• biden [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    People are trying to cancel for him for “cheering for the deaths of his fellow soldiers” at a US military base in Jordan, as if I couldn’t like him any more lmao

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      8 months ago

      Where is he “glorifying” their deaths there anyway or am I blind? It’s just a report with names?

      Also, yeah, I’m not going to sit here, ass fat, and say “I hope X group dies!” But I will say if you join the fucking US IMPERIAL FUCKING MILITARY (or IOF, or any military or militant group for that matter) and you die in sort of combat type situation, like, ok? You joined that shit.

      The US and Israel do this fucking weird shit where you simultaneously get the “glory” of being a soldier but you’re also never supposed to die or be touched or shamed in any fashion. It’s hard to explain, surely others have done so better, but it’s like an inversion of sorts of the old Greek/Roman (surely other civs) warrior glorification of getting a “glorious death” aka you go down fighting, sword in hand, and although you are dead people acknowledge you died in the best way. Obviously this is insanely toxic when an imperial army adopts it as an aesthetic. It’s sort of expected from a resistance group, but when you’re the dominant power…? But now the US and especially Israel basically are at a point of such imbalance in power that they expect their militaries to go totally untouched while also totally destroying their enemies. I dunno, it’s fucking weird. Hard to explain. Fuck this shit though for real.

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          8 months ago

          yeah I went back and saw that but forgot to edit it in. thanks. I am the guy who needs the giant red square and arrows pointing at the important item apparently.

          also, that is literally the most tame possible way of criticizing US soliders who died. just a dismissal more than anything. (not saying you were saying differently)