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On this day hexbear exonerated uh... was it 7deadlyfetishes or based_ball? For their crucifixion and death on the hill of "muh not all troops"
They were right but for the wrong reason
for the record it was 7deadlyfetishes and they were explicitly doing clean wehrmacht apologia.
posted too close to the black sun
Mean thing to call the U.S Army but go off king /jk
the FUCK?
7deadlyfetishes came right out and said -- unironically -- that we should feel bad for Nazi concentration camp guards because they were just in it for free college. (Categorically untrue, since those guys were all party loyalists and were only selected for those posts if they were ideologically committed.)
Eh close enough, there's guantanamo prison guards that probably do it for the free college lol
Abu Ghraib "interrogators"
It's one thing steal a loaf of bread if you're starving, it's another thing to start torturing and murdering people for money if you're starving.
Not to defend anything Isreal is doing but where was this energy from these troops at any point during the last 30 years when it was us doing this to random Muslims across the globe and not Isreal?
After the movements in Vietnam of people refusing the draft, refusing to carry a rifle, slinging their rifle on their back and surrendering to the first NV soldier they met, sabotaging military equipment, doing mass troop anti-war protests, and last but certainly not least fragging officers, the military propaganda complex went into overdrive pushing out anyone with a nuanced opinion on war and turning dumb teenagers into deus vult crusaders for the American Empire.
Nowadays I think a lot of those tricks have been over used and are thus losing their effectiveness. Back around 9/11 the troops were properly bloodthirsty, but now half the military now are just alienated nerds who hate their job (this does not exonerate them, it merely attempts to explain why we see what we see).
I mean to be fair, 30 years ago most of the kids signing this weren't even born yet
Listen 1995 was 10 years ago idk what youre talking about.
They got swept under the rug and their existence ignored generally, plus multimedia infrastructure wasn't as advanced as it is now.