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While I don't think it's particularly special that military leaders tell soldiers to be ready and angle for more funding or attention, can we just imagine how b
by Oxidation 4y ago
While I don't think it's particularly special that military leaders tell soldiers to be ready and angle for more funding or attention, can we just imagine how breathless and fake-outraged the reporting would be if this came verbatim from a Chinese general:
> ... directs airmen who are qualified to use a weapon to “fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most” sometime in February.
> “Aim for the head,” he said.
- starkd 4y agoThat is what militaries do. Successful militaries do not engage in academic discussions about what pronouns to use.
- 13of40 4y agoOfficers carry pistols so they can coerce enlisted men to stand up and run into machinegun fire, not because they're meant to engage in combat. What the general is talking about is just one of those head games to make people put on their war face, like making someone attack a scarecrow with a bayonnet on a plastic M-16 while they scream about blood making the grass grow green.