Hey, it’s a butthurt invader who wants us to reassure him that he’s a good person after he abdicated his moral responsibility to a homicidal nation state. Yes! You’re a good person!! You’re a very good person!!

thanks for affirming my decision to make an alt on this

Neither. I saw it browsing on my main account, which I prefer uncontroversal. But this is a personal issue for me, so I didn’t feel like staying quiet either.

A lot of us were fucking kids who didn’t know what we were getting into, and the military is so goddamn big that a lot of us still leave without having seen the dark side of this shit. PFC Snuffy sitting pretty in SK for air defense, or Staff Sergeant Bob Roberts running support for Peshmerga in Syria are gonna have a very different outlook than someone who was tossed on the ground in Iraq, or who operated drones against ‘insurgents’ in whatever fucking country in the sandbox drew our ire today and doesn’t even see the ‘collateral damage’ numbers until the fucking debrief.

Shit, even there it takes a lot to wipe the scales from your eyes.