middwe east 🥰 but but then the evil bad pwootin went and did an owie on our fwiends isis in sywia 😭 and we had to use depweted uwanium in Ukwaine to stop him 😇

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      yeah, even the US couldnt be described as the “bad guys”. they’re the “bad guys and gals”, obviously.