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[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I am a US veteran

Nothing makes me cringe harder than someone thanking me for my service

Even though I personally didn't do anything horrible, it's still making me remember one of the worst experiences of my life

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago

It only seems to be a US only thing. I assume it's because the military is such a big thing for the US where other countries just see having a military almost as a chore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

As a nurse who graduated in the middle of COVID (and was working in hospitals leading up to it), A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher was surprisingly healing read.

β€œYou expect heroes to survive terrible things. If you give them a medal, then you don't ever have to ask why the terrible thing happened in the first place. Or try to fix it.”

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (6 children)

There are many truths. All those pictures are true so are fighting Nazis, imperialism, and famine. See the whole picture not just the part that supports your bias and political position.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 days ago (22 children)

The US fights for Imperialism and famine, though. It doesn't engage in war for moral reasons, but for profit, and as the world Hegemon, that directly incentivizes US Imperialism.

[–] BlackSheep 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The U.S doesn’t give a fuck about their people. Women are being charged when they have a miscarriage. Seriously. WTF is wrong with you people???

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The US is founded on settler-colonialism and genocide, and is currently the world's largest Empire.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Remember that good thing we did once? That means we can now ransack other 3rd world countries for profit, and fight in every country we can make a profit.

[–] BlackSheep 9 points 6 days ago (7 children)

But, Elon is throwing the Nazi salute. Your government is stripping away peoples rights. The whole picture is, the U.S. is stripping people of their constitutional rights.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The ONLY reason they temporarily (and royally late) fought nazis was to stop the Soviets from liberating the whole of western Europe.
European competition nicely destroyed after which these vultures made us their vasals.
If anything they helped plenty nazis escape or rehabilitated them.
And I'm sure they caused more famines than solved them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

FYI: top right is prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

done by American genociders and murderers.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

No no no. None of this should be acknowledged, because Whataboutism.

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