"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
12/22/2018 at 10:17 • Filed to: None
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"gin-san - shitpost specialist" (gin-san-)
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...should be forced to watch horrendous war documentaries non-stop.
I just watched They Shall Not Grow Old and it’s just fucking sad.
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The Dummy Gummy
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 10:36 |
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or participate in them.
Merfthemadmauler
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 10:40 |
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I watched the movie Monday. Hard to understand what could be worth that horror.
Echo51
> The Dummy Gummy
12/22/2018 at 10:43 |
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Came to say this, if you’re gonna start shit, atleast be there on the front line, like some old war timey general leading your troops.
DipodomysDeserti
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 10:49 |
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Or go volunteer at your local VA hospital, and sit in some AA meetings with vets.
WilliamsSW
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 10:59 |
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Not directly related, but I was reading about a Chicago school fire that happened in 1958 - 89 children and 5 nuns were killed.
It dawned on me that those 94 people are now largely forgotten - because not one of them ever had their own children to remember them. Their parents are mostly gone now, so it’s only their surviving siblings that remember them. That made it even sadder to me - and that fire is a vivid memory for my mom’s family (I think there were 4- 5 family members at the school, 1 of which died).
It’s mostly young people that fight wars, t oo- so many of them never have children either. So they are remembered in aggregate - not as individuals.
I’m with those that suggest those leaders participate in their own wars.
Monkey B
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 11:20 |
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My ex-wifes soon to be husband was a Marine sniper. He’s got PTSD and I can’t want to start imagining the things in his head. Because most of us have fear of things he has direct experience with.
ranwhenparked
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 12:05 |
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There’s a certain segment of politicians and pundits in this country that are absolutely in love with the idea of us being the world’s police force and would ideally prefer us to be at constant war all the time with every country that isn’t democratic enough or violates too many of their citizens’ civil rights, etc. etc. Most of them are technically on the right politically , but there are also plenty that identify with the left, though their targets are sometimes different.
Sometimes, war is necessary, but you can tell those times because it is pretty much self evident when you don’t have a choice, WWII being a good example of that , WWI being a bad one.
Derpwagon
> gin-san - shitpost specialist
12/22/2018 at 15:41 |
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Rght, ISI S should have been allowed to massacre the Yazidis, pillage Iraq, and slaughter the Kurds. Bashar Al Asad can gas the Syrians at will. Al Qaeda should totally have just had free reign to rule most of Iraq. Saddam should have kept Kuwait. Russia can just have Ukraine. Hitler should have just ke pt Europe. Japan should have completed the greater east Asia co prosperity sphere.
A ren’t blanket statements fun?
War is not pretty, no, but sometimes it is just. And on top of that, not finishing what you start can be worse than not doing anything at all.
To relate this to the US’s current conflicts, t here are a lot of beautiful people in the middle east who deserve the same shot at a good life as anyone else, and there are many groups of people who want to take that away from them. Since the US has chosen to intervene, I think pulling the plug is the wrong answer.
And before anyone suggests that I should watch horrific documentaries because I don’t understand what war is like, I’m currently on my third deployment to the middle east. I’ve experienced my own slice of it. I have ma ny friends who have experienced it. A t the end of the day, the US has a volunteer military. You accept the reality of what we’re involved in when you join.
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gin-san - shitpost specialist
> Derpwagon
12/23/2018 at 22:46 |
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My (blanket) statement wasn’t directed at the US , but worldwide, for all countries . It’s a purely idealistic (and unrealistic, I suppose) belief that we shouldn’t have to get to a point where war is necessary.
You’re viewing this purely from an American perspective, and this was not related in any way to the US pulling out of Syria. T he fact that people come to the conclusion that slaughtering each other is the best course of action (whether you’re ISIS, Putin, Hitler, Hirohito) is what I was referring to - we all know the terrors of war (whether it’s firsthand like yourself or through stories/movies like myself) and it still saddens me that war ends up being the best course of action.
It’s an oversimplification, but I still stand by the fact that war should not be necessary.