night-dragon937:araccoonthatlikesmurder: metalheadsforblacklivesmatter: baelpenrose: lynoth715:gar
night-dragon937:araccoonthatlikesmurder: metalheadsforblacklivesmatter: baelpenrose: lynoth715: garrettauthor: fox-bright: richesxx: open-plan-infinity: seeyouwithlaughterlines: tikkunolamorgtfo: nativepeopleproblems: klezmo: open-plan-infinity: antisleep: nabulus: sapphiredoves: king-emare: Oh shit. I never realized this. This is a depressing reality every 4th of July. So they go around the world bombing and killing people and then expect us to feel sorry for them?? Nah son, you deserve it. me if i ever find out any of my neighbors are veterans Hmmm. I mean, just because the army as an institution is flawed and damaging doesn’t mean everyone in it is a terrible person. To paint every single veteran with the same brush is reductive and to make light of the debilitating mental disorders many have just seems wrong. Like yes, fuck the military as an institution completely 100%, but blaming disabled ex-front-line infantry maybe isn’t the best direction for our anger, perhaps. A lot of veterans are poor people who were intentionally targeted by scouting programs coming to their schools starting at age 13, and most of them are worse off coming back than they were to start with… let’s be courteous to folks with PTSD Don’t be an ableist fuckface. Intentionally triggering someone is disgusting. I thought people on this godforsaken website at least understood this one basic principal, but apparently not, so let me make it crystal clear: IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO BE SELECTIVELY PROGRESSIVE You can hate Ann Coulter. But if you suggest that she deserves to be raped, you are a misogynist. You can hate Woody Allen. But if you say he’s part of a Jewish conspiracy or joke about putting him in an oven, you are an antisemite. You can hate Michael Vick. But you call for him to be lynched or call him the N-word, you are an anti-black racist. You can hate Caitlyn Jenner. But if you misgender her, or make comments about her genitalia, you are a transphobe. And you can hate the military. But if you deliberately try to trigger veterans with PTSD, you are an ableist piece of shit. You do no get to pick and choose which people to treat fairly when it comes to acknowledging and combatting prejudice. Not liking a person is not a free pass to disregard anti-prejudicial words and actions. Either you respect marginalized peoples as a whole (even if you don’t like an individual), or you don’t respect them at all. There is no middle ground. If anyone really like, agrees with harassing veterans with PTSD or anything similar, unfollow me right the fuck now. I don’t want you following me. You don’t have to like the military, it’s massively fucked up but y'all needs understand that most people in the military are victims of propaganda and are usually poor or part of a minority who are taken advantage of in order to join. ^^^ All of these comments tbh Mhmm They offered the ASVAB at my HIGH SCHOOL. They CAME INTO MY SCHOOL and said “If you guys take the military aptitude test, you get free donuts and you miss the first half of the day.” They brought in hot dogs. They brought food to a place where half of us were in poverty if not more, and they said, all you have to do is take a little test and you’ll get a snack, you don’t have to come in to school on time (an extra full hour of sleep that morning!). So we did. By the hundreds.My younger brother, a year behind me in school, scored “the highest we’ve ever seen in the whole damn state, son,” and for the next. Three. Fucking. Years. They harassed him. He got phone calls from every goddamn branch of the military. People would show up at our house at random, trying to recruit him. They’d tell him horror stories about how much better it is to enlist than be drafted (as if there’d been a draft in our lifetime!). They called our Mom at work. They sent recruiters to talk to our stepfather, who’d been in the Army, to try to get a handle on my brother’s weak points.THREE FUCKING YEARS OF THIS.My brother is the second child of six. My brother was thirteen by the time he had his own pillow for the first time. My brother was hungry all the time, dizzy from hunger some days–and oh, sidenote, my mother, stepfather and father are all abusive assholes who’d as soon hit you as look at you.Guess what year my brother graduated?If you guessed “May, 2002,” or “almost immediately after 9/11,” ding ding ding ding!The ONLY REASON my brother didn’t join the military, in the end, is that his girlfriend at the time said “If you enlist, I will never speak to you again.” Her dad was a military man, and he was also an abusive shithead, so in her head the two were inextricable. But if she’d said “go for it?” Or if she hadn’t said anything at all?Something like half of the males in my fucking graduating class enlisted.It was better than starving.And a great number of those are dead now.I hate the US military industry. I’m disgusted by the things our military does. But by god I don’t blame our veterans for what was done to them.Rich people don’t enlist.The ones who join the military are the ones who are hopeful that for once they’ll know that they’re getting a meal, not just today but tomorrow too. Every damn point of the thread. The soldiers are, by and large, as much a victim as anyone else. I cannot believe anyone would think deliberately triggering veterans is funny or ok. If you’re one of those people, please actually unfollow. The military is notorious for praying on poor and and underprivileged communities (mostly BIPOC communities) with promises of college education for them or their children (which these communities can’t afford) or a job when they get back. Remember these kids that they pray on are STARVING and can’t afford college or higher education. Not to mention their schools are underfunded. Do you think these kids can go to college? Get a decent job when they complete high school? Graduate high school? They were about to enter a world with no hopes for a career forced to live their entire life in poverty knowing full well even that the conditions they grew up end was the BEST case scenario because at least they had a roof and sometimes food.And then they come back with PTSD and pain from dozens of injuries and the government just throws them away. Veterans are just as much a victim of our fucked up government as anyone, and we WILL NOT publish them for being that. We ESPECIALLY won’t be spreading abelistic bullshit.Let me give you a comparison. Just because a trans person is racist doesn’t mean you can start misgendering them. All that indicates is it’s a huge red flag to all the other trans people that you never really respected trans people in the first place. Similarly even if we were gonna consider our military shitty people, what will your disabled friends think if they see you running around, “YAY! LET’S TRIGGER DISABLED PEOPLE!”?-fae Don’t trigger veterans you fucking ableist scum. They’ve been through the worst nightmare of their lives for many, many years day by day and came out alive with heavy physical and mental damage. Don’t trigger people on purpose. also not to mention that there are veterans still alive that were drafted. not every veteran chose to serve and even if they do technically sign up, it’s not like they choose where to go or what to do. the structure of the military is to shut up and do what you’re told -- source link