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>To see someone wishing British soldiers dead, it still hurts me. While I wish for no one's death, being hurt that someone hates professional killers is ridicu
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
>To see someone wishing British soldiers dead, it still hurts me.
While I wish for no one's death, being hurt that someone hates professional killers is ridiculous. The hero worship of soldiers needs to end.
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- jterrys 5y agoReminds me of that "War is a Racket" essay that was posted here a few days ago: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html A trillion dollars wasted in a World War lined the pockets of a few thousand people, that at the end, urged the government to intervene because 'the allies' were about to lose the war and wouldn't be able to repay their loans.
- tasha0663 5y ago> Smedley Darlington Butler You could grow a mustache just from saying that out loud.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoBut not a Hitler stache, Butler did not support fascists. (He also only seemed to have a mustache as a teenager)
- prawn 5y agoThere's a scene in the Australian show Mr Inbetween where the main character, a hitman, is being interviewed by someone writing a "true crime" book. She asks him if he feels remorse, if he has concern for those left behind by the hits: typically, the wives and children of the criminals he eliminates. The show to that point has made clear that his grievances are only with criminals/abusers/bullies. He mentions that the interviewer knows his army history and he observes that no one asks about the families of people he's killed while a soldier. He was instead awarded medals for such behaviour.