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Suddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers start
by scotty79 7mo ago
Suddenly war and associated killings stopped being theoretical. Bunch of people that used to be as dangerous (in practice) to civilization as paintballers started actually using real weapons on real people.
Military in peacetime is cosplaying (larping?) war. So there's little resistance to aiding them in their silliness. When they actually start to bomb people, it's another story.
They deal was, we aid you in your pretend-wars, but you don't start actual ones. This deal has been violated and people don't abide by that.
- BoneShard 7mo agohaha, larping, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States_in_the_21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
- scotty79 7mo agoonly a tiny fraction of US military is engaged it this kinetic stupidity for only tiny fraction of time, the rest is larping US military is first and foremost a welfare program for people who chose to not perform any useful economic activity.
- inhumantsar 7mo agoI'm sure all the people who died in Iraq and Afghanistan would be glad to know it was all just pretend.
- scotty79 7mo agoIt's what happens when you stop just playing pretend even briefly, same goes for current debacle in Iran. No reasonable person tolerates this behavior. When military does that it immediately loses leniency of smart people.